The Tree Clock. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990. Bound in linen spine with hand-marbled sides, title lettered in gilt to upper cover; sewn with Barbour thread and hand-bound by Sydney Aiken; housed in matching marbled slipcase. A fine bright copy. One of twenty numbered copies printed on Atlantis hand-made paper and containing a poem in holograph. This copy number 9 with poem titled "The Point" in the Author s hand. (Additionally with presentation inscription by Heaney to the title-page & signed by the binder on the colophon page)

Published by Linen Hall Library, 1990

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Issued on behalf of the fundraising campaign for the Linen Hall Library, the charitable body of which Seamus Heaney was a patron The Tree Clock includes seventeen poems delivered at a joint reading in aid of the Library, in 1989. This limited issue of 20 copies, each with a poem in the author s hand, is rare in commerce.

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The Tree Clock. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990. Bound in linen spine with hand-marbled sides, title lettered in gilt to upper cover; sewn with Barbour thread and hand-bound by Sydney Aiken; housed in matching marbled slipcase. A fine bright copy. One of twenty numbered copies printed on Atlantis hand-made paper and containing a poem in holograph. This copy number 9 with poem titled "The Point" in the Author s hand. (Additionally with presentation inscription by Heaney to the title-page & signed by the binder on the colophon page)
Author
Heaney, Seamus
Publisher
Linen Hall Library
Publication year
1990
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Near Fine
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Hardcover
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We specialise in books of Irish interest with a particular emphasis on 20th century Irish literature. Together with our general stock, we offer an unrivalled selection of rare books by renowned authors such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett. In addition, we stock a wide variety of books on Irish History and Topography from the 17th Century to the recent past.

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