THE HAW LANTERN

First edition, first printing, SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY AND DATED IN HIS HAND. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the publisher's original dustjacket. 51pp. A very fine copy, pristine with a hint of the tanning to the paper as is always found, due to the consistency of the paper used to produce it.

Edizione: a very fine, pristine copy of this splendid collection of thirty-one poems, signed by poet seamus heaney. the author has dated the signature as 8/8/88.<br> “”heaney ventured into new imaginative territory with this book. poems exploring the theme of loss - including a beautiful sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet’s mother - are joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.”- publisher<br> “heaney’s voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself.”- helen vendler