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Nadja, New York, US, 1984

First Limited Edition in Wrappers.

Quarto. Greenish-blue double paper wrappers, titles to front cover black. Fore-edge rough trimmed. A fine copy.

Limited to 226 copies, this being number 167 of 200 copies in wrappers hand-numbered and signed by Heaney in pencil on the colophon page, the balance lettered A-Z signed by Heaney and bound in blue linen-covered boards.

This poem was read by Heaney at the Fordham University Commencement in New York City on 23rd May 1982 at which he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

Brandes & Durkan A30c