Rare Books, Literature, Manuscripts & Sporting Collectibles

Rare Books,
Literature,
Manuscripts
& Sporting
Collectibles

Dublin – Tuesday, May 30th 2017



Rare Books, Literature,
Manuscripts &
Sporting Collectibles

Tuesday, 30th May, 2017
At The Tara Towers Hotel, Dublin 4

Lot 667 Including:
Modern Irish, English, & International Literature;
First Editions, Signed & Association Copies,
Periodicals, Photographs, etc.
together with a rare collection of
G.A.A. Sporting Memorabilia
Approx. 900 lots

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Wednesday, 24th May: 11am – 5pm

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O’Hara (John) Ten North Frederick, 8vo L. 1956; Extremely Rare Report The Author’s First Book
Ourselves to Know, 8vo L. 1960; Assembly, 8vo
L. 1961; The Big Laugh, 8vo L. 1962; The Ewings, - The Belfast Pogrom, 1920 - 1922 Algren (Nelson) Somebody in Boots, 8vo N.Y.
8vo L. 1972, all cloth, all decor. d.j., as a lot, Only a Handful of which were for (The Vanguard Press) 1935, First Edn., with a
w.a.f. (5) €80 - 100 m/ss postcard signed with sketch of boat,
Private Distribution signed by the author, loosely inserted, original
light brown cloth, black lettering to spine,
2 Northern Ireland: Kenna (G.B.) [Fr. John original decor. d.j., slight loss to bottom of
Taylor (George) An Historical Account.. of the Hassan] Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogrom spine, otherwise. Fine Copy [Bruccoli A11]. (1)
Rebellion in the County of Wexford in the Year 1920 - 1922, 8vo D. (O’Connell Published Co.)
1798, 8vo, D. 1800, First Edn., engd. fold. frontis, 1922. Sole Edn., fold. map, hf. title, title, 213pp. * The story relates to the life of Cass McKay
dedit., advert leaf at back, Ex. Libris Copy, full orig. green cloth, lettered within black border. who endures a life of prison, homelessness,
calf, staining, lacks spine, w.a.f. (1) €100 - 150 A very fine copy of this Scarce Work.

* This work was reportedly commissioned by and soup kitchens during the height of
the Free State Government, at the instigation America’s depression of the 1930’s, particulary
of Michael Collins to document the notorious in Chicago. €800 - 1000
3 Belfast Pogroms in which hundred of Catholics
Munro (Donald) A Treatise on Mineral Waters, (together with some Protestants) were driven 9
2 vols., L. 1770, First Edn., hf. title, full calf, gilt from their homes and work places, and when Mullen (Pat) Hero Bread, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber
decor. spines, mor. labels, minor wear. (2) hundreds were killed. The work which was set Ltd.) 1936, First Edn., inscribed with lengthy
in type, but publication had to be cancelled dedit note on f.e.p. to a Mr. & Mrs. Meadows,
€250 - 320 original blue cloth, decor. d.j. loss to base of
spine & other fraying, otherwise fine copy. (1)
4 for fear of furthering more serious sectarian
tensions. It is believed only about eighteen €180 - 220
Directory: The Post Office Almanack and copies were ever bound. An excessively rare
Directory for 1846, sm. 8vo D. (Purdon Bros.)
1846. Red & bl. title with vignette of the G.P.O., item. (1) €200 - 300
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lacks map, otherwise a very good copy in Koestler (Arthur) Darkness at Noon, 8vo,
original cloth. (1) €120 - 180
N.Y. 1941, cloth & d.j. (frayed); Scum of the
Earth, 8vo L. 1941, cloth & d.j. (some fraying);
5 otherwise clean copies. (2) €80 - 120
[Anon] Hortus Anglicus; or The Modern English
Garden: 2 vols., 12mo. L. (F.C. & J. Rivington)
1822, First Edn., contemp. blind tooled & gilt 11
Bellow (Saul) The Adventures of Augie March,
decor. full green mor., spines worn, owtherwise 8vo L. (1954); Humboldt’s Gift, 8vo N.Y. 1975;
good. Scarce. (2) €200 - 300
The Dean’s December, 8vo L. 1982; Kerouac
(Jack) Visions of Cody, 8vo L. 1973, all cloth,
6 decor. d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €150 - 180
Hearn (Lafcadio) Kokoro - Hints and Echoes
of Japanese Inner Life, 8vo L. & N.Y. (Harper &
Brothers) 1898 (Pirate Edn.), uncut, red cloth,
gilt lettering; Kokoro..., 8vo L. (Gay & Bird)
[1902], New Edn. (English printing), red cloth,
gilt lettering; Karman and other Stories and
Essays, 8vo L. (George G. Jerrap) 1921, hf. title,
photo frontis of the author, Ex. Libris Hester
Park (bookplate & signed), red cloth, decor.
front cover, all clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f. (3)

€300 - 400

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Steinbeck (John) Sweet Thursday, 8vo, N.Y. Huxley (Aldous) Along the Road, Notes & Essays Author’s First Three Novels
(The Viking Press) 1954, First Edn. hf. title, decor of A Tourist, 8vo L. (Chatto & Windus) 1925,
oatmeal cloth & pictorial dust wrappers. Clean cloth & d.j.; Island, 8vo L. (Chatto & Windus) Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers (Jonathan Cape
1973) First UK Signed, dated 11. 2. 86 to ffep,
Copy. Scarce. (1) €100 - 150 1962, cloth & d.j.; Christie (Agatha) A Pocket v.g./ in cloth, d.w. in removable glassine cover,
Full of Rye, 8vo L. 1953, cloth & d.j. (some
13 damg); Du Maurier (Daphne) The House on the rubbed at edges and chipped at head of spine,
small closed tear to bottom edge of rear flap (no
Hemingway (Ernest) To Have and Have Not, Strand, 8vo L. (Victor Gollancz) 1969, cloth & loss). Very nice copy of author’s First Novel. Edges
N.Y. (Scribner 1937) First Edn., with Scribner d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €180 - 220
code “A”. V.g. in cloth, unclipped d.w., spine lightly spotted; together Dead Babies (Jonathan
Cape 1973) First UK Signed on adhesive label to
ends bumped, d.w., in cellophane wrapper, is 19 title, v.g. in cloth, d.w. in removable cover, neat
v.g., slightly creased to spine ends, otherwise Signed by The Author
unusually bright, edges toned, top edge dusty. ownername to ffep, the author’s second novel,
Algren (Nelson) Never Come Morning, 8vo N.Y. edges lightly spotted, top edge dusty; and his
A lovely copy. (1) €600 - 800 1942, signed; The Neon Wilderness, 8vo N.Y. third novel Success (Jonathan Cape 1978) First
1947, signed; The Man with the Golden Arm, 8vo
14 N.Y. 1949, signed; Chicago: City on the Make, UK, signed on adhesive label to title, v.g. in
Hemingway (Ernest) In Our Time (Cape 1926) 8vo N.Y. 1951 signed; A Walk on the Wild Side, cloth, d.w. in removable cover, neat ownername
First UK Edn. Near v.g. in original green cloth, 8vo N.Y. 1956, signed; Note from A Sea Diary: to ffep, d.w. slightly bumped at head of spine,
lacks d.w. Endpapers and prelims, age-toned, Hemingway All The Way, 8vo N.Y. 1965, signed; impression or slight crease mark to top edge for
spine faded, ends bumped, corners rubbed, Donohue (H.G.R.) Conversations with Nelson panel barely visible. edges lightly spotted, top
circular liquid stain (from glass or similar) to Algren, 8vo N.Y. 1964, signed by Nelson Algren, edge dusty. A scarce set. (3) €350 - 450
front boards, small liquid splash to rear board, all cloth, d.j. clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f. (7)
edges are toned, top edge dusty. Review taped 24
to verso back board. An acceptable copy of €600 - 700 Simmons (James) No Ties, Ulsterman
author’s second published work. (1) €200 - 300 Publication 1970, First Edn., wrappers; Songs
20 for Derry, Ulsterman Publication, n.d. illus.,
15 Wingfield (Shelia) A Cloud Across The Sun, wrappers; The Long Summer Still To Come, roy
Rare First Edition - Poetry 8vo L. 1949; Beat Drum Beat Heat, 8vo L. 8vo Belfast 1973. First Edn., pict. boards; Poems
1946; Poems, 8vo L. (Cresset & Press) n.d.; A 1956 - 1986, 8vo D. (Gallery Press) 1986. First
Hemingway (Ernest) God Rest You Merry Kite’s Dinner, Poems 1938 - 54, 8vo, L. (1954), Edn., cloth orig. decor. wrappers. All good. (4)
Gentlemen, (House of Books 1933) First Edn. No Inscribed by the Author on f.e.p. to “Sire Henry
258 of Limited Edition 300. In original red cloth Cohen,” Liverpool 1956,” The Leaves Darken, 8vo €120 - 170
and glassine wrapper (no d.w. issued). Gilt L. 1964, all d.j., clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
spine & front board, paper is toned but clean 25
and strong, binding tight. An exceptional copy. €150 - 200 Hewitt (John) Out of My Time, Belfast 1974.
(1) €500 - 700 First Signed Pres. Copy; The Rain Dance, Belfast
21 1978. Signed Pres. Copy; Time Enough, Belfast
16 Lee (Laurie) Cider with Rosie, 8vo, L. (The 1976; Kites in Spring. A Belfast Boyhood, 8vo
Stephens (James) Here are Ladies, L. 1914; Hogarth Press) 1959, First Edn., frontis, cloth Belfast 1980. Signed Pres. Copy; also The
The Demi-Gods, L. 1914; The Charwoman’s & d.j., clean; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Selected John Hewitt, Belfast 1981; Mosaic,
Daughter, L. 1917; The Crock of Gold, L. 1918; Morning, 8vo L. (Andre Deutsch) 1969, Signed Belfast 1981; Loose Ends, Belfast 1983; Freehold
Reincarations, L. 1918, all 8vo uniformly bound by Author, cloth & d.j. Clean. (2) €150 - 200 and other Poems, Belfast 1986. All First Edns.,
orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good lot. (8) €160 - 240
full leather, gilt decor. border, initials “R.H.S.” 22
on front cover, decor. spines, mor. labels, a.e.g. Berryman (John) Delusions, etc, 8vo N.Y. 1972; 26
Clean Set. (5) €120 - 180 His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, 8vo 1968; Recovery, First Edition Signed
8vo N.Y. 1973; Henry’s Fate, 8vo N.Y. 1977, all
17 cloth and original d.j., clean copies, as a lot, Amis (Kingsley) Bright November (Fortune
Farrell (James T.) Studs Lonigan, 8vo L. Press, n.d.) [1947], Signed on title, v.g. in cloth,
(Constable) 1936, cloth (yellow text), decor. w.a.f. (4) €120 - 180 d.w. Liquid staining to spine of d.w., and
d.j. (minor fraying); No Star Is Lost, 8vo L.
(Constable) 1939, cloth, decor. d.j. (some some to front panel, causing the A in Amis to
fraying), otherwise clean copies. (2) €150 - 200 disappear. Internally bright, paper crisp, slight
soiling to title. (1) €500 - 700

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Steinbeck (John) Cannery Row - A New Novel, 29 35
8vo, L. (Wm. Heinemann) 1945, First UK Edn., [Folio Editions] Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Betjeman (John) Ghastly Good Taste, or a
yellow cloth, d.j.; Burning Bright, A Play in Story Gatsby,; The Side of Paradise; Tender Is the Night,; Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English
Form, 8vo L. (Wm. Heinemann) 1951, First UK Tales of The Jazz Age, all 8vo, cloth & decor d.j. Architecture, 4to L. (Anthony Blond) 1970,
Edn., red cloth & d.j. Both Good Copies. (2) in custom slip case, all clean copies. (4) Signed Ltd. Edn. 153 (200), fold. plts., leather
backed cloth, slip case. Clean Copy. (1)
€150 - 200 €80 - 120
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Christie (Agatha) The Hound of Death and other 30
Stories, 8vo L. (Odhams Press Ltd.) 1933, First Very fine Signed Copy 36
Edn., maroon cloth, d.j., worn. (1) €100 - 150 Signed by Author
Bell (Sam Hanna) The Hollow Ball, A Novel.
30 L. 1961. First Edn., signed on title & again on Johnston (Denis) The Brazen Horn, sm. folio D.
dedit. leaf ‘To John Boyd and J.U. Stewart, with (Dolmen Editions XXII) 1976. First Edn., Limited
33 the regards and esteem of the author, September 1050 Copies, Signed, illus., cloth backed pale
1961,’ cloth, & pict. d.w. V. good. (1) €120 - 170 boards, decor. d.w.; Coward (Noel) Three Plays,
The Rat Trap, The Vortex, Fallen Angels. 8vo
31 L. 1925. First Edn. Association Copy Signed
Bell (Sam Hanna) Summer Loanen and other by Denis Johnston & with his distinctive
Stories, Newcastle (Mourne Press) 1943. First bookplate; also Johnson (Rory)ed. Orders and
Edn., port. frontis with Signed Christmas Card, Desecrations, The Life of ... Denis Johnston, D.
& orig. portrait photograph of the author, 1992. First, d.w. (3) €160 - 220
loosely inserted, orig. boards; also December
Bride, L. 1941, First Edn, lacks f.f.e. cloth; and 37
Erin’s Orange Lily, L. 1956. First Edn., Signed With Hand-Coloured Maps
Pres. Copy to his Mother, 11st Sept. 1956, illus.,
cloth & d.w. All Scarce. (1) €150 - 200 Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas: or General
Description of the Kingdom of Ireland. 4to L.
1776. First Edn., engd. title, dedit & index, hd.
32 cold. map of Ireland & 36 full page maps of
Betjeman (John) English, Scottish and Welsh
Landscape 1700 - 1860, 8vo L. 1944; Poems in Provinces & Counties (37 maps in all), cont. hf.
calf, worn (needs rebinding), mor. label. A very
the Porch, 8vo L. 1954; John Betjemans Collected clean copy. (1) €750 - 1250
Poems, 8vo, L. (J. Murray) 1958, inscribed by the
author on f.e.p.; High and Low, 8vo L. 1966, all
cloth and d.j. as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €180 - 220 38
Dubourdieu (Rev. J.) Statistical Survey of
33 the County of Down, 8vo, D. (Graisberry &
Frost (Robert) A Witness Tree, 8vo L. (J. Cape) Campbell) 1802, First Edn., engd. frontis, errata
1943; Auden (W.H.) Poems, 8vo L. (Faber & leaf, lacks map, 11 engd. plts., recent leather
Faber) 1930, Reprint; Mountains, 8vo L. (Faber) backed marble boards, mor. label, as is, w.a.f.
[1954], original envelope, illus. by Ed. Bowden; (1) €200 - 300
Updike (John) Hoping for a Hoopoe, 8vo L.
1959, cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €150 - 200 39
Dubourdieu (John) Statistical Survey of the
County of Antrim, 8vo D. 1812. First Edn. lg. fold.
34 map of county, 17 litho plts. (10 fold), cont. hf.
Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, 8vo, L. calf. A good copy of this survey, regarded as
1960, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Summond by Bells, one of the best published under the auspices
8vo L. 1960, Signed Ltd. Edn. 125 Copies, full of the R.D.S. (1) €450 - 650
green mor., gilt decoration; Summoned by
Bells, 4to L. 1989, illustrated Edition, by Hugh
Casson, cloth & d.j., clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f.
(3) €220 - 320

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Political Pamphlet: Co. Antrim: [Hughes From Lady Gregory’s Library Mc Almon (Robert) A Hasty Bunch,
(J.)?] A Collection of All The Authenticated Public 8vo, Privately Printed Dijon (Darantiere)
Addresses, Resolutions, and Advertisements .. [Gregory (Lady A.)] Dowden (Edward) c. 1922, Signed Presentation Copy,
Fragments from Old Letters E.D. to E.D.W. 1869 together with the flyer “From an English Printer
.Election of Knights of the Shire for the County -1892, L. 1914. First Edn. Inscribed on f..f.end to an English Publisher,” hf. title, uncut, original
of Antrim..., 8vo Belfast (John Hughes) 1790, ptd. wrappers, housed in hf. mor., marble
First Edn., t.p., supplementary pp., 159pps, later ‘To J.B. Yeats from A.Gregory,’ cloth; Taylor boards, custom made drop box. Fine Copy.
(Bert Leston) A Penny Whistle together with Scarce. (1)
cloth. Scarce. (1) €180 - 250 The Babette Ballads. N.Y. 1922. With Pres.

41 Inscription, ‘To Lady Gregory... Emme Bourne
Heaney (Seamus) The Burial at Thebes - Taylor (Mrs. B.L.T.),’ & signed with initials by * This was the Author’s second book, published
Sophocles Antigone, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) author, also with Ld. Gregory’s bookplate; at his own expense, a year later he founded
2004, Signed Ltd. Edn., 182 (250) Copies, cloth Ervine (St. John G.) John Ferguson A Play “Contact Editions” Publishers. €300 - 400
backed boards & slip case; Human Chain, 8vo L. in Four Acts, D. 1915. First Edn., Signed Pres.
(Faber & Faber) 2010, Signed Ltd. Edn. 97 (300), Inscription to Lady Gregory & with her 48
cloth backed boards & slip case. Clean Copies. bookplate, cloth & d.w.; Lowell (J. Russell) The Macken (Walter) I am Alone, 8vo L. 1949;
(2) €200 - 300 Biglow Papers, L. 1861. Signed by W.H. Gregory, Sullivan, 8vo L. 1957; Seek The Fair Land, 8vo L.
1866, & with his bookplate for Coole Park. An 1959; Trevor (William) Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill
interesting lot. (4) €225 - 325 Hotel, 8vo L. 1969; O’Faolain (Sean) A Nest of
42 Simple Folk, 8vo L. 1933; Solstices, 8vo L. 1956,
Pincher (Chapman) The Penthouse all cloth and dj., as a lot, w.a.f. (6) €125 - 175
Conspirators, 8vo L. (M. Joseph) 1970 First Edn.,;
Green (H.) Nothing, 8vo N.Y. (Viking 1950), First
Edn.; Mankowitz (W.) The Samson Riddle, 8vo,
L. 1972, First Edn., illus. by Edward Delaney;
Fermor (P. Leigh) The Travellers Tree, 8vo L. (J.
Murray) 1950, First Edn.; Terkel (Studs) Hard
Times, An Oral History of the Great Depression,
8vo N.Y. (Pantheon) 1970, First Edn., all cloth &
d.j. clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f. (5) €200 - 300

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Trevor (William) & Hogarth (Paul)illus. The
Piano Tuner’s Wives, 8vo Hamphsire (Clarian
Publishing) [1996], Signed by the author &
artist, Ltd. Edn., No. 191 (249) Copies, decor.
boards. Clean Copy. (1) €140 - 180

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Signed by the Author

Boyne (John) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,
8vo, Oxford (David Fielding) 2006, Signed by
the Author, grey boards, d.j. Clean Copy. (1)

€80 - 120

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Heaney (Seamus) Finders Keepers, Selected 6
Prose 1971 - 2001, thick 8vo, L. 2002; District &
Circle, 8vo, 2006; The Redress of Poetry, 8vo N.Y.
1995; Human Chain, 8vo L. 2010 & N.Y. Edn.
2010, all cloth & decor. d.j. Clean Copies. (5)

€150 - 200

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Hayward (Richard) Munster and the City of
Cork, 8vo L. (Phoenix House) 1964, First Edn., 50 & detail

Signed by the Author & Illustrator (Raymond
Piper), all cloth & d.j., Raine (Kathleen) The
Lost Country, 8vo L. (The Dolmen Press) 1992,
Reprint, Signed by the Author; Murphy (R.)
The Mirror Wall, 8vo U.K. 1989, Review copy; 53 54
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Whelan (K.) & Others, 1798 A Bicentenary
Johnston (J.) Truth or Fiction, 8vo L. 2009; Fire, thick 8vo, L. 2000, decor. boards & d.j.; Perspective, 4to D. (Four Courts Press) 2003,
O’Brien (Edna) The Light of Evening, 8vo L. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, thick
2006, as a lot, w.a.f. (5) €200 - 300 8vo, L. 2005, decor. boards & d.j.; Harry Potter Signed Ltd. Edn. 39 (100), cloth & slipcase;
and The Philosophers Stone, 8vo L. 1997, decor. together with A Bibliography of the 1798
boards & d.j.; Harry Potter and The Chamber of Rebellion, 8vo, D. 2003, ptd. wrappers. Clean
50 Secrets, 8vo L. 1998, decor. boards & d.j.; Harry Copies. (2) €140 - 180
Collection of Signed First Editions Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 8vo L. 1999,
decor. boards & d.j. Clean Copies, as a lot, w.a.f. 55
Francis (Dick) Nerve (London 1964) First (5) €150 - 200 Illustrated Volumes: Wilde (Oscar) The
Edn. Signed, v.g. ; For Kicks (London 1965) First Picture of Dorian Gray, 8vo L. (John Lane) 1925.
Edn. Signed, v.g.; Forfeit (London 1968) First Authorized Edn., illus. by Henry Keen, frontis &
Edn, Signed, v.g.; Smokescreen, (London 1972) other fine plts., decor. title & end papers, orig.
First Edn, signed, v.g.; Rat Race (London 1970) fine gilt decor cloth; The Importance of Being
v.g.; Slay Ride (London 1973) v.g.; Blood Sport, Earnest, 8vo L. (Grey Walls Press) 1948. Cold.
(London 1967); The Frame, (London 1976) First drawings by Sheila Jackson, yellow cloth &
Edn; Risk (London 1977) First Edn.; Enquiry decor. d.w.; The Importance of Being Earnest, 4to
(London 1969) First Edn signed v.g.; Knock L. (Folio Society) 1966. Cold. illus. etc. by Cecil
Down (London 1974) first Edn., signed, v.g.; Beaton, green silk cover, slipcase. All good. (3)
High Stakes (London 1975) First Edn, signed;
Trial Run, (London 1978) First Edn., signed, v.g.; €150 - 200
Proof, (London 1984) First Edn., signed v.g.;
Banker (London 1982) First Edn., signed, v.g.; 56
Whip Hand (London 1979) First Edn., signed, Greene (Graham) Childrens Series The Little
v.g.; Come To Grief, (London 1995) First Edn, Train, The Little Fire Engine; The Little Horse Bus;
signed v.g., Second Wind (London 1999) all The Little Steam Roller, all oblong 4to, L. (Bodley
signed and some inscribed, orig. cloth & d.j. Head) 1973 - 74, 4 vols., illus. by Edward
Together 18 vols. A very good clean collection. Ardizzone, decor. boards & d.j. (lacks 1 d.j.)
(1) €400 - 500 otherwise clean copies; [Greene (J.)] Sibon
(M.) trans. Essais Catholiques, 4to P. (Andre
51 Towon) [1953], ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
Johnston (Denis) The Moon in the Yellow River
€140 - 180

and The Old Lady Says No! Two Plays, L. 1932;
Storm Song and A Bride for the Unicorn. Two
Plays, L. 1935; The Golden Cuckoo and Other
Plays, L. 1954, d.w.; and Collected Plays, Vols. 1 &
2, 2 vols. L. 1960, orig. d.w.’s. All First Editions, &
good. (5) €140 - 200

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Le Carre (John) The Spy who came in from the
Cold, 8vo, L. (Victor Gollancz) 1963, First Edn.,
with author’s signature tipped in on t.p., red &
white d.j., blue cloth. Clean copy. (1) €350 - 500

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Dickens (Charles) Martin Chuzzlewit, 8vo L.
(Chapman & Hall) 1844, First Edn., engd. frontis
& add. engd. t.p. & 38 plts. (complete) foxed,
contemp. hf. leather, marble boards, gilt decor.
spine; [Thackerey] Pendennis (Arthur)ed.
& Doyle (R.) illus. The Newcomers, Memoirs
of a Most Respectable Family, 8vo L. (Bradbury
& Evans) 1854, First Edn., 2 vols. in 1, 2 engd.
frontis, 2 engd. add t.p., & 44 plts. contemp. hf.
decor calf, cloth boards. Both Fine Copies. (2)

€150 - 200

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Yeats (W.B.) Collected Plays. Macmillan 1934,
orig. cloth, d.w. Maurice Craig’s copy with
his signature dated December 1936, and with
his original stage designs for three of the plays
(including Cathleen Ni Houlihan) laid in at front,
also some neat pencilled notes through the
text. (1) €150 - 200

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[Yeats (W.B.)] The Dome - A Quarterly
containing Examples of All the Arts. A
collection including nos. 1-5, boards, 1897-8,
59 some unopened, with second copies of nos. 2
57 Rare First Edition and 5, and with Vol. 1 no. 1 (New Series), wrs,
The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett
[Evans (Mary Anne)] ‘George Eliot’ Adam Oct. 1898. Nos. 2, 5, and Vol. 1 No. 1 contain
Beckett (Samuel) The Collected Works of contributions by W.B. Yeats. As a collection,
Samuel Beckett, 13 vols., 8vo N.Y. (Grove Press) Bede, 3 vols. 8vo Edin. & L. (Wm. Blackwood w.a.f. (1) €100 - 200
1970, Signed Ltd. Edn. 200 copies, No. 185 & Sons) 1859. First Edn. 3 hf. titles, 16pp
cloth & gilt lettering. Clean Set. (13) €600 - 800 Cat. at end of Vol. III, one gathering loose in
Vol. II, orig. yellow ends, and orig. orange / 64
brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (with Special Limited Edition, Signed

58 label), spines gilt, Vol. I with joints repaired, [James Joyce] Brown (Terence) & Davis
Limited Edition Signed by Samuel Beckett some newscuttings loose or tipped in. Pres. (Gerald) The Joycean Year, 8vo D. (Irish Uni
Review) 1985. Lim. Edn. No 80 (150) Copies. 12
Beckett (Samuel) No’s Knife, 8vo L. (Calder inscription in Vol. I to Amelia Daly (member cold. plts. Signed by author & artist. (1)
of Daly Family, Co. Galway), dated April 1859.
& Boyers) 1967, Series A. Ltd. Edn. 16 (100), Sadlier 812. (3) €700 - 900
Signed by the Author, hf. title, bound in full calf
gilt lettering, in original paper slip case. Clean * Inscribed Copy, & with A.Ls. from artist
loosely inserted. Special gilt lettered vellum
copy. (1) €600 - 700 60 boards. V. good. €200 - 300
Grey (Zane) Riders of the Purple Sage, 8vo, N.Y.
(Grosset & Dunlop) 1912, First Edn., purple text,
grey cloth, pictorial decor. d.j., clean copy. (1)

* Previous Owner inscription on f.e.p. and back
pastedown. €300 - 400

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Most Recent Publication Pyle (Hilary) Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, 3 vols.,
4to, L. (Andre Deutsch) 1992, First Edn., illus., green cloth, glassine wrappers,
Extremely Rare, 30 Copies Only slipcase. (3) €350 - 500

[Heaney (Seamus)] O’Neill (Timothy) Pangur Bán, Anonymous Ninth 67
Century Irish Poem Translated by Seamus Heaney. Lg. folio D. 2016. Lim. Heaney (S.) & Thorne (B.) illus. Beowulf, A Verse Translation, sm. folio, L.
Edn. No. 4 of 30 Copies Only. Signed by Artist. Not for Sale Copyright (The Folio Society) 2010, profusely gilt decor. leather back cloth, slip case.
Seamus Heaney Estate. Wd. cut frontis, design & lettering by Timothy Clean Copy. (1) €150 - 200
O’Neill, Printing by James Murphy, Distillery Press, NCAD Dublin. Uncut,
orig. cloth backed boards & cloth slipcase.

* Extremely Rare. (1) €800 - 1000 68 Signed by the Artist

Beckett (Samuel) & Le Broquy (L.)illus. Poems 1930 - 1989, 4to, L. (Calder
Publications) 2004, Ltd. Edn. 59 (100) Signed by the artist, with lithograph
frontis of Beckett, leather backed marble boards, gilt letter and decor. spine
with raised bands, in original slip case. Clean copy. (1) €350 - 450

69
[Joyce (James)] & Ellmann (R.)ed. Giacomo Joyce, 8vo N.Y. (Viking Press)
1968, First Edn. (this format), with 4 full scale fac-simile pages of m/ss, cloth
backed boards, slip case; Roe (D.)ed. Ulysses, thick 4to, D. (Lilluput Press)
1999, Ltd. Edn. 512 (1000), duck egg cold. cloth, slip case. (2) €180 - 250

70
Le Carre (John) Our Kind of Traitor, 8vo, L. (Viking) 2010, Signed by the
Author, cloth & d.j.; The Constant Gardener, 8vo L. (Hodder & Stoughton)
2001, cloth & d.j. Clean copies. (2) €120 - 150

71
Gaeltacht Coimisium na Gaeltachta. Report of the Commission, together
with a folder containing the eight maps showing the numbers and
percentages of Irish speakers in each District Electoral Division for 1911 and
1925. Dublin, 1926. (2) €100 - 150

72 Important Archive

Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) (City Lights interest) Pictures of the Gone World,
Pocket Poets Series Number One. (City Lights 1955). First Edn. V.g. in
rubbed card wrappers. Signed by Ferlinghetti and inscribed: “For Philip
in Sligo - Lawrence Ferlinghetti”. Scarce First Edn., authenticated with
author’s signature; Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) Starting from San Francisco :
New Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (New Directions 1961) V.g. in rubbed
pictorial cloth (no d.w. as issued). First Edn. Signed. Inscribed “For Philip
- June 04 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti”. With 33/1/3 Record in sleeve laid in.
Together with: An archive of letters, emails and postcards from, or on
behalf of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.. Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(2 copies: 1 CD, 1DVD - in orig cases). Related recordings from Rattlebag
programme on RTE radio, and reading from Model Niland Arts Centre SlIgo.
Coupland (Douglas) Generation (St Martin’s Press 1994) Fourth Edn.
Signed, inscribed. An important collection. €1500 - 2000
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[Yeats (W.B.)] Tindall (W.Y.)ed. The Poems of
W.B. Yeats, large 8vo, N.Y. (Thistle Press) 1970,
illus. by Robin Jacques, Ltd. Edn. Signed by the
Artist 1098 (1500), leather backed boards, with
profile medallion on front cover of W.B. Yeats,
slip case. Clean Copy. (1) €150 - 200

78
One of 45 Copies, Signed

Co. Westmeath: Egan (Desmond) & Finnerty
(Noel) Athlone, A Collection of New Poems
with Photographic Illustrations. Oblong folio
Newbridge (Goldsmith Press) 1910. Sole Lim.
Edition, No. 10 of 45 Copies. Signed by Author
& Photographer, and with short Unpublished
M/ss Poem in the authors hand, Illus. thro-out,
in full moroco binding and slipcase. Rare. (1)

€150 - 200

79
[I.A.S.] O’Flaherty (R.) A Chronological
Description of West or h-Iar Connaught, 4to D.
(I.A.S.) 1846, map & fold. chart; O’Donovan
(J.) The Tribes and Customes of Hy-Many, 4to
D. (I.A.S.), map & fold. chart; Henthorn Todd
(J.) Leabhar Imuinn. the Book of Hymns of the
73 & detail Ancient Church of Ireland, 2 vols.4to, D. (I.A.S.)

1855 - 69; O’Donovan (J.) The Topographical
Poems of John O’Dubhagain and Giolla na
Naomh O’Muidhrin, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1862;
Butler (Rev. R.) Registrum Prioratius Omnium
73 75 Sanctorum, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1845, & 2 others from
Algren (Nelson) Who Lost An American, 8vo Barton (Richard) Lectures in Natural
N.Y. 1963, Signed by the Author; Walk on the Philosophy, Designed to be a foundation, for the same series, all blind decorated purple
Wild Side, 8vo, N.Y. 1956, Signed by the Author; cloth, clean set. (8) €400 - 500
Never Come Morning, 8vo L. 1958; The Man with reasoning pertinently upon ... Lough Neagh in
the Golen Arm, 8vo L. 1959; A Walk on the Wild Ireland; ... Particularly The County of Ardmagh.
Side, 8vo L. 1957; Nelson Algren’s Own Book 4to D. 1751. First Edn., 3 Engd. frontis, list 80
of Lonesome Monsters, 8vo N.Y. (n.d.) c. 1963; of subs, & plts. 2-7 (some fold. & one mis- Buckle (George Earle)ed. The Letters of Queen
Chicago: City on the Make, sm. 8vo, N.Y. 1951; numbered), orig. sprinkled calf, raised bands. Victoria - Second Series, 3 vols. L. (John Murray)
Nelson Algren’s Chicago - Photography by Art mor label. Good copy. (1) €300 - 400 1926 - 1928, First Edn., 3 portrait frontis, hf.
Shay, lg. 4to, Chicago 1988, illus., all cloth, all titles, illus., gilt decor. cloth, Ex. Libris Copy. (3)
d.j. mostly clean copies, as a lot, w.a.f. (9) 76
€100 - 150
€400 - 500
74 [Miller (Liam) Holinshed (Raphael) The 81
Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Historie of Ireland..., Reprint D. (Dolmen Press)
Ireland, 2 vols. 4to L. 1837. First Edn., together 1979, cloth, decor. d.j., orig. slip case, clean Strickland (W.G.) A Dictionary of Irish Artists,
with Atlas Comprising the Counties of Ireland, lg. 4to 2 vols., Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969, (Reprint) cloth
4to L. 1837. Engd. title & dedit lg. fold. Map of copy. (1) €150 - 200 & d.j.; together with Hislop (D.)ed. Art Sales
Ireland, & 32 full page maps, all clean, cloth. (3)
Index 2004 - 35th Annual Edition, lg. 4to L. 2004,
€220 - 350 cloth & d.j. (3) €150 - 200

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The Lindisfarne Gospels Liber Ardmachanus Signed Limited Edition of 200 Copies

[Illustrated Volumes] Evangeliorum Quattuor, Royal Irish Academy: Gwynn (John)ed. The Beckett (Samuel) Stirring Still, folio, N.Y. (Blue
Codex Lindisfarenis, 2 vols., Ottent Lausanne Book of Armagh, lg. thick 4to D. (R.I.A.) 1913. Moon) 1988, illus. by Louis le Brocquy, includes
(Urs Graf ) 1956 - 59, sm. folio, No. 562 (680) Lim. Edn. No. 331 of 400 Copies. Hf. title, uncut, one original lithograph, Ltd. Edn. 70 (200),
copies, Facsimile Editon, 34 tipped in colour unopened, fine blind Celtic design suede. (1) Signed by Samuel Beckett & L. le Brocquy,
plts., and various other monochrom plts., Vol. uncut, original gilt decor vellum backed
1 in full blind decorated vellum, & volume 2 hf. €400 - 500 oatmeal cloth, original cloth slip case. Clean
vellum, oatmeal cloth boards, paper wrappers,
and original card boxes as issued. (2) 84 copy. (1) €1200 - 1500
* A fine facsimile copy of one of the most Sumptuous Production,
significant books from Anglo-Saxon England. Limited to 100 Copies 86
[Wilde (Oscar)] Holland (M.) De Profundis - A
€1000 - 1500 Egan (Desmond) Irish Poems, with illustrations Facsimile, sm. folio, L. (The British Library) 2000,
by Robert Brandy. Folio Luxemburg 1997. Lim.
Edn. No. 76 of 100 Copies = Signed by Poet & Ltd. Edn. 386 (496), frontis, cold. facsimile m/ss
pps, cloth, clean copy. (1) €150 - 200
Artist, Poems in Irish, English & German 9 fine
cold. plts. (some dbl. page), cold. decor. cloth, &
matching slipcase. Rare. (1) €175 - 250

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“Macklin Bible”

In Fine Gilt Decorated Bindings

Macklin (Th.) The Holy Bible, The
Old Testament & The New Testament,
Embellished with Engravings from
Pictures and Designs by the Most
Eminent English Artists, 6 vols., folio,
L. (Thomas Bensley) 1800, engd.
dedit page (Vol. 1) & 70 copper
engraved plts., numerous head &
tail-piece vignettes, (complete),
full calf, bordered with gilt fillets,
profusely gilt decor. panel spines,
some wear., otherwise handsome
set. Ex. Libris Clonbrook. (6)

* Original printed in 70 parts, it is
known as the largest English Bible
printed. [Herbert 1441; & Lowndes
Vol. 1, p. 192]. €700 - 900

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Inscribed Presentation Copies Beckett (Samuel). En Attendant Godot. Paris, Les Editions de Minuit,
two issues in wrs, one dated 1968, the other 330th Thousand. With
Byrne (Donn) Messer Marco Polo, L. 1921. First Edn. cold. frontis & 4 bl. & a programme for the Pike Theatre Club production in Dublin (First
white plts. Pres. Copy inscribed to [Sir] James O’Connor ... Aug. 1922, and production in Ireland,) and a programme for a later Abbey production. (4)
further inscribed by Sir James O’Connor [to] Michael J. Lennon, & signed.
Orig. cloth; also Messire Marco Polo, trans. into French by Comte G. O’Kelly €80 - 120
de Gallagh, retired Irish Minister to Paris & Brussels, 4to Paris 1943. First 90 & detail
French Edn. Pres. Copy inscribed by translator, Dublin 16 Aug. [19]43, with
errata slip tipped in, orig. ptd. wrappers; and Macauley (Thurston) Donn
Byrne Bard of Armagh, N.Y. 1929. First Edn., frontis & plts., cloth. All Scarce.
(3) €200 - 300

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Donleavy (J.P.) The Ginger Man, 8vo L. (Neville Spearman) 1956, First UK
Edn., blue cloth & decor. d.j.; The Ginger Man, Paris (Olympia Press) 1958,
First Edn, (Fourth Printing), with d.j. (original flaps), green cloth label, decor.
d.j., clean copies. (2) €250 - 320

90
The Carra Edition in Fine Bindings

Moore (George) The Collected Works of George Moore, 21 vols., N.Y. (Boni
and Liveright) 1922 - 1924, Carra Edition, Signed Ltd. No. 79 (1000) copies,
photo frontis, Vol. 1, uniformerly bound hf. green mor., gilt decor spines,
raised bands. Good clean set. (21) €600 - 800

91
[Beckett (Samuel) and others] Our Exagmination Round His Factification
For Incamination of Work In Progress. By Samuel Beckett, Eugene Jolas,
Robert McAlmon, John Rodker, William Carlos Williams etc., with Letters
of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Shakespeare & Co., Sylvia
Beech, 1929. First, rebound in a plain cloth binding. Includes several essays
quoting from Joyce’s Work In Progress, and a short passage on p. 109 about
Swift and blindness which was not included in Finnegans Wake (cf. Wade
B11). (1)
The Letters of Protest are said to have been written by Joyce. €125 - 225

92
Beckett (Samuel). Comment C’Est, Roman. Paris, Les Editions de Minuit
1961, wrs, possibly the first unlimited issue, profusely inscribed by a
previous owner. With three other Beckett titles in French, Fin de Partie,
Paris 1957; La Derniere Bande, Paris 1959; & Oh les Beaux Jours, Paris 1963, all
in wrappers. (4) €120 - 150

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94 96 98
Signed by The Harry Potter Cast Carroll (Lewis) Through The Looking Glass, and Fine Copy of First Edition
What Alice Found There, 8vo L. (Mac Millan &
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter & The Philosophers Co.) 1872, First Edn., illus. by John Tennel, hf. O’Brien (Flann) The Third Policeman, 8vo L.
Stone, 8vo L. 1997, Signed by 9 members of the title, illus. throughout text, advert leaf at back, (Macgibbon & Kee) 1967. First Edn., original
film crew, decor. cloth & d.j.; Harry Potter and original gilt decor. maroon cloth, staining, brown boards, lettered in gilt, & pict. dust
the Goblet of Fire, 8vo L. 2000, Signed by Daniel otherwise internally clean copy. (1) €150 - 200 wrapper by John Farman; also copy of Third
Radcliffe & Emma Watson, cloth & d.j., clean 97 Impression, L. 1973, black boards, with orig.
copies. (2) €300 - 400 Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, 12mo, d.w. Both copies very fine. (2) €300 - 400
L. (F. Arne) 1903, hf. title, cold. frontis, & illus.
95 through-out, decor. boards, & d.j.; The Tale of 99
Signed by J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Two Blind Mice, 12mo, L. (F. Warne) 1904, hf. First English & American Editions
Emma Watson & Others title, cold. frontis & illus., decor. boards & d.j.;
The Tale of Mrs. Titllemouse, 12mo, L. (F. Warne) O’Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, An Exegesis of
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of 1910, hf. title, cold. frontis & illus., decor. boards Squalor, 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1961, First
Secrets, 8vo L. 1998, Signed by the Author, and & d.j.; The Tale of The Pie and Patty-Pan, 12mo Edn., red boards lettered in gilt & orig. d.j.
members of the cast including Daniel Radcliffe L. (F. Warne) [c. 1905?], hf. title, cold. frontis & designed by Sean O’Sullivan. very good copy
(Harry), Emma Watson & others, decor. illus., decor. boards, & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) save for some spotting on fore-edge; also First
boards, d.j., clean copy; Harry Potter and the American Edn., of same N.Y. (Pantheon Books)
Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. 1997 (paperback), €600 - 700 1962, cloth backed green boards, & orig. pict.
Signed by 14 cast members of the movie, d.w.; together wtih Second English Edition,
including Daniel Radcliffe & Emma Watson. (2) London (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) 1973, black
boards & orig. d.w. A Scarce Collection in fine
€600 - 800 condition. (3) €400 - 500

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All Fine Copies All First Editions

[O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ -The Best of Myles, A Selection from O’Brien (Flann) The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and The Brother, L.
‘Cruiskeen Lawn.’ 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1968. First Edn., port. frontis; (Hart-Davis) 1976; The Hair of the Dogma, L. (Hart-Davis) 1977; and Jackson
Myles Portraits of Brian O’Nolan, .. Edited by Timothy O’Keeffe, 8vo L. (Martin (John Wyse)editor, Flann O’Brien At War - Myles na gCopolean 1940 - 1945, L.
Brian & O’Keeffe) 1973. First, port. frontis; and The Poor Mouth Myles na (Duckworth) 1999. All First Edns., all fine in orig. d.w.’s. (3) €125 - 175
Gopaleen [Flann O’Brien], 8vo L. (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) 1973. First Edn. in
English, (from the Irish). Trans by Patrick C. Power, Illus. by Ralph Steadman., 109
brown boards, orig. pict. d.w.; All very fine copies. (3) €180 - 250 First American & Second English Editions

101 O’Brien (Flann) At Swim Two-Birds, N. York (Pantheon) 1939. First American
Fine Copy of The Author’s First Book Edn., cloth backed yellow boards, orig. black printed yellow d.w., soiled
and with head & foot of spine worn with loss; also Second English Edition
Mac Mahon (Bryan) The Lion Tamer, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1948. First Edn., of same, L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1960. Black boards, gilt lettering, orig. green
orig. green cloth, & with unclipped pict. d.w. V. good copy. (1) €200 - 300 d.w., v. good. (2) €200 - 300

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Special Edition of 100 Copies A Twentieth Century Masterpiece

O’Nolan (Brian). Myles na gCopaleen. Golden Hours, a Version. Otherwise O’Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo L. (Longmans) 1939. First Edn. Black
known as Flann O’Brien At War. With a postschrift by Dr Uli Kochonauer cloth, gilt lettered spine, top edge green, orig. black & green unclipped d.w.
and a new etching by Hector McDonnell. L. 1999, cloth, No. 70 of a Special With two printed business cards loosely inserted, one for ‘Lord Noland of
Edition of 100 copies, Signed by Kochonauer, by the editor John Wyse Santry - Myles Na gCopoleen,’ in Irish & English, & the other for "Myles of
Jackson and by the Artist (in Irish). Original signed etching by McDonnell the Irish Times".
Numbered 70/75 laid in. (1) €200 - 300 Truly a finer copy than the above will be hard to find.

103 * The exceedingly rare author’s first novel, most of the issue was destroyed
in 1940 when the Germans bombed London, including Longmans’
O’Nuallain [O’Nolan] Brian, “Mairead Gillan” by Brinsley Mac Namara, this premises. €1750 - 2500
translation into Irish. 8vo D. (Oifig an t’Solathair) 1953. First Edn., hf. title,
97pp., orig. blue green ptd. wrappers. A very fine copy. (1) €200 - 300

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Very Rare First Editions

[O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ An Beal Bocht, 8vo D. (An Press
Naisuinta) n.d. [1941] First Edn. First Issue, without the printers name on
end page. One of 500 Copies Only. 111pp, pict. end papers, stiff pictorial
wrappers, after design by Sean O’Sullivan., very clean. Very Scarce. (1)

* An exceptionally good copy of this rare item. €325 - 450

105
With Autographed Note from
Author loosely Inserted
O’Brian (Flann) [pseud. Brian
O’Nolan] Cruiskeen Lawn, by
Myles na gCopeleen. [Text in
Irish & English with illustrations
8vo D. [Cahill & Co.] 1943. First
Edn. 80pp, orig. colour ptd.
wrappers. A very good copy
of this scarce item, which
was widely read and is now
extremely hard to get in such
nice condition. One of the
author’s wittiest work. (1)
* With an original manuscript,
signed note from the author
loosely inserted. (1) €350 - 450

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[O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ - An Beal Bocht, 8vo D. (An Press
Naisiunta) 1942. Second Edn., 111pp. decor. ends, & stiff cold. pict. boards.
V. good. Also copies of Third & Fourth Editions, 1964 & 1975, cloth with
d.w.s. (3) €200 - 300

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O’Brien (Flann) Stories and Plays, roy 8vo L. (Hart-Davis) 1973, First, English
Edn; and First American Edn. of same. N.Y. (Viking) 1976; A Flann O’Brien
Reader, roy 8vo N.Y. (Viking Press) 1968. First Edn.; O’Nuallain (Ciaran)
Oige an Dearthar i Myles na gCopaleen, D. 1973. First Edn., illus., cloth & pict.
d.w.’s; also another pictorial item on Flann. (5) €120 - 170
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Inscribed Presentation Copy Limited Edition Signed by W.B. Yeats [Joyce (James)] Contact Collection of
to fellow Journalist
Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, 8vo, Contemporary Writers. Contact Editions, Three
O’Brien (Flann) The Dalkey Archive, 8vo L. L. (T. Werner Laurie) 1922. Privately Printed,
(Macgibbon & Kee) 1964. First Edn., green Ltd. Edn. 845 (1000) Signed by the Author, hf. Mountains Press, Paris [1925], printed by
boards, gold lettering, a few spots, otherwise Maurice Darantiere, Dijon. Qto, orig. wrappers,
very good in original pict. d.w. (1) title, photogravure frontis, original paperback repaired. Includes a section by Joyce From
boards, label, & original d.j. clean Copy. [Wade
133]. (1) €700 - 900 Work In Progress [i.e. Finnegans Wake], also
* Inscribed copy ‘To Aidan Murray with the contribs. by Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra
regards of the author - Brian O’Nolan 22
November 1964,’ Aidan Murray was a journalist 116 Pound. Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, Ernest
[Synge (John M.)] The Works of John M. Synge, Hemingway (his story Soldier’s Home), etc. A
with the Carlow Nationalist, the same paper in 8vo 4 vols., D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1910, First Edn. 4 rare item. (1) €200 - 300
which Myles wrote under the name of George photogravue frontis, Ex. Libris Gladys & Harrie
Knowall. €600 - 800 Schutze (Bookplates) uncut, orig. buckram,
gilt lettered spines, some fading. Otherwise 118 All First Editions
112 Scarce. (4) Brown (Christy) Come Softly to My Wake, The
Limited Edition 110 Copies. Signed Poems of Christy Brown. L. (Secker & Warburg)
* Gladys Schutze (1884 - 1946) women’s 1971, First Edn.; Background Music, Poems. L.
Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo L. suffragette, novelist and political activist. She 1973. First U.K. Edn.; also Back Ground Music,
(Macgibbon & Kee) 1964. First Limited Edition was a messenger for the W.S.P.U. and provided N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1973. First U.S. Edn; Of Snails
110 Copies, No. 57, Signed by the Author, a safe house during the “Cat & Mouse” and Skylarks, Poems, L. 1977. First U.K. Edn; and
limitation page, hf. title, XV, 202pp., orig. green Movement of the 1910’s, at Glebe House in Of Snails and Skylarks, N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1978.
mor. backed boards, (v. small hole on spine) Chelsea, London. €250 - 350 First U.S. Edn., all orig. d.w.’s. (5) €160 - 220
with slipcase. (1)

* An extremely fine copy. €1500 - 2000

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One of 75 Signed Copies
with Two Original Plates

Dolmen Press: Synge (J.M.) Some Sonnets
from ‘Laura in Death,’ after the Italian of F.
Petrarch. Ed. by Robin Skelton, Illus. by Jack
Coughlin, roy 8vo D. 1971 (Dolmen Editions
XII). Limited Edn., No. 7 of 75 Signed Copies.
With two original drypoint illustrations. Full
vellum. V. good in orig. slipcase. Miller 175. (1)

€250 - 350

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Joyce (James) Ulysses, thick 4to, Paris
(Shakespeare & Co.) 1924, Fourth Edn. hf.
title, reverse printed wrappers, cream ground
and duck egg blue text on front cover and
spine, with price on back cover “sixty francs,”
worn, housed in custom made blue clam box.
[Slocum & Cahoon ?]. (1) €200 - 300
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119 Brown (Christy) Down All the Days, 8vo L. 125
Brown (Christy) Wild Grow the Lilies, An Antic (Secker & Warburg) 1970. First Edn.; also Down Special Limited Editions, Signed in Slip Case
Novel. 8vo L. (Secker & Warburg) 1976 First All the Days, N.Y. 1970. Second; and A Shadow
English Edn., orig. cloth & unclipped, d.w., on Summer, L. (Secker & Warburg) 1974. First Garcia Marquez (Gabriel) El General en Su
Edn., all cloth & orig. d.w.’s. Good. (3) Laberinto: Novela. No. 85 of 125 for Ediciones
together with Uncorrected Advance Proof, of del Equilibrista (Mexico). In maroon cloth, in
same. L. 1976, printed orange wrappers; also €100 - 150
Wild Grow the Lilies, N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1976. 124 matching slip case with portrait of author. Fine,
Steinbeck (John) Bombs Away The Story of a in near fine slip case; El amor en los tiempos
First American Edn., cloth & unclipped d.w. Bomber Team, (Viking 1942), v.g. in cloth, faintly del colera. First Edition, (Bogota, Oveja Negra,
Good lot. (3) €150 - 200 damp stained, front panel of d.w. bright, rear
panel age-toned, edges rubbed, a few small December 1985). In yellow cloth and complete
tears (loss), in removable protective wrapper. dw. Inscribed (apparently non-author) “Para
120 A very collectible copy of the US First Edn.; The Antonio - en el dia mas especial de 1986. Feliz
Brown (Christy) Il Mio Piede Sinistro [Italian Wayward Bus (Heinemann 1947) First UK Edn., cumpleaños! …. GM Bogota vii. 3. 86”.” . [For
translation of My Left Foot]. Edizioni Paoline, v.g. in cloth., d.w. is rubbed and edge-worn, Antonio - On the most special day of 1986 .
Modena, orig. wrs (torn), inscribed shakily with large tear to head of spine (loss), rear Happy birthday !] The initialled inscription, GM,
on h.t. ‘For Dr. Collis - My Socrates / Christy panel soiled; Of Mice and Men (Acting Edition) probably non-author. (2) €1700 - 2000
1960’. Dr. Robert Collis was the doctor who 1964 reprint, v.g. in wrappers. (3) €250 - 350
took Christy Brown under his wing and 126
supervised his treatment, enabling him to 125 With ALS to his publisher
live a reasonably full life. His introduction is
printed here in Italian. A Fine Association Item. Moore (George). The Brook Kerith. L. 1916,
(1) €200 - 300 vellum backed boards, orig. glassine wrapper,
Edition de Luxe, No. 1 of 250 copies, Signed,
121 fine copy. With an ALS to the publisher laid in,
[Christy Brown] Collis (Robert) Marrowbone 4 pp, making corrections and asking him to
Lane, 8vo D. (Runa Press) 1943. First Limited ‘let me down lightly when you come to make
De Luxe Edition No. 50 Signed by Author, up the bill for the corrections’. Also laid in are
gilt decor. limp mor.; also The Silver Fleece, An the original prospectus (worn) and two press
Autobiography. L. 1940. First, wd. cut illus. cuttings in which Moore discusses the book. (1)
by T.G. Wilson, cloth & d.w.; & To be a Pilgrim, Certainly the most desirable possible copy of
Autobiography of R. Collis, Intro. by Christy the book, set in Syria in Biblical times.
Brown, roy 8vo L. 1975. First Edn., illus., cloth
& d.w. (3) €300 - 500

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mentor. €120 - 180 Wilde’s Comic Masterpiece

122 [Wilde (Oscar)] The Importance of Being Earnest
The Author’s First Book A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author
of Lady Windermere’s Fan, sm. 4to, L. (Leonard
Brown (Christy) My Left Foot, 8vo L. (Secker Smithers & Co.) 1899, First Ltd. Edn. (1000 copies
& Warburg) 1954. First English Edn., frontis & printed), original gilt decorated cloth, later
illus., orig. red cloth & pict. d.w.; also My Left custom made leather and marble decorated
Foot, L. (Simon & Schuster) 1955. First American box. Fine Copy. Scarce. [Mason 382]. (1)

Edn., cloth backed boards, & orig. d.w., both * Opened originally in 1895, the play was
withdrawn due to Wilde’s failed libel case. It
unclipped. Good. (2) €200 - 300 was therefore not published until February

1899 in book form, following his release from
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[Yeats (W.B.) & Others] Hone (J.) W.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) Where There is Nothing, Being
- 1865 - 1939, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1942, Volume One of Plays for An Irish Theatre, 8vo
frontis and various newscuttings tipped in, N.Y. (Mac Millen Co.) 1903, Ltd. Edn. 4 (100),
cloth; Mooney (Bel.) intro. The Tower - W.B. Japanese vellum, uncut, cloth backed boards,
Yeats, 8vo L. (Folio Press) 1987, uncut, cloth ptd. wrappers, clean copy. Scarce. [Wade 44].
backed marbled boards; Ellman (R.) W.B. (1) €300 - 400
Yeats Second Puberty, 8vo Washington 1985,
illus., ptd. wrappers; Ellman (R.) The Use of 137
Dependance, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, annotated, Yeats (W.B). The Wind Among The Reeds. L.,
8vo, Vermont 1983, illus., ptd. wrappers; Beach Elkin Mathews 1899, First (Wade 27). Orig. dec.
(S.) Ulysses in Paris, 8vo N.Y. (Harcourt) 1956, cloth, stained and faded but sound, publisher’s
Privately Printed for Friend as a New Year’s flyer laid in. Inscribed to the American writer
Greeting, pictorial boards, glassine covers, as a L. Pearsall Smith by Robert Bridges, later Poet
lot, w.a.f. (5) €130 - 180 Laureate, Yattendon July 27 1899. (1)
An important collection, including The Hosting
131 of the Sidhe, The Song of Wandering Aengus, The
Yeats (W.B.) Responsibilities (Poems). L. 1917, Fiddler of Dooney and other well-known poems.
Macmillan (Wade 115, Second Impr.) With an
original poem by F.R. O’Higgins, ‘Old Galway €300 - 500
/ To W. Victor Brown’ inscribed and Signed on
f.e.p. in Higgins’ hand, 11/3/24. ‘Far in a gardens 138
wreckage, / Stark in a wind cleared moon ..’. The Dun Emer Press First Printing
Also inscribed on h.t. ‘To B / from your friend /
129 F.R. Higgins’. (1) Yeats (W.B.) In the Seven Woods: Being Poems
Victor Brown provided illustrations for some Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 8vo D. (The Dun
Cuala Press cards and broadsides. €225 - 350 Emer Press, Dundrum) 1903, First Edn. Limited
325 copies, [with original prospectus, loosely
132 inserted), oatmeal cloth, ptd. label, some
Yeats (W.B.) The Wild Swans at Coole. L. staining. Scarce. [Wade 49]. (1)
Macmillan 1919, First Thus, d.w. (repaired).
128 Inscribed on f.e.p. ‘To Sophia Cornwall from * Inscription on back end paper “Read with my
Inscribed Presentation Copy Elizabeth C. Yeats May 1919’, with a ms. note by Love in the Gardens of Hampton Court, Sept. 13,
Ms. Cornwall about their friendship. ‘I last saw 1903.” €225 - 350
Martyn (Edward) The Heather Field and Maeve, her in August 1939 .. In a fairer world than this
8vo L. 1899. First Edn., Introd. by George I hope to see her again’. With various cuttings 139
Moore., hf. title, partly unopened, advert. leaf about Yeats laid in or taped in. (1) With Original Drawing by A.E.
at end, orig. decor. blue cloth faded. Scarce. (1)
* Inscribed Presentation Copy to Major Moore A.E. [Russell (George)] The Avatars. A. Futurist
[his Mayo neighbour from Moore Hall]. Fantasy. L., Macmillan 1933, First Edn., in d.w.,
with a crayon drawing on t.p. of a woman by
€200 - 300 Includes the first book printing of the poems in a shore, signed “George Russell ‘AE’”. John
memory of Robert Gregory. €400 - 600
Chichester’s copy, inscribed on f.f.e.p. to
‘Sheila’, December 1933. (1) €300 - 400
133
129 Signed by W.B. Yeats 140
[Moore (George)] An Túr-Ghort. Sgéalta le Signed by the Author
Seorsa Ó Mórdha; aistrighthe ó’n Sacsbhéarla Yeats (W.B.) The Green Helmet and Other
ag Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin, B.A. Baile-Atha- Poems, 8vo D. (The Cuala Press) 1910, First Edn., [Gallagher (Paddy)] My Story by Paddy The
Cliath, Sealy Bryers & Walker n.d. [1902]. Orig. Limited 400 Copies, Signed and dated by the Cope, 8vo L. 1939. First Edn., Signed by Author
wrappers, decorated in Celtic style; about Author on t.p., “W.B. Yeats, March 26th, 1920” on hf. title, dated 28 July 1942, green cloth, &
an inch of upper cover and first five leaves cloth backed boards. Fine copy. Scarce. [Wade orig. d.w. V. good copy. Scarce. (1) €150 - 200
unevenly torn away, with no loss of text, 101]. (1) €1000 - 1500
right-hand upper corner slightly abraded
throughout, lacking rear wrapper. (1) 134
Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats
Dedicated in English by Moore to his nephews
Rory and Ulick Moore, native Irish speakers. O’Grady (Standish) Finn and His Companions,
‘They may be called to continue a literary 12mo L. (T. Fisher Unwin) n.d. Second
tradition into the fourth generation. In this Impression. Illus. by Jack B. Yeats, hf. title, orig.
case, they will be able to do it in Irish, and by decor. pict. boards, spine worn. Rare. (1)
writing in Irish they will continue the literary
tradition of our country’. * Inscribed Presentation Copy ‘To Miss Eileen
Rowan from the author Standish O’Grady March
15 1920’ . €180 - 240
An exceptionally rare item, dating from
Moore’s return to Dublin and his brief dalliance
with Gaelic affairs under the influence of Yeats 135
and Hyde. According to Macmillan Dict. of Signed by Norah McGuinness
Irish Lit., this publication precedes the English
version The Untilled Field [1903]. The damage is Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and The
unsightly, but could probably be significantly Secret Rose, roy 8vo L. 1927. First Edn., with 2
improved by skilful repairs. €400 - 600 cold. plts. (frontis & 1 other) other bl. & white
plts. & decoration by Norah Mc Guinness,
orig. gilt decor. blue cloth, & decor. d.w. after
designs by Mc Guinness. An extremely fine
copy. Wade 157.
* Fine signed inscription, ‘To Gerald Goldberg
with best wishes & hoping he will live happily
with Lapwings at Balbriggan.’ (1) €500 - 700

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141 147 150
Cross (Eric) The Tailor and Ansty, 8vo L. 1942. Brownlow (Timothy) & Carew (Rivers) Figures The Author’s First Book, Signed
First Edn., Foreword by Frank O’Connor, port. out of The Mist, sm. square 4to D. (New Square
frontis, cloth & d.w. With 2 Programmes for Publications) 1966. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies, Stuart (H.) [Francis Stuart], We Have Kept the
Performances of the above at The Abbey & The Signed & inscribed by both authors, cloth; also Faith, sm. 4to D. (The Oak Leaf Press) 1923. First
Peacock, 1968 loosely inserted. (3) €100 - 150 by Brownlow, The Hurdle Ford, 4to D. 1964. First Edn., Signed on front loose blank & inscribed,
Edn., wrappers; and Climbing Crough Patrick, ‘To Helen from Francis Xmas 1923,’ somewhat
142 B. Columbia, Canada 1998. First Edn., Signed & browned as usual, orig. cloth backed green
Leonard (Hugh) Home Before Night, L. 1979. Inscribed, pict. boards. (3) €100 - 150 boards with ptd. label. (1)
First Edn., Signed Presentation Copy; Out After * A very good Signed Copy of this Scarce Item.
Dark, L. 1989. First Edn.; Rover and other Cats, 148
The Author’s First Book €280 - 350

L. 1992. First Edn., illus.; A Wild People, L. 2001, ROS (Mrs. Amanda M’Kittrick). Irene 151
First Edn., all orig. d.w.’s; also Summer, A Play, L. Iddersleigh. Belfast, Baird 1897, First Edn. of Published at Kilkenny by Standish O’Grady
1979. A production copy, profusely annotated, her First Book, orig. dec. cloth, slightly shaken.
orig. wrappers. (5) €150 - 200 Scarce. Laid in is her card, addressed from Martyn (Edward) The Tale of a Town and An
the house she built at Larne Harbour with the Enchanted Sea, 8vo L. 1902. First Edn., hf. title,
143 proceeds of the book; tipped in is a TL (copy) orig. gilt lettered blue cloth. V. good. *Scarce. (1)
dated Aug. 13 1900, discussing her spiritual
O’Connor (Ulick) Sputnik & other Poems, beliefs. ‘Of course I’ve given you my sincere * George Moore adapted ‘The Tale of a Town’
N.Y. 1967; Irish Tales and Sagas, L. 1981. First, views but as a writer I vary them’.
illus by Pauline Bewick, pict. d.w.; All Things Signed in pencil on h.t., W. Godfrey Macourt for the Irish Literary Theatre under the name
(?), 12 July 1898, and profusely decorated ‘The Bending of the Bough.’ €150 - 200
Counter, D. 1986; One is Animate, D. (Beaver throughout with small attractive sketches,
Row Press) 1990; Executions, Dingle 1992; The pencil and ink, unsigned, probably by Mr.
Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970 - 1981. A Cavalier Macourt, but just possibly by the author. 152
Irishman, roy 8vo L. 2001. First, illus. 7 illus. d.w. On reverse of the final page, p. 189, is a The Arts & Crafts Movement
All First Edns. (6) €120 - 180 passage headed ‘Olive Oil’ in manuscript,
signed A. McK. R., possibly in the author’s hand. Irish Art: Elliott (Robert) Art and Ireland,
144 An interesting copy of a scarce book, printed at Preface by Edward Martyn. 8vo D. n.d. [c. 1906].
With Letter from Author the expense of the author’s husband. (1) First Edn. frontis & 8 plts., uncut, unopened,
orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. Rare. (1)
[Patterson (W.H.F.)] Songs of a Port, by W.H.F. €350 - 500
8vo Belfast 1920. First Edn., frontis & decor. €160 - 220
thro-out, orig. decor. boards. V. good. (1)
153
Inscribed to W.B. Yeats

* Signed pres. Copy to T.E. Spence, Dec. 21st, ‘Fitzurse (R.)’ (pseudo. of Geoffrey Phibbs), It
1943, & with A.L.s. from the author loosely
inserted. (1) €120 - 170 Was Not Jones (poems). Published by Leonard
& Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, L. 1928,
149 First, Hogarth Living Poets No. 2, boards,
145 With Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley scarce. Inscribed on t.p. ‘To Mr. Yeats / with the
Scarce Signed First Editions writer’s greatest respect / Geoffrey Phibbs
Farr (Florence) The Dancing Faun, L. (Elin 3.5.28’. (1) €200 - 300
Irvine (John) Wind from the South, sm. 8vo Mathews & John Lane) 1894. First Edn. hf. title,
Belfast 1936. First Edn., Signed by Author, red & bl. illustrated title, 15pp adverts etc., orig. 154
& Signed by Artist, W.H. Fry. on frontis, orig. decor. blue cloth. V. good. Rare. (1) O’Grady (Hugh Art) Standish James O’Grady
cloth; Willow Leaves, Lyrics in the manner of * Florence Farr, actress, model, singer, Women’s The Man & The Writer. A Memoir. Roy 8vo D.
the early Chinese poets, 8vo Belfast 1941, First, Rights activist and prolific writer, important 1929. First Edn., uncut, unopened, port. frontis,
Signed Pres. Copy to W.H. Fray, 1941, cloth; The member of The Golden Dawn, good friend of blue cloth with labels, & orig. d.w. V. good copy.
Quart Stream Poems, sm. 8vo Belfast (Derrick W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, & others & one time (1) €120 - 180
Mc Cord) 1944. Lim. Edn., No. 74 (100), Signed mistress of George Bernard Shaw. €200 - 300
Pres. Copy, cloth; With No Changed Voice,
Belfast 1946. First Edn., pict. wrappers; Green
Altars, Poems, 12mo Owenvarra Press 1951.
First, Signed, wrappers; Lost Sanctuary, Belfast
(Quota Press) 1954. First Edn. Signed, pict.
wrappers; The Flowering Branch, 16mo Belfast
1945, cloth & pict. d.w.; & 1 other. Good lot. (8)

€200 - 300

146
Coole Park & The Gregorys: Gregory
(Anne) Me and Nu: Childhood at Coole, 8vo
Buckinghamshire (C. Smythe) 1970. First Edn.,
illus. by Joyce Dennys, cloth & d.w. Nuala
Costello’s copy, Signed by her. Mrs. Costello,
author of Music of Connaught, lived at Tuam,
and was a friend of the family; Robert Gregory
1881 - 1918. A Centenary Tribute, 8vo 1981, illus.;
and A Guide to Coole Park, Co. Galway. Home of
Lady Gregory, by Colin Smyth, 1973, illus. All v.
good. Scarce. (3) €120 - 170

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The Author’s First Books

Ussher (Arland) Postscript on Existentialism,
8vo D. (Sandymount Press) 1946. Signed First
Edn. boards & d.w.; The Twilight of the Ideas &
other Essays, D. (Sandymount Press) 1948. First
Edn; The Face of Ireland, L. 1949. Signed First
Edn., cloth & d.w.; The Magic Rope [Jews], L.
1950. First Edn. d.w.; Three Great Irishmen Shaw,
Yeats, Joyce. L. 1952. First Edn., cloth & d.w. also
Uncorrected Proof Copy of same, wrappers;
Journey through Dread, L. 1955. First, d.w.; and
Spanish Mercy, L. 1959. First Edn., d.w. A good
collection. (8) €180 - 240

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The Author’s First Book

O’Farachain (Roibeard) [Robert Farren]
Thronging Feet, L. 1936. First Edn of Author’s
First Book - Signed Pres. Copy, cloth; The First
Exile, A Poem. L. 1944. Signed First Edition,
cloth; Rime Gentlemen, Please, L. 1945. Signed
First Edn., cloth & d.w.; The Course of Irish Verse
in English, L. 1948 First Edn., cloth; Selected
Poems, L. 1951. First Edn., cloth & d.w. Good lot.
(5) €120 - 175

155 161 164
Signed by The Author All Signed by the Author Metropolitan Publishing Co: Robinson

O’Flaherty (Liam) Red Barbara and other Mankowitz (Wolf) Make Me An Offer, 8vo L. (Lennox) Towards an Appreciation of the
Stories, N.Y. & L. 1928. First Edn., Lim. Edn. (600) Theatre, D. 1945; O’Connor (Frank) Towards an
Signed by Author. Illustrated by Cecil Salkeld, 1952. First Edn., illus. by Leonard Rosoman, Appreciation of Literature, D. 1945; and Farren
plts., uncut, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. cloth & pict. d.w.; A Kid for Two Farthings, : L.
(1) €200 - 300 1953. First Edn., illus. by James Boswell, cloth & (Robert) Towards an Appreciation of Poetry, 8vo
D. 1947. All First Editions, ptd. boards & with
pict. d.w.; both Signed Presentation Copies to matching decor. d.w. after design by Jack Mac
Maurice Fridberg, Irish Publisher; XII Poems, D.
(Dolmen) 1872. Signed Limited Edition, 229 of Manus. Full set. All v. good. (3) €125 - 175
156
Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, 4to L. 250 Copies, cloth; & The Samson Riddle, L. 1972.
First, Signed Presenation Copy to Fred Hanna., 165
(Hodder and Stoughton) 1900. First Edn., hf. Beckett (Samuel). A collection including:
title, t.e.g. edges untrimmed, original gilt decor. Illus. by Edward Delaney, cloth, pict. d.w. All
Scarce. (4) €140 - 200 Endgame, L. 1958, First UK, d.w., Gerald
blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good copy. Goldberg’s copy with his bookplate; Worstword
Wade 30. (1) €325 - 450
162 Ho, L. 1983, d.w., First UK; Krapp’s Last Tape
Signed Presentation Copy to Fellow Poet and Embers, L. 1959, First UK, wrappers; Happy
157 The Author’s First Book Days, L. 1962, First UK, Valentin Iremonger’s
Number 23 of 75 Copies Only copy with his signature (poet and critic). All
Higgins (F.R.) Island Blood, L. 1925. First Edn., clean copies. (4) €125 - 200
Ussher (Arland) & Von Metzradt (Carl) Enter inscribed on f.f.end “To Joseph Campbell in deep
these Enchanted Woods: An Interpretation of admiration F.R. Higgins March 1925;” The Dark 166
Grimm’s Fairy Tales. 8vo Sanymount Press 1954. Breed, A Book of Poems, L. 1927. First Edn., The Author’s Second Collection
First Edn. No. 23 of Limited Edn. of 75 Copies. inscribed on f.f.end “To M.H.I. Brunicardi Esq.,
With pencil corrections thro-out, orig. vellum with very best compliments F.R. Higgins, July O’Grady (Desmond) Reilly, tall 8vo Rome 1961.
backed decor. boards; also Dolmen Edition 27; The Gap of Brightness, L. 1940. First Edn. First Limited Edn. 250 Copies. With long Signed
of same D. 1956. Limited to 1000 Copy, with With typed card, loosely inserted, to Hon. Sec. Inscription ‘For Tony .. Limerick 27th August
illustrations by Tate Adams. Miller 28; & Dufour The English Literary Society, U.C.D., from the 1962,’ cloth & d.w.; also with Uncorrected Proof
Edition of same D. (Dolmen) 1966, with illus., author, declining an invitation ‘... to a Lecture on Copy of same work, Not for Publication, 1967,
cloth & d.w. All v. good. Scarce. (3) €180 - 220 literature by an Oxford clergyman. However as I wrappers, browned. (2) €150 - 200
am busy on the work of developing Irish literature
158 I find it impossible to waste time.” Signed F.R. 167
The Author’s First Book Higgins. All with orig. d.w.’s. V. good. Rare. (3) With Signed Postcard

Guinness (Bryan) Twenty-Three Poems, L. 1931. €225 - 350 Beckett (Samuel) Molloy. Malone Dies. The
First Edn. Signed Pres. Copy ‘Bryan to Eileen
with Best Love, March 1933,’ cloth; Reflections, L. Unnamable. A Trilogy. Olympia Press, Travellers’
163 Companion Series, Paris 1959. Orig. green
1947. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy ‘For Maurice The Author’s First Book wrappers, a little rubbed. Laid in is a card in
[Craig] with affection from Bryan, Oct. 1947’,
decor. title, cloth & d.w.; Collected Poems 1927 Rowley (Richard) The City of Refuge, and Beckett’s hand, dated Paris, 9.12.81, ‘With love
from Sam Beckett’. (1) €400 - 600
- 1955, L. 1956; A Fugue of Cinderellas,L. 1956. Other Poems. 8vo D. (Maunsel) 1917. First
Edn.,; City Songs and Others, D. 1921, both
First Edn. Signed, pict. d.w.; The Rose in the cloth backed boards; The Old Gods and other 168
Tree, L. 1964. First Edn; The Clock Poems and a
Play, D. Dolmen 1973. First Edn., d.w.; Hellenic Poems, L. (Duckworth) 1925. First Edn., Signed [Beckett (Samuel)], O’Brien (Eoin) & Fourner
(E.)eds, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 8vo
Flirtation, L. 1977. First Edn., pict. wrappers; Presentation Copy to William Conor (Painter), D. (The Black Cat Press) 1992, Ltd. Edn., 63
cloth & d.w.; Selected Poems, L. 1931. First
The Engagement, Cambridge n.d. First Limited Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; Fifty Sonnets for Felicity, (130), decor. cloth, green velvet slip case. Clean
Edition - Signed Illus., pict. cloth backed boards
with title band. A good lot. (8) €250 - 350 Mourne Press 1942, First Edn., port. frontis copy. (1) €200 - 300

boards; The Piper of Mourne and other Poems,
Belfast 1944. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; & 1
other. A scarce collection. (7) €200 - 300

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Some Signed First Editions Sean Mac Entee’s Copy Special Limited Edition Of 26 Copies

Milne (Ewart) Jubilo Poems Roy 8vo L. (F. Milne (Ewart) Forty North Fifty West, 4to D. de Bernieres (Louis) A Day Out for Mehmet
Muller) 1944. First Edn. on hand made paper; (Gayfield Press) 1938. Lim. Edn. No. 74 of 250 Erbil, Belmont Press, 1999, ill. Eileen Hogan, Ltd
Elegy for a Submarine, 8vo Essex (Plow Poems) copies, with wd. cut portrait of author & 6 plts. Edn. One of 26 De Luxe Copies (with 2 extra
1951. First Edn. Signed, 8pp wrappers; by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld, orig. pict. wrappers. prints in pocket), lettered A to Z, this copy
Diamond Cut Diamond, Selected Poems. V. good copy, inscribed by Sean Mac Entee, C. Signed by Author and Illustrator. Fine in
L. (Bodley Head) 1950. First Edn. Signed; A political & author. (1) €160 - 220 original slip case. (1) €400 - 500
Garland for The Green, L. (Hutchinson) 1962.
First Edn., Signed; Time Stopped, A Poem with 178 First Signed Editions
prose intermissions. 8vo L. (Plow Poems) 1967. 174 de Bernieres (Louis) A Partisan’s Daughter,
First Edn., Signed. All with orig. decor. d.w.’s. All Signed by Beckett (Harvill Secker, 2008), v.g.; Red Dog, First Edn.,
Fine. (5) €175 - 250 (Secker 2001) Signed, dated 1998 (sic), on
Beckett (Samuel)trans. Zone, by Guillaume adhesive label to hf title; Sunday Morning at
170 Apollinaire, lg. 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. Lim. the Centre of the World (Vintage, 2001), Signed,
Presentation Copies to Edn. No. 65 of 250 Copies Signed by Beckett, dated 1998 (sic) on adhesive label to hf title; A
Dr. Maurice Craig, etc uncut, orig. mor. backed black buckram, & Day Out for Mehmet Erbil (Belmont Press, 1999),
matching slipcase. V. good copy. (1) €400 - 600 ill. Eileen Hogan, Ltd Edn. 58/150, bound with
Milne (Ewart) Letter from Ireland, roy 8vo D. cloth spine, Signed by author and illustrator,
(Gayfield Press) 1940. First Edn., Signed by 175 beautiful copy, top edge dusty; Labels (First Edn.,
Author & Dr. Craig, cloth & d.w.; also Listen Five First UK Signed Editions One Horse Press, 1993, Ltd 99/2000), Signed,
Maugan, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1941. First dated 1993, in original orange wrap-around
Edn., Signed by Dr. Craig & inscribed ‘’To Ishiguro (Kazuo) Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005); band; Labels (rep, One Horse Press, 1997) [1993],
Maurice James Craig This Manifesto of Friendship The Remains of the Day (1989) inscribed “To Dr. Signed, dated 1998 on adhesive label to hf title;
I hope Ewart Milne, Dec. 1941,’; and with printed Philip Murray - best wishes”, dated11/8/1989. Gunter Weber’s Confession, (Tartarus Press, 2001),
advert flyer loosely inserted; Life Arboreal, roy When We Were Orphans (Faber, 2000), Signed; Ltd. Edn. 110/300. In original red French wraps
8vo Tunbridge Wells (The Pound Press) 1953. An Artist of the Floating World (Faber, 1986), Beautiful copy, top edge dusty. (7) €300 - 400
First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy to David Marcus inscribed “to Dr. Murray - best wishes, 17th
[author] Nov. 1953, cloth & d.w.; & Once More November 1986 / Kazuo Ishiguro”, with als.,
to Tourney, L. (Linden Press) 1958. First Edn. agreeing to sign book, with original envelope,
Signed, cloth & d.w. All excellent copies. (4) laid in. Edges a little spotted, d.w. spine ends
slightly bumped; The Unconsoled (1995)
€180 - 280 Signed, d.w. spine ends slightly bumped, top
edges of all volumes slightly dusty. (5)
171
Signed First American Edition €600 - 800

Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair, roy 8vo N.Y. 176
(Fountain Press) 1929. First U.S. Edition, Lim. de Bernieres (Louis) Captain Corelli’s
Edn. No. 445 of 600 Copies. Signed by Author Mandolin, First UK Edn.(1994), cloth, d.w. in
hf. title decor. title, uncut, orig. gilt decor blue removable cover, Signed, “for Philip Murray
cloth, & glassine cover. V. good. Wade 164. (1) / Kilkenny 2000 / Louis de Bernieres”, White
boards rubbed; Corelli’s Mandolin, Advance
€750 - 1000 Reader’s Edition (Pantheon NY, 1994). Original
printed wraps, Signed dated 1994 to ffep. In
172 original card slip case; Birds Without Wings,
Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and Other First UK (2004), Signed, dated 1998 (sic) on
Poems, 8vo L. (Macmillan & Co. Ltd.) 1933. adhesive label to title page. (3) €500 - 600
First Edn. Hf. title, edges untrimmed, orig.
green cloth, with a design by T. Sturge Moore
stamped in gilt on spine, & in blind on upper
cover, with attractive orig. decor. d.w., slightly
chipped at top of spine, otherwise a very good
copy. Wade 169. (1) €200 - 300
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Kavanagh (Patrick) By Night Unstarred, An 184 Joyce (James) - Folio Society: Dubliners, L.
Autobiographical Novel. Edited by Peter Scarce Limited Edition 2003; also Portrait of the Artist, L. 1965. Both
Kavanagh 8vo The Curragh (Goldsmith Press) illus., cloth & in orig. slipcases. (2) €100 - 150
1977. First Edn., orig. boards, pict. wrappers; Cuala Press: Kavanagh (Patrick) The Great
Warner (Alan) Clay is the World. Patrick Hunger, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1942. Lim. Edn. 186
Kavanagh 1904 - 1967, D. (Dolmen) 1973. First 250 Copies Only, (Out of Series) Decor. title, With Illustrations by Lucia Joyce
Edn. boards & pict. d.w.; Nemo (John) Patrick partly unopened orig. cream cloth backed blue
Kavanagh, Boston 1979. First, frontis orig. gilt boards, paper label. Bottom of back board, Joyce (James) The Mime of Mick, Nick and the
bent with tear, otherwise a very good copy of Maggies, 8vo, The Hague (The Servive Press)
decor. red cloth. (3) €100 - 150 this rarity. (1) 1934, Ltd. Edn. 311 (1000) copies, illus by Lucia

180 * The above is regarded as the poet’s greatest Joyce (The Author’s Daughter), decor. ptd.
wrappers, slip case. Scarce. (1) €300 - 400
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Nighwalker, creative work. €500 - 700

D. 1967. Signed Lim. Edn. No. 83 of 100 187
Copies Only, orig. cloth backed boards; also “They Lived and Laughed and
Nightwalker and Other Poems, roy 8vo D. 1968. Loved and Left”
First Edn., cloth & d.w., Miller 106 & 121; also
Kinsella (T.) Notes from the Land of the Dead, Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, lg. 4to, L.
(Faber & Faber) 1939, Signed Limited Edition
8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1972, No. 156 of Lim. 269 (425), hf. title, uncut, original red cloth, gilt
Edn. 500 Copies, unopend orig. cloth backed
boards. (3) €180 - 250 lettered spine. Clean copy. [Slocum & Cahoon
47], lacks slip case. (1) €2000 - 3000

181 188
Kavanagh (Patrick) Lapped Furrows, The Only Issue Published
Correspondence 1933 - 1967 Between Patrick
and Peter Kavanagh with other Documents. [Joyce (James)] The Klaxon. Winter 1923/4 (all
8vo N.Y. (Peter Kavanagh Press) 1969. First pub., quarto.). Only issue of this publication,
Edn., Limited to 1000 Copies cloth; Kavanagh including a review essay by ‘L.K. Emery’
(Peter) Sacred Keeper. A Biography of Patrick (pseudo. of A.J. Leventhal) on ‘The Ulysses
Kavanagh, 8vo The Curragh (Goldsmith Press) of Mr. James Joyce’, which the printer of the
1980. First Edn., illus. thro-out, cloth & pict. Dublin Magazine had reputedly refused to set.
d.w.; Quinn (Antoinette) Patrick Kavanagh. A Other contribs. include H. [Francis] Stuart, and
Biography, D. 2001. First Edn., illus., pict. d.w. (3) with Arland Ussher's first published version of
the translation of The Midnight Court, & others.
€120 - 170 Extremely Scarce. (1) €200 - 300

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Kipling (R.) Kim, 8vo, L. (Mac Millan & Co.) Inscribed by Oliver St. John Gogarty
1901, First English Edn, hf. title, photo frontis,
and 9 photo plts. (complete), advert leaf at [Joyce (James)] The Venture. An Annual of
end, red cloth, medallion on front cover, gilt Art and Literature. 1915. Baillie, L., 4to Dec.,
letter spine, minor wear. Scarce. (1) cloth. Includes Two Songs by James A. Joyce,
* This is the Author’s Third Novel. €80 - 120 also Two Songs by Oliver Gogarty, various
essays, engravings etc.. Inscribed on prelim
183 by Gogarty, ‘To my friend Mrs. E. de Verdon
Signed First U.S. Edition Corcoran, with grateful acknowledgements’.
Minor damage to head of spine. Laid in at
Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, a Novel (New rear is a competent ink drawing of a woman’s
York, Devin-Adair 1949), First US Edition in head in profile; also The Life of Bret Harte, by T.
dust wrapper, the wrapper photograph by [Bill] Edgar. L. 1903. Inscribed on f.f.end to Mrs. E. de
Brandt, signed in ballpoint by Kavanagh on Verdon Corcoran by Gogarty. (2) €200 - 300
f..f.e.p. Clean. (1) €400 - 600 187 & detail
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192
Signed Subscribers Copy

192 Joyce (James) & Le Brocquy (L.)illus. 196 & detail
Dubliners, D. (The Dolmen Press) 1986, Ltd. Edn.
72 (400), Signed by the Artist, illus. oatmeal
cloth, slipcase. Clean copy. (1) €350 - 450
190 194
Signed by Author 193 Sendah (Maurice) Where The Wild Things Are,
Signed by all the Contributers
[James Joyce] Daly (Leo) James Joyce and the oblong 4to, L. (The Bodley Head) 1967, First
UK Edn., illus., decor. boards, worn; We are all In
Mullingar Connection, folio Dolmen Edition Wylie (Donovan). 32 Counties. Photographs the Dumps with Jack and Guy, oblong 4to, N.Y.
XX, D. 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 18 (750) Signed
by Author, with Printed Prospectus loosely of Ireland, with new writing by thirty-two (Harper Collins) 1993, First Edn., plain boards,
Irish writers. L., Secker, 1989, quarto cloth,
inserted, cloth & d.w. V. good; together with 1 d.w., orig. slipcase, No. 79 of 150 Numbered decor. d.j., as a lot., w.a.f. (2) €100 - 150

other item. (2) €120 - 180 Copies. Signed at end by all the contributors,

191 including Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, 195
[Joyce (James)] Rose (D.) & O’Hanlon (J.) William Trevor, Ben Kiely, Francis Stuart, etc., Doyle (Roddy) The Departers & Other Stories,
ed. Ulysses - James Joyce, large 4to, L. (Folio and with the original signed manuscript of 8vo, L. 2007, Signed by the Author, cloth & d.j.;
Society) 2017, illus. by John Vernon Lord, decor. John Banville’s chapter on Wexford, 5 pp, Her Mothers Face, 4to L. 2008, illustrated by
cloth & slip case. Clean Copy. (1) €150 - 200 together with ‘unpublished print signed by the Frey Blackwood, ptd. boards & d.j.; A Star Called
photographer’ which should be in the pocket Henry, 8vo L. 1999, cloth & d.j.; and two others.
at front. (1) €800 - 1000 (5) €150 - 200

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Shakespeare: Collier (J. Payne)ed. The
Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, 8
vols. sq. 8vo L. 1878. First Edn Thus., t.e.g. in
fine crushed crimson mor. marble sides, gilt
lettered spine with raised bands. V. good set.
(8) €450 - 650

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In Fine Binding

de Cervantes Saavedra (M.) El Ingenioso
Hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, Nueva
Edicion Corregida Por La Real Academia
Espanolo. 4 vols. lg. 4to Madrid 1780. First
Royal Spanish Academy Edition, engd. port.
frontis Vol. I, 4 engd. add. titles, fold. engd.
map, engd. head & tails etc., & 28 full page plts.,
a.e.g. in cont. full straight grained green mor.
lg. gilt tooled borders, line decorated panels,
including lg. central panel with attractive
corner decorations, and profusely gilt spines,
some small wear, otherwise a very fine set. (4)

* Presentation copy, inscribed ‘From W. Ronan
... to James Roche [Cork Banker]Esq. Cork 10th
May 1843.’ €2000 - 3000
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Peppercanister: Kinsella (Thomas) One,
Illustrations by Anne Yeats. Sm. folio d. 1974.
Peppercanister 5 No. 29 of 124 Copies Only.
Signed by the Author & Anne Yeats. Hd. made
paper with illus., orig. calf, backed decor.
boards. V. Fine Rare. (1)
* The fifth publication from the authors press.

€280 - 350

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Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Finistere,
lg. 4to D. 1972. No. 115, Limited Edition of 250
Copies. Signed by Author, designs by Hugh
Kearns. Mor. backed green cloth with blind
decor. V. good copy. Miller 196. (1) €200 - 300

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Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Wormwood,
sm. folio D. 1966. Limited Edition to 350 Copies,
Signed, orig. vellum backed veneered boards,
glassine cover. V. good. Miller 94. (1) €200 - 300

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198 200 Peppercanister: Kinsella (Thomas) A Selected
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Sons of Peppercanister Publications: Kinsella Life, sm. folio D. 1972. No. 29 of Limited Edition
Usnech, Translated by T. Kinsella from the Irish (Thomas) No. 1, Butchers Dozen, D. 1972; No. 2, of 150 Copies. Signed by Author, specially
Designs and decoration by Mia Cranwill. Roy A Selected Life, sm. folio D. 1972; No. 3, Vertical bound mor. backed blue boards. V. fine copy. (1)
8vo D. Nov. 1954. Limited, One of 200 Copies, Man: A Sequel to a Selected Life, D. 1973. Lim.
Numbered 65, fine in vellum backed decorated Edn. 350 Copies; No. 4, The Good Fight, 1973, * The second publication from the author’s
boards; also Revised & Reset Edition of 1960 Signed; No. 6, A Technical Supplement, roy own press. €300 - 400
Limited to 500 Copies, cloth & illus. d.w. Both 8vo D. 1976. Lim. Edn. 550 Copies; No. 8, The
fine copies. Miller 16, & 16a. (2) €350 - 450 Messenger, roy 8vo D. 1978; No. 13, One Fond 206
Embrace, roy 8vo D?. 1988. Signed; No. 14, Hand-Coloured Plates: Sowerby (J. Ed.)
Personal Places, roy 8vo D. 1990., together 8 English Botany; or, coloured Figure of British
items. All First Edns. & orig. wrappers. (8) Plants, ed. by J.T. Boswell Syme. 12 vols. roy
8vo L. 1863 - 1886. Third Edn. approx. 1922 hd.
199 €200 - 300 cold. plts. (a few loose) orig. gilt decor. green
The Author’s First Book cloth. As a coll., w.a.f. (12) €350 - 500

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Starlit 201 207
Eye, 8vo D. 1952. One of 25 Copies, Numbered Signed Limited Edition Fine Dublin Edition
13, & Signed by the Author. With designs on
title, & in text, orig. cloth backed decorated Kinsella (Thomas) Tear, sm. 4to Cambridge, Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary:
boards. Good. Very Scarce. (1) Containing the Methods of Cultiviating and
Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and flower
* Miller 4, The Fourth book from The Dolmen Massachusetts (Pym - Randall Press) 1969. No. Garden... and Vineyard. Folio D. (S. Powell)
28 of 200 Copies, Signed by the Author, orig. 1732. First Edn., list of subs., engd. frontis, red
Press. €800 - 1200 wrappers. Fine Scarce. (1) €150 - 200 & bl. title, & 3 full page engd. plts., cont. calf,
raised bands, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

€300 - 400

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With Fine Coloured Plates Oxlade (Diana) A Tropical Glen, A Florilegium Signed Limited Subscribers Copy
of Belfast Botanic Gardens. Folio Belfast
Periodical: Robinson (W.)ed. Flora & Sylva, (Nicholson & Bass) 2000. First Edn., 46 cold. [Walsh (Wendy)], Nelson (E.C.)cont.
A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, plts., mor. backed green cloth. (1) €180 - 220 Wendy Walsh, A Lifetime of Painting, folio D.
Woodland, Tree or Flower; .. 3 vols. lg. 4to L. (Strawberry Tree) 2007, Signed & Ltd. 47 (125),
1903 - 1905. First Edns., 66 fine full page cold. illus., mor. backed cloth boards, slip case. Clean
plts., & 247 bl. 7 white plts. illus., photos etc., 212 Copy. (1) €350 - 420
uncut, orig. gilt lettered blue cloth. V. good. (1) Signed Limited Patrons Copy

€300 - 400 [Robinson (Wm.)] & Nelson (E.C.)ed. The 215 Signed by the Artist
209 Wild Garden, a New Illustrated Edition, 4to D.
Ariel Press: Moreton (C. Oscar) The Auricula (Strawberry Tree) 2003, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. Welsh (Wendy) An Irish Florilegium & An
its History and Character, Folio L. 1964. Lim. Irish Florilegium II; 2 vols., folio L. (Thames &
Edn. No. 110 of 500 Copies, 17 full page cold. 12 (160), with a Ltd. Print 11 (11) for patrons, Hudson) 1983 - 1987, illus., Signed Vol. I, cloth,
plts., buckram & pict. d.w.; Mannering (Eva) illus. throughout, full red mor. gilt lettering, slip
The Best of Redoute’s Roses, folio L. 1959, cold. case. Clean copy. (1) €300 - 400 decor. wrappers. (1) €450 - 650
title & 29 full page plts., cloth & d.w.; & Roses II,
folio L. 1956, 24 full page cold. plts., decor. cold. 213 216 With Fine Coloured Plates
wrappers; & 1 other sim. As a lot. (4) €200 - 300 Signed Ilustrated Limited Edition Krause (Georg) Oologia Universalis
210 Palaearctica, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to Stuttgart 1906
Coloured Plates: Grigson (Geoffrey) Walsh (W.) & Nelson (E.C.) Flowers of Mayo, - 1913. First Edn. text in English & German, 158
Thornton’s Temple of Flora with Plates. Lg. atlas Dr. Patrick Brownes Fasciculus Hiberniae 1788, lg. cold. chromo plates on thick card (plus one
folio L. (Collins) 1951. fine cold. frontis & 11 full folio, D. (Edmund Burke) 1995, Signed Ltd. Edn. extra plt. in orig. part loosely inserted). In fine
page cold. plts., also cellotype bl. & white plts. 69 (150) Copies, illus. hd. made leather backed blue cloth by R. Carswell, Belfast, with the orig.
orig. buckram backed boards, & cold. pict. d.w.; boards, paper label, slip case; together with bill for binding. V. good set. (3) €800 - 1200
also Blunt (W.) Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708 - portfolio of 15 digital prints by W. Walsh, Ltd.
1770), folio L. (Chas. W. Traylen) 1953. First Edn., Edn. 40 (100). Attractive Set. (2) €800 - 1000
12 lg. full page plts., wrappers. (2) €180 - 250
217
Millais (J.G.) The Mammals of Great Britain and
Ireland, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to L. 1905. Lim. Edn.
No. 127 of 1025 Copies, 3 frontis, 61 fine full
page coloured plates, plus photogravures and
bl. & white plts, orig. buckram backed cloth. V.
good copy. (3) €350 - 500

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222 With Manuscript Poem by Author
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A.E. [Russell (George)] The Earth Breath
and Other Poems. Lane, L. 1896, First Edn,
sm qto boards, glassine wrapper., very good
copy. With an eight-line poem by ‘AE’ on f.e.p.,
signed starting ‘The sweetest song was ever
sung ..’ (1) €200 - 300

224
O’Flaherty (Liam) The Pedlar’s Revenge &
other Stories, 8vo D. 1976. First Edn., Signed by
Author, illus; The Wilderness, D. 1978. First Edn.,
illus.; The Ecstasy of Angus, D. 1978. First End.,
illus.; O’Brien (J.H.) Liam O’Flaherty, Lewisburg
1973. First, all in orig. d.w.’s. Good. (4)

€130 - 180

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From the Library of Dolly Lynd

Colum (Padraic) Wild Earth, 12mo D. 1907.
First Edn.; The Fiddlers House, A Play in Three
218 Acts, and The Land, An Agrarian Comedy, D.
Johnstone (G.H.) Asiatic Magnolias in 1909. First Edn.; also Three Plays, D. 1917. First
Cultivation, Lg. 4to L. 1955. First Edn., hf. title, Edn., all orig. cloth backed boards, with Dolly
cold. frontis 13 cold. plts., & 20 bl. & white Lynd’s bookplate designed by Michael Mac
plts., photos etc., fold. map & with one orig. Liammoir. (3) €100 - 150
watercolour loosely inserted, orig. cloth. (1)
226
€180 - 240

219 O’Donnell (Peadar). Islanders. L., Cape 1928,
With Mounted Coloured Plates Third Impr., cloth (faded) in d.w., Máire Ní
Bhriain’s copy, with Author’s Signed Inscription
Thornburn (A.) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of on f.f.e.p., ‘I think no greater beauty can be found
Great Britain and Ireland, folio L. 1923. First
Edn., 30 full page mounted coloured plates, in life than the beauty of feeling that informs
home life among our fine old native stock.’ With
orig. crimson cloth, gilt line borders. V. good a good signature.
copy. (1) €400 - 600
With The Knife. L. Cape 1930, First, cloth, a
novel of the Troubles. Inscribed by Author
220 on f.f.e.p., ‘Cé deir go bhfuil an sean troid thart?
Millais (J.G.) The Natural History of British Game
Birds, folio L. 1909. First Edn. Lim. Edn. No. 464 Peadar Ó Domhnaill’ [Who says the old fight is
over?] (2) €200 - 300
of 550 Copies cold. frontis & 17 other cold. plts.,
17 photogravures, 2 bl. & white photographs,
complete as per list, orig. buckram backed 227
O’Connor (Frank) The Fountain of Magic,
cloth. V. good copy. (1) €400 - 600 L. 1939. First Edition, cloth & d.w.; Three Old

221 Inscribed Copies Brothers and Other Poems, L. 1936. First Edition,
Guinness (Bryan) Collected Poems 1927 - 1955, blue printed boards & matching d.w. Both v.
roy 8vo L. 1956. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; The good. (2) €100 - 150
Giant’s Eye, 8vo L. 1964. First Edn, decor. title,
Signed Pres. Copy to Michael Holroyd, with his 228
bookplate, cloth & d.w.; Another Man’s Shoes, Cuala Press: O’Connor (Frank) Three Tales,
lg. 8vo D. [St. James Gate, 1965] 12pp. A Short D. 1941. Limited First Edition, No. 192 of 250
Story, issued Privately by the Brewery as a Copies, cloth backed blue boards; Dafydd ap
Christmas Card, pictorial wrappers; and Diary Gwilym Selected Poems, Translated by Nigel
not kept Essays in Recollection, roy 8vo Salisbury Heseltine, with a Preface by Frank O’Connor.
(Compton Press) 1975. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies, 8vo D. (Cuala) 1944. Limited First Edition, No.
Signed by Author, cloth backed marble boards, 200 of 280 Copies, qtr. cloth backed boards. (2)
with title band loosely inserted. (4) €175 - 225
€160 - 250

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Presentation Copies to Sir Alfred Beit The Author’s First Book
with Signed Presentation

Guinness (Bryan) Reflections, 8vo L. 1947. First Durcan (Paul) with, Brian Lynch, Endsville -
Edn., decor. title, front loose blank inscribed New Irish Writers. 8vo D. (New Writers’ Press)
‘For Alfred & Clementine from Bryan, May 1954’ 1967. First Edn., orig. ptd. wrappers. This
with the Beit bookplate, yellow cloth, & orig. copy with Signed Presenation Inscriptions
d.w. with notes by author. A very fine copy; The by both authors to Katherine and to Patrick
Giants Eye, L. 1964. First Edn., front loose blank Kavanagh, the year Kavanagh died; Teresa’s Bar,
inscribed ‘Alfred & Clementine from Bryan 1969, 8vo Gallery 1976. First Edn., decor wrappers;
cloth & d.w., v. good; A Fugue of Cinderellas, L. Sam’s Cross, D. (Profile Poetry) 1978. First Edn.,
1956. First Special Edn. Presented by Directors orig. pict. d.w. Signed Presentation Copy ‘... to
of Heinemann, cloth & pict. wrapper. V. good; James... 6th Dc. 1978, Cork,’ & with notes about
The Clock, Poems and a Play, 8vo D. (Dolmen) Michael Collins. A Rare Collection. (3)

1973. First Edn., port. frontis by Augustus John, * The author’s first, third & fourth books.
See illustration on page 26 €250 - 350
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230 235 239
Presentation Copy to A.J. (‘Con’) Levental Murphy (Richard) Sailing to An Island, 8vo The Author’s First Collection
Donaghy (John Lyle) Primordia Caeca, Poems. L. 1963. First Edn.; High Island, L. 1974. First
8vo D. (Eason & Son) 1927. Limited Edition 250 Edn.; The Price of Stone, First End. With Signed Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Forms of
Copies, Signed Presenation to Con Levental; Pres. Inscription to George [Hetherington] & Exile, sm. 8vo D. 1958. First Edn., Limited to 225
also Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem, Poems. 8vo Christine, also Signed by Patrick Scott, Painter; Copies, decor. title, & orig. decor. red & black
D. (Minorca Press) 1928. Lim. Edn. No. 27 of The Mirror Wall, D. (Wolfhound) 1989. All orig. printed wrappers. V. fine copy. Miller 33. (1)
30 Copies Signed, out of full edition of 250
copies. Frontis, errata slip, & with 4pp printed €180 - 250
catalogue for Minorca Press loosely inserted,
both orig. cloth backed boards. Scarce. (2) printed wrappers. Good. (4) €200 - 300 240

€200 - 300 236 Murphy (Richard) Selected Poems, L. 1979.
Special Editon Limited to 250 Copies First Edn., Signed by Author, orig. wrappers;
also Selected Poems, Uncorrected Proof Copy,
[Yeats (Jack B.)] Mac Greevy (Thomas) Jack B. L. 1979, orig. wrappers; and New Selected
Yeats, An Appreciation and an Interpretation. Poems, L. 1989. First Edn., with lengthy Signed
231 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1945. Lim. Edn. For Presentation Inscription, green boards & d.w.
Cuala Press: Gogarty (O. St. John) Elbow Victor Waddington. 20 full page plates, cloth All v. good copies. (3) €160 - 240
Room, 8vo D. 1939. Limited to 450 Copies, backed boards, & orig. ptd. d.w. A very fine
unopened, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good copy. (1) €150 - 200 241
copy. (1) €160 - 220 O’Duffy (Eimar) The Wasted Land, D. (Talbot
237 Press) 1923; also London Edition of 1929, cloth;
232 With Illustrations by Norah McGuinness King Goshawk and the Birds, L. 1926. First Edn, -
Signed by Desmond Harmsworth Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; Asses in Clover,L.
Sterne (Laurence) A Sentimental Journey 1933. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; Life and
Cuala Press: Gogarty (O. St. J.) Wild Apples, through France and Italy, 4to L. 1926. First Edn., Money, L. 1932. First Edn., - Signed Pres. Copy,
with a Preface by Wm. Butler Yeats 8vo D. cold. frontis bl. & white plates & decorations cloth. (5) €140 - 200
1930. Limited to 250 Copies Only, Signed by thro-out, by Nora McGuinness, orig. cloth
Desmond Harmsworth on f.f.end ‘...April 30’ backed decor. boards; Edgeworth (Maria) The 242
orig. cloth backed blue boards & d.w. Fine Most Unfortunate Day of My Life, L. (Cobden - Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, 8vo L. (Pilot
Copy. Wade 279. (1) Sanderson) 1931. First Edn., cold. frontis & bl. & Press) 1948. First Edn., hf. title, 195pp., orig.
white plts. by N. McGuinness, orig. cloth. (2)
* Desmond Harmsworth, was a poet, artist & orange cloth, some spots, black lettered spine.
publisher. €200 - 300 €180 - 240
Very Scarce. (1) €300 - 400

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First Italian Edition Signed Presentation Copies & With ALs First Authorised American Edition

Yeats (W.B.) Tragedie Irlandesi, Ed. by C. Linati. Montague (John) A Chosen Light, 8vo L. 1967. Joyce (James) Chamber Music, 8vo, New York
roy 8vo Milan (Studio Editoriale Lombardo) First Edn., orange boards & d.w. & with design (B.W. Huebsch) 1918, First American Edn.
1914. First Italian Edition, Port. frontis red & after Louis le Brocquy; also O’Riada’s Farewell, (authorised by Mr. Joyce) hf. title, decor. t.p.,
bl. title; also Gregory (Lady A.) Commedie 8vo Cork Golden Stone 1974, First Edn., illus. publishers note, 36pps, gilt lettered paper
Irlandesi Milan (Studio Editoriale Lomardo) orig. pict. wrappers. Both volumes with Signed boards, (lacks d.j.). Scarce. (1) €350 - 450
1914. First Italian Edn., port. frontis, red & bl. Presentation Inscriptions & with musical
title, each title inscribed in ink, and in uniform references for Charles & Carol Acton, together 244
white cloth backed grey boards. Scarce. (2) with a 2pp A.L.s. to Charles [Acton] dated Jan. Kavanagh (Patrick) Come Dance with Kitty
‘69. an interesting lot. (3) Stobbling, & Other Poems. 8vo L. (Longmans)
€160 - 220 * Charles Acton was long time music critic with
The Irish Times, & John Montague was for a
234 time literary director of Claddagh Records. 1960. First Edn., hf. title, VI, 44pp., orig. brown
cloth with gilt lettered leatherette label on
Dolmen Press: Montague (John) The Dead €220 - 350 front cover. V. fine copy. (1) €180 - 240
Kingdom, 8vo Dolmen / Blackstaff Press 1984.
Limited Edition. No. 65 of 125 Copies, Signed
by the Author, qtr. mor. boards, & slipcase. V.
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Kavanagh (Patrick) A Soul for Sale, Poems. 8vo Corkery (Daniel) The Wager and other Stories, Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems 1965 - 1975,
L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1947. First Edn., hf. title, roy 8vo N.Y. 1950. First Edn., with bl. & white 8vo L. 1980 First Edn., pict. d.w.’s; also Pre-
[55]pp. green cloth, orig. white printed green wood engraved illus. by Elizabeth Rivers, cloth Occupations, Selected Prose 1968 - 1978, L.
dust jacket, two very small straight tears (no & orig. pict. d.w. (some wear). (1) €100 - 150 1980. First Edn., orig. d.w.; and District and Circle,
loss) Otherwise a very good copy. (1)€220 - 320 L. 2006 First Edn. Signed & Inscribed on title,
249 dated 2 April 2006, orig. boards & d.w. dam. in
246 Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Patriotic lr. back cover (with loss). (3) €200 - 300
Kavanagh (Patrick) The Complete Poems, Suite, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1966. Signed = Limited
Collected, Arranged and Edited by Peter Edn. No. 32 of 100 Copies, decor. title, decor. 253
Kavanagh (Peter Kavanagh Hand Press N.Y. vellum type binding, & orig. decor. slip case. V. Heaney (Seamus) After Summer, 8vo Gallery
1972), green buckram in repaired d.w., errata Good. Scarce. Miller 100. (1) €200 - 300 Press & Derrfield Press 1978. Lim. Edn. 250
sheet with m/ss. correction laid down on f.e.p., Copies Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; also The
a very good clean copy. Scarce. (1) €300 - 500 250 Tree Clock, 8vo Belfast (Linen Hall Library) 1990.
Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Poisoned Lim. Edn. 870 copies, cloth & gilt lettered d.w.
247 Lands, 8vo D. (Dolmen 1977) Signed Edition Both v. good. (2) €220 - 350
Periodical: Kavanagh (Patrick) Nimbus No. 12 of 75 Copies Only, frontis, orig. mor.
(periodical, London 1956), Vol. 3 nos. 3 and backed green cloth, & matching slipcase. A 254
4, orig. wrappers, ed. Tristram Hull & David very fine copy. (1) €200 - 300 The Author’s First Collection
Wright. No. 3 includes Kavanagh’s essay,
A Letter and an Environment from Dublin; 251 Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, L.
With Manuscript Poem by the Author 1966, First Hardback Edition, cloth & orig. d.w.
no. 4 includes 19 new poems by Kavanagh, Good copy. (1) €300 - 400
with Anthony Cronin’s essay, Innocence and
Experience: The Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh Young (Ella) Marzilian and Other Poems, 8vo,
and a lithographic portrait of Kavanagh by California (Halyan Press) 1938, Signed Ltd. Edn. 255
No. 1 (500), with two paragraph m/ss poem O’Connor (Frank) Domestic Relations, Short
Patrick Swift. Laid in is a magazine page with on f.e.p. entitled “For Brysanthe” and dated “22 Stories. 8vo L. 1957. First Edn. Signed by
Kavanagh’s poem, A Christmas Childhood. V. December 1938,” decor. cloth backed boards.
good. As a lot. Scarce. (2) €300 - 400 Clean Copy. (1) Author; The Mirror in the Hallway. A Study of
The Modern Novel. L. 1957. first Edn., Collection
Two - Stories by Frank O’Connor, L. 1964. First
* This copy appears to be Brysanthe’s Copy for Edn., Signed by Author, all boards & orig. decor.
whom the book is dedicated and for whom the
songs were made. €250 - 350 d.w.’s. V. good. (3) €180 - 240

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O’Kelly (Seumas) The Lady of Deerpark, L. Dolmen Press etc: Kinsella (Thomas) Heaney (Seamus), Hughes (Ted)eds. The
1917. First Edn., 8pp adverts at end, red cloth Nightwalker, D. 1967. First Gen. Lim. Edition School Bag, thick 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1997,
& orig. d.w. (torn & repaired); Waysiders Stories (1000), wrappers. Signed Pres. Inscription ‘To Ltd. Edn., 27 (300), Signed by the Editors, gilt
of Connacht, D. 1918, bl. & white pict. frontis Sean and Mary Love and Greetings, Tom’ [Sean lettering cloth backed boards, slip case; The
by Michael Wilmore (Michael O’Liammoir) J. White]; Another September, D. 1962, cloth; Spirit Level, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1996, Ltd.
orig. pict. blue cloth; The Golden Barque and Selected Poems 1956 - 1968, roy 8vo D. 1973. Edn. 167 (350), Signed by Heaney, cloth backed
The Weaver’s Grave, D. 1919. First Edn., cloth First Edn.; & Fifteen Dead, D. 1979. First Edn., all boards, slip case. Clean copies. (2) €200 - 300
backed blue boards, & orig. d.w. (with tear); The wrappers; and Harmon (Maurice) The Poetry of
Leprechaun of Killmeen, D. (M. Lester) [1920]. Thomas Kinsella - ‘With darkness for a nest,’ D. 266
First Edn., blue boards; Wet Clay, D. 1922. First 1974. First, cloth. As a lot. (5) €150 - 200 Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966
Edn., orig. decor. cloth (d.w. badly dam.) A - 1987, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990. Ltd. Edn.
Scarce Collection. (5) €200 - 300 261 96 (100) Signed by the Author, cloth backed
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Poems, 8vo boards, slip case; Selected Poems 1966 - 1987,
257 D. 1956. First Edn., Lim. to 200 Copies, No. 62, 8vo N.Y. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1990, First
The Author’s First Five Books with illustration on title by Elizabeth Rivers, American Edn. Ltd. Edn. 90 (200), Signed by the
orig. cloth backed boards, & d.w. V. good. Miller Author, cloth with gilt lettering, slip case. Clean
Salkeld (Blanaid) Hello, Eternity! L. 1933. First 22. (1) Copies. (2) €220 - 320
Edn. orig. ptd. boards. Inscribed Pres. Copy * The author’s first collection of poems.
to Mrs. Austin Stack; The Foxe’s Covert, 8vo L.
1935. First Edn. boards & d.w.; The Engine is €250 - 350 267
Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966 -
left Running, D. (Gayfield Press) 1937. First Lim. 1987, L. (Faber Members) 2015, cloth backed
Edn. No. 4 of 50 Copies, Signed by Author & 262
Artist, decor. boards; A Dubliner, roy 8vo D. Signed Copies of decor boards; Sweeney Astray, 8vo Derry
(Field Day) 1983, First Edn., printed wrappers;
(Gayfield) 1943. First Edn., with illus., wrappers; The Author’s Best Known Volumes Anything Can Happen, 8vo, D. 2004 (For
Experiment in Error, Aldington (Hand and Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Another
Flower Press) 1955. First Edn., cloth & d.w. September, D. 1958. First Edn., Pres. Copy Amnesty International), ptd. wrappers. Clean
Signed by Author, cloth, & orig. d.w.; also Copies. (3) €120 - 150
(some dam). (5) €200 - 300 Downstream, D. 1962. First Edn., Signed by the
Author & the Publishers, cloth, d.w., & Poetry
258 Book Society Slip. both fine copies. (2) 268
Ormsby (Frank, ed.) The Blackbird’s Nest. An Heaney (Seamus) & Connor (Noel) Gravities, A
Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University €300 - 400 Collection of Poems and Drawings, oblong 8vo,
Belfast. Foreword by Seamus Heaney. Newcastle Upon Tyne (Charlotte Press) 1979,
Blackstaff, Belfast 2006, cloth, d.w. Signed on illus., Signed by Heaney on t.p., ptd. wrappers.
t.p. by Michael Longley, Moyra Donaldson, 263 Scarce. (1) €250 - 350
Frank Ormsby and a few more. (1) €150 - 200 Signed Limited Edition

Kinsella (Thomas) Vertical Man,
Peppercanister 3, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1973.
259 Edition Limited, No. 29 (100), Signed by
Signed Limited Edition of Peppercanister I Author; The Good Fight, Peppecanister 4, 8vo

Kinsella (Thomas) Butcher’s Dozen, 8vo D. D. (Dolmen) 1973. Edition Limited No. 74 (125),
1972. First Edn. Limited, No. 56 of 100 Copies, Signed by Author. Both in special mor. backed
Signed by Author, orig. mor. backed red cloth boards. Fine. (2) €220 - 320
boards, with a Signed Manuscript Note to Mr.
Leeson, from the author; and a copy of the 264
First General Edition loosely inserted. Scarce & Kinsella (Thomas) Poems & Translation, 8vo
Fine. (1) N.Y. (Atheneum) 1961. First Edn., vellum backed
boards; New Poems 1973, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen)
* The first publication of the author’s own 1973. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Poems 1956 - 1973,
press. €220 - 320 D. (Dolmen) 1980. First Edn., cloth & d.w.;
Collected Poems, Manchester 2001. First Edn.
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Kavanagh (Patrick) The Green Fool, 8vo L. (Michael
Joseph) 1938, First Edn., First Issue, hf. title, some pencil
annotations, original green cloth, silver lettering on
spine, with original green and cream d.j. (torn with
loss). Scarce. (1)
* The First Edition was suppressed due to a libel threat
by Oliver St. John Gogarty against Kavanagh, over
derogatory remarks that Kavanagh made about his
wife. €1000 - 1500

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Signed Limited Editions The Author’s First Book & Others, Greene (Graham) Loser Takes All, 8vo, L. 1955;
Mostly Presentations to A Burnt-Out Case, 8vo L. 1961; A Burnt-Out Case,
Longley (Michael) The Rope-Makers, Katherine Kavanagh N.Y. 1961; The Comedians, 8vo, L. 1966; May
Frontispiece by Sarah Longley. Roy 8vo L. We Barrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies
(Enitharmon Press) 2005. Signed Lim. Edn. [Kavanagh (Patrick)] Liddy (James) Esau My of the Sexual Life, 8vo L. 1967; Travels With My
95 (175); also Wavelengths, roy 8vo L. 2009. Kingdom for a Drink, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1962. Aunt, 8vo L. 1969; A Sort of Life, 8vo L. 1971;
Illus. Signed Lim. Edn. 27 (175), both in orig. First Edn., wrappers. Miller 48; Blue Mountain, The Honorary Counsel, 8vo L. 1973; The Human
marble paper boards; The Ship of the Wind, D. (Dolmen) 1968. Signed Presentation Copy Factor, 8vo L. 1978; Doctor Fischer of Geneva or
Eight Poems. 8vo Poetry Ireland Pamphlets to Katherine Kavanagh, ‘The first signed copy The Bomb Party, 8vo L. 1980; Getting to Know
1997. Lim. Edn. No. 82 (250) Signed by Author, in love, James Liddy,’ cloth & decor. wrappers. the General, 8vo, N.Y. 1984; The Tenth Man, 8vo
wrappers; No Continuing City, Poems 1963 Miller 135; A Life of Stephen Dedalus, sm. 4to L. 1985; The Captain and the Enemy, 8vo L. 1988,
- 1968. L. 1969; Men Lying on A Wall, L. 1976; San Francisco (White Rabbit Press) 1969. mostly First UK / American Edition, all cloth &
Selected Poems 1963 - 1980, 1981; The Ghost Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed Pres. Copy to d.j.s., as a collection, w.a.f. (13) €450 - 650
Orchid, L. 1995. Signed Pres. Copy; Broken Katherine Kavanagh; Corea Bascinn, Dolmen
Dishes, Newry 1998. Lim. Edn. No. 64 (250), 1977. First, Signed, ‘for Katherine Kavanagh,’ 274
Signed, All First Edns. V. good, as a lot. (8) wrappers; Chamber Pot Music, 8vo Berkeley Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, 8vo L. (W.
(Hit & Run Press) 1982. Signed, ‘To Katherine ...,’ Heineman) 1932, First UK Edn., cloth; Journey
€250 - 350 wrappers; A White Thought in a White Shade, without Maps, 8vo L. (W. Heineman) 1936, First
D. (Kerr’s Pinks) 1987. First, Signed ‘For dearest UK Edn., Inscribed & dedit on hf. title (possibly
271 Katherine,’ cloth & d.w.; The Ladybird Shivered, Graham Greene?); The Third Man and the Fallen
Longley (Michael) The Echo Gate, Poems with Richard Shaw & Paul Enea. 8vo Blue Idol, 8vo L. 1950, First UK Edn.,; The End of the
1975 - 79, 8vo L. 1979. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Canary Press 1992, First, wrappers. Liddy has Affair, 8vo L. 1951, First UK Edn., all cloth, as a
Patchwork, with drawings by Jim Allen. 8vo D. signed his contribution, Poems for Katherine lot, w.a.f. (4) €600 - 800
(Gallery) 1981. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed by Kavanagh. (7)
Author & Artist, cloth backed boards; Out of The
Cold, Drawings & Poems for Christmas. Newry * Katherine Kavanagh, nee Maloney, was 275
1999. Lim. Edn. 244 (500) Signed by Author & Patrick Kavanagh’s wife. €280 - 400
Artist, cloth & pict. d.w.; The Weather in Japan, Greene (Graham) British Dramatists, 4to, L.
L. 2000 Lim. Edn. 138 (150) Signed by Author, (Wm. Collins) 1942, First UK, cloth & d.j.; Lord
special boards & orig. d.w. All v. good. (4) Rochester’s Monkey, 4to, L. 1974, First UK, ptd.
wrappers; The Great Jowett, 8vo, L. 1981, Signed
€180 - 250 Ltd. Edn, 25 (525) copies, cloth; Monsignor

Quixote, 8vo, L. 1982, Proof Copy, ptd. wrappers;
A Dream Diary, 8vo L. 1992, First UK, cloth & d.j.;
The Virtue of Disloyalty, 8vo, L. 1972, Ltd. Edn.,
ptd. wrappers; A Wedding Among the Owls, 8vo L.
1977, Ltd. Edn., ptd. wrappers; & 2 other related
pamphlets, as a lot, w.a.f. (9) €250 - 350

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Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph?; 8vo L.
1989, Signed Ltd. Edn., 493 (950), cloth; Yes &
No and for Whom the Bell Chimes, 8vo L. 1983,
Signed Ltd. Edn. 285 (750), cloth; Reflections
on Travels with My Aunt, 8vo N.Y. 1989, Signed
Ltd. Edn. 238 (250), gilt lettered wrappers; How
Father Quixote Became a Monsignor, 8vo Los
Angles 1980, Signed Ltd. Edn., 260 (33), cloth;
Ways of Escape, 8vo Camden 1980, Signed Ltd.
Edn., 137 (150), cloth & slipcase; A Quick Look
Behind, Footnotes to An Autobiography, 8vo, Los
Angles 1989, Signed Ltd. Edn. 251 (33), cloth &
slipcase. As a lot, w.a.f. (6) €450 - 600
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277 281 285 All First Editions
Dolmen Press: O’Connor (Frank) The Little Ulster Poetry: Greacen (Rob.)ed. Poems Cronin (Anthony) A Question of Modernity, L.
Monasteries, Poems translated from the from Ulster, 8vo Belfast (W. Erskine Mayne) 1966, First Edn., d.w.; Identity Papers, A Novel,
Irish. Roy 8vo D. & L. (Dolmen) 1963. Limited 1942. First Edn., poets include R. Greacen, Roy D. 1979. First Edn., d.w.; Reductionist Poem, D.
Edition 1050 Copes, printed in black and McFadden, Maurice Craig and others, orig. 1980. First, wrappers; R.M.S. Titanic, D. 1981,
blue, buckram & slipcase; also Towards an pict. wrappers; Northern Harvest-Anthology First, wrappers; 41 Sonnets - Poems 82” D. 1981.
Appreciation of Literature, D. (Metropolitan of Ulster Writing, 8vo Belfast 1944. First Edn., First, wrappers; Collected Poems 1950 - 1973,
Publishing) 1945. First Edition, with decor. d.w. cloth v. good; also Poems by “Ulster Poets,” 8vo D. (Now Writers Press) 1973. Signed Limited
Both v. good. (2) €130 - 180 n.d. A typescript of 12pp., & typed wrappers. Edition 100 Copies Only, & also Inscribed
With poems by John Hewitt, James MacKinlay, Presentation, d.w.; New and Selected Poems,
Patrick Maybin, Mary Crawford, Geo. Musgrove Manchester & D. 1982. First Edn., cloth & d.w.
278 & Jack M’Quoid. All scarce. (3) €120 - 180 (7) €150 - 200
Fielding (Helen) Bridget Jones Diary, 8vo, L.
(Picador) 1996, cloth & d.j.; Bridget Jones, The
Edge of Reason, 8vo, L. (Picador) 1999, cloth & 282 286
Mahon (Derek) Night Crossing, L. 1968. Signed
d.j., clean copies. (2) €120 - 150 Freyer (Dermot) Night on the River and other Pres. Copy, First Edn. of author’s second book;
Stories, 8vo Cambridge (W. Heffer & Sons) 1923.
First Edn. in Bk. Form, boards with crimson Lives, L. 1972; The Snow Party, L. 1975; The
Hunt by Night, Oxford 1982; Selected Poems, L.
279 label, & orig. d.w.; also Not All Joy, 8vo L. (Elkin & Gallery 1991, cloth & d.w.; The Yellow Book,
Signed Presentation of Author’s First Book Mathews & Marrot) 1932. First Edn. in Bk. Form,
Signed & Inscribed on hf. title, dated Achill Gallery 1997; Resistance Days, Gallery 2001. Lim.
With Original Typescript Poem Edn. No. 22 of 175 Copies, Signed by Author &
Sept. 14, 1952, port. frontis, cloth & orig. pict.
Hutchinson (Pearse) Tongue without Hands, d.w.; also Sunlit Leaves: A Second Book of Verse, Artist; The Seaside Cemetery, Gallery 2001, Lim.
roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1963. First Edn. Signed Edn. 175 Copies, Signed by Author & Artist;
Presentation, cloth & d.w.; Expansions, D. L. 1909 First Edn., port. with two drawings of and High Water, folded card, Gallery 2000, Lim.
(Dolmen) 1969. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; cats loosely inserted; & 1 other uncut in orig.
Watching The Morning Grow, Gallery 1972. First wrappers. A lot. (4) €130 - 180 Edn 175 Copies to celebrate 30 Years of Gallery
Edn., Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine Kavanagh, Press, Signed by Author. All First Edns., & orig.
& with Orig. Typescript Poem dedicated to her, ptd. wrappers. V. good lot. (9) €250 - 350
Signed loosely inserted, cloth & d.w.; The Frost
is All Over, Gallery 1975. Signed First Edn. cloth 283 287 One of 26 Lettered Copies, Signed
& d.w.; Selected Poems, Gallery 1982. First Edn. Hughes (Ted) Earth Moon, 12mo, L. (Rainbow Muldoon (Paul) & Ballagh (Robert) Immram,
Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine, cloth & d.w.; Le Press) 1976, Signed. Ltd. Edn. 78 (226), illus. roy 8vo D. (Gallery Press) 1980. Cold. & other
Cead na Greine, D. 1989. First Edn d.w.; Friends by the author, uncut, full leather, silvered illus. by Ballagh. Limited Edition, Copy N. of 26
Songs, roy 8vo D. 1970. Lim. Edn. No. 75 (130), decoration and text, slip case. Clean copy. (1) Copies, Signed by Author & Artist, special mor.
wrappers. A very good lot. (7) backed decor. vellum binding. V. good. Rare. (1)
€200 - 300
* Katherine is late wife of Patrick Kavanagh, €200 - 300
Poet. €250 - 350 284
The Author’s First Five Books
280
Signed by Patrick Kavanagh’s Wife MacDonagh (Patrick) Flirtation, Some
Occasional Verses. Sm. 4to D. 1927. decor. title,
Stuart (Francis) A Hole in the Head, L. 1977. decor. boards & d.w.; A Leaf in the Wind, Belfast
First Edn. Signed & dated Sept. 1988, cloth (Quota Press) n.d. [1929] Signed Pres. Copy,
& d.w.; also Uncorrected Proof. Not for cloth, and decor. wrappers, with an advertising
Publication for same volume, Signed by booklet Three Young Men of the Quota Press,
Katherine Kavanagh, & her sister H [Helen] 8pp with illus. ports. loosely inserted; The
Maloney, wrappers; Black List, Section H, L. Vestal Fire: A Poem, D. (Orwell Press) 1941; and
1975. First Edn., signed by H. Maloney, d.w.; Over the Water and Other Poems, D. (Orwell)
The High Consistory, L. 1981. First Edn., d.w.; & 1943, both wrappers; One Landscape Still &
Pigeon Irish, L. 1932. First Edn., black cloth, no Other Poems, L. 1958. Pres. inscription from
d.w. (5) €175 - 250 Mary Ruth Mac Donagh, wife of the poet,
quoting the final verse of ‘Vestal Fire’. Boards &
orig. d.w. All First Edns. V. good. (5) €200 - 300

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288 292 297
Limited Edition of 100 Copies Signed Limited Editions Keane (John B.) Self-Portrait, 8vo Cork 1964.
First Edn., illus., cloth & d.w.; Smith (Gus) &
Durcan (Paul) The Art of Life, 8vo, L. (Hanvill Montague (John) New Collected Poems, 8vo Hickey (Des) John B. The Real Keane, 8vo Cork
Press) 2004, Special Ltd. Edn., 48 (100), full Meath (Gallery Press) 2012, Signed Ltd. Edn.
leather, gilt and lettered decoration. Slip case, 27 (110), cloth backed boards, slipcase; Carson 1992. First Edn., illus. pict. d.w.; Keane (John
(Ciaran) Collected Poems, 8vo Meath (Gallery B.) A Christmas Surprise, Cork 1999. First; The
clean copy. (1) €180 - 220 Press 2008), Signed Ltd. Edn. 19 (125), cloth Celebrated Letters ... [More Celebrated Letters of
backed boards, slip case. Clean Copies. (2)
289 John B. Keane,] 2 vols. Cork 1978 & 2000, pict.
€200 - 300 stiff wrappers. (5) €100 - 150
Hughes (Ted) Birthday Letters, 8vo, L. (Faber &
Faber) 1998, Signed. Ltd. Edn. 256 (300), cloth
backed boards. Clean copy. (1) €140 - 180 293 298 All First Editions
Signed by All The Contributors
290 Keane (John B.) Sive. A Play in Three Acts, D.
No. 7 of 50 Signed Copies [Longley (Michael)] Love Poet, Carpenter. 1959; Sharon’s Grave. A Folk Play, D. 1960; The
Michael Longley at Seventy. Edited by Robin Highest House on the Mountain, D. 1960; The
Toibin (Colm) Mothers and Sons, 8vo, Oxford Robertson. Enitharmion Press 2009, cloth in Highest House on the Mountain, D. 1961, all
(Picador) 2006, Signed. Ltd. Edn. 7 (50), leather slipcase. No. 172 of a Limited Edition of 195,
backed marble boards, with gilt lettered spine, with four pages of Contributors’ Signatures at wrappers; The Street and other Poems, D. 1961,
end, including Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, cloth & d.w.; Many Young Men of Twenty, D.
slipcase. Clean Copy. (1) €150 - 200 John Montague, Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, 1961; Death Be Not Proud and other Stories, D. &
Medbh McGuckian, Bernard O’Donoghue,
291 Tom McIntyre, Dennis O’Driscoll, John Banville, C. 1976, cloth & pict. d.w. All First Edns., & very
Murphy (Richard) Collected Poems, 8vo, Brendan Kennelly, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, David good. (6) €160 - 220
Gallery Press 2000. Signed Ltd. Edn. 84 (100), Cabot etc., about 59 signatures in all (probably
cloth backed boards, slip case. Clean Copy. (1) all the contributors). A handsome volume. (1) 299
All First Editions
€150 - 220 €500 - 600
Keane (John B.) The Man from Clare, Cork
1962; The Year of The Hiker, Cork 1963; The
Field, Cork 1966; The Rain at the End of the
294 Summer, Dublin 1968; Moll, Cork 1971; Letters
Kavanagh (Patrick) Lough Derg with a of a Successful T.D., Cork 1967; The Change in
foreword by Paul Durcan. Lg. 4to L. (Martin Mame Fadden, C. & D. 1973; & Letters of an Irish
Brian & O’Keeffe) 1978. First Edn. hf. title, Publican, D. & C. 1974, all First Edns., in orig.
frontis, IX, 24pp, plain green cloth, & green d. pict. boards. (8) €160 - 220
wrapper. An exceptionally clean copy. (1)

€150 - 200

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Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo L.
(MacGibbon & Kee) 1964. First Edn. hf. title, XV,
202pp. oatmeal buckram, with black labels. A
very desirable copy. (1) €300 - 400

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Mahon (Derek) Somewhere the Wave, 4to
Oldcastle (Gallery Press) 2007. Signed Lim.
Edn. of 500 Copies No. 205. Illus. by Bernadette
Kiely, cloth; Sextus and Cynthia, Gallery 2009.
Lim. Edn. No. 149 of 175 Copies, - Signed, illus.;
An Autumn Wind, Gallery 2010. First Edn., cloth
& d.w.; New Collected Poems, Gallery 2011. First
Edn., cloth & d.w. V. good and one other. (5)

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300
302 306
Signed by the Author, & His First Play Signed Limited Edition Signed by Each Author
Keane (John B.) Big Maggie, Cork (Mercier
Press) 1969. First Edn. Signed on front free Meehan (Paula) & Foley (Marie) illus. Six Poetry Ireland Pamphlets: First Series -
blank, cloth & pict. d.w.; also Sive, 8vo D. Sycamores, 12mo, Belfast 2004, Signed Ltd. Longley (Michael) The Ship of the Wind, D.
(Progress House) 1959. First Edn., cloth & d.w. Edn. No. 60 (150) copies, illus., cloth & decor. 1997; Montague (John) Chain Letter, D. 1997;
(torn with some loss). (2) glassine wrappers, slip case. Clean Copy. (1) Kennelly (Brendan) Words for Women, D.
* ‘Sive’ was the author’s first Play. €150 - 250 1997; Boland (Eavan) Anna Liffey, D. 1997. All
See illustration on page 31 €180 - 220 Limited, to 250 Copies, Numbered, & Signed by
301
Keane (John B.) Strong Tea, Cork 1963; Man of 303 the Author. Fine. (4) €125 - 175
the Triple Name, Dingle 1984; Owl Sandwiches, Ros (Amanda McKittrick) Fumes of Formation,
Dingle 1985; Love Bites and Other Stories, 8vo Belfast 1933. First Edn., Inscribed ‘Mr. 307 Signed by Both Authors
Cork 1991; Letters to the Brian, Dingle 1993; Lennox Robinson with the publishers
Christmas Tales, Cork 1993; Innocent Bystanders Compliments, decor. orange cloth. Very Rare Kennelly (Brendan) & Holzapfel (Rudi) Cast
& Other Stories, Cork 1994; Playwright of the a Cold Eye, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1959. Lim. Edn. 250
People - A Collection of Tributes,... with Special 2000 copies printed, only about 160 copies Copies; The Rain, The Moon, 8vo D. (Dolmen)
C.D., Listowel 2004, All First Editions; & 3 others. bound, the remainder destroyed; Poems of
(11) €180 - 280 Puncture, 8vo L. n.d. [c. 1912]. First Edn.; orig. 1961. Signed by Both Authors; Poems, sm. 4to
Leeds 1963. Sole Edn.; The Dark About Our
310 & detail blue wrappers; Delina Delaney, L. 1935. Second, Loves, roy 8vo D. (John Augustine & Co.) n.d.
IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED cloth backed boards; Helen Huddleson, 8vo L.
1969. First Edn., d.w.; & Loudon (Jack) O Rare First Edn., all orig. ptd. & decor. wrappers. All v.
good. Rare. Miller 36 & 45. (4) €250 - 350
Amada, L. 1954. First Edn., Signed by Author,
d.w. (5) €200 - 300
308
304 With Four Manuscript Poems
Presentation Copies to loosely Inserted
Mrs. Patrick Kavanagh
Ni Dhomhnaill (Nuala) An Dealg Droighin,
Ni Chuilleanain (Eilean) Acts & Monuments, Cork (Mercier) 1981. First; Fear Suaithinseach,
D. (Gallery Press) 1972. Signed Lim. Edn. 8vo Maynooth (An Sagart) 1984. First, pict.
300 Copies, Pres. Inscription to Katherine d.w.; Pharaohs Daughter, Gallery 1990. First
Kavanagh, Jan. ‘73, cloth & d.w.; Site of Ambush, Edn., pict. d.w.; also Feis, roy 8vo Maynooth
D. 1975. Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine (An Sagart) 1991. First Edn. Signed by Author,
Kavanagh, d.w.; The Second Voyage, Wake & with 4 Manuscript Poems, ‘Ceist na Teangan,’
Forest Uni. Press 1977, Signed Pres. Copy, ‘Oilean,’ ‘Amhrain an Fhir Oig, & ‘An Cuairteois,’
wrappers; The Rose-Geranium, Gallery 1981. all loosely inserted, cloth & d.w.; & 1 other. As a
First, cloth & d.w.; The Second Voyage, Gallery lot. Rare. (1) €200 - 300
1986, d.w.; The Magdalene Sermon, D. (Gallery)
1989. First, wrappers. V. good lot. (6) €160 - 220 309
Joyce (James) Ulysses, 8vo Paris (Shakespeare
& Co.) 1926. Eight Printing, hf. title, in full
305 blue leather, with decorative gilt design and
Stein (Gertrude) Paris France, L. 1940. First
Edn., illus., cloth; Wars I have Seen, L. 1945. First lettering, colourful hand made end papers.
Clean copy. (1) €350 - 450
Edn., illus. cloth & pict. d.w. (spine dam) Signed
‘D. Lynd’; The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three
Plays, 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg - Hourglass 310
Press) 1946. First Edn. thus, illus. by Francis Signed by Author & Illustrator
Rose, cloth backed boards, & attractive pict.
d.w. (3) €100 - 150 Adams (Richard) Watership Down, 8vo, L.
(Penguin Books (Kestrel Books) 1976, First
Illustrated Edn., Signed on f.e.p. by Author &
Artist, and also signed by Artist on hf. title, illus.
orig. cloth backed boards, illus. d.j. clean copy.
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311 314 A Rare Collection 317
Very Fine Complete File First Editions Signed [Behan (Brendan)] Kearney (Colbert) The
Writing of Brendan Behan, D. 1977; Behan (B.)
Dublin Gate Theatre. Motley (periodical), ed. Jordan (Neil)The Past (Cape,1980). Specially After the Wake, D. 1981; Mikhail (E.H.) Brendan
Mary Manning, Vol. I No. 1 (March 1932) - Vol. III bound Ltd. Edition 9/50, five raised bands, Behan - An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism,
No. 4 (May 1934), 19 numbers complete (Vol. I a.e.g, in matching slipcase, fine, edges of slip L. 1980; also Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols.
has 7 numbers, Vol. II has 8, Vol. III only 4). case faded; The Past, (Cape,1980) Signed, New Jersey 1982; and The Letters of Brendan
A fine complete set in recent buckram boards dated, inscribed “with best wishes”. V.g. in cloth, Behan, L. 1992. Signed and Inscribed on f.f.end
(untitled), quarto, orig. covers by Mac Liammoir d.w.; The Past, Uncorrected Proof Inscribed “to by Seamus de Burca, ‘... An important book in
bound in. Certainly the finest set we have seen Phil, Best wishes” signed, in red card wraps. every resepct.’ All First Edns & in orig. d.w.’s. (6)
and probably the finest existing. Publication V.g.; Sunrise with Sea Monster (Chatto & Windus,
was irregular, and sets or even good runs are 1994) Signed, dated, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Shade €140 - 200
rare. Contribs. include Lord Longford, Hilton
Edwards, ‘E.W. Tocher’ [Denis Johnston], Francis (Murray/ Hodder, 2004) v.g. in cloth, d.w., 318 ‘For Jimmy O’Dea,
Stuart, Padraic Colum, Sean O Faolain, Micheal slight spotting to edges; The Dream of a Beast A great small man against a mean big world’
Mac Liammoir, Austin Clarke, the Editor, etc., (Chatto & Windus, 1983), Signed, Inscribed Behan (Brendan) The Hostage L. 1958, first,
with many excellent theatre photographs and “best wishes, April Fool”, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Night d.w., with a wonderful inscription on f.e.p, ‘Do’m
illustrations. An invaluable slice of Dublin in Tunisia (Co-Op,1976) v.g. in wraps (no cloth laoch -- ó mo chéad oíche san amharclann
cultural life in the early 1930s. (1) €600 - 800 Edn. of First Printing) Signed and dated,15. 12. [for my hero, from my first night in a theatre]
1976, Wraps lightly rubbed; Night in Tunisia -- a great small man against a mean big
(Writers & Readers, 1979) First thus, Signed, world, Jimmy O’Dea ón a chara -- Breandán Ó
312 dated, 1st April 1987, v.g. in removable, Beacháin, Brendan Behan 15.xii.1958’.
Joyce (James) The Cat and the Devil, 4to, L. With two programmes for performances of The
(Faber & Faber) 1965, First Edn., illus. by Gerald glassine-protected d.w., edges dusty; Night in Hostage laid in. A uniquely desirable copy, from
Tunisia Advance Sheets for Chatto & Windus a quintessential Dubliner to another.
Rose, illus. boards, lacks d.j., otherwise clean paperback, 1983. Signed, Inscribed with best
copy. (1) €80 - 100 €600 - 800
wishes, dated June 2002. (9) €400 - 450

313 315 All First Editions 319 Special Edition One of 4 Copies
Thomas (Dylan) 18 Poems, Roy 8vo L. (The Behan (Brendan) The Scarperer, L. 1964. First
Fortune Press) 1934. First End., black cloth, & American Edn., also First English Edition, L. Behan (Brendan) The Hostage, 8vo N.Y. (Grove
orig. red printed d.w. spine dam. (with loss). (1) 1966. Both in v. good unclipped d.w.s; Richard’s Press) 1958, Limited Edn. 2 (4), Signed by the
Cork Leg, L. (Eyre Metheun) 1973. First English
€100 - 150 Edn. also First American Edn. N.Y. (Grove Press)
1973, both fine in orig. unclipped pict. d.w.’s;
and Poems and A Play in Irish, D. (Gallery) 1981. Author, cloth back boards, gilt lettering, clean;
First Edn., orig. pict. boards. All v. good. (5) The Hostage, 8vo L. (Methuen & Co.) 1958,
cloth, gilt lettered spine (lacks d.j.) otherwise
€220 - 320 good. (2) €400 - 600

316 Rare First Edition 320 First English & American Editions
Behan (Brendan). The Quare Fellow, a Comedy-
Drama. L. 1956, First, d.w., name on e.p., an Behan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, L. 1958; and
excellent copy. The play that made Behan’s Borstal Boy, Adapted for the Stage by Frank Mc
name, scarce in this condition. (1) €200 - 300 Mahon. N. York 1971; also Confessions of An Irish
Rebel, L. 1965; and American Edition of same
N.Y. 1965. All First Edns., all in original d.w.’s.
Very good. Scarce. (4) €250 - 350

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321 With Uncorrected Proof Copy 327 Signed by The Authors 333
Behan (Brendan) Hold Your Hour and have Kearns (G.P.) & Maguire (P.) A to Z of all Old Audubon - The Original Water-Colour Paintings
Another, decorations by Beatrice Behan. Roy Dublin Cinemas, sm. folio D. n.d. c. 2006. First by John James Audubon for The Birds of America,
8vo L. 1963. First Edn., cloth & d.w., also with Edn., Signed, illus., cloth & d.w. V. good. Scarce. 2 vols. lg. 4to L. (M. Joseph & The Connoisseur)
Uncorrected Proof Copy on Proofing Paper, & (1) €120 - 160 1966. First Edn., 431 cold. plts., orig. buckram, &
d.w. (dam.), of same work; Confessions of an marble slipcase. (2) €200 - 300
Irish Rebel, L. 1965. First Edn., d.w.; and Brendan
Behan’s New York, roy 8vo L. 1964. First Edn., 328 334
illus. by P. Hogarth, pict. d.w. (4) €200 - 300 Signed Limited Edition of 100 Copies Military: Gibb (Wm.) Naval and Military Relics

322 Signed by Author & Artist O’Byrne (Robert) The Irish Georgian Society of British Heroes, lg. folio L. 1896. First Edn.,
A Celebration, Lg. 4to D. 2008. First Edn. Lim. red & bl. hf. title & title, 36 full page cold. plts.,
Edn. No. 27 of 100 Copies, Signed by Desmond a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. crimson cloth. In orig.
Heaney (Seamus) The Riverbank Field, Paintings Guinness and Knight of Glin. Profusely pict. slipcase. Good. (1) €250 - 350
and drawings by Martin Gale 4to Gallery Pres illustrated, orig. cloth & matching slipcase. (1)
2007. Lim. Edn. No. 174 of 450 copies = Signed
€250 - 350

by Author & Artist, orig. green cloth, in orig. 329 With 1696 Hand-Coloured Plates 335
opaque d.w. V. good. (1) €160 - 220
Jekyll (Gertrude) Garden Ornament, lg. folio L.
Sowerby (J.E.) English Botany; or Coloured 1918, cold. frontis (loose), illus. thro-out, orig.
323 Signed by the Author Figures of British Plants. Ed. by J.T. Boswell Syme.
10 vols. roy 8vo L. 1863 - 1870. Third Edn., with cloth, spine loose. (1) €75 - 125

Dolmen Editions I: Kinsella (Thomas) 1696 hand-coloured plates, some folding, a.e.g.,
Wormwood sm. folio D. 1966. Lim. Edn. 350 cont. full calf, gilt decorated borders, raised
Copies Only = Signed by Author, orig. vellum bands, & red & green mor. labels. as a periodical, 336
backed veneered boards, v. good. (1) w.a.f. A very fine set. (10) €750 - 1000 Limited Patrons Copy, 50 Copies Only
& With An Original Watercolour
* The First of the splendid Dolmen Press
Editions. €250 - 350 Sex (Susan) & Sayers (B.) Irelands Wild Orchids,
330 lg. Atlas folio, Patrons Copy 39 (50) Signed
Coloured Plates: Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Blunt by Both, 35 full page plts. & numerous cold.
324 Signed by Heaney (Wilfrid) Great Flower Books 1700 - 1900, lg. atlas illus. hf, mor. cloth, gilt lettered label, cloth
Heaney (Seamus) Between Comets. For folio L. 1956. Lim. Edition No. 94 of 295 Copies slipcase; together with the Portfolio of cold.
Norman Nicholson at 70. Ed. by Wm. Scammell - Signed by Both Authors, 36 full page plts, plts. loose, 39 (50) Ltd. Patrons Set; in a similar
8vo Durham (Taxus Press) 1984. No. 17 of include 20 fine cold. plts., orig. hf. crushed green design cover case; also Irelands Wild Orchids,
Hard bound Edition of 50, Signed by Heaney, mor., & marble slipcase. V. good. (1) €250 - 350 a Field Guide, 8vo ring binder; and An Original
Nicholson, & Scammell, port., orig. full cloth,
excellent copy; Poems for Alan Hancox, folio 331 Watercolour by Susan Sex of a Bluebell, used
Leominster (Whittington Press) 1993. No. 113 of by An Post” for 65 pence stamp, a wonderful
350 copies, Limited & Signed by S. Heaney, orig. Coloured Plates: Sitwell (Sacheverell), collection. (4) €1500 - 2500
cloth backed boards. V. good. (2) €220 - 320 Buchanan (H.) & Fisher (James) Fine Bird
Books 1700 - 1900, lg. atlas folio L. 1953. Lim.
Edn. No. 157 of 295 Copies. 36 full page plts.
include. 16 fine cold. plts., cont. hf. crushed
325 crimson mor., & matching marbled slipcase. V.
With Fine Hand-Coloured Plates good. (1) €250 - 350

Edwards - Edwards Botanical Register, Ed. by
John Lindley. Vols. I - VII. Together 7 vols. (ex. 332
10). roy 8vo L. 1838 - 1844. New Series. 480 fine Signed Limited Edition
hand coloured plts. (some fold. double page)
orig. green cloth, gilt decorated spine. A very Coloured Plates: Sitwell
(Sacheverell) & Madol (Roger)
good set. (7) €600 - 800 Album de Redoute, lg. atlas folio

326 L. 1954. Lim. Edn. No. 155 of 250
Coloured Plates: Baxter (W.) British Copies, Signed by Both Authors,
Phaenogamous Botany: or Figures and 25 full page coloured plts., orig.
Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering hf. crushed green mor., marble
Plants. Vols. 1 - 6, together 6 vols. 8vo Oxford sides, & orig. decorated slipcase.
1834 - 1843. Second Edn., 509 hand coloured v. good. (1) €250 - 350
plates, all v. clean, cont. hf. mor. worn, some
covers loose & labels lacking, as a coll., w.a.f. (6) 327 328
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337 345 With Manuscript Poems Inserted 348 Fine Association Copy
Fine Large Hand-Coloured Plates [Gregory (Lady A.)] Blunt (Wilfred Scawen).
Johnson (Lionel) Some Poems of, [selected The Wind and the Whirlwind. L., Kegan Paul
Grove (A.) & Turrill (W.R.) A Supplement to & edited by] Louise Imogen Guiney, L., Elkin Trench 1883, black cloth gilt. Inscribed on h.t.,
Elwes Monograph of the Genus Lilium, Parts I - Mathews 1912, orig. wrappers, 12mo, First Edn. ‘Mrs. O’Brien / with love / from Augusta [Lady]
VII and Parts VIII & IX, together 9 parts lg. atlas Laid in are three foolscap sheets in Johnson’s Gregory / Jan. 1884.’
folio L. 1933 - 1962, with 40 very fine full page hand, one with a signed note, bearing copies Blunt’s powerful anti-imperialist poem, dealing
coloured illustrations, by A. Grove & Margaret of poems by Johnson on Irish subjects, titled principally with the Egyptian campaign for
Stoner, the parts in orig. printed and decorated Ninety-Eight, Ways of War (To John O’Leary), independence from Britain, dates from a period
wrappers, all loose in custom made cloth Verses from a very long poem entitled “Ireland”, when he and Lady Gregory were clandestine
backed box. As a coll., w.a.f. Very good set. (1) Ireland’s Dead (To John O’Mahony), some of lovers, a few years after her marriage to the
these possibly unpublished (none is in the much older Sir William Gregory.
€500 - 750 Elkin Mathews collection). As a collection. (1) A wonderful association copy. (1) €600 - 800

338 Limited to 75 Copies Although not Irish, Johnson moved in

[Gainsborough] Iain Bain, Publisher, Irish circles in London, and converted to 349
The Etched and Engraved Prints of Thomas
Gainsborough R.A., Executed in soft-ground Catholicism in 1891. He was a member of the Gregory (Lady) Some Signed and Inscribed
Rhymers’ Club (with Yeats), and was a cousin
and aquatint and in Mezzotint. V. Lg. oblong of Olivia Shakespear. Another cousin was Lord Ephemera & other Items from collection of her
grand-daughter, the late Mrs. Catherine Kennedy,
folio L. (John Boydell Press) 1971. Lim. Edn. No. Alfred Douglas, whom he introduced to his including a ‘Contents’ page from some volume
45 of 75 copies, 11 full page plts. in portfolio, &
separate letterpress, in custom made padded friend Oscar Wilde. His best known work is inscribed ‘Augusta Persse, Roxboro,’; a Republican
At the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross;
box. Scarce. (1) €250 - 400 Another poem, The Dark Angel, is said to be an flyer headed ‘Shadow or Substance .. Vote for
Treaty,’ & inscribed in Ld. Gregory’s hand ‘thrown
influence on the Dark Angels chapter of Space from Motors May 1922’; a long newscutting titled,
339 Marines in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional
Clarke (Harry) RHA [1889-1931] The Year's universe (see Wikipedia). €400 - 600 ‘Memories of Easter Week,’ inscribed in her hand,
At The Spring An Anthology of Recent Poetry ‘Speech of Sean T. O’Ceallaigh'; an original letter
compiled by L. D'O. Walters and Illustrated from The Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, dated June 9th
by Harry Clarke, with 24 plates (12 in colour). 346 1916 to Ld. Gregory speaking about Portrait of
Brentano's, New York, 1920, quarto, first Ulsterman Publications. A collection of
edition, one of the limited edition of 250 Poetry Pamphlets including James Simmons, W.B. Yeats; some Coole Park headed notepaper, &
copies signed by Clarke, in a fine decorated other items related. As a collection of Ephemera.
vellum binding, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. No Ties, 1970; Michael Stephens, Blues for A lot, w.a.f. (1) €180 - 250
A superb copy virtually in original condition. Chocolate Doherty, 1969; W. Price Turner, More
With an original pencil sketch by Clarke for Fables from Life, 1969; Geoffrey Squires, Sixteen Provenance: From the collection of Mrs.
one of the plates in the book (Alice Meynell's Catherine Kennedy, ‘Nu’ the grand-daughter
'The Shepherdess'), showing the lady with her Poems, 1969; Tom McLaughlin, So Far, No of Lady Gregory. Her father Robert, was the
sheep, a line of poplars in background, 9 ½ Surprises, 1971; Michael Foley, Heil Hitler, 1969
ins x 7 ins, framed and glazed. The drawing is and The Acne and the Ecstasy, 1971, and Sean subject of W.B. Yeats’s poem, “An Irish Airman
not identical with the finished plate (in which Forsees His Death.”
the poplars are replaced with a stream), but is O’Brien, Boundary Reach, 1989. Eight items,
clearly a preparatory study. (2) €1500 - 2000 some of them published with issues of The
Honest Ulsterman, a lively series, clean copies.
(as a collection) €150 - 200

347 With Autograph Letter from Author

Stevenson (Patric). The Hillsborough By-Pass. A
Conversation between A-1 and the Hillsborough
By-Pass at the time of the Opening of the Latter.
Orig. wrappers, Dromore printed, Inscribed for
the poet Maurice Craig by the author, ‘a fellow
resident in that unknown terrain known as the
East of Ireland’, and with an ALS from Stevenson
to Craig laid in, dated 15 Jan. 1979, mentioning
mutual friends, his cataract which prevents him
painting, etc., and inviting him for a meal if in
the area. (1) €200 - 300

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350 350 358
Rare Broadside Ballad

Connolly (James) One of the Connaught 353 Signed by Each Poet 358
Rangers. Composed by James Connolly. Air: With Fine Woodcut Illustrations
‘Patrick my Darling’. Broadside, Warren, D. n.d. Sheridan (Niall) and MacDonagh (Donagh)
[c. 1905?], three verses and chorus, within a Twenty Poems. D., Privately Printed 1934 (Three Dolmen Press: Rivers (Elizabeth) Out of
border of shamrock. ‘A story I will tell you about Bedlam, lg. 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1956. Text by
a soldier of the Queen .. He fought like a hero Candles Printing), wrappers., No. 183 of 300 Christopher Smart No 112 of Limited Edition of
and shot many a brave Boer ..’ Laid down on a copies, inscribed ‘To Mary Joe’ by each of the
folio sheet from a scrapbook, with three other poets. (1) €100 - 150 225 Copies, title ptd. in red & black, 27 full page
broadside ballads. Sold as is, w.a.f. (1) illus., orig. red & bl. illus. d. jacket. V. good copy.

James Connolly (executed in 1916) 354 Miller 20. (1) €350 - 500

undoubtedly wrote ballads and marching Festival Publications, Q.U.B. A full set of six 359
songs, but we cannot confirm that this is one [Mac Nie (Isa)] ‘Mac’ The Celebrity Zoo, (First
of his. Greaves’ biography lists a number on Poetry Pamphlets (Second Series, 1967), viz. Visit) Some Desultory Rhymes and Caricatures.
Montague (John) Home Again, inscribed ‘For 4to D. (Brown & Nolan) 1925. First Gen. Edn., 20
p.130, but this is not among them. The verse Douglas, a splenetic critic’; Hewitt (John) illus. & decor. wrappers. V. good copy. (1)
is poor, even by ballad standards, and the
political content, such as it is, does not suggest Tesserae, inscribed ‘For George Macbeth €150 - 200
10.v.67’; Lerner (Laurence) Spleen; Buller
Connolly’s work. If it is by Connolly, the last (Norman) Thirteen Poems; Terry (Arthur) The
line, in which the hero is carried away ‘with
his leg lost in the fray’, would be a poignant Sacrifice; Dugdale (Norman) The Disposition of 360
the Weather. Clean copies. (6) €250 - 350 Not Recorded by Miller
prophecy. It could of course be by another
James Connolly. €200 - 300
Provenance: From the collection of Mrs. 355 Dolmen Press: Britton (Coburn) Cap with
MacDonagh (Donagh) Three Christmas Bells, Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff & ink washes
Catherine Kennedy, ‘Nu’ the grand-daughter Cards, printed with extracts from his work, by Noel Sheridan. Sm. 8vo D. 1959. Lim. Edn. of
of Lady Gregory. Her father Robert, was the 1950/57/59, one printed at Dolmen Press, and
subject of W.B. Yeats’s poem, “An Irish Airman a copy of Love Duet from the play God’s Gentry, 325 Copies. Signed Pres. Copy. Orig. red & bl.
illus. by Louis le Brocquy, Dolmen 1951, one of decor. wrappers, also Wilkinson (B.) Sundown
Forsees His Death.” 525 copies, folio. As a collection (4) €100 - 200 in Ballymun, D. (Privately Printed) 1965.

351 Decorated boards, both v. good. Ex. Scarce. Not
O’Duffy (Eimar) The Walls of Athens. A recorded by Miller. (2) €180 - 250
Comedy in Allegory. Quarto wrappers, Irish 356
Review 1914, First. Title page (cover) amended Cadenus Press: Carpenter (Andrew) Natural 361
by a previous owner, J.A. Meagher, crossing Journal, roy 8vo D. 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 51 The First Book from Dolmen Press
out the words ‘in Allegory’, and stating these (200). Signed Presentation inscription to Mary
words ‘were inserted by the Publisher at the Manning, 5th January 1976. Uncut, orig. red & Dolmen Press: Clifford (Sigerson) Travelling
suggestion of Thos. Mc Donogh but were black printed green wrappers. V. good. Scarce. Tinkers, sm. 8vo D. 1951. First Edn. Limited to
not approved of by the author’. With cast (1) €80 - 120 500 Copies. Wd.-cut designs on title & last leaf,
list for first production (1915) in manuscript orig. ptd. blue wrappers. V. Rare. Miller 1. (1)
on prelim; and with production markings 357 Scarce Complete Set
(possibly from this production) in ink in Runa Press Quartos - Nos. 1 to 6 [All Published] €200 - 300
the body of the text. Notes on ‘The Celtic 6 nos, 4to Monkstown 1943-44, orig. decor.
Renaissance’ on rear wrapper. (1) €125 - 225 wrappers, some stains. (1) 362
* Rare, complete set of these interesting The Fifth Book from Dolmen Press
publications, which vary between 8 & 16pp
each. The illustrators include Jack B. Yeats, Dolmen Press: Kennedy (Maurice)
Sean Keating, Harry Kernoff, Stephen Gilbert, Freebooters, Linocuts by Michael Morrow. Sm.
Sean O’Sullivan, & Cecile Walton, with poetic sq. 8vo D. 1952. Limited Edition, No. 53 of 225
352 contributions by Valentine Iremonger, Roy Mc Copies, Signed by Author. Attractive illus. thro-
Yeats (Jack B.) A folded sheet with signed Fadden, Jonathan Hanaghan, Rupert Strong, out, orig. cloth backed pict. boards, glassine
Christmas message to the publisher Elkin Lord Dunsany, Robert Greacen, Maurice d.w. V. Fine. Miller 5. (1) €300 - 400
Mathews (who published his children’s books), Craig, & others. No. 1 with original prospectus
‘This to wish yourself and Mrs. Mathews and Miss loosely inserted. All orig. pict. wrappers. As a
Nest Mathews / A Very Happy Christmas time / periodical, w.a.f. Good & Scarce. (1) €200 - 300
from us both / (monograms) JBY MCY’.
With the envelope addressed in Yeats’ hand,
with a pencilled note about proofs to rear. (1)

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363 372
Dolmen’s First book 369 Dolmen Press: Skelton (Robin) An Irish
Dolmen Press: Coghill (Rhoda) Time is a Gathering, sm. sq. 8vo D. 1964. Lim. Edn. 500
Illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers Squirrel, 8vo D. 1956. Limited Edition of 250 Copies Only. Decor. vellum, & orig. d.w. Miller

Dolmen Press: Imitium S. Evangelii Secundum Copies Only. Full cloth with cold. ptd. d.w. 69; also Remembering Synge, by same author,
S. Joannem, 8vo D. 1953. Lim. Edition of 500
Copies Only. Wood engravings, by Eliz. Rivers, Good. Miller 23. (1) €100 - 150 8vo D. 1971. Poetry Ireland Edition, orig. decor.
wrappers; The Abbey that Refused to Die, A
decor. boards with paper label, & orig. red & bl. 370 Poem by C. Day Lewis. Sm. 8vo D. 1967. Illus., &
printed decor. wrappers. V. good. Scarce. Miller Dolmen Press: Ussher (Arland) The Thoughts
10. (1) €200 - 300 of Wi Wong, frontis by Leslie Mc Weeney. wrappers with cover design by Karl Uhlemann.
Sm. 12mo D. 1956. Lim. Edn. of 500 Copies, Not in Miller. Scarce. Good. (3) €120 - 180
decor. wrappers, v. good. Miller 24; also Ryan
364 (Richard) From My Lai The Thunder Went West, 373
Dolmen Press: The Navitity from The Holy 8vo D. 1970. Lim. Edn. No. 73 of 100 Copies, Exceptionally Rare First Publication
Gospel According to St. Luke, wood engravings Signed. also copy of general edition of same
by Michael Biggs, 8vo D. 1953. Lim. Edn. of work. Not recorded by Miller. Rare. (3) Gregory (Augusta Lady). Over the River
500 Copies, illus. 8pp folded & sewn, orig. [An appeal for aid to a poor parish in South
wrappers. V. good. Scarce. Miller 11. (1) €140 - 220 London]. L., Ridgeway 1887, 16mo limp olive
cloth, a.e.r., a fine copy. Preface by [Lady
€150 - 200 Gregory’s husband] W.H. Gregory. Annotated

365 371 by Lady Gregory, with a note quoting the
The Twelfth Book from Dolmen Dolmen Press: Adams (Tate) The Soul Cages,
An Irish Legend. Wood engraved illus. by the Bishop of Rochester at rear of p. 31.
Her first publication, exceptionally scarce,
Dolmen Press: Ussher (Arland) An Alphabet author. Sm. 8vo D. 1958. No. 423 of a Lim. Edn. written the year before she met W.B. Yeats in
of Aphorisms, Linocuts by Michael Morrow. 8vo
D. 1953. [Lim. Edn. of 500 Copies] Illus., decor. 500 Copies, vellum backed decor. boards, & London, and became active with him in Irish
pict. d.w. V. good. Miller 30. (1) €140 - 200
boards, with paper label & orig. ptd. pict. d.w. V. cultural affairs. (1)
Provenance: From the collection of Mrs.
good. Miller 12. (1) €180 - 250 Catherine Kennedy, ‘Nu’ the grand-daughter

366 of Lady Gregory. Her father Robert, was the
subject of W.B. Yeats’s poem, “An Irish Airman
Dolmen Press: Clifford (Sigerson) Lascar Forsees His Death.” €1000 - 1500
Rock, 8vo D. 1953. Lim. Edition of 500 Copies
Only, with orig. ptd. Advertising Slip, loosely
inserted, sewn, orig. decor. wrappers. V. Scarce. 374
Fine. Miller 13. (1) €150 - 200 Each Limited to 40 copies

367 Flower (Robin). Six Christmas Poetry
Dolmen Press: Stanihurst (Richard) The Booklets, 16mo cloth in varied colours, L.,
Commodities of Aqua Vitae Described, Wd. cut Privately Printed for Presentation, Lim. Edns.
by Bridget Swinton. Roy 8vo D. 1954. No. 153 of 40 Copies Only, viz. A Thanksgiving, 1922,
Limited Edition of 330 Copies. Sewn, 8pp, orig. inscribed to the scholar R.I. Best, ALS and
wrappers, paper label; & also with the 1956 photographic postcard of his child Patrick laid
Edition of the same work in 12mo included. in, one of 40 copies; The Leelong Flower, 1923,
both v. good. Scarce. Miller 15 & 15a. (1) inscribed to R.I. Best; Monkey Music, 1925,
inscribed to Edith and Richard Best; Trírech Inna
€150 - 200 n-Én, 1926, inscribed to R.I. Best; The Pilgrim’s
Way, 1927, inscribed to R.I. Best; Fuit Ilium,
368 1928, inscribed to the writer Helen Waddell. (1)
Not Listed By Miller
A rare and attractive collection. All six have
Dolmen Press: The Genealogy and Nationality been signed and annotated in ballpoint pen by
of Christ, Drawings by Leslie Mc Weeney, 12mo a later owner. €300 - 400
D. 1955. Limited Edn. 350 Copies Only. Illus.,
orig. vellum backed boards. V. good. Miller 20;
Hurkey (Rooan) Romances, 8vo D. 1960. Lim.
Edition 500 Copies Only, Signed by author, and
Rudi [Holzapfel], orig. ptd. wrappers. Not listed
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377 381
[Yeats (W.B.)] Scott-James (R.A.)ed. The [MacDonagh (Donagh)] An interesting and
London Mercury and Bookman, Issues Nos. 207 detailed TLs. signed ‘Denis’ (probably the poet
& 233, Jan. 1937 & March 1939, each including Denis Devlin), from an address in Rome, Viale
Poems by Yeats. No. 207 - The Three Bushes, and Liegi, 23.5.1939, 1 pp folio, to MacDonagh,
No. 233, - Four Recent Poems, with a photo of offering a detailed criticism of his poems and
375 Yeats, orig. ptd. wrappers; The Dublin Magazine, a play, quoting various lines which he likes
or does not like, etc., also mentioning Niall
Vol. 26, No. 2 - April - June 1951, with Diarmuid (Montgomery?) and others. ‘Brian O’N’s book
and Grania, A Play in Three Acts, by George is marvellous -- in two meanings. I’m trying to
Moore and W.B. Yeats. Now First Printed, With an write him something about it but there’s so much
375 introductory note by Wm. Becker. 4to D. 1951, to gloss.’ As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
From the Library of Lady Gregory 41pp wrappers. Scarce. (3) €100 - 150

[Gregory (Lady Augusta)] A Phantom’s 378 * Devlin was a diplomat, stationed in Rome in
Pilgrimage or Home Ruin, 16mo L. (W. A Wicklow Emigrant’s Poems 1938-39. €125 - 175
Ridgeway) 1893. Sole Edn., 18pp orig. black
printed pictorial blue wrappers. An exquisite Manuscript: A single sheet of good quality 382
copy, of legendary rarity. A satire on the Land Notepaper, watermarked Ancient Irish Edwards (Hilton) Director. A good TLs. on
War & the proposed Home Rule Bill, and Vellum, bearing two manuscript poems, Gate Theatre notepaper dated 24 September
although it was published anonymously, it unsigned, probably original, the first 1951, 1 pp, to Donagh [MacDonagh],
is thought it was withdrawn from circulation commencing ‘In London here the streets are concerning his play God’s Gentry. ‘First of all
because the family felt it might be politically grey, & grey the skies above / I wish I were in I think the play is delightful. I believe you are
damaging. It was written the year after her Ireland to see the skies I love ..’, and continuing re writing the last act ..’, and in view of this he
hsuband Sir W. Gregory had died. No copy ‘.. I dream I see the Wicklow hills by evening offers some thoughts about how this might
listed by Black. (1) sunlight kissed / An’ every glen & valley there be done. ‘Incidentally, you are the only writer I
brimful of radiant mist ..’. The second poem, have met in Ireland who can write love scenes .. I
Provenance: From the collection of Mrs. overleaf, describes a windy morning in Co. would not find the play easy to cast, but I am very
Catherine Kennedy, ‘Nu’ the grand-daughter Wicklow, commencing ‘Last night the air interested in doing it, particularly if the English
of Lady Gregory. Her father Robert, was the was cold & still / No breeze was moving in and American rights were available for a period.’
subject of W.B. Yeats’s poem, “An Irish Airman Gleanndubh ..’ As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) Minor tears at folds, no loss. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
Forsees His Death.” €750 - 1000
€150 - 200
376 The verse is competent, in a ballad style, and
Signed Presentation Copies evidently written from personal experience;
-hopefully someone may recognise the
handwriting. €100 - 150 383
Hewitt (John) Tesserae, Festival Publications, [MacDonagh (Donagh)] A TLs. from an
Queen’s University Belfast 1967. First Edn.,
orig. ptd. green wrappers. Signed Presentation 379 address in Kent, 19 December 1954, 2 pp
(single sheet), to ‘Don and Nuala’, from an
Copy, ‘For Jim & Sophie from John Hewitt April Yeats (W.B.) A short AL.s. to a Mrs. O’Neill, actor named ‘Liam’ (probably Liam Redmond),
on plain Notepaper, 1 pp, undated, from 73 S.
‘67,’; also The Day of the Corncrake: Poems Stephens Green, responding to an invitation. mentioning a contract to play in Paul Carroll’s
of The Nine Glens. Sm. 4to Belfast (Glens of
Antrim Historical Society) 1969. First Edn. ‘George [his wife] has influenza, not very badly, ‘The Wayward Saint’ on Broadway, following ‘a
long stretch of miserable unemployment’, and
in bl. form, wrappers; An Ulster Reckoning, but still too badly to go out for some time .. discussing plans for the production; also a short
We both wish very much we could have gone
tall 8vo Coventry 1971. First Edn., verso of to you.’ With a good signature, ‘W.B . Yeats’. As a TLS from Norman MacLeod, in Connecticut,
front cover inscribed ‘Sophie & Jim from John
with affectionate regards 17.iv.71’ orig. ptd. m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €500 - 600 November 24 1938, evidently an editor
or anthologist, thanking him for [Charles]
wrappers. V. Scarce, Programme for Conferring Donnelly’s poem, and his own work, ‘which
of Freedom of the City of Belfast on Dr. John 380
Hewitt, May 1983; The Planter & the Gael, Poems Stephens (James) A short AL.s. to Patrick moved me deeply. I am keeping all of them
Maloney, from his London address, 25 July against future selection if I may - I can tell space
of John Hewitt and John Montague, 4to Belfast 1935, 1 pp, with related envelope, responding limitations a little better later on’, and asking for
1970, illus. pict. wrappers; & 1 other item. to a letter. ‘I first met AE in 1909. I am very
Good. (6) €200 - 300 careless about dates. Also the article on him was biographical material. (1) €100 - 150
asked for at very short notice, one day in fact,
and I had no time to be careful.’ With a good
signature, ‘James Stephens’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

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384 386 389
Clarke ( Austin) Poet. Two TLs. to the writer Gregory ([Augusta] Lady) AL.s. on Paper Robinson (Lennox) A very good AL.s., 4 pp,
Donagh MacDonagh, from Bridge House in of Standard Hotel, Dublin, dated Dec. 30 on plain paper, from the Abbey Theatre,
Templeogue, the first [3 April 1940] referring [19]29, 2 pp (single sheet), to Mrs. [Grace] dated Jan. 29 (no year, 1940s), to ‘Dear - dear
to a poem which MacDonagh apparently Plunkett, thanking her for her gift of ‘this - Leonie’ [Leonie Leslie of Glaslough, wife of
submitted pseudonymously for a competition. witty & wonderful record of plays and players’, Sir John Leslie and mother of Shane Leslie].
‘I find that I put the poem aside for a prize but presumably Plunkett’s collection of cartoons, ‘Forgive horrible paper and worse writing. I
decided at the last moment that it might be too ‘Twelve Nights at the Abbey Theatre’. ‘You had a very interesting 10 days in London - did
realistic for the villages. I suspected a pseudonym have a wonderful gift of catching the likeness a lot of business and saw old friends and saw
but, quite frankly, did not guess the authorship.’ in fine line - I wonder if you contemplate future London, which I hadn’t since two years before
The second letter [6 April] refers to another drawings of the Dail and the Senate!’ A little the War - (this one, not the next)’, mentioning
poem, which he interprets as ‘a commentary on spotted, with a good signature, ‘A. Gregory’. various friends, Huntington, Pearsall Smith.
a well known theme . Taking it that way, I think Plunkett’s cartoons include a fine version of ‘Huntington said he [Pearsall Smith] was difficult
it excellent and enjoyed its subtlety of thought.’ Lady Gregory herself, standing on a globe, and a little crazy ... with the help of my Irish
Both with good signatures, Austin Clarke. (2) ‘seeking new worlds to Kiltartanise’. As a m/ss, torch I found his house, [he was] there among
w.a.f. (1) his books and very happy and warm with his
The competition may have been related to central heating and not a bit crazy, but what an
the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society, in which * Grace Plunkett, nee Gifford, married Joseph egoist, and when he wasn’t running down G.B.S.
Clarke was active. €200 - 300 Mary Plunkett in his cell at Kilmainham, shortly he was praising you .. I am writing this in a hurry
before his execution following the Easter before a class of acting - I had 60 pupils but I
Rising of 1916. €200 - 300 made a “purge” (German phrase) after a month
and cut them to 50 or thereabouts .. The London
387 business ended up with my going to write a
Dunsany (Lord [Edward Plunkett]) AL.s. to Life of Lady Gregory, with editing her diaries,
a Mrs. Dixon, at Stella Restaurant, Limerick, with promising to do a book about Dublin, with
on his headed paper (Dunsany Castle), Sept. 4 promising to do a few plays for the B.B.C. and
(no year), 2 pp (single sheet), with associated then I have to find out all about Boucicault and
envelope, saying ‘I am careful to be accurate Bickerstaffe for the Academy of Letters Anglo-
about science as a rule, as I never see why a Irish Bibliography ..’. With a playful signature,
writer should be ignorant of elemental facts’, but ‘Lennox Robinson (Bart.)’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
acknowledging that a reference to ‘the top of
the sun going green’ was merely a guess. As a €300 - 500
m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €100 - 150 390

385 388 ‘Two Years Ago To-Night’
MacDonagh (Donagh) A sheet bearing A fragment of Verse, three stanzas, unsigned,
385 manuscript drafts of two sections of his verse manuscript, with refrain ‘Do You Remember?’,
O’Sullivan (Seumas) poet and critic. A play ‘Happy as Larry’, profusely corrected, probably late Victorian; with an unrelated
good AL.s., 1.9.32, 2 pp (single sheet), to one side in green ink commencing ‘Mrs. L. I manuscript poem headed ‘Ungentle Ireland’,
the young Donagh MacDonagh (then aged have spoken of faithfulness to memory / Of [ ..] beginning ‘The perjured civil warriors ..’,
about 20). ‘I take it that you sent me your verses widowhood & moving funerals / But now with unsigned, modern; and a nine-page
in order that I might give you an opinion on Larry stretched and suddenly dead / The house manuscript essay mainly concerning topics
them, not to obtain a flattering appreciation. filled up with mourners ..’ from O’Casey’s plays, in red ballpoint, also
There are of course many lines & phrases in your The other side, in blue ink, commences ‘Dr. unsigned. A lucky bag. As a collection, w.a.f.
work which I could praise, but in nearly all of the Mrs. Larry, do you wonder / In the night-time (1) €60 - 80
poems I find cliches & echoes of other people’s unattended / Loveless in your grieving ..’ 391
thought, and I would strongly advise you not to [Barton (Robert) Treaty signatory] A copy
publish them at the present moment. Keep them Unsigned, but undoubtedly in MacDonagh’s of Douglas Hyde [An Craoibhín]’s play Casadh
a while and make them more your own ..’ untidy hand. ‘Happy as Larry’ was performed An tSúgáin, with a parallel translation by Lady
at the Abbey Theatre, and was published by Gregory, An Cló-Chumann, Dublin n.d. [1905],
A thoughtful letter, offering excellent advice, Maurice Fridberg. As m/ss,. w.a.f. (2) orig. wrappers, stapled, inscribed on front
even if not what the young poet was hoping cover ‘1541 R. Barton’, further inscribed on
for. Donagh MacDonagh, a lawyer and judge, was f.f.e.p., ‘Riobard Bartún / & é i bpríosún i Sacsana
With a TLs. dated 2.10.40, discussing some of a son of Thomas MacDonagh, executed after / ón gCraoibhín’. (1)
[Donagh’s father] Thomas MacDonagh’s books the Easter Rising. €300 - 500 Robert Barton, a cousin of Erskine Childers,
from a bibliographical point of view. (2) from a landed background in Wicklow, joined
the British Army as an officer during the Great
Seumas O’Sullivan, himself a poet, was editor War, but resigned after he was posted to
of the Dublin Magazine. €300 - 500 Dublin during the 1916 Rising. He joined the
Irish Volunteers and was elected to the First
388 389 391 Dail, where he was Minister for Agriculture. He
was several times imprisoned for Republican
39 activities, including the occasion recorded in
this booklet. He was released from Portland
Prison during the Truce, and was a member
of the team that negotiated the Anglo-Irish
Treaty. Though he signed the Treaty and
voted for it in the Dail, he took the anti-Treaty
side afterwards. After the fighting ended he
retired from politics and returned to farming.
He was later head of the Agricultural Credit
Corporation under Fianna Fail.
A rare and evocative item, illustrating the
complexity of the Anglo-Irish struggle.

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De Blacam (Aodh) (‘Roddy The Rover’) Two
AL.s. to a Dr. Kennedy, 18.iii.42 and 24.1.49, one
with a note to Miss Kennedy (presumably his
daughter), 5 pp in all, discussing various topics
including landlord autocracy, emigration
figures, and world affairs. ‘What strange times
we live in, of persecution like that of the ancient
days! Will the Church go back to the Catacombs,
while the new Neros have their day? It has fallen
to the Republic of Ireland to be the first State to
protest against the Hungarian terror ..’ [24.1.49].

* With a few other items and a related
envelope. Aodh de Blacam, the novelist, wrote
a young people’s column for the Irish Press
under the nom-de-plume ‘Roddy The Rover’.
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393 396 398
Young (Ella) writer and mystic. Notes on Gore-Booth (Eva) [Sister of Countess Russell (George) ‘AE’. AL.s., 1 pp, on ‘Irish
the Celtic Festival of Samhain (29th Oct. to 4th Markiewicz] AL.s., 4 pp (single folded sheet), Homestead’ Notepaper, circa 1917, to Miss
Nov.). Two pages manuscript [single sheet], undated, from Heald Place, Rusholme, to ‘My Yeats [probably Elizabeth Corbet, proprietor of
signed. ‘It was the Feast of Mananaun, & only dear Janey [?]’, thanking her for forwarding a the Cuala Press], apparently responding to an
those who through much heroism & suffering letter. She has written to Annie Egan and told her offer of unused canvases, stretchers and easels
had reached the divine wisdom could partake to send her sister’s qualifications etc. She is just [presumably left by Miss Yeats’ father John
of it .. Sadi [?] organised a series of tableaux to back from London, got a photographer as Mr. Butler Yeats on his departure for America]. He
illustrate this festival .. On the 30th Oct., the day Shorter suggested, ‘& am looking forward to the asks her to send a small sample of one of the
on which the news of her death reached me, the Review. It was very good of you to agitate Mr. canvases to see whether he could use it; ‘if I
sun set in a splendour of pure gold over Galway Shorter!’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) can I will pay whatever price is current for the
Bay.’ As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) canvas’. The easels would be no use as he has
‘Mr. Shorter’ must be Clement Shorter, a one. ‘I am horribly busy at the moment with
An evocative piece. We have not identified leading English critic and reviewer, husband of [Irish] Convention business & Susan [Mitchell, his
Sadi; hopefully someone may know who she assistant] away, but things won’t be so bad I hope
was. (1) €200 - 300 the Irish writer Dora Sigerson. Eva Gore-Booth in another ten or fourteen days’. Signed with
was a poet. €150 - 200 his monogram. As a m/ss. (1)

394 397 Russell was a regular attender at the Irish
[Edgeworth (Maria)] An AL.s. to her, 2 Hinkson (Katharine Tynan) Two good AL.s. on Convention, chaired by Horace Plunkett, which
pp (single folded sheet), postmarked 1838, her headed paper, from Claremorris, Co. Mayo, sought to find a way forward in Irish political
addressed to ‘My dear Maria’, a somewhat dated Dec. 21 1916 and Christmas Eve 1917, to affairs. The Yeats family was probably short
mysterious letter. ‘It will take a couple of days her friend May, asking for her prayers for ‘poor of money due to wartime conditions which
before an answer reaches me from F. Saunderson Toby’ [her son] ‘in the mountains of Macedonia’ interrupted their usual trade. €100 - 200
whose money is required .. I should think it would [1916] and ‘fighting in Palestine’ [1917]. ‘I pray
be 3000 Irish. You must therefore wait a few that Peace, which is on the horizon, I think, may 399
days without answering .. We were all much arrive before there is a ‘Spring push’’. Also with Yeats (Jack B.) An Autograph Note on
alarmed at hearing of the fire which consumed news of her daughter Pamela, later a writer, and his headed paper, from 18 Fitzwilliam
Edgeworthstown House .. Are you insured? her other son Patrick, who ‘has the reputation Square, 14 January 1951 [recte 1952?], to
Hinds says yes. I congratulate you upon both of being the greatest talker in the Batt. .. an the writer Donagh MacDonagh, wishing
our private and public news .. Ever your affcte assiduous democrat. He can quote page after him ‘all happiness in 1952 and all the years to
Cousin, [?] Charles Fox. As a m/ss, w.a.f. page of Connolly’s ‘Labour in Ireland;’. I think come’, signed with his monogram JBY. With
With a seal and postal markings. (1) €100 - 200 he will be a Labour leader one day.’ [In fact he stamped envelope (one stamp removed),
became a journalist, a foreign correspondent confusingly postmarked ‘1 Jan 1942’, addressed
395 for the Times]. Both letters signed with initials, to MacDonagh and signed twice with Yeats’
‘A Joy and an Unspeakable Mercy’ K.T.H. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) monogram. Presumably the envelopes got
mixed up at some point. Yeats for many years
Somerville (E.OE.) AL.s. to Mrs. Holdsworth, Katharine Tynan, born on a farm in Tallaght, was in the habit of sending short New Year
2 pp (single sheet), on her headed paper from was a friend of W.B. Yeats in their young days. messages to his friends. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
Drishane House, Oct. 8 1942, thanking her for She married a lawyer and writer, H.A. Hinkson,
her most charming and sympathetic letter, and lived in England after her marriage, but €125 - 175
‘especially in your comprehension in what I have returned to Ireland about 1911, and came to
written about my continued collaboration with Claremorris when her husband was appointed
my dear Cousin. To have discovered, suddenly & Resident Magistrate there. Letters from her are 400
quite unexpectedly, six dark months after she had scarce. €300 - 500 From Irish Scholars
left me, that she had not gone far away, & was
still able to be with me in spirit, was indeeed what [Hyde (Dr. Douglas) (An Craoibhín) An AL.s.
you say, a joy, and an unspeakable mercy.’ With a to Hyde from the scholar Tomás Ó Maille at
good signature. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) University College, Galway, 5/12/’12, entirely
in Irish, concerning the place of Irish in
examinations for the Civil Service; another
After the death of her collaborator, Violet from Risteard de Hindeberg about marking
Martin [‘Martin Ross’], Somerville continued
writing under their joint names, and schemes.; another from J. Glyn Davies (in
English) asking permission to translate Hyde’s
maintained that she was in communication ‘Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta’ into Welsh; and a
with her dead cousin. €160 - 220
small selection of various postcards and other
cards, one from T[omás] Ó Rathile [O’Rahilly].
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[Hyde (Dr. Douglas) An Craoibhín] A short AL.s., dated 20.12.[19]39, on verso of a Brian 403
O’Higgins Card, to An Craoibhín from Múirgheal Ní Bhroin, explaining why she has not
written earlier and sending him a booklet by O’Higgins, etc. The paragraphs crossed off 404
in pencil, probably by Hyde; also a small bundle of various Notes, including an English
translation of the Gaelic Lament for Pádraig Sairséal, in Hyde’s hand, written on an All contents and images are subject to copyright
invitation from Castlerea Lawn Tennis Club; a note about a poem of his which has been
translated without attribution; a sketch map with directions; and a few other items, one
of them possibly not in Hyde’s hand. As a lot of m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €200 - 300

402
[Hyde (Dr. Douglas) (An Craoibhín)] AL.s. to An Craoibhín from ‘An Seabhac’, Pádraig
Ó Siocfhradha, 2 pp (single sheet), on his headed paper, 2.5.35, entirely in his fluent
Irish hand, outlining plans for a Public Appreciation of Hyde’s Services to the Nation,
also mentioning ‘an strike dona so’ [this unfortunate strike], which will cause some
inconvenience on the night if it is still unresolved. With a printed booklet (slightly soiled)
announcing the plans and inviting subscriptions. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €100 - 150

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Positive Proof of Hyde’s Authorship

Manuscript: Hyde (Dr. Douglas) ‘An Craoibhín’ A short AL.s. to Lady Gregory, 4 pp
(single folded sheet), in pencil, from Ratra, July 14 1918. ‘I met Yeats in Dublin, & he gave
me your kind message ... I came home at the end of June, but am not much better, I cannot
fish or boat or bicycle, and when the grouse come in I fear I won’t be able to shoot! .. I enclose
a poem which may amuse you. I wrote it in a white heat when Lloyd George made his
conscription speech.’

The poem is the well-known ‘Almost any O or MAC to Almost any Englishman, with
Almost any Englishman’s Answer’, a most effective polemic, which we believe was not
ascribed to Hyde when first published. It is here printed on one side of a folio sheet,
inscribed in manuscript ‘July 1918. An Craoibhín do scríobh agus é tinn ar a leabaidh’
[‘Douglas Hyde wrote this on his sick-bed’]. Very rare, probably printed for Hyde.
‘On reading Christopher Benson’s “Hymn for Empire Day”.
‘Lord of our fathers, for we too / As well as Benson, have our God, / Call off from us his
callous crew / And break in two his ruthless rod / And numb we pray the unpitying hand /
Which tortured us so many a year, / And make his nation understand / There is a God above
to fear ..’
With related stamped envelope, addressed in Hyde’s hand to ‘Lady Gregory, Teach na
Cúlach, Gort, Co. Galway, inscribed in Lady Gregory’s hand, ‘1918 (The War)’. (1)
Provenance: From the collection of Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, ‘Nu’ the grand-daughter of
Lady Gregory. Her father Robert, was the subject of W.B. Yeats’s poem, “An Irish Airman
Forsees His Death.” €500 - 700

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A Plot Against the Gaelic League?

Manuscript: Hyde (Dr. Douglas) ‘An Craoibhín Aoibhinn’. An important manuscript
letter, 8 pp (two folded sheets), on his Ratra Notepaper, dated Márta [March] 24, [19]02,
to an unnamed correspondent [‘A Charaid dhílis’], evidently a Donegal resident, and his/
her friend Pádraig, who is also to be informed.
‘I am writing to you on an important matter that concerns the very life or death of the Gaelic
League.’ Hyde says a friend in whom he has the fullest confidence, has informed him of
a plot being hatched in the office of the Freeman newspaper. ‘The power of the Gaelic
League was to be broken. We were getting too strong for the “National” cause (i.e. the
politicians) .. The plot is to be carried out by making the Branches adopt a new Constitution
which is being urged upon them by Mr. O’Keefe, a Freeman reporter - who is not working at
his own expense. This Constitution will leave the Executive at headquarters only a shadow
of power. The real power & funds will be dissipated amongst a number of local bodies which
are much easier managed & controlled.’
Hyde claims that ‘Dr. O’Hickey, John MacNeill (the founder of the Gaelic League) and myself
are to be got rid of, the first two because they are “political disruptionists” (which they are
not), & I because I am dangerous for other reasons. This is to be done by providing that both
President & Vice Presidents be elected by ballot. When we are got rid of & the power of the
Executive reduced to vanishing point, then there will be peace ..’
Hyde says that ‘it has been our strong central executive, controlling 3 organizers, a paid
staff, a weekly paper, & ruling 300 branches from our rooms in Dublin, that has made us a
power .. It is this that has made MPs assist us in Parliament, & that has enabled us to beat
first the National and then the Intermediate Board [of Education], in so far as we have beaten
them. But once break up the central grip of affairs, dissipate the money & power amongst a
number of local bodies, & the League becomes useless as a power either for good or ill in the
national life.’
Hyde asks his correspondent to give a strong lead to the delegates from Donegal in
the right direction, and to keep what he has written quite secret, firstly to protect his
informant, and secondly because ‘to publish matters wd create a row in the face of the
enemy, & we can defeat the scheme quietly by being forewarned.’ (1)

A most important letter for the history of the Gaelic League, and an indication of Hyde’s
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De hÍde [Hyde], Dubhghlas, An Craoibhín. A Hyde, Dr. Douglas
short pencilled letter in Irish dated Dec. 1928, 2
pp, from 65 Adelaide Rd. [Dublin], to ‘A Chuilm [First President of Ireland]
a chara’ (possibly the writer Colm Ó Gaora),
saying he is ill in bed, and asking if the book 408 A good collection including:
in Irish is finished yet, and suggesting that 250 Manuscripts: [Hyde (Dr. Douglas)] Gaelic – Ruthven, J.F. Ireland and Dr. Douglas Hyde.
copies should be bound for those who paid in Proverbs. A folder containing six manuscript Offprint, July 1938. Laid in is an ALS from
advance, signed ‘An Craoibhín’. As a m/ss, w.a.f. collections from different areas of Ireland, Ruthven to President Hyde, 28 July [19]38,
(1) €100 - 150 etc., evidently submitted for an Oireachtas thanking him for his letter. ‘I hope very
competition. From Douglas Hyde’s Collection; much that you will be able to remove many of
Hyde may have been one of the judges. A very the causes of friction’ [between Britain and
interesting lot, as a coll. w.a.f. (1) €150 - 200 Ireland].
406 – [De hÍde, Dubhghlas]. I gComhar na bPáistí.
[Hyde (Dr. Douglas)] A folder containing Sé Ubhla as ‘Ubhla de’n Chraoibh’, An
mostly original Photographs and Prints, as 409 Craoibhín do chan. Riobard Ó Duibhir do
follows: Hyde (Dr. Douglas) ‘An Chraoibhin Aoibhinn’.
The Mermaid’s Three Laughs [translated from the chuir ceol leo. O’Dwyer, Dublin, qto wraps,
with printed music. Very scarce.
- Killarney, Gap of Dunloe. A mounted Irish]. Quarto, pp. 13-15 (single folded sheet], – Telegram to Douglas Hyde, Frenchpark,
photograph dated 1914, showing Hyde
and (presumably) his wife and daughter on Weekly Freeman Christmas Sketch Book, illus. Roscommon, July 14 [19]09. ‘Important
With a postage stamp at rear, addressed in
horseback. Hyde’s hand to ‘Miss Kurtz / Seapoint House accident here Sunday could you attend / Griffin
Railway Athlone.’ A puzzling item, possibly
- ‘An Craoibhín agus Polly’. An Irish Times / Blundell Sands / Liverpool’. Attractive item, intended for Hyde’s father, a clergyman (but
photograph (unmounted) showing Hyde in
tweeds, a parrot perched on his shoulder, rare. (1) €150 - 220 named Arthur).

inscribed rear in Hyde’s hand. 410 – The Gaelic League and Politics.
Co. Limerick: [Hyde (Dr. Douglas)] Irish Pronouncement by Dr. Douglas Hyde
- A good photograph by Fennell, Dundrum, Folk Lore. ‘Jack the Gambler’, and seven (President). 8 pp, Gaelic League, probably first
showing Maurice MacGonigal RHA holding similar folk tales in English, transcribed in
a palette beside his portrait of Hyde, prob. cyclostyled typescript, about 50 pp in all, the printing.
first inscribed in Hyde’s hand, ‘An ingen uasal – A bundle of various offprints and proofs,
1940s. Jevers do scríobh iad so, ó chondae Luimnighe. some extensively corrected by Hyde.
- Elliott & Fry Ltd., Baker St., London. A fine An Windelach do thug domhsa iad, 1905?’.
half-length portrait of Hyde in his prime, in Interesting collection of folk-tales from Co. – Songs of the Connacht Bards. A scrapbook
Limerick, some with the story-teller identified (partly disbound) containing offprints of
tweeds, wearing a Fáinne, probably late 1930s, in manuscript, some with Hyde’s notes as to Hyde’s articles in the Weekly Freeman 1893-4,
mounted, in a folder. related story-types. As a coll. (1) €200 - 300
- A reproduction [supplement to ‘New presumably assembled by Hyde himself.
– A folder containing Minutes of Evidence to
Ireland’] of a good posed photograph of ‘Dr. a Royal Commission conducting hearings
Douglas Hyde, President of the Gaelic League’,
in a three piece suit, circa 1910. about academic standards and structures
at Trinity College Dublin, 1906, of which Dr.
- A mounted photograph of a young man Hyde was a member, the minutes for the
preparing to pitch a hammer, inscribed in plate
‘Yours truly, James Mitchell’, inscribed rear in 3rd day, marked ‘Confidential / Douglas
Hyde’ and the 8th day, marked on cover in
Hyde’s hand, ‘Champion hammer thrower of Hyde’s hand. The witnesses on the 8th day
America in 1891’. As photos, w.a.f.
A very good collection. (1) €400 - 600 included Rev. Dr. J.P. Mahaffy and others. As a
collection, w.a.f. (1) €200 - 300

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Hyde (Dr. Douglas) An envelope inscribed Abbey Theatre: Howe (P.P.)ed. & Others.
in Hyde’s hand, ‘PRINTED TESTIMONIALS of The Abbey Theatre Dublin, sm. oblong 16mo D.
Qualifications of Dr. Douglas Hyde’, containing n.d. [c. 1911] Sole Edn., illus. 18pp includ. orig.
statements of his qualifications and wrappers, decor. front cover & with adverts on
publications, one with extensive additions in rere. In fine condition. V. Rare. (1)
his hand, with printed testimonials from the * Gives a list of plays produced at the
Provost of Trinity College and from Professor Abbey & its predecessors, with dates of First
Dowden, Professor Atkinson and others, circa Performances. €200 - 300
1891, in connection with Hyde’s applications
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Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, and also Scarce Signed Copy
(separately) at Queen’s College Cork. With a
group of five offprints by Hyde, which may also Abbey Theatre: Kavanagh (Peter) The Story of
have been submitted. As a collection, w.a.f. the Abbey Theatre, From Its Origins in 1899 to
Hyde was not successful in either application. the Present. Illustrated roy 8vo N.Y. 1950. First
(1) €200 - 300 Edn. Signed on front free end, black cloth, &
illus. orig. d.w. V. Scarce. (1) €200 - 300
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Duncan (G.A.) The Abbey Theatre in Pictures, lg. Abbey Theatre: Kelleher (D.L.) An original Programme for Cancelled Performance
4to D. 1963. First Edn., Presentation Copy to Mr. Abbey Theatre Programme for first production
& Mrs. P.J. Curran from Michael Duncan. 47 pp of Stephen Grey A Dream and An Incident, Theatre Royal, Dublin: A Souvenir Booklet for
Programme for Theatre Royal, for the Visit of
of photos, etc., orig. boards, & pict. wrappers. V. in One Act by Kelleher, for March 1909, & King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra on July
good. Scarce. (1) €130 - 180 Signed on outside by Kelleher; also an AL.s.
on National Theatre Society notepaper to 24th 1903, 4to illus. thro-out, & with loose slip
printed in red, stating ‘Note - The Programme of
415 Kelleher from W.A. Henderson (manager), the Command Performance was countermanded
The Abbey Theatre Players. Brochure for 1909 discussing the performance of Kelleher’s
Performances by the Abbey in the United play; another Programme for a Kelleher by Order of His Majesty owning to the death
States, under the management of Elbert A. of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII,’ wrappers; also
Wickes, with notes on the plays and players, play performed for Irish Society of the City Souvenir Programme of the Theatre Royal,
photos etc., large quarto, circa 1932. (1) and University of Liverpool, 1911; and an
original medical certificate issued to Kelleher Hawkins St., Dublin, Sept. 23rd, 1935, for Gala
€100 - 150 Opening, 4to Ormond Printing Co., illus. thro-
by Queen’s College, Cork, 1903. Interesting out, adverts etc., & pict. wrappers, v. good.
collection. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €150 - 200
416 Both Scarce. (2) €150 - 200

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1907, qto wrappers. Includes cover design Denis Johnston - Unpublished Memoirs Frank O’Connor Archive “Country People”
by J.Vinycomb, two plates after Jack Yeats and
contribs. by Katharine Tynan, Alice Milligan, Johnston (Denis) (1901 - 1984) Established O’Connor (Frank) Archive “Country People”
his reputation as an Important Playwright with Acknowledged as Ireland’s master short
A.E. etc. Scarce. (1) €100 - 150 his first play The Old Lady Says “No!” produced story writer of the mid 20th Century, Frank
O’Connor was also a regular contributor to radio
417 by The Gate Theatre Dublin in 1929. broadcasts throughout his career. This archive
Dublin Gate Theatre. A quarto brochure, ‘Did Johnston went on to have a diverse and includes an early draft of O’Connor’s introductory
you Know that the Gate ...’, with photos, circa distinguished career as writer, director, literary script for an adaptation of his short stories -In The
1940. Laid in is a Share Certificate Signed by critic, BBC war correspondent and academic. Train, The Luceys’ and The Long Road to Ummera
Hilton Edwards, dated November 1930, No. This archive of 4 Original Typescripts by -broadcast on Radio Eireann in 1959. Under
35, confirming that William O’Brien of Botanic Johnston comprises a total of 23 closely typed the collective title Country People, O’Connor
Road [Dublin] is the owner of two fully paid folio pages of his reminiscences of his school describes the genesis and inspiration for these 3
shares of £1 each in the Theatre Company. days in Dublin, seven years at the Bar, the early stories and relates them to his own development
Presumably the trade unionist. (1) €150 - 200 days of TV at the BBC, working as a World War as a writer. Country People comprises a 4 page
Two correspondent in the Middle East, and his typescript, on yellow paper, with corrections in
experiences lecturing at American Universities. ink by O’Connor. Attached is a handwritten and
418 The typescripts are early drafts for a series of Signed Cover Letter from O’Connor to producer
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin: 70th Anniversary Radio Eireann broadcasts made by Johnston Micheal O hAodha, which deals with the planned
Souvenir Programme, Nov. 1871 - Nov. 1941, in the 1970s entitled Orders and Desercrations broadcast. Also included is a single page typed
together with 75th Anniversary Souvenir - The Harvest of Dragon’s Teeth / Buttercups and letter, hand-signed “Frank”, in which O’Connor
Programme, 1871 - 1946, 2 vols. 4to D. (Thom’s Blood, Getting Out and Security. One typescript candidly outlines his frustration tyring to rework
& Hely’s) illus., orig. cold. decor. boards; is signed in ink by Johnston and all have copius his early stories. A Unique Archive.; also Malachy
also sim. Programmes for 1871 - 1955, & corrections and additions in his handwriting. - Unpublished Play by Frank O’Connor a
Programme for Centenary Celebrations 1871 Also included in the lot is a 5 page facsimile folio typescript of Malachy, Successor of Patrick,
- 1971; & also Souvenir Programme for Grand Re- copy of an additional Johnston script. The an unpublished radio play by Frank O’Connor.
Opening 29th October 1984, a group of 5 items, Scales of Soloman, which is clearly part of the Malachy is an historical drama based on the
all in fine condition. V. Scarce. (5) €180 - 250 same series. (1) €180 - 220 life of the 12th Century saint and his efforts to
reform the Irish Church and wrest control of
419 422 Armagh from the dynastic rule of lay abbots.
Signed Presentation Copy Magazine: An Ulster Garland, An Occasional Comprises 29 typescript pages with corrections
Magazine produced For the Benefit of the and additions in O’Connor’s distinctive
Queen’s Royal Theatre: de Burca (Seamus) Rebuilding Fund of the Belfast Hospital for Sick handwriting. There are additional production
The Queen’s Royal Theatre, Dublin 1829 - 1969, Children, Queen St., 4to Belfast 1928. First Edn., notes in a different hand, although we have been
Lg. 4to D. (s. de Burca) 1983. Lim. Edn. No. 910 frontis, 6 plts. & other illus., adverts etc., orig. unable to confirm a broadcast date. Unpublished
of 1000 Copies. This copy signed Presentation cold. pict. wrappers. A very good clean copy. and not listed in the main bibliographies of
Copy to Marcus, Jane, Blathnaid, Lorraine. The (1) €100 - 150 O’Connor’s works. As a m/ss, w.a.f.
Television Crew of Trinity, dated March 20th, Provenance: Collection of Micheal O hAodha.
1992. Illus., orig. cloth, with the inset label in
gilt. (1) €150 - 200 €800 - 1200

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Irish Theatre: Programmes, a large bundle of Yeats (W.B.). ‘Countess Cathleen’. Programme Abbey Theatre. Programme. Irish National
Theatre Shows from 1940’s / 50’s / 60’s / 70’s, for for a drawing-room performance at the Chief Theatre Society. Quarto brown wrappers with
various houses to include the Abbey, Gaiety, Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, hound design. Tuesday 27 December 1904
Gate, Olympia, Wyndham, Lyric, Pike Theatre January 1899. 4 pp, single folded sheet, Dublin and subsequent dates, the programme for the
and others, as a collection, w.a.f. (1) printed, with a note about the play, dramatis Society’s First season at the Abbey Theatre
personae (with the Countess of Fingall as following its purchase and presentation by
€100 - 150 Countess Cathleen) and a list of tableaux. The Miss Horniman. The plays included the ‘first
first performance of scenes from the play, four performance on any stage’ of W.B. Yeats’ On
426 months before the first full stage performance Baile’s Strand and Lady Gregory’s Spreading
Rare First Production (see previous item). Cover a little browned, the News. A historic programme, marking a
traces of mounting to rear, otherwise v. good. milestone in Irish cultural history. Fine copy,
Irish Literary Theatre 1899. ‘The Countess “The Light of Lights rare. (1) €275 - 350
Cathleen’ by W.B. Yeats, and ‘The Heather Field’ Looks always on the motive, not the deed;
by Edward Martyn, will be performed for The shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” 430
the first time in The Antient Concert Rooms Synge’s First Play on Abbey Stage
[May 8-13] .. by a Specially selected Company * Exceptionally Rare. €300 - 500
of Professional Artistes under the general Abbey Theatre. Programme. Irish National
Management of Miss Florence Farr. Corrigan 428 Theatre Society. Quarto brown wrappers with
& Wilson, Printers, Upr. Sackville St. Brochure, Irish Plays [1906]. Brochure for a Season of hound design. 6-11 February 1905, production
4 pp (single folded sheet), on good quality laid Irish Plays by W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Wm. Boyle ‘for the first time on any stage’ of The Well of the
paper, with a note on the Irish Literary Theatre and Lady Gregory, at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, Saints by J.M. Synge.
and a list of Artistes engaged. Summer 1906, Presented by the National This was only the second production at the
Very scarce. The Theatre’s first production. Theatre Society from the Abbey Theatre, Abbey Theatre. A little scuffed, good copy. (1)
Dublin, Toured under the Direction of Alfred
€500 - 700 €200 - 300

Waring. Attractive brochure, with photographs
of scenes from the plays, Lady Gregory, etc., a
little spotting. Scarce. (1) €220 - 350

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First Production of “The Playboy...” Signed by Sean O’Casey & Others Greacen (Robert) & McFadden (Roy) (edrs).
Ulster Voices, Spring & Summer 1943 (Nos. 1 &
[The Abbey Theatre]. Programme. Saturday Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Twenty-First Birthday 2), each a single sheet folded to make 6 narrow
26th January 1907, for seven nights, Anniversary Performance, 27th December 1925. pages. Contribs. include the editors, John
including first production of The Playboy of Quarto, orig. brown wrappers with device of Hewitt, John Boyd etc. Very scarce. (1)
the Western World by J.M. Synge, with notes boy and hound. With a list of plays produced
on the language and the characters by at the Abbey, etc. Inscribed inside rear cover €150 - 200
Synge. Probably the most celebrated and by a galaxy of Abbey personalities including
controversial production in the entire history the playwright Sean O’Casey (soon afterwards 438
of Irish theatre. he fell out with the Abbey), and actors French (W. Percy) The First Lord Liftinant and
A very fine copy. Extremely Scarce. (1) including Maureen Delaney, May Craig, Eileen other Tales. 1890, Rushlight Series No.1, 16mo
Crowe, Shelah Richards, Arthur Shields and F.J. wrappers, with sketches by R. Caulfield Orpen.
€400 - 600 McCormick. Fine copy, a splendid souvenir. (1) Humorous tales. Very scarce. (1) €200 - 250

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The Abbey Row. NOT Edited by W.B. Yeats. Yeats (W.B.) A manuscript letter to ‘My dear
Blue wraps, with an adaptation of the Abbey’s 435 Hyde’, from Nassau Hotel, 8 April ’04, 2 pp,
famous hound, incorporating the heads of The Irish Theatre, Hardwicke St. Directors concerning theatre patents, Miss Horniman,
Miss Horniman and J.M. Synge. With drawings Edward Martyn, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Lady Gregory etc., an important letter, NOT
(unsigned) by William Orpen. An entertaining Plunkett. Manager - John MacDonagh. Play- in Yeats’ hand, signed with his name, the
account of the row over Synge’s ‘Playboy’. Very bill for week Monday December 27 1915 to signature in Yeats’ hand. (1)
good copy, scarce. (1) €250 - 350 Saturday January 1 1916, 2 pp (verso blank).
Bairbre Ruadh. Dráma Éin-Ghníomh, Padraic Ó According to Yeats, Collected Letters Vol.
III (1901-4), this letter was dictated to Miss
433 Conaire do sgríobh; The Phoenix on the Roof, a
Abbey Theatre. Two programmes for plays Comedy in one Act by Eimar Ó’Duffy; and two Horniman and is in her hand, apart from Yeats’
signature. The text concerns the patent for
including Lady Gregory’s Hyacinth Halvey and a short plays by John MacDonagh and Anton their new theatre, soon to be renamed as the
translation from Moliere; and a first production Tchekoff. Players include William Pearse,
by George Fitzmaurice, 1913. Both somewhat brother of Patrick, and Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Abbey. ‘If the other theatres got wind of it they
would spend any amount of money to thwart us’.
worn. (2) €80 - 120 in Ó Conaire’s play. As a m/ss, w.a.f. €300 - 500
John MacDonagh was a brother of Thomas
MacDonagh. Very Scarce. (1) €200 - 300

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Original Manuscript Poem

Higgins (F.R.) O Hawks Claw-Clinched.
Original manuscript poem of six four-line
stanzas (2 pp, on plain paper), neatly written,
Signed, Inscribed to [the theatre producer]
Phyllis Ryan, possibly unpublished.
‘Ah, what of the spleens that grieve us,
Heart-breaks in our bitter town,
Our green air grows herbage for healing
Beneath the cool cheek of the moon ..’
As a m/ss., w.a.f. Rare. (1) €150 - 200

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Yeats (Jack B.) & Pamela Colman Smith A
Broadsheet. Nos 1 -12, First Year (complete),
Jan. - Dec. 1902. Folio broadsheets, each 20”
x 15” (51cms x 38cms), the drawings hand
coloured by the artists, published and sold
by Elkin Mathews, Vigo St., London. Edited by
Jack Yeats, who also contributed about half the
illustrations, including ‘The Pooka!’ ‘The Back
Strand Races, Sligo,’ Shows at the Fair,’ ‘The Gipsy,’
‘A Sligo Ballad Singer,’ etc.
This is the first appearance of the drawings
of West of Ireland life which later became a
440 familiar part of Jack Yeats’ work, usually under

the title ‘Life in the West of Ireland’. Pamela
Colman Smith was an Australian artist; some
of her work here is remarkably similar to that
of Yeats, and evidently she was influenced by
him. She contributed to the first year only;
the ‘Broadsheets’ continued for a second
year, when Jack Yeats was joined by other
members of his family. The literary contents of
the ‘Broadsheet’ include poems by W.B. Yeats,
‘A.E.’, Jack Yeats himself, and others, some
pseudonymous.
No limitation is recorded, but it is unlikely
441 that more than a few hundred copies of each

Broadsheet were produced and coloured.
Because of its large size, very few have survived
440 in good condition, and sets are far scarcer than
Yeats (Jack B) A short AL.s. on his headed the later ‘A Broadside’ (a folded sheet less than
Paper, Fitzwilliam Square, dated July 7 1949, 1 half the size). Extremely rare.
pp, to a Miss Thomas. ‘Yes, I saw Jean Gaillard The present set is slightly foxed in places,
two or three times before he went away to the and most sheets are frayed at the lower
West: he is a very interesting, and intelligent, corners without any loss of text or pictures.
man, and I am sure he was capable of these The colouring is fresh and the condition is
mental pictures his friend describes ..’, also generally very good. €2000 - 3000
mentioning Hilda Graham, who ‘had a very See illustration also on inside front cover
little time when she came over here’. With a good
signature, ‘Jack B. Yeats’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) 444
The Author’s Fifth Book
Jack Yeats was an assiduous correspondent,
particularly to patrons or potential patrons.
There are several possibilities for the identity Yeats (Jack B.) The Bosun and the Bob = Tailed
Comet, One of Jack B. Yeats’ Books for Children.
of Jean Gaillard, one of them a First World War 12mo L. (Elkin Mathews) n.d. [1904]. First Edn.,
flying ace. €200 - 300
illus. by author, and illus. adverts, orig. blue
wrappers, block in black and with hd. cold.
441 illus. V. good. (1) €220 - 350
Yeats (John Butler) Typed copies of 18 letters
to his close friend Rosa Butt, various dates
1902 - 1907. With a m/ss letter from ‘Gifford’
(Lewis?) mentioning the letters - ‘I think they
may be important.’
After the death of his wife, John Butler Yeats
formed a close friendship with Rosa Butt
(daughter of his old friend Isaac Butt), and
seems to have considered marrying her, but it
came to nothing in the end. The letters include
a reference to a possible engagement, also
various paintings in progress, dinner with
George Moore, Lady Gregory, John Quinn,
Miss Swanzy etc., etc., with a great deal of
gossip and family information. Two letters with
insect damage, but generally v.g. Although
copies, the letters are unpublished, and are of
enormous interest for anyone concerned with
the Yeats family. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) €350 - 450

442
Cuala Press: Calendar for 1912, with hand
coloured woodcut racing scene by Jack B.
Yeats, printed one side only, on board, approx.
9¾” x 7”. Good. V. Scarce. (1) €150 - 200

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Yeats (Jack B.) A.L.s. to Mr Rutter, on his blind- With Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats
stamped notepaper, from Greystones, March
1913, 1 pp, mentioning a letter from Ernest Borthwick (N.)comp & Yeats (Jack B.)illus.
Ceachta Beaga Gaedhilge - Irish Reading Lessons,
445 Marriott and offering to lend various original 4 vols., D. (Brown & Nolan) 1906 - 1911, No.
P.S. O’Hegarty’s Copy drawings for a children’s exhibition in Leeds
next Christmas. ‘A children’s exhibition should 1 - 3 (plus later issue of Book 2) complete, illus
[Yeats (Jack B.)] Marriott (Ernest) Jack B. with woodcuts, ptd. wrappers, custom made
Yeats Being A True Impartial View of his Pictorial make a gay and cheering show’. With a very slip case. Clean. (4) €200 - 300
& Dramatic Art, 12mo L. (Elkin Mathews) 1911. good signature, framed with a late portrait;
First Edn., frontis, fold. map, & illus. adverts, and with a copy of Ernest Marriott’s Jack B.
orig. decor. blue boards. Inscribed on front Yeats, his Pictorial and Dramatic Art, Elkin 451
board by P.S. O’Hegarty. Good. (1) €150 - 200 Mathews n.d., with the folding chart of Pirate Limited to 150 Copies

Island. As a collection. €280 - 400 Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, Drawn
& Painted by Jack B. Yeats, 4to D. (Maunsel &
446 Co.) 1912. Lim. Edition to 150 Copies, cold.
With Hand-Coloured Illustrations 449 fornt & 7 cold. plts., plus 48 bl. & white plts.
Signed by W.B. Yeats & Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats (Jack B.) A Little Fleet, One of Jack B. Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and & line drawings, orig. gilt decor. blue cloth, &
Yeats’s Books for Children. 12mo L. (Elkin English Songs, folio D. (Cuala Press) 1937. 12 orig. ptd. d.w. with decor. front cover. Good
Mathews) n.d. First Edn., hd. cold. map, & 8 hd. Copies Issued in Monthly Parts. First Edition. copy. (1) €550 - 750
cold. illus., orig. blue wrappers, black lettering Lim. to 300 Copies. Drawings by Jack B.
& hd. cold. illus. Scarce. (1) €220 - 350 Yeats, Harry Kernoff, Victor Brown etc. Poetic 452
contributions by W.B. Yeats, Oliver St. John Limited to Approximately 30 Copies Only
447 Gogarty, James Stephens, F.R. Higgins etc. With
With Illustrations by The Author general title & letterpress. Signed by W.B. Yeats [O’Nolan (Brian)] St. Sepulchre’s Press.
& Dorothy Wellesley, and with hd. cold. illus. Ambrose An Episode from The Poor Mouth
Yeats (Jack B.) The Treasure of the Garden, thro. out. Loose. V. good clean copies. As a lot. Translated from the Erse of Myles na gCopaleen
One of Jack B. Yeats Plays for The Miniature (1) €1200 - 1800 by Denise Ellbry Preseton [Liam de Poer]. Sole
Stage. Lg. 4to L. (Elkin Mathews) n.d. [1902] Edition. Limited to approx. 30 Copies Sq. 4to D.
First Edn., 7 full page plts. & other decorations, (St. Sepulchre’s Press) 1973. Orig. pict. printed
illus. adverts. etc., orig. decor. blue wrappers. V. cream wrappers, sewn. (1)
good copy. (1) €450 - 650
* St. Sepulchre’s Press was a small hand-press
established by late Mary (Pol) Pollard at Trinity
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Fine Etched Plates Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Hymn to the [John Mc Cormack] Egan (Desmond)
New Omagh Road, roy 8vo D. 1968. Privately Listening to John Mc Cormack, a poem, with
Solomons (Estella F.) Twenty Etchings, lg. folio Printed, Limited to 175 Copies, Signed by portrait of Mc Cormack by Charles Cullen.
Dublin 1973. Memorial Edition, Limited No. 46
of 50 Copies. With 13 of orig. 20 plts. only, with Author, sewn, orig. ptd. wrappers. A very fine Limited Edn. No. 89 of 100 Copies, Signed by
copy. Miller 126. (1) €180 - 250 Poet & Artist, large broadside, approx. 25½” x
letterpress title etc., loose in cloth portfolio, all 18”. Issued for J. Mc Cormack Centennial 1884 -
v. good. V. Scarce. (1) €400 - 600
457 1984. (1) €100 - 150
Dolmen Editions VII Montague (John) The
454 Bread God, sm. folio D. 1968. Signed, Limited 462
[Kane (Michael)] Hackett (J.P.) Rising from The Edition, 250 Copies, red & bl. title, orig. red Limited Edition, Signed by Artist
Mire, tall 8vo D. (Ronald Watson) 1963. Limited printed grey wrappers. V. good copy. Miller
Edition No. 60 of 200 Copies Illustrations 140. (1) €180 - 250 Bourke (Brian) Marcel Marceau from The
by Michael Kane, pict. boards. Scarce; also Wings, A large portfolio of eight drawings,
Kane (Michael) Homage, 4to D. (Seafront sketches made from the wings of the Abbey
Press) 1971. Sole Edn., orig. ptd. wrappers; 458 Theatre during performances by Marceau. Lim.
and Realms Texts & Etchings by M. Kane. 8vo One of 65 Copies Only for Patrons Edn No. 62 of 100 Copies, Signed by Artist &
Gallery 1974. Lim. Edition 750 Copies, orig. Publisher. D. (Goldsmith Press) 1975. orig. ptd.
decor. wrappers. V. good. (3) Graphic Studios: Kinsella (Thomas) Nuchal wrappers. (1) €220 - 320
* The last two items with Signed Presentation (A Fragment) Lg. 4to Dublin (Graphic Studies)
Inscription to Helen [Moloney], sister of Mrs. 1970. Limited to 65 Copies Only for Patrons. 463
Patrick Kavanagh. All V. Scarce. (3) €150 -200 With four coloured Prints by Patrick Hickey, Mahon (Derek) The Realm of Fight, a
John Kelly, Leslie Mac Weeney and Anne broadside, D. (Graphic Studio) n.d. Signed
455 Yeats, All Signed in orig. printed portfolio. An Ltd. Edn. 2 (20); Echo, 8vo Gallery Press 2012,
The Authors First Two Books extremely fine copy. V. Rare. (1) €350 - 500 Signed Ltd. Edn.100 Copies, 2pps, ptd. card;
[Poems on the Underground] Dog Days,
Smith (Michael) Dedications, sm. 4to D. (New 459 oblong broadside L. (Faber & Faber) 1979,
Writers Press) 1968. First Limited Edition, 200 Inscribed by Author Signed by the Author. Scarce. (3) €300 - 400
Copies, orig. decor. wrappers. Signed Pres.
Inscription to Katherine Kavanagh; With the Rare Handmade Letterpress Broadside
Woodnymphs, 8vo D. (New Writers Press) 1968. Murphy (Richard) High Island, broadside
Lim. Edn. No. 142 of 300 Copies, orig. decor. approx. 26cms x 30.5cms Pacific Lutheran
wrappers; Poems, 4to Advent Books, 1971. University (The Elliott Press) Spring 1985. Sole
Lim. Edn. No. 42 of 150 Copies. With Signed Edition. single sheet with illus., in orig. plain
Presentation Inscirption, decor. wrappers; paper folder with printed label attached &
Stopping to take Notes, D. (New Writers Press) inscribed ‘High Island / Richard Murphy (double
1979. Signed First Edn., pict. wrappers. All line) a keepsake for participants of the 1985 ACIS
Scarce. (4) €160 - 220 Conference cohosted by the University of Puget
Sound and Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma,
Washington. Some browning at edges of folder,
otherwise a very good copy. Ex Scarce. (1)

€250 - 350

460
Heaney (S.) Poets Chair, a broadside,
Massachusetts (Bow & Arrow Press) 1993,
Signed by the Author, ptd. by hand, 16 (100)
Copies, with illus. by Dimitri Hadzi. Good. (1)

€200 - 300

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