Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-510, [4] pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine; top edge gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Demosthenes' bust. Translated into English by M.J. Macmahon. The front hinge repaired..... More
Paris: Chez Florentin Delaulne, 1718. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [9], 2-409, [5] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, brown morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine, gilt decorations on the spine; all edges decoratively speckled red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with wood cut initials..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1996), 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [8], 3-53, [3] pp. Beige cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $12.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A sharp copy of Heaney's lecture at the 1995 ceremony for the Nobel prize..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1985), 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 9-123, [5] pp. Quarter green cloth over light yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $11.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. A sharp copy of..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn...City Printer, 1832. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. [3], 4-21, [1] pp. Disbound from the original green wrappers (which are not present). A Fair copy with a large yellowed stripe on the spine from cellophane tape, final leaf is starting to separate. More