SPECIAL LIMITED ISSUE of the First American Edition, one of only 350 numbered copies SIGNED BY THE AWARD-WINNING POET, also specially bound and with illustrations not included in the trade issue. Illustrated by Barrie Cooke with eight bound-in full page monotypes made especially for this issue. 8vo, publisher s original limited edition binding of course green cloth, the upper cover embossed in blind in an Irish motif, the spine gilt lettered, and with a slipcase of fine marbled paper-covered boards. [v], 85 pp. A fine copy, internally very fine and pristine, the spine ever so slightly mellowed as is typical with the green cloth. SPECIAL LIMITED, SIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED ISSUE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF "BUILE SUIBHNE" SINCE 1913. This fine version is by the Nobel-Winning poet many consider to be one of the major poets of the 20th century and perhaps the greatest of its later period and the early 21st. "The poetry spoken by this mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature. Animated by love of place and exposure to elemental nature, its pristine images drew Seamus Heaney to the original, along with Seeney s attraction as a model of the poetic imagination itself. Sweeney Astray not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest modern poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature." - publisher. Seller Inventory # 33682

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Title: SWEENEY ASTRAY. A Version from the Irish.

Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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