New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slim 8vo. 211pp. Brown cloth and yellow paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. Book condition: about Fine. A small mouse bite to the edge of the front board (shown) else fine with tight binding, clean edges and unread text. Dust Jacket condition: Same mouse bite (front flap for the DJ) with a bit of wear at spine ends and a bit of soiling on the spine, very slight. Otherwise this is a bright, tight book in a bright, beautiful DJ. Correct price of $22.00 is intact. Seamus Heaney was the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book is a collection of essays based on lectures he delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

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Bookseller: DuBois Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 100491
Title: The Redress of Poetry
Author: Heaney, Seamus
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10: 0374248532
ISBN 13: 9780374248536
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1995
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