Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber, 1966. Third Impression. Pp, 57. . Green cloth boards, in publisher’s dust jacket. Jacket faded & chipped along spine, pale water mark to inside margin for front pastedown, otherwise the book is in nice bright condition.

The author’s first commercially published work which earned the Heaney the E.C. Gregory, the Cholmondeley and the Somerset Maugham awards as well as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Death of a Naturalist has now come to be recognised as one of the most significant collections of poetry in modern times.