DISTRICT AND CIRCLE

SIGNED AND LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of 325 hand-numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, Seamus Heaney of which 300 were for sale 8vo, in the original special limited issue binding of gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with a printed paper label on the spine, in the matching original slipcase of gray paper-covered boards covered at the top and bottom with black cloth. [xi], 76 pp. A flawless copy, both book and slipcase are as mint.

Edizione: very finely produced limited issue signed by seamus heaney, who received the 1995 nobel prize in literature. this collection, district and circle, won the 2006 t. s. eliot prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the united kingdom. it also won the irish times "poetry now award".<br> ?[heaney's] voice carries the authenticity and believability of the plainspoken--even though (herein his magic) his words are anything but plainspoken. his stanzas are dense echo chambers of contending nuances and ricocheting sounds. and his is the gift of saying something extraordinary while, line by line, conveying a sense that this is something an ordinary person might actually say.? brad leithauser, the new york times book review