15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
CASTLECOMER,CO.KILKENNY, EIRE.
15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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Lot 326/0196
G.A.A.: Co. Cork, Posters, including, Youghal Hurling & Football Club, The Annual Collection, 14th September 1952,; Ballymacoda Hurling Club, Monster Ceili.. 1st.3.1957; & Cumann Luith-Chleas Gaedheal, Clonakilty Senior Football Tournament…, all broadsides, Youghal (Field Printers) c. 1950’s, a clean lot, as a collection, w.a.f. (3)
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Lot 327/0196
Political: Co. Cork, Posters, a collection of three posters to include, Ballymacodou Fine Gael – Annual Dance… February 3rd,; Sinn-Fein, Cumann O’Neill-Cruadlaoic i Ceili Mor.. Oct. 9th…, & one other Youghal Coursing Club, A Dance … Town Hall, Youghal…, all broadsides, Youghal (Field Printers) c. 1950’s, a nice lot, as a collection, w.a.f. (3)
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Lot 328/0196
Collection of Political Posters
Political Propaganda: Posters, Co. Sligo & Northern Ireland. A good collection of Political Posters to include: Connolly Commemoration Dairsey Field, Letterkenny Road, Derry … 21.7.1968; = Sinn Fein Meeting in Tubbercurry, 27.4.1957; = Administrative County of Sligo , Register of Electors 1953-54; Do You Trust the Mad Mayor?; = Northern Ireland, Civil Rights Association Derry Jan. 30th, 1972 – Jan. 28th 1973,; Long Kesh Concentration Camp-End Internment; Roscommon Herald 4.11.1939 .. Allegations of Robbery at Sligo Corporation; County Council Elections … Con Heraghty, Sligo Branch N.U.R.; = Connolly & Markievicz Commemoration … Sligo Town Hall; Who Own’s Sligo Public Meeting….; Sligo County Council … Vote Fianna Fail, a poster, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)More details › -
Lot 329/0196
Political Dances: Posters – Co. Dublin, a collection of Political Celebration Posters for victory Dances etc., include: Clann na Poblachta (Craoibh Fionglas) – Victory Dance at Parochial Hall, Finglas …., Dick Coleman, Cumann Fianna Fail (Malahide) Leap Year Dance in Grand Ballroom, Malahide…; Donabate Fianna Fail Cumann, Special Dance (Supper) in Donabate Hall,..; Dick Mc Kee Fianna Fail Cumann, Finglas,… Variety Concert at St. Canices Hall, Fingals 2.1.1948, mostly broadside, Drogheda c. 1940’s, all cold., some tears, otherwise good. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 330/0196
Auction: Poster – Co. Dublin – a very large Auction Poster for Duffy, Mangan & Butler Ltd., for an Important Clearance Sale of … at Balheavy Demesne, Swords, County Dublin,… 26th & 27th January 1948, approx. 88cms x 56cms, Drogheda 1948, some tears, otherwise good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 331/0196
Theatre & Cinema: Posters, Co. Dublin, a collection of Posters including: Savoy Cinema, Rush, Radio Eireann question Time.. on the Screen The Dalton’s Ride Again,…; Balyna & Carbury Young Farmer’s Club .. Films (Talkies) will be shown in the Pavilion, Cademstown…; Grand St. Stephen’s Night Dance … Parochial Hall, Finglas .. Music by Savannah Dance Band,… Monster Coalition Tramps & Fancy Dress Ball, … Sluagh Hall, Swords,.. mostly broadsides, Drogheda n.d. (c. 1940’s), folds., some loose, otherwise good. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 332/0196
[Gibson (Rev. C.)] Dearforigl The Princess of Brefney. A Historical Romance of 1152-72, 8vo L. 1884. SECOND EDN., hf. title, cont. full calf, tooled gilt spine, with Duke of Leinster motif, and with Carton bookplate. (1)
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Lot 333/0196
First Issue of Irish Who’s Who, 1923
Thoms (Alex) Thoms Irish Who’s Who, A biographical Book of Reference of Prominent Men and Women in Irish Life at Home and Abroad. 8vo D. 1923. FIRST ISSUE, 2 photo frontis., orig. cloth a v. good copy of this scarce volume.
* A useful reference to all the movers and shakers in the new Irish State. (1)
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Lot 334/0196
O’Sullivan (Thos. F.) Romantic Hidden Kerry, 8vo Tralee (Kerryman) 1931. FIRST EDN., port. fold. map & numerous plts., orig. cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 335/0196
Ludlow (Ed.) Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq., 3 vols., 8vo Switzerland 1698-1699. FIRST EDN., Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, hf. title, Vol. II, orig. calf, re-cased, new spines. Scarce. (3)
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Lot 336/0196
Scarce Library Catalogue
Belfast: Biggar (Lt. Col. F.C.) Catalogue of Books and Bound Mss. of the Irish Historical, Archaeological and Antiquarian Library of the late Francis Joseph Biggar, M.A. M.R.I.A. – Presented to the Belfast Public Library …. Sm. 8vo Belfast 1930. FIRST EDN., 302pp + Postscript, orig. cloth backed boards, slight dam. to back board. (1)
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Lot 337/0196
Hughes (Wm.) Geological Notes of Ireland, 12mo D. 1876. FIRST EDN., orig. cloth, v. good; = Kane (Rob.) The Industrial Resources of Ireland, sm. 8vo D. 1845. SECOND EDN., 4 fold. maps, cat. at end, later cloth. Both very clean copies. (2)
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Lot 338/0196
Co. Sligo: O’Dowd (John) Lays of South Sligo; A Few Wild Flowers of National Poetry. 16mo D. 1889. SECOND EDN., VIII, 80pp., plus ‘Opinions of the Press’, orig. cloth, lined borders with corner decoration. V. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 339/0196
Wilde (Sir W.B.) Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, 8vo D. 1872. SECOND EDN., text illus., cloth, gilt, v. good; = Fraser (J.) Handbook for Travellers in Ireland, 12mo D. 1859, FIFTH EDN., fold. maps etc. (2)
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Lot 340/0196
Crofton Croker (T.)ed. The Popular Songs of Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1839. FIRST EDN., some text illus., orig. cloth; = Mahon (Rev. M.P.) Ireland’s Fairy Lore, Boston 1919, FIRST EDN; = Brown (M.J.) Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland, D. 1912; = & 1 other sim. (4)
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Lot 341/0196
Chartterton (Lady) Rambles in the South of Ireland during the Year 1838, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1839. SECOND EDN., 2 litho frontis & 4 litho plts., text illus., adverts etc., a couple of gatherings loose. Vol. II, orig. cloth. (2)
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Lot 342/0196
Northern Poets: Mahon (Derek) Poems 1962 – 1978, 8vo Oxford 1979. FIRST EDN., Signed Copy, d.w.; = The Hunt by Night, Oxford 1982; = Antarctica, 1985; = The Hudson Letter, 1995; = Collected Poems, 1999; = Harbour Lights, 2005. FIRST EDNS; = also Price (Victor) Confessions of a Centaur, Belfast 2007. Signed Pres. Copy, wrappers; = Burnside (Sam) The Cathedral, Belfast 1989. Signed Copy, wrappers. (8)
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Lot 343/0196
Medical: Harrison (Robert) The Dublin Dissector, or System of Practical Anatomy, 2 vols. in one, 12mo D. 1847. 5th Edn., text illus., cont. mor. backed boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 344/0196
Bergin (James J.) History of the Ancient Order of Hibernian’s, 8vo D. n.d. [1910] FIRST EDN., frontis & illus., a.e.g., full dark mor. gilt decor. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 345/0196
Paul (W.J.) Modern Irish Poets, 2 vols. 12mo Belfast 1894-1897. FIRST EDN., L.S. on ends, orig. cloth. V. Scarce.
* V. good reference work, with short biographies of each poet, many not available elsewhere. (2)More details ›