Station Island. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1985. First American Edition. Pp,123. Quarter cloth gilt, cream boards in pictorial dust jacket. Light browning to endpapers otherwise a very good copy.

With publisher’s promotional sheet, and a handwritten note by Heaney to a reviewer, by the name of Bryce, from his home in Sandymount Dublin (loosely inserted).

Heaney’s first new collection of poems since 1979, is set on an island (Lough Derg) which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.