FINDERS KEEPERS: Selected Prose 1971– 2001.

First edition, first printing. Original white cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Lightly creased and nicked to the lower outer edges of a few pages (nowhere near the text). The dustwrapper is fine except for a touch of fading to the spine and rear panel. Not price-clipped (£20.00 to the front flap).

'Finders Keepers' brings together a generous selection of essays, lectures and journalism from the author's earlier prose collections – 'Preoccupations' (1980), 'The Government of the Tongue' (1988), and 'The Redress of Poetry' (1995) – adding a substantial number of previously unpublished pieces, as well as material from a series of lectures ('The Place of Writing') delivered by Heaney at Emory University in 1988. (Brandes and Durkan A79a).