WINTERING OUT

EXTREMELY RARE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, noted as "Not for Sale.Publication Date Not Yet Settled" This proof copy precedes all published first edition copies whether issued in the UK or America, whether in wraps or boards. Small 8vo, in the publisher's pre-publication burnt orange paper wrappers printed in black on the upper cover, "Uncorrected Proof Copy- Not for Sale - Nor for review or serialization without the publisher's permission - Publication date not yet settled" 80pp. An essentially perfect copy, pristine and as mint.

Edizione: essentially unheard of in such condition, an extremely scarce proof copy of heaney's third collection of poems. the regular wrappered issue preceded the hardcover issue and is the true first issue, and is surprisingly scarce as well, but we have never seen another proof copy such as this. <br> wintering out contains poems written between 1969 and 1971. heaney wrote much of these while he was on sabbatical at the university of california, berkeley. heaney believed his time in california had a liberating effect on the form of his poetry: "in the poems of wintering out, in the little quatrain shapes, there are signs of that loosening, the california spirit, a more relaxed movement to the verse."