(Newark, VT.: At the Janus Press for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books, Salem, OR., 1979).

FIRST EDITION OF A VERY LIMITED AND TWICE-SIGNED PRINTING OF TEN SONNETS BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING POET SEAMUS HEANEY. These are powerful youthful writings by the man who would go on to be considered one of the greatest poets of his generation.
Heaney says, in his introduction, "During the previous ten years I had been teaching in Belfast but now, thanks to Ann Saddlemeyer who gave us the run of Glanmore Cottage, I was cast adrift into a life where my commitments as a writer would take precedence over my commitments as an employee. These sonnets sprang out of the four intense and enhancing years that we spent in 'the hedge-school-school of Glalmore.'"
Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press has handsomely printed this work in black and brown on fine light mocha-coloured Barcham Green handmade paper. Her woodblocks are beautifully printed in multiple colours. Known for her innovative use of dyed paper pulp to create illustrations. She is also known for her long career in artist's books. Her Janus Press publishes collaborative works by contemporary writers, papermakers, printmakers and artists, including Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, W. R. Johnson, Galway Kinnell, John le Carré, and others. Item #33668

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 285 hand-numbered copies printed, SIGNED by both Seamus Heany and by illustrator/printer Claire Van Vliet. With seven woodblock colour-printed illustrations by noted artist and Janus Press founder Claire Van Vliet. Royal 8vo, in the printer's original stiff textured brown paper wrappers, emboss lettered on the upper cover in blind. Now presented and preserved in a handsome clamshell box of fine marbled-papered boards backed in rich brown morocco, the spine with tall raised bands gilt tooled and ruled, large gilt-tooled compartment and gilt lettering. [15] pp. A perfect copy, as pristine and mint.