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London: Faber, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. This is the First Hardback Edition. SIGNED COPY. 8vo, pp. 56. ISBN: 0 571 08998 4. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. No foxing. A former owner's neat name, location and contemporary date on the verso of the front free end-paper otherwise nearly fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a miniscule nick at the base of the spine. The dustwrapper is entirely UN-FADED. A very nice copy indeed. Signed by the Author in black ink to the title page. Quite uncommon, Signed. "'Door into the Dark' Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared here in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent." (GoodReads). Deftly written and emotionally devastating. Photographs/scans available upon request.