ELECTRIC LIGHT

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original black cloth with white titles to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A fine, sharp and clean copy, the binding square and firm, the contents without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the dustwrapper, just a touch faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). An attractive copy.

Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. "Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding - whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry" (from the jacket). (Brandes and Durkan A75).