Heaney, Seamus
The Door Stands Open: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004
£1,875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Dublin]: The Irish Writers' Centre Limited, printed and made in Poland by the Book Art Museum, Lodz, 2005. 'Special edition', one of 250 copies signed by Heaney, 4to, original stainless-steel covers, grey cloth spine, integral silkscreened 'mixed media wrap', black card chemise with Heaney's signature printed in silver, text mainly on light blue handwoven paper;
Hughes, Ted. Tales from Ovid. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original quarter cloth, slipcase;
Idem. T. S. Eliot: A Tribute. [London]: privately printed by Faber and Faber, 1987. First edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue wrappers, retaining glassine inner chemise and card wrapper;
Durrell, Laurence. The Red Limbo Lingo. A Poetry Notebook. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition, one of 1200 numbered copies, this copy inscribed by the author for Yehudi and Diana Menuhin on mounted card slip, and with the recipients' bookplate, 4to, original red cloth, slipcase;
and 20 others, modern literature, all signed limited editions, including Ian McEwan, Other Minds, Bridgewater Press, 2001, 2 copies, each one of 100; Graham Greene, How Father Quixote became a Monsignor, 1980, one of 330; idem, Why the Epigraph?, 1980, one of 950; V. S. Naipaul, Two Worlds, Nobel Lecture, December 7 2001, 2002, one of 58 from the total edition of 70 (front board water-damaged); William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth, 1991, one of 400 (with cardboard slipcase); John Updike, Getting the Words Out, 1988, one of 250; and similar (24)
Footnote
Note: The Door Stands Open was published to mark the death of Polish author Czeslaw Milosz, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980; there was also a 'deluxe' edition of 60 copies with an autograph quotation by Heaney.