One of only 150 limited edition copies

Wylie, Donovan & Heaney, Seamus (Related) ~ 32 Counties : Limited edition Signed By All 32 Contributors : With A Limited Edition Signed Print

Secker and Warburg, London : 1989

The First UK printing published by Secker and Warburg, London in 1989. Number ’67’ of a limited edition of 150 slip-cased copies signed by all 32 contributors. With a limited edition print (‘County Galway’) signed by Donovan Wylie loosely laid into a front tipped-in envelope as issued. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a little pushing at the lower spine tip. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition and is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book is housed in the publisher's original plain black slipcase. Each Irish county is represented by a piece of new writing commissioned specially by an appropriate Irish writer. The contributing writers include Seamus Heaney, William Trevor, John Banville, Francis Stuart, Edna O’Brien, Eilis Dillon, Frank McGuinness, John McGahern, Neil Jordan, Brendan Kennelly, Aidan Mathews, Anne Devlin, Thomas Kilroy, Michael Hartnett, Brian Moore, Eugene McCabe, Michael Longley, Benedict Kiely, Emma Cooke, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Medbh McGuckian, Peter Sirr, Maeve Kelly, Desmond Hogan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, Sean J. White, James Plunkett, Aidan Higgins, Dermot Healy, Frank Ormsby and Tom MacIntyre. The book has been signed by all 32 contributing authors to a page to the rear of the book as issued. Photography of the people of Ireland is by Belfast born photographer Donovan Wylie.  A very handsome production and now an increasingly elusive title as the signed limited edition.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine