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“The People’s Princess”Royalty – [Princess Diana] Spencer (Earl) Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales – Westminster Abbey, September 6, 1997, 8vo, 25pps, dedicated “To Lillian, Charles Spencer, 14th July 2000,” each pp. royal coat of arms, gilt decor. cloth, custom box. Scarce. (1)
Rare Limited EditionYeats (W.B.) Arion Press, San Francisco. Poems of W.B. Yeats, selected and introduced by Helen Vendler, with six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn, San Francisco MCMXC THE ARION PRESS.On mould made Somerset paper, the titles hand set and printed in red, the etchings proofed at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. Elegantly bound in quarto green boards with red morocco spine, slipcase in matching colours.A superb production, limited edition of 400 copies for sale, this being one of 26 lettered copies ‘distributed among the participants in this publication’. This is Michael Yeats’ copy, signed by Richard Diebenkorn and lettered ‘H’.The Arion Press, managed by Andrew Hoyem, is among the most distinguished of American fine presses, with a pedigree tracing through the Grabhorn brothers to John Henry Nash. Richard Diebenkorn [1922-1993] was an important California Bay Area painter and engraver, recognised as one of the post-war masters in his native United States. This was the thirty-first book produced at the Arion Press. It has been out of print almost since publication. Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection
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Joyce (James). Uilis?as. A translation to modern Irish of Joyce’s Ulysses, by Breasal Uilsean and Seamus hInn?irghe, Foilseachÿin Inis Gleoire, Beal Feirste, complete in 12 parts, orig. wrs, first printings, circa 1991, in a slipcase. Inscribed in first part by hInn?irghe to Sle Yeats (grand-daughter of W.B. Yeats).’… Seadh dubhairt m? seadh d?anfaidh m? Seadh.’Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.Complete Sets are Scarce. (1)
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A GREAT RARITYGEORGE YEATS’ COPYWellesley (Dorothy) (Duchess of Wellington). Beyond the Grave: Letters on Poetry to W.B. Yeats. Green boards cloth backed (spine faded), n.d. [1950].Erratum slip. Privately Printed. With seven photographs, including Yeats with his children and several views of the Tower at Ballylee, evidently given to her by WBY. Very scarce. COPAC shows only five copies, all in England. Mrs. George Yeats’ copy, presumably sent to her by the Duchess. A remarkable document, written in the darkest days of WWII, the opening letter dated 1942, addressing Yeats (who died in 1939) as though he were still alive. Yeats did much to promote Wellesley’s poetry, and stayed at her country home several times, hoping to recreate the atmosphere of leisured creativity at Coole Park. He may also have had sexual motives, but he found that the Duchess was a confirmed Lesbian.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
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[Yeats, W.B.] Childers (Erskine). The Constructive Work of Dail Eireann. Parts 1 and 2, Talbot Press 1921, in presentation cloth binding, paper label, wrappers bound in. Inscribed on cover of first item, ‘Compiled and edited by Erskine Childers’. With a signed autograph note laid down inside front cover from M.A. Childers on her headed paper, 12 Bushy Park Road, Terenure, ‘An old & historically interesting pamphlet for Mr & Mrs Yeats with affectionate Christmas wishes from M.A. Childers’.Presumably post-1925, when ‘Mr. Yeats’ ceased to be a Senator; perhaps early 1930s, when Yeats went to live at Riversdale, Rathfarnham, not far from Bushy Park.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
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Hingston (R.W.G.) A Naturalist in Hindustan, roy 8vo L. 1923. First Edn., Frontis & plts. unopened, pict. d.w.; & 2 other copies of same; together with Problemes de L’Instinct et de L’Intelligence chez Les Insects (Insectes des Tropiques), 8vo Paris 1931. First French Edn., illus., orig. ptd. wrappers. (4)* Hingston, from Co. Cork, was an Officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles, and was the naturalist on the Expedition to Mount Everest.
[Yeats, W.B.] Harper (George Mills, General Editor). Yeats’ Vision Papers. Vol. 1, The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917 – 18 June 1918; Vol. 2, The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918 – 29 March 1920; Vol. 3, Sleep and Dream Notebooks, Vision Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File. Variously edited. L., Macmillan 1992, 3 vols thick 8vo cloth, d.w.Yeats spent some 20 years of his life devising and elaborating the system he published as A Vision. Scholars disagree as to its significance, but most are agreed that it is essential to an understanding of his poetry.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
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Travel: Blixen (Karen) Out of Africa, 8vo L. (Putnam) 1937, First Edn., hf. title, original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, signature of J.A. Grizor on f.e.p., original colourful and decorated d.j. Very clean copy. (1)
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Clarendon (Ed. Earl of,) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641, 3 vols. in 6. 8vo Oxford 1732-31. fold. & other engd. plts., portraits etc., cont. full calf, raised bands mor. labels. (6)
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Cheltenham College Prize BindingWebster (John) Elements of Mechanical and Chemical Philosophy, 8vo Taunton n.d. [c. 1850]. Some text illus., attractive gilt decor. diced calf, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. label. V.G. (1)
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[Dorat (C.J.)] Lettres d’Une Chaoinesse de Lisbonne A Melcour Officier Francois, Precedees de Quelqes Reflexious. 8vo The Hague 1770. Hf. title, 1 full page engd. plt. 1 engd. hd. & engd. tail by Massard after Ch. Essen, wd. cut decor. in text, cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. label, gilt tooled in panels. V. good. (1)
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Military: Simes (Thos.) The Regulator: or Instructions to Form the Officer, and Complete the Soldier upon Fixed Principles, 8vo L. 1780. First Edn., advert leaf at end, cont. calf,mor. label. (1)
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Rome: Parboni – Nuova Roccolta Delle Principali Vedut Antiche, e Moderne Dell ‘Alma Citta di Roma e sue Vicinanze, oblong 8vo Rome 1824. 100 full page views top corner fore-edge of first few leaves stained, full cont. blind tooled mor., gilt fillets, & tooled gilt spine. (1)
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Cluverius (Philip) Introudctio in Universam Geographiam, 4to L. 1711. Ed. by J. Bunone, engd. frontis, 48 engd. mostly fold. maps, & 12 plts. (mostly fold.) cont. panel calf, raised bands, mor. label. Good. (1)
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Periodical: Society of Antiquaries of London: Archaeologia: or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Vol. I – XXXIX, plus 2 Index vols., together 41 vols., lg. 4to L. 1779 – 1863., engd. plts. illus. etc., include. some coloured, throughout, some fold., uncut, cont. hf. calf. As a periodical, w.a.f. A long run. V. Scarce. (41)* Contains numerous articles of Irish interest, with engd. illus., etc.
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Scarce Dublin Plate BookLitho Plates: High Education of Women, Physical. First Series. Oblong folio D. (Foster & Co.) L. 1873. 7 full page linen backed litho plts., cont. mor. backed boards. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. Rare. (1)
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Both Volumes Signed by AuthorWalsh (Wendy) An Irish Florilegium, Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. 2 vols. L. 1983 & 1987. First Edns. both volumes signed, fine cold. plts. cloth, & pict. d.w.’s. V. good copies. (2)
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Limited Facsimile EditionBook of Durrow: Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis, folio, 2 vols., Oltn, Lausen & Friesburg (Urs Graf-Verlag) 1960, Ltd. Edn. No. 49 (650), vols. of plts. & text, Vol. 1 full mor. (Celtic design), text Vol. 2., mor. backed boards, clean set. (2)
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Robinson (Rev. Stanford F.H.) Celtic Illuminative Art, sm. folio, D. (Hodges, Figgis & Co.) 1908, frontis & illus. plts., cloth. (1)
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Duchamp (Marcel) A L’Infinitif, lg. 4to N. York (Cordier & Ekstrom Inc.) n.d. c. 1966. Lim. Edn. No. 72 (150) Signed by Author, explanation booklet and 7 portfolios in orig. presentation box. (1)