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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176

Heaney Seamus SIGNED District and Circle

2006 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 300.00
177 Heaney Seamus

SIGNED, The Haw Lantern

New York 1987 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
178 Heaney Seamus

District and Circle

2006 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 237.50
178A Heaney, Seamus & Hughes, Ted.

The School Bag

London 1997 EUR 250.00 - 450.00 EUR 687.50
179 Seamus Heaney

The Tree Clock

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 525.00
180 Seamus Heaney

The Spirit Level

1996 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 325.00
181 Heaney (Seamus)

The Cure at Troy

1990 EUR 280.00 - 400.00 EUR 525.00
182 Heaney (Seamus)

The Burial at Thebes

Lond. 2004 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 EUR 275.00
183 Heaney, Seamus

The Spirit Level (Nobel Prize for Literature 1995)

London 1996 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
184 Heaney (Seamus)

Field Day Pamphlets

Derry 1983-88 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 425.00
185 Heaney, Seamus

THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID

London 2004 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 500.00
186 Seamus Heaney

The Haw Lantern

1987 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
187 Seamus Heaney

North

1975 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 112.50
188 Seamus Heaney

Open Ground

1998 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
189 Seamus Heaney

Diary of one who vanished

1999 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
190 Seamus Heaney

District and Circle

2006 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
191 Seamus Heaney

Human Chain

2010 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
192 Seamus Heaney

North

1975 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
193 Seamus Heaney

The Last Walk

2013 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
194 Heaney Seamus

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE: SELECTED PROSE 1978-1987

2006 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 118.75
195 Seamus Heaney

An Open Letter

1983 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 118.75
196 Seamus Heaney

Beowulf

1999 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 187.50
197 Heaney Seamus

Electric Light

2001 EUR 100.00 - 180.00 EUR 137.50
198 John Montague

The Poet's Chair, The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry

2008 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
199 Michael Longley

20th Century Irish Poems

2002 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
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