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 21/0196
All Signed by Author
Heaney (Seamus) Preoccupations Selected Prose 1968-1978, L. 1980; = The Midnight Verdict, Gallery 1993. LIM. EDN.; = Opened Ground, Poems 1966 – 1996, L. 1998; = and Finders Keepers, Selected Prose 1971 – 2001, L. 2002. ALL FIRST EDNS., & Signed by Author. Good with d.w.’s. (4)
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Lot 22/0196
All Signed by Author
Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, L. 1966, d.w.; = Door into The Dark, L. 1969, no d.w.; = Wintering Out, L. 1972, paperback; = North, L. 1975; = Electric Light, L. 2001; = and District and Circle, L. 2006. ALL FIRST EDNS & Signed by Author. Good. (6)
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Lot 23/0196
Montague (John) Patriotic Suite, 8vo Dolmen 1966. SPECIAL LIM. EDN. 35 (100), Signed by Author, & in special binding and slip case; = The Dead Kingdom – Part II This Neutral Realm, 8vo N.Y. 1984. LIM. EDN. 57 (100), Signed, wrappers; = Smashing the Piano, 8vo Gallery 1999, FIRST EDN., Signed, d.w.; = Collected Poems, Gallery 1995, FIRST EDN., d.w.; = Tides, Dolmen 1970, d.w.; = & 5 others same author; = plus one item by Mac Dara Woods. As a lot, good. (1)
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Lot 24/0196
Signed by Author
Dolmen Press: Montague (John) The Rough Field, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. LIM. EDN. No. 54 of 150 Copies Specially Bound and Signed by Author, unopened, mor. backed boards; = Raine (Kathleen) The Lost Country, 8vo L. (Dolmen Press) 1971. LIM. EDN. Specially Bound & Signed by Author, quarter mor.; = Selig (Richard) Poems, D. 1962, vellum backed boards. (3)
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Lot 25/0196
Signed by W.B. Yeats
Yeats (Wm. Butler) A Vision, An Explanation of Life Founded on the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka. 8vo L. 1925. Printed for Subscribers. LIM. EDN. 205 (600) Signed by W.B. Yeats. Frontis & plts. & 1 mtd vignette, text illus, unopened, uncut, orig. boards, paper label. V. clean copy. Rare. (1)
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Lot 26/0196
Heaney (Seamus) Agenda, Fiftieth Birthday Issue, 8vo L. (Vol. 27, No. 1) 1989. Signed by Heaney; = also Field Work, L. 1979; = and Beowulf, L. 1999, both FIRST EDNS., & d.w.’s; = also 2 works by Derek Mahon, one signed. (5)
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Lot 27/0196
Deane (Seamus) Strange Country, Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790. 8vo Oxford 1997. FIRST EDN., d.w.; = Selected Poems, 8vo (Gallery Books) 1988, d.w.; = & 4 other items relating to S. Deane. (6)
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Lot 28/0196
Carson (Ciaran) The Irish for No, Gallery, 1987; = Belfast Confetti, Gallery 1989; = The Alexandrine Plan, Gallery 1998; = The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, A New Translation. L. & N.Y. 2002, d.w.; = The Midnight Court, Gallery 2005; = The Tain, A New Translation. L. (Penguin) 2007, d.w.; = & Collected Poems, Gallery 2008. All First Edns. V. clean lot. (7)
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Lot 29/0196
Barry (Sebastian) The Water-Colourist, Dolmen 1983; = The Rhetorical Town, Dolmen 1985, both paperbacks; = also Elsewhere, The Adventures of Belemus, Dolmen 1985, d.w.; = and The Whereabouts of Eneas Mc Nulty, L. 1998, d.w. ALL FIRST EDNS. Good. (4)
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Lot 30/0196
Murphy (Richard) The Mirror Wall, 1989, & Collected Poems, Gallery 2000, both Signed Copies, d.w.’s; = Sailing to an Island, L. 1963; = New Selected Poems, L. 1989, all hardbacks with d.w.’s, & High Island, L. 1974, paperback. ALL FIRST EDNS, & clean. (5)
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Lot 31/0196
Signed by the Author
Mc Gahern (John) Getting Through, L. 1978; = The Barracks, N.Y. 1964, Signed; = The Pornographer, L. 1979, Signed; = Amongst Women, L. 1990, Signed; = That They May Face the Rising Sun, L. 2002, Signed; = Memoir, L. 2005, signed. All mostly FIRST ENGLISH OR AMERICAN EDNS., & d.w.’s. Good. (6)
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Lot 32/0196
O’Brien (Flann) [Brian O’Nolan], At Swim Two Birds, N.Y. 1939; = and The Dalkey Archive, N.Y. 1965. BOTH FIRST AMERICAN EDNS; = also Stories and Plays, L. 1973, d.w.; = & The Third Policeman, 8vo L. 1967, FIRST EDN., no d.w. All good. (4)
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Lot 33/0196
Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, A Novel, N.Y. 1949, FIRST AMERICAN EDN.; = also Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, L. 1960; = Self – Portrait, D. (Dolmen) 1964, d.w.; = Collected Poems, N.Y. 1964, FIRST AMERICAN EDN., d.w.; = Collected Prose, L. 1967, FIRST EDN., d.w.; = & 1 other pamphlet. Good. (6)
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Lot 34/0196
Scarce Signed First Edition
Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo L. 1964. FIRST EDN., Signed by Author on front loose blank, some spots on blank ends, cloth, & d.w. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 35/0196
Signed by Samuel Beckett
[Beckett (Samuel)] Translator Apollinaire (guillaume) Zone, 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. FIRST LIM. EDN (250). Signed by Samuel Beckett specially bound, mor. backed black cloth, in a orig. slip case with bottom corner worn, otherwise a very fine copy. (1)
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Lot 36/0196
Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, A Version from The Irish, roy 8vo Derry (Field Day Publication) 1983; = The Cure at Troy, A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Derry (Field Day) 1990, no d.w.; = & Poster/Programme for same; = Electric Light, L. 2001; = The Burial at Thebes, L. 2004; and District and Circle, L. 2006, ALL FIRST EDNS. d.w.’s. Good. (6)
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Lot 37/0196
Modern Irish Literature: Large collection of scarce poetry & prose, many by Runa Press, Dolmen Press, Gallery, Goldsmith, Talbot, Salerna & New Writers Press, approx. 42 items in all, with works by John Montague, Paul Durcan, Derek Mahon, Thomas Kinsella, F.R. Higgins, Kathleen Raine, Rupert Strong, James J. Mc Auley, etc., mostly paperbacks. As a lot, good, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 38/0196
Sergeant (P.W.) Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot, 2 vols. L. 1913; = Falls (C.) Elizabeth’s Irish Wars, L. 1950; = O’Faolain (S.) The Great O’Neill, L. 1947; = Ginnell (L.) The Brehan Laws, L. 1894; = O’Hegarty (P.S.) The Indestructible Nation, D. 1918. (6)
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Lot 39/0196
Northern Ireland Poets: Fiacc (Padraic) Ruined Pages, Selected Poems. Ed. by G. Dawe & A. Mac Poilin, 8vo Belfast 1994. Inscribed Pres. Copy; also Red Earth, Belfast 1996, Signed; & 3 others same author; = Greacen (Rob.) Collected Poems, 1944 – 1994, 8vo Belfast 1995. Signed; and The Only Emperor, Belfast 1994, wrappers; = Mc Guckian (Medbh) On Ballycastle Beach, Gallery Press 1995. Signed Pres. Copy, also Shelmalier, Gallery Press 1998, wrappers; = Simmons (James) Poems 1956 – 1986, Gallery Press 1986; = also Sex, Rectitude & Loneliness, 8vo Belfast 1993, wrappers. (11)
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Lot 40/0196
[Yeats (W.B.)] Wade (Allan) A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. 1958. SECOND EDN., port. frontis, cloth & d.w. Good. (1)
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