Seamus Heaney — Sweeney Astray
London, Faber and Faber , 1984. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first London edition of Seamus Heaney's version of 'Buile Shuibhne,' complete with dust wrapper. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize for verse in 1985, this book contains Seamus Heaney's version of mediaeval Irish poem Buile Shuibhne, based on a translation by J. G. O'Keeffe. The present copy is the first London edition, preceded by the Irish edition of 1983. The tales narrates of Dál nAraidi king Suibhne mac Colmáin, driven insane by the curse of Saint Ronan Finn.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
