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
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin, IrelandUlysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
AbeBooks seller since January 23, 2013
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 6,134.90
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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.
Seller Inventory # 68747
Bibliographic details
- Title
- 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
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Special Edition
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