The School Bag (Signed First)

Heaney, Seamus; Hughes, Ted (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0571177506 / ISBN 13: 9780571177509

Published by Faber & Faber, 1997

About this Item

First edition, first impression; the second poetry anthology jointly edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes - SIGNED TO THE TITLE PAGE BY BOTH, and scarce, thus. (Please note that this is the regular trade edition, and not the more common limitation page signed special edition.) Complete with a ticket for the 'Evening of Poetry' with Heaney and Hughes held in London at the time of publication. A Fine copy: tight and square binding in sharp blue boards, and very crisp and clean with bright white pages, presenting as unopened. The unclipped dustwrapper is about Fine: bright, crisp and clean, with a touch of rubbing to the top corners and a tiny (3mm) closed tear to the heel of the spine; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. SEAMUS HEANEY SPECIALISTS. Seller Inventory # H772

Bibliographic Details

Title: The School Bag (Signed First)

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The editors of "The Rattle Bag" present an anthology which is designed as a history of the poetry of the British Isles and of poetry in the English language. It includes not only poems from the established canon, but also examples of Old English, Middle English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh poetry.

About the Author:

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry (the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1961. After a year as a post-graduate at a college of education, and a year teaching in a secondary modern school in Ballymurphy, he was appointed to the staff of St Joseph's College of Education. In 1966 Seamus Heaney took up a lecturing post in the English Department of Queen's University, and remained there until 1972, spending the academic year 1970-71 as a visiting Professor at the University of California in Berkeley.