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Heaney (Seamus) and others. The Four Elements

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second series, number 96 of 125 copies signed by each of the contributors, 4 loose broadsides, each with a wood-engraved illustration by Hellmuth Weissenborn (printed in a different colour) above a poem on each of the four elements, each numbered and signed by the poet, together in original card wrappers with mounted illustrated title, Whittington Press, for the Friends of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, n.d. [1990]; and an unsigned of issue of both Heaney's The Fire Gaze and The Earth House, loose, folio(3)

***The contributions are: The Earth House, by Seamus Heaney; Air, by Lawrence Sail; Field of Autumn, by Laurie Lee; and From Persephone, by Jenny Joseph. This set is one of four similar which were produced each year to 1992, with the poets aking it in turns to write on each element and a different illustrator being used..

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