FIELD WORK by Heaney, Seamus - 1979

London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition. First Impression, cloth issue, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-64pp. Tiny wrinkle to upper right corners of three preliminary leaves, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £3.00 net). An attractive copy of the Nobel Laureate's fifth separate collection of verse. "At the centre of this new collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book; the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of it all in the face of circumstance and death" (from front flap). Brandes & Durkan A20a.