A highlight of the collection is Heaney's longform poem, "Shelf Life," in which he contends in six parts with the bits and bobs found on a shelf, a granite chip, an iron spike, and a stone from Delphi among them. Bound in black cloth over boards with gilt spine titling. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Together with the first edition in wrappers, issued in a run of 10,000 copies by Faber and Faber simultaneous to the version in boards. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Also with the first American edition of 6,000 copies published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, in 1985. Motes of exterior soiling and trace foxing to edges of text block, else good in good dust wrapper. Laid in are FSG's prospectus and a headshot of Heaney, which also appears on the rear flap of the dust wrapper.