5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 99/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Woods (James) Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern, 8vo D. (Sealy, Bryers and Walker) 1907, First, frontis & illus., recent rebind. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 100/0319

SOLD Hammer price €180

Weld (Isaac) Statistical Survey of the County of Roscommon, drawn up under the direction of the Royal Dublin Society. Thick 8vo D. 1832. First Edn., Lg. fold. hd. cold. map frontis. hf. title, uncut, orig. cloth, joints cracked. A clean copy. (1)

Lot 101/0319

Roebuck (J.A.) Pamphlets for the People, Vol. I, roy 8vo L. 1835, 40 tracts by and edited by J.A. Roebuck; bound with Wakley (Thos.) A voice from the Commons, 5 nos. between April 23, 1836 and May 22nd 1836, cont. boards, later mor. reback. As a periodical, w.a.f. Scarce. (1)

Lot 102/0319

Smythe (Hamilton) The Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland, thick 8vo D. 1842. First Edn., attractive full calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 103/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

I.R.A. – Browne (Charlie) The Story of the 7th, A Concise History of the 7th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, Irish Republican Army from 1915 to 1921. 8vo n.d. Orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)

Lot 104/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

Colfer (Billy) Arrogant Trespass, Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169 – 1400, roy 8vo Enniscorthy (Duffry Press) 2002. First, Sole Edition, illus. cloth & pict. d.w. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 105/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

Special Limited Edition Beckett (Samuel) Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 8vo D. (Black Cat Press) 1992. Special Lim. Edn. No. 26 of 130 Copies Ed. by Eoin O’Brien, blue silk covers, & green silk slipcase. (1)

Lot 106/0319

Lee (Laurie) Cider with Rosie, 8vo L. (The Hogarth Press) 1959, Reprint illus. frontis, cloth & d.j.; As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning, 8vo L. 1969, cloth & d.j.; A Moment of War, 8vo L. 1991, cloth & d.j.; The Illustrated Cider with Rosie, lg. 4to, L. 1984, illus. decor. cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 107/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

Rare Collection O’Sullivan (Seumas) Common Adventures: A Book of Prose and Verse. Nicolas Flamel: A Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval. Imp. 8vo D. (Powell Press) 1926. Signed, Limited Edn. NO. 38 of 200 Copies, uncut, orig. boards; The Lamplighter and Other Poems, roy 8vo D. (Rowell Press) 1929. Signed, Limited Edition, No. 7 of 100 Copies, orig. ptd. wrappers; Translation and Transcriptions, 8vo Belfast (Carter) 1950. Signed, Lim. Edition No. 56 of 250 Copies, orig. limp dark blue mor., gilt lettering. All Scarce. (3)

Lot 108/0319

SOLD Hammer price €90

Colgan (N.) & Scully (R.W.)eds. Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica,.. A.G. More 8vo D. 1898. Second Edn., fold. map frontis; Praeger (R. Lloyd) Irish Topographical Botany, D. 1901. First Edn., fold. cold. maps, both exceptionally fine copies. (2)

Lot 109/0319

SOLD Hammer price €300

Plays, Comedies etc: Burke (Seamus) From the Earth to a Star My Incredible Life, 8vo Dublin 1959. First Edn. Inscribed Pres. Copy to Mr. E. Redmond, cloth & d.w.; & 26 single printed plays, mostly printed by ‘The People’ Newspaper, Wexford. As a lot, w.a.f. (1) Should read: 24 not 26 single printed Plays

Lot 110/0319

SOLD Hammer price €100

Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels O’Flaherty (Liam) Thy Neighbour’s Wife, L. 1923. First Edn. of the Author’s First Book; The Informer, L. 1925. First Edn; The House of Gold, L. 1929. First Edn.; Return of the Brute, L. 1929. First Edn., The Puritan, L. 1932. First Edn.; Sherrett, L. 1932. First Edn., all orig. cloth. Scarce. (6)

Lot 111/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

[Colum (Padraic)] Three Men, 8vo L. (Ellen Matthews) 1930, Signed Ltd. Edn., No. 203 (530) copies, cloth back decorated boards. Clean Copy; Ten Poems, 4to D. (The Dolmen Press) 1957, Ltd. Edn., No. 142 (500), Inscribed by the Author, cloth backed boards, glassine cover. (2)

Lot 112/0319

One of 25 Copies Carrigan (Rev. William) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols., Kilkenny (Wellbrook Press) Reprint, Ltd. Edn., No. 25 (25) copies, signed by the Publishers, Printer & Binder , hf. green leather, marble boards, original slip case. Clean Set. (1)

Lot 113/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

Blue Book: Agriculture: Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland [Gill (T.P.)ed.] Report of the Departmental Committee on Agricultural Credit in Ireland, folio L. 1914. Sole Edition, fold. table, & 2 large fold. cold. maps in pocket at end, 407pp recent full green cloth. (1)

Lot 114/0319

Signed by the Author Dolmen Editions I: Kinsella (Thomas) Wormwood sm. folio D. 1966. Lim. Edn. 350 Copies Only, Signed by Author, orig. vellum backed veneered boards, v. good. (1) * The First of the splendid Dolmen Press Editions.

Lot 115/0319

SOLD Hammer price €180

Mitchell (Flora) Vanishing Dublin, lg. 4to D. 1966, Sole Edn., 50 fine cold. plts., cloth and illus. d.j. Good copy. (1)

Lot 116/0319

SOLD Hammer price €160

With Illustrations by Le Brocquy Synge (J.M.) & Le Brocquy (L.)illus. The Playboy of the Western World, folio, Massachusetts (Imprint Society) 1970, Ltd. Edn., Signed by the illustrator, yellow cloth with gilt decor front cover, and slipcase. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 117/0319

Signed Limited Edition of 100 Copies O’Byrne (Robert) The Irish Georgian Society A Celebration, Lg. 4to D. 2008. First Edn. Lim. Edn. No. 27 of 100 Copies, Signed by Desmond Guinness and Knight of Glin. Profusely illustrated, orig. cloth & matching slipcase. (1)

Lot 118/0319

SOLD Hammer price €130

Some Scarce Signed Offprints Moore (George) Euphorian in Texas, original offprint from ‘The English Review,’ pp. 439 – 455, roy 8vo c. 1921, With an A.L. Signed by the Author, & with a Signed Presentation from author to Mr. P.T.R. Gillett dated Oct. 27th, 1921; and Peronnik the Fool, original offprint from The London Mercury, pp. 468 – 481, & 586 – 601, roy 8vo c. 1927, with Signed Presentation Inscription from author to Mr. P.T.R. Gillett, dated Oct. 13, 1927, both in hand bound decor. paper boards; also with A Letter to the Editor of the Times, by George Moore, 8vo L. (Times Literary Supple.) 10th Dec. 1925, a re-print, Limited to 50 Copies Only, orig. ptd. wrappers. (3)