23 April 2016 - The Centenary Sale

#0289

Lot 21/0289

The Great War, 1914 – 1918: Rickard (Mrs. Victor) The Story of The Munsters at Etreux – Festubert – Rue de Bois, 8vo D. n.d (1915) First Edn., 6 ports. 2 maps, orig. ptd. wrappers, with cold. armorial laid down. Scarce. (1)

Lot 22/0289

Signatory of Proclamation

Mac Donagh (Thomas) Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry, D. 1912. First Edn., boards; Literature in Ireland, D. 1916, First Edn., decor. cloth; also Poems by Thomas Mc Donagh, D. 1916. Forward by James Stephens, photo illus., cloth backed; and another book, inscribed by Joan Meynell. (4)

Lot 23/0289

Boer War: Fitzpatrick (J.P.) The Transvaal from Within, A Private Record of Public Affairs. L. 1900. pict. wrappers; Rosslyn (The Earl of) Twice Captured A Record of Adventure during The Boer War, Edin. & L. 1900 First Edn., numerous illus. cloth; Rider Haggard (H.) The Lost Boer War, L. 1900; Naville (E.) Britain and Boer Independence, Edin. & L. 1900. First English, wrappers. (4)

Lot 24/0289

The Great War 1914 – 1918: Poetry: Prose – Service (Robert W.) The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man, L. 1916. First Edn. gilt cloth; Brooke (Rupert) ‘1914’ Five Sonnets, 12mo L. 1915, wrappers; Goldsack (Rev. S.J.C.) Killed in Battle and After, 12mo Paisley 1915, wrappers; Martin (E.M.) Dreams in War Time. A Faithful Record, 12mo (Shakespeare Head Press) Stratford-on-Avon, 1915, First, boards; Hankey (Donald) A Student in Arms, 12mo L. 1919, port. frontis, boards. A lot. (5)

Lot 25/0289

Presentation Copy to Mary Spring Rice

Hull (Eleanor) Editor. The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, Being a Collection of stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin. 8vo L. 1898. First Edn. Thus., fold. map, adverts at end, orig. cloth backed boards, repaired. Good.

* With bookplate of Monteagle & Brandon & with inscribed presentation ‘Mary Spring Rice from Father, Xmas 1898,

‘ Mary Spring Rice Nationalist, was on The Asgard on its journey from Germany, importing arms into Howth in 1914. (1)

Lot 26/0289

Scarce Work on Republican Leaders

Hannan (M.J.) Irish Leaders of 1916 – Who were they? 8vo Butte, Montana, [1920] Part I. First (Sole) Edition. Preface by Prof. T.E. Hardy, late of St. Malachy’s College, Belfast. Frontis port. of P.H. Pearse, 107pp orig. cloth backed boards. (1)

* Presentation copy, inscribed and signed in Irish to ‘Do mo cara Caitlin De Barra…’ April 30 – 1922; [To Kathleen Barry, sister of the martyr Kevin Barry.]

Lot 27/0289

Rare Inscribed First Editions

Collins (Michael) The Path to Freedom, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) 1922. First Edn. Port. frontis, Inscribed by Eoin Mac Neill on front loose blank, orig. decor. cloth, and orig. d.w.; with, O’Connor (Batt) With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence, 8vo L. 1929. First Edn., Inscribed Presentation Copy from Author to Miss Molly Kerr, on front loose blank, orig. green cloth & orig. d.w. Both v. good copies of scarce volumes. (2)

* O’Connor joined the Volunteers 1916, & was ordered to Kerry in advance of the Easter Rising, but after the arrest of Casement returned Dublin. He was arrested and court marshalled and interned in Richmond Barracks. He was later sent to Wandesworth and Frongoch where he met Michael Collins. He was an intelligence agent and Collins most trusted .. allies. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Lot 28/0289

Austin Stack’s Copy of “The Dutch Republic”

[Clarke (Austin)] Morley (J.L.) The Rise of The Dutch Republic, 3 vols. L. n.d. New Edn., orig. cloth. (3)

*Austin Stack’s copy with his signature in each volume in Irish, ‘Aibhistin de Staic,’ and with his wife’s visiting card laid in. Austin Stack (1880 -1829), from Tralee, was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers and a commandant during the Easter Rising. He was sent to meet Roger Casement at Banna Strand, but failed to make contact and was arrested. He was a minister in the first Dail, rejected the Treaty and was jailed during the Civil War. His health was damaged by a hunger strike in 1923, and died in 1929.

Lot 29/0289

Extremely Rare Report – The Belfast Pogrom, 1920 – 1922
Only a Handful of which were for Private Distribution

Northern Ireland: Kenna (G.B.) [Fr. John Hassan] Facts and Figures of the Belfast Pogrom 1920 – 1922, 8vo D. (O’Connell Published Co.) 1922. Sole Edn., fold. map, hf. title, title, 213pp. orig. green cloth, lettered within black border. A very fine copy of this Scarce-Work.

* This work was reportedly commissioned by the Free State Government, at the investigation of Michael Collins to document the notorious Belfast Pogroms in which hundred of Catholics (together with some Protestants) were driven from their homes and work places, and when hundreds were killed. The work which was set in type, but publication had to be cancelled for fear of furthering more serious sectarian tensions. It is believed only about eighteen copies were ever bound. An excessively rare item. (1)

Lot 30/0289

The Irish in South Africa

The Boer War: Childers (Erskine) In the Ranks of the C.I.U., A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa. 8vo L. 1900. First Edn., hf. title, frontis, adverts at end, decor. red cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 31/0289

The Great War, 1914-1918: Mac Donagh (Michael) The Irish at the Front, L. 1916. Second, Intro. by John Redmond, M.P.; O’Loughran (Rev. Rob.) Redmond’s Vindication, D. & L. 1919, port. frontis, both orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 32/0289

Great War, 1914 – 1918: Kerr (S. Parnell) What the Irish Regiments have done, With a Diary of a Visit to the Front by John E. Redmond, M.P. 8vo L. 1916. Second Impression. Hf. title, boards, with orig. pict. d.w., with photo of Michael O’Leary V.C. Scarce.

* A good account of some of the more important engagements of The Irish Regiments. (1)

Lot 33/0289

Great War 1914 – 1918: Redmond (Major Wm.) Trench Pictures from France, 8vo L. 1917. Second Hf. title, Port. frontis & 2 other ports. adverts at end, orig. cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)

* The Author was killed in Action in June 1917.

Lot 34/0289

The Great War, 1914 – 1918: Laird (Frank M.) Late Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Personal Experiences of the Great War, (An Unfinished Manuscript). Sm. 8vo D. n.d. c. 1925. Sole Edition, hf. title, port. frontis, orig. cloth, stained. Scarce. (1)

Lot 35/0289

Signed Presentation Copy

The Dublin Brigade: Dalton (Charles) With the Dublin Brigade (1917- 1921), 8vo L. 1929. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy inscribed, ‘With Best wishes to Little Perag? from Charlie December 1932’ Hf. title, port. frontis, fold. map, orig. cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)

* An excellent account of the Troubles in Dublin.

Lot 36/0289

Written before The Truce
Presentation Copy

Briollay (Sylvain) Ireland in Rebellion, trans. from French 8vo D. (Talbot Press) 1922. First Edn. in English. Inscribed Pres. Copy, ‘To An Accomplice S. Briollay 6th March 1922’ green cloth, with v. rare printed dust wrappers. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 37/0289

A Nurse of The Struggle 1916 – 1921

1916 – 1921: [Nurse Linda Kearns] Smithson (Annie M.P.)ed. In Times of Peril, Leaves from the Diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter Week, 1916 to Mountjoy 1921., D. (Talbot Press) 1922. Sole Edn., with original pictorial d.w. V. good copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 38/0289

Signed Copy by Member of First Dail

Walsh (J.J.) Recollections of a Rebel, 8vo Tralee n.d. c. 1944. First Edn. Signed on f. loose blank, & dated 29/9/44. Illus. etc., & with orig. photographic portrait postcard tipped in, cloth backed boards. Good. (1)

Lot 39/0289

Signed by Captain Spindler

[Casement (Sir R.)] Spindler (Capt. Karl) Das Gehaimnisvolle Schiff, 8vo Berlin 1921. Rare First Edn., Signed by the Author, port. frontis fold. map & illus., & with many news cuttings loosely inserted, orig. gilt decor. cloth. rare.

* Spindler captained The Aud which attempted to land arms for The Volunteers in Kerry in 1916. This book was later published in English as “The Mystery of the Casement Ship,” Berlin 1931. (1)

Lot 40/0289

Irish Volunteers: [Hobson (Bulmer)] The Handbook for Irish Volunteers, Simple Lectures on Military Subjects by ‘H.’ Sm. sq. 16mo D. (Gill & Son) 1914. Sole Edn., hf. title orig. green cloth, rounded corners. V. Scarce. (1)

* Carthy 3730 Hobson was a Quaker from Belfast, was a Veteran I.R.B. member, founder of Na Fianna in Belfast and a pioneer of Sinn Fein and the Volunteers. He fell out with the I.R.B. after backing Redmond’s attitude towards the Volunteers and was out of favour afterwards. After alerting Eoin Mac Neill about the Republicans plans for the Rising he was captured and held in custody during Easter Week. He afterwards withdrew from Public Life.