8vo. [12], 3-85, [1] pp. Quarter-bound in brown cloth over light green paper with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $13.95 on front jacket flap. A nice copy of Heaney's translation of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne centered upon the mad king Sweeney. Near Fine with age toning to the edges of the cloth and very faint offsetting to the pastedowns in a Near Fine dust jacket with age toning to the flaps and the edges of the front panel. Seller Inventory # 000010378

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Title: Sweeney Astray; A Version from the Irish

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (1984), New York

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First American edition.

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