(Paris: Maight Éditeur, 1998).

FIRST EDITION, VERY LIMTED, AND ONE OF THE RAREST EDITIONS OF WORK BY NOBEL-PRIZE-WINNING POET SEAMUS HEANEY, SIGNED BY HEANEY AND BY ARTIST MAX NEUMANN.
AUDENESQUE is a poem in memory of Heaney's friend and fellow Nobel-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, who died in 1996. It was first published in the New York Times. Brodsky and Y.B. Yeats both died on the same day, one in 1939 and the other in 1996. Poet W. H. Auden had been instrumental in getting Brodsky to the United States after he was expelled from his homeland by the Soviets. Auden wrote his famous elegy to Yeats in 1940. Heaney here references that earlier work while creating a new elegy in much the same style and meter for Brodsky.
This beautiful combination of poetry and art was printed in Paris; the text on the presses of the l'Imprimerie Nationale, the lithographs at Imprimerie Arte by Adrien Maeght. Item #33754

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND HAND-NUMBERED BY POET SEAMUS HEANEY AND ARTIST MAX NEUMANN. One of only 100 copies offered for sale from a total printing of only 120 examples. Printed on fine d'Arches Vélin paper. With four bold original lithographs by German artist Max Neumann. Small folio [112 x 75 mm], unstitched as issued and laid in a binding of stiff folded white paper lettered in black on the upper cover and spine and with an additional Neumann lithograph on the rear cover, in the original slipcase of green/gray paper over boards. 8ff, unpaginated. A superb copy, as mint and pristine.