15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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Lot 246/0196
Abbey Theatre etc: Yeats (W.B.)ed. Samhain, Nos. for 1901, -04-05 & 08 (only, of 7), 4 No’s 4to L. (For The Irish Literary Theatre) 1901-1908, some illus., & orig. ptd. wrappers, worn & torn, scarce; = also Abbey Theatre Programme for The Eloquent Dempsey, by Wm. Boyle, First Performance, 20th Jan. 1906, ptd. wrappers. (5)
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Lot 247/0196
Illustrations by Seaghan Mac Cathmhaiol
Fox (C. Milligan) Four Irish Songs, 4to (Maunsell & Co.) n.d. [c. 1910] FIRST EDN., 4 fine full page illus. by Seaghan Mac Cathmhaiol in bl. & white, orig. silver printed black wrappers, v. good copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 248/0196
Hyde (Dr. Douglas) ‘An Craoibhan,’ First President of Ireland.
A small Archive including –
– A Nativity Play, typescript transcript of Lady Gregory’s translation of Hyde’s play ‘Drama Breithe Chriosta,’ with some related correspondence from Talbot Press to the Belfast musician Dorothy Parke, for whom the transcript was prepared as the original was out of print;
– The Reeves Manuscript of Agallagh na Senorach. Offprint from Revue Celtique, 1920-21, inscribed on cover, ‘Le meas mor on gCraoibhin,’ in Hyde’s own hand;
– Ceithre Sgeulta Tarraingte as an ‘Sgeuluidhe Gaodhalach,’ 1888;
– Imtheachta an Oireachtais 1900. Tri Sgeulta, ed. by Hyde. As a coll., w.a.f. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 249/0196
Very Scarce Irish Language Provincial Newspaper
Co. Cork: Glor na Ly, Paipear Nochda a n-ay an vi. Vol. I No’s. 1 & 6, Vol. II No’s 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6, together 7 nos. folio Mihav 1911 (- Mi na Nolag 1912), some port. illus., and adverts. (1)
* Incomplete, but a very good run, of this scarce journal (printed in Dublin) published at Macroom, in simplified Irish spelling, Roman type, 8pp per issue. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 250/0196
Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) & others. A Broadside No 2, No. 7 & No. 8, Second Series, Feb., July, & August 1935, also Nos. 2 & 5. Third Series, for February & May 1937. Together 5 issues, folio D. 1935 – 1937. With attractive coloured illus. by Jack B. Yeats & others, 4pp. each, all LIM EDNS. (300), loose as issued, good. (5)
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Lot 251/0196
With Rare Variant Copy of No. 4
Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) & others A Broadside. Second Series: 1935. A collection of 4pp. folio broadsides, numbered 1 – 11, with a duplicate but variant copy of No. 4, showing the music on first page, with the words displayed on the other copy. Together 12 Nos., folio D. Jan. – Nov. 1935. LIM. EDNS (300), all in loose form, & v. good. Rare. (12)
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Lot 252/0196
Rare Jack B. Yeats Plays for Miniature Stage
Yeats (Jack B.) James Flaunty or, The Terror of the Western Seas, … [and] The Scourge of the Gulph, 2 booklets, 12mo L. (Elkin Mathews) [1901 & 1903] FIRST EDNS. Both 16pp, each with black & white illus. by author on text pages, with orig. decor. buff (& blue) wrappers, the second item with hand coloured illus. by Yeats, in a later unrelated cloth holder. Very good copies of these very fragile and rare booklets, the first and second published books by the author. (2)
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Lot 253/0196
An Unrecorded Wilde Item
Wilde (Oscar) Mr. Oscar Wilde’s Lecture, Printed brochure, 4pp. (single folded sheet), in brown ink on patinated paper, advertising Wilde’s lecture on ‘personal Impressions of America’ at the Princes’ Hall, Piccadilly, Tuesday 10th July, 1883. Issued by W.F. Morse, Manager (initially for the producer D’oyly Carte) of Wilde’s lecture tours. With a synopsis of Wilde’s lecture, presumable written by Wilde himself. Not in Masons’ bibliography, not mentioned by Ellmann, apparently unrecorded.
* Wilde’s American lecture tour of 1882 presented him as a representative of the ‘aesthetic movement’, parodied in the opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, ‘Patience’ (‘As I walk down Piccadilly / with a poppy or a lily / in my mediaeval hand …’). On his return he generated further revenue from the experience by presenting his American impressions to the English, ‘ a mixed bag of comments on scenery, people, art, theatre, done with great wit’ (Ellman). An excessively rare Wilde item. (1)
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Lot 254/0196
Republican: Ashe (Thomas), The Last Poem of Thomas Ashe, Written while in Lewes Jail, single 8vo sheet, [D. Fergus O’Connor] c. 1917. Good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 255/0196
Republican: [Ashe, Thomas] Inquest on Thos. Ashe, the Verdict of the Jury, 8vo D. (Fergus O’Connor) n.d. c. 1917, 1pps. Good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 256/0196
Signed in both Irish & English by P.H. Pearse, 1916 Leader
Pearse (P.H.) [Padraig Mac Piarais], a good and clean Munster & Leinster Bank Cheque for £4-9-0 made payable to Padraig Mac Piarais, 27.9.1911, lodged 30.9.1911 at the Royal Bank of Ireland at the Terenure Branch, m/ss on bottom right of front Conn Mac Murcaila [stamped paid], signed on reverse, in Irish & English P.H. Pearse, clean, v. good. Rare. (1)
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Lot 257/0196
“The Long Fellow”
Politics: De Valera (E.) Taoiseach’s Broadcast to the Nation, 4to D. (Reprint) 1945, 8pps., illus. & portrait cover, Signed on Front Cover; together with an original Studio Portrait of Dev, by Poole, Waterford, mounted on card, both good, as a lot, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 258/0196
Colum (Padraic) A very good autograph signed letter dated 13.12.1913 from Belmot Avenue, Donnybrook, 4pp single folded sheet, to ‘My dear Doctor Sigerson, congratulating him on his version of King Lir Saga.’ ‘I have read the Saga of King Lir and I feel that I must tell you that you have put the story in its final form. The old story is there but it has a new meaning. I understand now that it is not the children who are the centre of the story, of Lir – and you have made Lir a great epic figure.’ As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
* P. Colum (who also interpereted some of the old Irish epic fables himself,) wrote this letter shortly before he left with wife for America in 1914.
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Lot 259/0196
Colum (Padraic) A very good autograph letter signed, 4pp (single folded sheet) from New York dated 16th Feb. 1918, to Mrs. (Hester) Piatt, daughter of Dr. George Sigerson, expressing condolences at the death of her sister Dora Sigerson Shorter. ‘I have only lately heard of the sad news.. my wife and I are deeply grieved … I want you to tell (your father) how very deeply we sympathise with him. He has had so many trials lately, but I know he has met them with the heroic spirit he has shown all through his life.’ ‘Mrs. Shroter’s work was known to all, the Irish here, and her splendid & spirited letters were republished on this side. We are longing to be back, and above all places in Dublin, we want to be in 28 Clare St. (The Sigerson home) again and we want to greet you father. May it be soon!’ ‘We feel very much that we are not in the real struggle, but we are able to do a little here to help…’ (1)
* With a good signature. Hester Piatt was the wife of an American diplomat who served in Dublin. Dora Sigerson the poet, was wife of the English liberal journalist Clement Shorter. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 260/0196
Autograph: Gwynn (Stephen) An autograph letter, signed, 2pp. (single sheet, House of Commons notepaper) dated 20 Feb. (no year), to Lady Aberdeen. A cryptic letter congratulating her on some success in relation to Mr. Devlin. as a m/ss., w.a.f.
* Lady Aberdeen was wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1908- 1915. (1)More details › -
Lot 261/0196
Privately Printed Christmas Gift
Flower (Robin) Fuit Ilium, 24mo Christmas (L.) 1928. Only Edn. V. Limited Edn., frontis, cloth.
* Inscribed by Author to Odell Shepherd. Over a period of approx. 25 years, Flower issued similar booklets (in a very limited edition) to his friends. Rare. (1)
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Lot 262/0196
Kennelly (Brendan) & Holzapfel (Rudi) Cast a Cold Eye, Poems. 8vo D. (Dolmen Press) 1959. LIMITED EDN., (250), orig. colour printed wrappers with decoration. V. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 263/0196
Yeats (William Butler) An interesting early A.L.s., dated June 1, no year, but probably circa 1890, from the family home at Bedford Park, in London, to Dr. (George) Sigerson, making arrangements for Dr. Sigerson to meet (Frederick) York Powell. ‘You and he certainly should know one another.’ 1pp. with cognate blank single folded sheet. Frederick York Powell (1850-1904) was Professor of History at Oxford University, a close friend of John Butler Yeats, and President of the Irish Texts Society among other distinctions. Dr. George Sigerson was Professor of Zoology in Dublin and active in literary circles, include. President of the National Literary Society from 1893. (1)
* Goo dearly signature. An interesting example of Yeats’ talents for networking.
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Lot 264/0196
Yeats (W.B.) An excellent A.L.s. to Dr. (George) Sigerson, 2pp (folded sheet, rectos only) written from George Pollexfen’s home in Co.Sligo, dated Jan. 13, probably 1910 outlining plans to develop a series of liteary and historical lectures. (Sigerson was at this time President of the National Literary Society). Yeats mentions that (Lionel) Johnson is to lecture in Belfast on Thomas Davis, and asks if Sigerson could arrrange for him to speak also in Dublin and Cork. ‘I should say that the oftener men like Johnson & Hyde get audiences the better. My own idea is that is that we should repeat our own men, yourself. Hyde, [Richard Ashe], King & Johnson as many times as possible, that we may train up a certain body of opinion of a consistent kind. I wish someone would lecture for you on recent Irish novelists, Miss Barlow, Miss Lawless and one or two others. Our lectures should do some of that work which a national Literary Review would do if we had it. …. would King lecture on the novelists.’
* An interesting example of Yeats’ use of helpers such as Sigerson to promote his literature agenda. With a good signature. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 265/0196
W.B. Yeats and The Kildare Street Club
Yeats (William Butler) A cheque dated 3rd June 1926, issued in the Kildare Street Club for £5, presumably his subscription, signed W.B. Yeats, and with initialed amendment. With bank stamp and endorsement at rear, pierced at centre. An interesting and scarce item. (1)
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