March 2021 Catalogue

25 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 Signed By Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney 23. HEANEY, Seamus, translator. Beowulf. London, 1999. Slim octavo, original navy paper boards, dust jacket. $850. Click for more info First trade edition of Heaney’s acclaimed translation of the Old English epic, winner of the 1999 Whitbread Award for Poetry, signed by Heaney. Irish poet Heaney won the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, and is “the one living poet who can rightly claim to be the Beowulf poet’s heir” ( New York Times Book Review ). This English-only edition, also published in a signed limited edition of 325 copies, preceded the bilingual edition of the following year. With side notes. A fine signed copy. I“ n off the moors, down through the mist beams, god- cursed Gredel came greedily loping…”