BALLYNAHINCH LAKE Turning the Millennium December 31st 1999

Connemara, County Galway: Privately Printed for Ballynahinch Castle, 1999. VERY RARE SIGNED COPY OF THE LIMITED PRIVATE EDITION. The edition was limited to only 500 (#166) copies numbered in red but was not signed as a matter of course. THIS BOOK IS ESPECIALLY ELUSIVE WHEN SIGNED BY THE POET AS HERE. With decorative boarders printed in green with Celtic style corners, text printed in black, numbered in red. 8.25" x 5.875" , printed on both sides of a single sheet of 8.25 by 11.75 inch stiff butter-coloured paper, folded once to make the four page card. 4 pp. inclusive of the front and rear covers. A beautiful copy in absolutely perfect condition, as mint. VERY RARE SIGNED COPY OF THIS PRIVATE EDITION OF ONLY 500 COPIES. FEW COPIES WERE SIGNED AS THE BOOK WAS NOT ISSUED IN A SIGNED FORMAT. The copy was printed to accompany a reading of the poem at Ballynahinch Castle for the turning of the millennium just at midnight December 31st 1999. It is quite scarce. The only prior printing of the poem was an edition of 70 copies privately printed in Italian for Heaney's 60th birthday in April of the same year. The poem would eventually be published in the collection titled ELECTRIC LIGHT in 2001.