Door Into the Dark
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
First American edition, first printing. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page and inscribed "Seamus Heaney, 'Our poesy is as a gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourished.' for John Dunn, with every good wish, 16th March 1971-" 56pp. Bound in publisher's full black cloth, gilt to spine. Binder's error affecting the front endsheets and preliminary text sheets at the tail, else Fine. In a Fine, unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the rear panel. Seamus Heaney was a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, during the academic year of 1970-71. In this inscription he quotes the lines of the Poet in the first act of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, who speaks of the art that oozes, like sap from a tree, from the creator. This is the Nobel Prize winning poet's second collection of prose.
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