First edition in French for which no deluxe copies were printed. Boards very slightly and marginally soiled. Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Seamus Heaney, written from Paris, to a man named Jean-Claude. Seamus Heaney, born in Ulster in County Derry and who died in Dublin, is one of the most important English-speaking poets of the 20th century and became, in 1995, the fourth Irish author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature after William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.