New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page; additionally laid in is a signed note written to a previous owner dated 12. iii. '07 and clipped return address. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to extremities. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with minor toning. A scarce signed first edition of Heaney's fourth major collection of poetry.