15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
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15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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Lot 366/0196
Longley (Michael) The Echo Gate, Poems 1975-79, 8vo L. 1979. FIRST EDN., Signed Pres. Copy, d.w.; = also The Ghost Orchid, L. 1995. Lim Edn. 83(150) specially bound & Signed, d.w. (2)
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Lot 367/0196
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Heaney (Seamus) & Ted Hughes, eds. The School Bag, L. (Faber & Faber) 1997; = and Finders Keepers -Selected Prose, 1971-2001, L. (Faber & Faber) 2002. Both FIRST EDNS., & signed by S. Heaney, orig. d.w. V. clean copies. (2)
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Lot 368/0196
Longley (Michael) Collected Poems, 8vo L. 2006. Special Lim. Edn. No. 84 (200), bound in leather, & signed by Author, in cloth slip case. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 369/0196
Mc Gahern (John) Memoir, 8vo L. 2005. SPECIAL LIM. EDN., No. 63 (250), Signed by Author, orig. cloth backed boards, & matching slip case. V. good. (1)
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Lot 370/0196
Reid (Forrest) Apostate, L. 1947, illus. by Reynolds Stone; = also Private Road, L. 1940; = MacNeice (Louis) The Collected Poems, L. 1966; = & 1 other sim; = also Hughes (Ted) Birthday Letters, L. 1998, d.w.; = The Oresteia of Aeschylus, L. 1999; = & 1 other by Hughes. Some First Edns. (7)
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Lot 371/0196
Dillon (Wm.) Life of John Mitchel, 2 vols. L. 1888, FIRST EDN., port. frontis, Vol. I; = O’Callaghan (J. Corn.) History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, 8vo Glasgow n.d., all orig. cloth. Good copies. (3)
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Lot 372/0196
Gogarty (O. St. John) An Offering of Swans and other Poems, 8vo L. n.d.; = It Isn’t this Time of Year at All, L. 1954, d.w.; = Going Native, L. 1941; = Rolling Down the Lee, L. 1950, torn d.w.; = I Follow St. Patrick, L. 1938, d.w.; = Tumbling in the Hay, L. 1939; = & As I was Gong Down Sackville Street, roy 8vo N.Y. 1937, some FIRST EDNS. (7)
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Lot 373/0196
1798: Musgrave (Richard) Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1802. THIRD EDN., & Best Edn., fold. map of Ireland, & 9 other maps etc., complete, 1 leaf misplaced, but present, cont. tree calf, joints cracked, & 2 labels lacking. (2)
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Lot 374/0196
1798: Hayes (Richard) Old Irish Links with France, D. 1940; = Mac Dermot (F.) Theobald Wolfe Tone, A Biographical Study, L. 1939, both with d.w.’s & FIRST EDNS.; = Kavanagh (Rev. P.F.) A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798, D. 1913; = Moore (T.) The Memoirs of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, ed. by M. Mac Dermot, L. 1897; = Mc Cabe (L.) Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen, Vol. I [All Published], L. 1937, FIRST EDN., all cloth. (5)
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Lot 375/0196
Guinness & Co.: St. James’s Gate Brewery. History & Guide, 4to D. 1931. Illus. thro-out, orig. cloth backed boards, also Editions for 1939 & 1948, sim. copies; = also The Rye Recipe Book, issued by Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd. St. James Gate, Dublin. 8vo D. n.d. c. 1945, a colour illustrated cookery book. As a lot, scarce, & good. (4)
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Lot 376/0196
Temple (Sir J.) The Irish Rebellion, 4to D. 1713. Engd. frontis; = Bound with, A Call to the Hugonites: 4to L. 1712, 4pp; = Bound with, [King (Abp.) The State of the Protestants of Ireland, 4to n.p. n.d., lacks title, cont. panel calf, as a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 377/0196
1798: Wolfe Tone (Wm. Theo.)ed. Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Written by Himself, 2 vols. L. 1827. FIRST LONDON EDN., engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, adverts. at end of each vol., cont. hf. calf, spines dam. (2)
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Lot 378/0196
Fitzgerald (Rev. P.) & M’Gregor (J.J.) The History Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Limerick, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1826. FIRST EDN., lg. fold. map frontis. Vol. I, engd. frontis Vol. II, fold. table, lg. fold. plan, & 4 engd. plts. (3 multiple), later hf. crimson mor. Good. (2)
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Lot 379/0196
O’Mahony (Chas.) The Viceroys of Ireland, 8vo L. 1912. FIRST EDN; = Hunt (Wm.)ed. The Irish Parliament 1775, L. & D. 1907. FIRST EDN; = O’Flanagan (J. Roderick) Annals Anecdotes, Traits and Traditions of the Irish Parliaments 1172 – 1800, D. n.d. FIRST EDN., all cloth, good. (3)
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Lot 380/0196
Gibson (Rev. C.B.) The History of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. L. 1861. FIRST EDN., list of subs., engd. frontis. map Vol. I, later brown cloth, v. good. (2)
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Lot 381/0196
Mac Pherson (James) trans. The Poems of Ossian, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1807. NEW EDN., cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. (2)
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Lot 382/0196
West of Ireland: O’Flaherty (Tom) Cliffmen of the West, L. 1935. FIRST EDN., illus.; = Dall (Ian) Here are Stones, An Account of a Journey to the Aran Islands. 8vo L. 1931. FIRST EDN., illus., d.w.; = O’Crohan (T.) The Islandman, D. 1954, FIRST EDN in ENGLISH, all cloth. Good. (3)
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Lot 383/0196
Lenihan (Maurice) Limerick; its History and Antiquities, roy 8vo D. 1866. FIRST EDN., fold. map frontis (dam.) 5 engd. plts. & text illus., 1 plt. loose, later hf. mor. (1)
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Lot 384/0196
Begley (John, Canon) The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Medieval, In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and From 1691 to the Present Time. 3 vols. 8vo D. 1906 – 1938. FIRST EDNS., all frontis & illus., orig. cloth. Scarce, complete as this set. (3)
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Lot 385/0196
Caulfield (Richard) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork, thick 8vo Guildford 1876. FIRST EDN., partly unopened, orig. brown cloth. V. good copy. (1)
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