5 May 2020 - #0319 Timed Auction

#0319

Lot 139/0319

SOLD Hammer price €360

The O’Reilly Family – One of Only 25 Special Signed Copies Genealogy: O’Gorman (Chev. Thomas) Compiler. The Genealogy of the Very Ancient and Illustrious House of O’Reilly, formerly Princes and Dynasts of Brefny O’Reilly, now called the County of Cavan in the Kingdom of Ireland, Lg. atlas folio, Belfast 2014. Limited Edn. No. 2 of 25 Special Copies of an Edition of 225. Signed by the Finder, Niko Gruger, the Owner, Mr. Boyd & the Editor John Killen. In full crimson morocco, mor. label, & in cloth clamshell box. An exquisite fac-simile production. (1)

Lot 140/0319

Fine Facsimile Atlas – One of Only 10 Copies Atlas: Mercator (G.), Ortelius (A.), Jansonius (J.) & Bussemecher (J.) cartgrapher, Chartae, Magistri, Sacculi, folio Budapest (KMB Maps) 2007, Ltd. Edn., 6 (10) copies only, 107 double page maps, full goat skin, mor. labels, raised bands. A superb quality reproduction. (1)

Lot 141/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Irish Public Records: The Sixth, Seventh, Eight, Ninth and Tenth Reports from The Commissioners .. Respecting The Public Records of Ireland, Lg. folio L. (House of Commons) 1819 – 1820, 11 full page plates, uncut, new full cloth, lg. mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 142/0319

SOLD Hammer price €420

Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, 8vo, L. (Faber and Faber Ltd.) 1966, First Edition, hf. title, cloth and d.j. (price clipped); together with an invitation Card for a Poetry Reading, by Seamus Heaney (16th September 1994). (2)

Lot 143/0319

SOLD Hammer price €170

Wilde (Oscar) Intentions… The Decay of Lying Pen – Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. crown 8vo L. (James R. Osgood / Mc Ilvaine & Co.) 1894. & Printers device. Second Edn., hf. title, 258pp, end leaf with ‘London Printed by Gilbert and Revington Ld…..,’ & one blank leaf, t.e.g., cont. hf. vellum by Hatchards, mor. labels & gilt decor. spine. V. good. Ex. Libris of Hubert Beaumont. Mason 342. (1)

Lot 144/0319

Joyce (James) Ulysses, 2 vols. Hamburg (The Odyssey Press) 1932, First Issue by Odyssey, (definitive Standard Edn.) ptd. wrappers, worn. (2)

Lot 145/0319

Rare Second Edition MacGialla Meidhre (Briain) [Brian Merriman] Mediae Noctis Consilium – Cuirt an Mheadhoin Oidhche, 12mo D. (Padruig O’Briain) 1893. Second Edn., 43pp orig. green cloth, gilt lettered. Good, rare in any condition. (1)

Lot 146/0319

SOLD Hammer price €50

Irish Plays [1906]. Brochure for a Season of Irish Plays by W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Wm. Boyle and Lady Gregory, at the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, Summer 1906, Presented by the National Theatre Society from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Toured under the Direction of Alfred Waring. Attractive brochure, with photographs of scenes from the plays, Lady Gregory, etc., a little spotting. Scarce. (1)

Lot 147/0319

SOLD Hammer price €140

Abbey Theatre. Programme. Irish National Theatre Society. Quarto brown wrappers with hound design. Tuesday 27 December 1904 and subsequent dates, the programme for the Society’s First Season at the Abbey Theatre following its purchase and presentation by Miss Horniman. The plays included the ‘first performance on any stage’ of W.B. Yeats’ On Baile’s Strand and Lady Gregory’s Spreading the News. A historic programme, marking a milestone in Irish cultural history. Fine copy, rare. (1)

Lot 148/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

Synge’s First Play on Abbey Stage Abbey Theatre. Programme. Irish National Theatre Society. Quarto brown wrappers with hound design. 6-11 February 1905, production ‘for the first time on any stage of The Well of the Saints by J.M. Synge. This was only the second production at the Abbey Theatre. A little scuffed, good copy. (1)

Lot 149/0319

SOLD Hammer price €210

The Abbey Row. NOT Edited by W.B. Yeats. Blue wraps, with an adaptation of the Abbey’s famous hound, incorporating the heads of Miss Horniman and J.M. Synge. With drawings (unsigned) by William Orpen. An entertaining account of the row over Synge’s ‘Playboy’. Very good copy, scarce. (1)

Lot 150/0319

SOLD Hammer price €220

First Production of “The Playboy…” [The Abbey Theatre]. Programme. Saturday 26th January 1907, for seven nights, including first production of The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, with notes on the language and the characters by Synge. Probably the most celebrated and controversial production in the entire history of Irish theatre. A very fine copy. Extremely Scarce. (1)

Lot 151/0319

Abbey Theatre. Two programmes for plays including Lady Gregory’s Hyacinth Halvey and a translation from Moliere; and a first production by George Fitzmaurice, 1913. Both somewhat worn. (2)

Lot 152/0319

SOLD Hammer price €60

The Irish Theatre, Hardwicke St. Directors Edward Martyn, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett. Manager – John MacDonagh. Play-bill for week Monday December 27 1915 to Saturday January 1 1916, 2 pp (verso blank). Bairbre Ruadh. Dr ma in-Ghn¡omh, Padraic ? Conaire do sgr¡obh; The Phoenix on the Roof, a Comedy in one Act by Eimar ?’Duffy; and two short plays by John MacDonagh and Anton Tchekoff. Players include William Pearse, brother of Patrick, and M ire Nic Shiubhlaigh in ? Conaire’s play. John MacDonagh was a brother of Thomas MacDonagh. Very Scarce. (1)

Lot 153/0319

SOLD Hammer price €80

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)

Lot 154/0319

SOLD Hammer price €170

Greacen (Robert) & McFadden (Roy) (edrs). Ulster Voices, Spring & Summer 1943 (Nos. 1 & 2), each a single sheet folded to make 6 narrow pages. Contribs. include the editors, John Hewitt, John Boyd etc. Very scarce. (1)

Lot 155/0319

SOLD Hammer price €300

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)

Lot 156/0319

SOLD Hammer price €150

Wilde (Oscar) Salome, A Tragedy in One Act, translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, sm. 4to, L. & N.Y. (John Lane) 1908, decor. boards, and similar d.j. (1)

Lot 157/0319

SOLD Hammer price €180

Signed by the Author Stephens (James) The Crock of Gold, 4to L. (Mac Millan & Co. Ltd.) 1926, Signed Limited Edition (No. 525 Copies), cold. frontis & 11 cold. plts. by Thomas MacKenzie, vellum backed boards, dust jacket. (1)

Lot 158/0319

SOLD Hammer price €210

Gore-Booth (Eva) [Sister of Countess Markiewicz] ALs., 4 pp (single folded sheet), undated, from Heald Place, Rusholme, to ‘My dear Janey [?]’, thanking her for forwarding a letter. She has written to Annie Egan and told her to send her sister’s qualifications etc. She is just back from London, got a photographer as Mr. Shorter suggested, ‘& am looking forward to the Review. It was very good of you to agitate Mr. Shorter!’. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) ‘Mr. Shorter’ must be Clement Shorter, a leading English critic and reviewer, husband of the Irish writer Dora Sigerson. Eva Gore-Booth was a poet.