5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 60/0319

All Limited Editions Cuala Press: Masefield (John) Some Memories of W.B. Yeats, D. 1940, No. 216 (370); Mac Donagh (D.) Veterans and Other Poems, D. 1941, No. 18 (270); Bax (Clifford)ed. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats, D. 1941, No. 399 (500), all orig. cloth backed boards, worn. (3)

Lot 61/0319

The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre Periodical: Yeats (W.B.)ed. Beltaine, An Occasional Publication. The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre. Numbers 1 – 3, together 3 Nos., bound as one, 4to L. (At the Sign of the Unicorn) May 1899 – April 1900, uncut, unopened, with orig. wrappers bound in orig. brown boards with paper label. An excellent copy. Ex. Scarce. (1) * With a predominance of articles by W.B. Yeats, it also includes essays by Geo. Moore, Edw. Martyn & Lady Gregory.

Lot 62/0319

SOLD Hammer price €40

Cole (Rev. J.H.) Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork Cloyne and Ross, 8vo Cork 1903. First Edn., port. frontis & 1 plt., list of subscribers, orig. cloth, good. (1)

Lot 63/0319

SOLD Hammer price €40

Genealogy: Monroe (Horace) Foulis Castle and The Monroes of Lower Iveagh, 8vo L. 1929. First Edn., illus. plts. fold. tables, orig. cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 64/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

200 Copies Only, Signed Cuala Press: Donaghy (Lyle) Into the Light and Other Poems, 8vo D. 1934. Limited Edition 200 Copies Only. Signed Copy, orig. cloth backed brown boards. (1)

Lot 65/0319

Cuala Press: Allingham (William) Sixteen Poems, Selected by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum 1905. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies Only, unopened, orig. blue grey cloth backed boards lettered in black, paper label. A very good copy. Miller 7: Wade 234. (1)

Lot 66/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

Dolmen Press etc: Kinsella (Thomas) Nightwalker, D. 1967. First Gen. Lim. Edition (1000), wrappers. Signed Pres. Inscription ‘To Sean and Mary Love and Greetings, Tom’ [Sean J. White]; Another September, D. 1962, cloth; Selected Poems 1956 – 1968, roy 8vo D. 1973. First Edn.; & Fifteen Dead, D. 1979. First Edn., all wrappers; also Harmon (Maurice) The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella – ‘With darkness for a nest,’ D. 1974. First, cloth. As a lot. (5)

Lot 67/0319

Corkery (Daniel) The Wager and other Stories, roy 8vo N.Y. 1950. First Edn., with bl. & white wood engraved illus. by Elizabeth Rivers, cloth & orig. pict. d.w. (some wear). (1)

Lot 68/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

The Author’s Second Collection O’Grady (Desmond) Reilly, tall 8vo Rome 1961. First Limited Edn. 250 Copies. With long Signed Inscription ‘For Tony .. Limerick 27th August 1962,’ cloth & d.w.; also with Uncorrected Proof Copy of same work, Not for Publication, 1967, wrappers, browned. (2)

Lot 69/0319

Co. Antrim: Dubourdieu (Rev. John) Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, with Observations on the Means of Improvement; 8vo D. 1812. First Edn., lg. fold. engd. map, 5 fold. tables, 10 lg. fold. sepia plts., 8 sepia single page plts., & a sepia vignette, cont. hf. calf. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 70/0319

With Coloured Plates: Francis (Francis) A Book of Angling, 8vo L. 1885. Engd. frontis & 15 engd. plts. include 6 fine hd. cold. plts., cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 71/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

The Author’s First Book, Signed Stuart (H.) [Francis Stuart], We Have Kept the Faith, sm. 4to D. (The Oak Leaf Press) 1923. First Edn., Signed on front loose blank & inscribed, ‘To Helen from Francis Xmas 1923,’ somewhat browned as usual, orig. cloth backed green boards with ptd. label. (1) * A very good Signed Copy of this Scarce Item.

Lot 72/0319

SOLD Hammer price €70

O’Grady (Hugh Art) Standish James O’Grady The Man & The Writer. A Memoir. Roy 8vo D. 1929. First Edn., uncut, unopened, port. frontis, blue cloth with labels, & orig. d.w. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 73/0319

SOLD Hammer price €130

Signed Presentation Copies & With ALs Montague (John) A Chosen Light, 8vo L. 1967. First Edn., orange boards & d.w. & with design after Louis le Brocquy; also O’Riada’s Farewell, 8vo Cork Golden Stone 1974, First Edn., illus. orig. pict. wrappers. Both volumes with Signed Presentation Inscriptions & with musical references for Charles & Carol Acton, together with a 2pp A.L.s. to Charles [Acton] dated Jan. ’69. an interesting lot. (3) * Charles Acton was long time music critic with The Irish Times, & John Montague was for a time literary director of Claddagh Records.

Lot 74/0319

SOLD Hammer price €280

The Author’s First Book & Others, Mostly Presentations to Katherine Kavanagh [Kavanagh (Patrick)] Liddy (James) Esau My Kingdom for a Drink, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1962. First Edn., wrappers. Miller 48; Blue Mountain, D. (Dolmen) 1968. Signed Presentation Copy to Katherine Kavanagh, ‘The first signed copy in love, James Liddy,’ cloth & decor. wrappers. Miller 135; A Life of Stephen Dedalus, sm. 4to San Francisco (White Rabbit Press) 1969. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine Kavanagh; Corea Bascinn, Dolmen 1977. First, Signed, ‘for Katherine Kavanagh,’ wrappers; Chamber Pot Music, 8vo Berkeley (Hit & Run Press) 1982. Signed, ‘To Katherine …,’ wrappers; A White Thought in a White Shade, D. (Kerr’s Pinks) 1987. First, Signed ‘For dearest Katherine,’ cloth & d.w.; The Ladybird Shivered, with Richard Shaw & Paul Enea. 8vo Blue Canary Press 1992, First, wrappers. Liddy has signed his contribution, Poems for Katherine Kavanagh. (7) * Katherine Kavanagh, nee Maloney, was Patrick Kavanagh’s wife.

Lot 75/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

[Joyce (James)] Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, Paris [1925] printed by Maurice Darantiere, Dijon. 4to, orig. wrappers; repaired. Includes a section by Joyce From Work in Progress [i.e. Finnegans Wake], also contribs. by Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, Ernest Hemingway (his story Soldier’s Home), etc. A rare item. (1)

Lot 76/0319

Joyce (James) Haveth Childers Everywhere, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1931, (Criterian Miscellany – No. 26] First Thus, 36pps, ptd. wrappers (yellow – red text) lacks glassine cover. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 77/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

The Author’s First Books Woods (Macdara) Decimal D. Sec. Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesch, roy 8vo D. (New Writer’s Press) 1970. First Limited Edition of 200 Copies, orig. decorated colour wrappers; Early Morning Matins, 8vo Gallery 1972. Lim. Edn. 1000 Copies, cloth & pict. d.w.; Stopping the Lights in Ranelagh, D. (Dedalus) 1987. First Edn., pict. wrappers. (3) * All three volumes with Signed Presentation Inscriptions to Katherine Kavanagh, widow of poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Lot 78/0319

SOLD Hammer price €170

All First Editions Durcan (Paul) Jesus, Break His Fall, D. (Raven Arts) 1980; Ark of the North, For Francis Stuart on his Eighteenth Birthday D. 1982. Signed Presentation Inscription to Katherine [Kavanagh]; Going Home to Russia, Belfast (Blackstaff) 1987, Signed by Author; Jesus and Angela, Blackstaff 1988; Daddy Daddy, Blackstaff 1990; Crazy about Women, 4to Nat. Gallery of Ireland, 1991. Signed by Author, all First Edns., in orig. pict. d.w. V. good. (6)

Lot 79/0319

SOLD Hammer price €120

All Limited Editions Moore (George) A Flood, sm. 8vo N.Y. (G.C. at The Harbor Press) 1930. Signed by Author & No. 80 of 185 Copies, orig. cloth; Peronnik the Fool, 8vo N.Y. 1926, Lim. Edition 785 Copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, printed in red and black, orig. decor. boards; The Making of an Immortal, N.Y. 1927. No. 356 of 1240 Copies, Signed by Author, boards; Letters from George Moore to Ed. Dujardin 1886 – 1922, 8vo N.Y. 1929. No. 319 of 680 Copies, Signed by Author, boards. A good collection. (4)