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Oldcastle Co Meath: Gallery Books, 2000. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 42 (no inscriptions).

Gallery Books, 2001-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2000. Paperback. Fine. 42 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration is the wood collage 'Winter' by Tony O'Malley. Photograph of the author and translator on the back cover by Karen O'Brien. Small label on back cover: U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa. ISBN: 1852352825. Based on translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mheán Oíche. Contents: Orpheus and Eurydice -- The Midnight Verdict -- The Death of Orpheus. Signed by the author on the half title page. In Fine Condition.

(Ireland):The Gallery Press, 1993. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Fine. (Ireland):The Gallery Press. (1993). 42 pp. First edition. 1 of 925 unnumbered copies. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in fine condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of any stray markings.

Loughcrew, Co. Meath: Gallery Books, 1993. Octavo. First edition. One of 1,000 copies. Here an example of Heaney's translation work in both Latin and Irish, in which he contrasts bookends his English version of Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mheán Oíche with Ovid's Orpheus episodes from his Metamorphoses. Bound in black paper over boards. Bump to tail of spine, else near fine in near fine dust wrapper.

Loughcrew, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1993. First edition LIMITED to 1000 copies. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the original dustjacket. 42pp. A beautiful copy, as mint and pristine but for one tiny unobtrusive bump. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS LIMITED FIRST PRINTING OF ONLY 1000 COPIES. "The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c.1745-1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth-century classic Irish poem. The idea of juxtaposing the three pieces came out of ‘a single impulse’, said the poet in his translator’s note. Each of the translations can be read for its own sake or as… Read More

(County Meath, Ireland): Gallery Books, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, clothbound trade issue. Octavo. 42pp. Black cloth stamped in gold. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with faintest stain on front panel. Limited to 925 copies [*Brandes & Durkan* A55a (1000 total copies printed in cloth)].

Loughcrew, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1993. First edition LIMITED to 1000 copies. This copy SIGNED AND DATED by the author/poet Seamus Heaney. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the original dustjacket. 42pp. A beautiful copy, as mint and pristine, the jacket equally perfect. SIGNED AND DATED BY SEAMUS HEANEY, RARE. ONLY 1000 COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION WERE PRINTED. Heaney has signed this copy on the title-page and dated it April, 1994, just a few months after the December 14 issuance. "The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c.1745-1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid Each of the translations in this book can be read on its on or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth-century… Read More

Oldcastle, Gallery Books, 1993 . First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title-page; 8vo; original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, black endpapers, with the dust jacket. From a total edition of 1000 copies, of which 75 were signed by Heaney, this is one of 40 additional copies reserved for the author, numbered AC and signed by him. An exceptional copy in the dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "for Mary - 'lighting sky and heart' Seamus". A spectacular copy of the scarcest issue, uncommon in presentation state. The quotation is from the first section of the translation. Brandes & Durkan A55a