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 446/0196
Wentz (W.Y. Evans) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, L. (Oxford Press) 1911; = & 7 others sim. (8)
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Lot 447/0196
Dublin Charter: Lucas (Charles) The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Dublin, 8vo D. (James Esdell) 1749. FIRST EDN., red & bl. title with engd. cameo portrait, sewn, with orig. marble wrappers. (1)
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Lot 448/0196
Irish Fighting Stories: Very good clean collection of 8 Republican Booklets relating to The 1916 Rising, & The Troubles in Ireland, including, With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom; = Dublin’s Fighting Story; = Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story, 2 editions; = Kerry’s Fighting Story; Limerick’s Fighting Story; = For Ireland and Freedom – Roscommon’s Contribution to the Fight for Independence, and Waterford Remembers, all in orig. decor. wrappers, v. good set. All Scarce now. (8)
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Lot 449/0196
O’Curry (Eugene) Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, 8vo D. 1861. FIRST EDN., 26 litho plts., orig. green cloth. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 450/0196
Attractive Copy For Presentation
Brenan (Rev. Martin) Schools of Kildare and Leighlin A.D. 1775-1835, 8vo D. 1935. FIRST EDN., in recent attractive full decor. blue mor. tooled gilt spine with mor. label, slip case. V. desirable copy. (1)
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Lot 451/0196
Hippisley (Sir J. Cox) Substance of Speech … on Seconding the Motion of … Henry Grattan to refer the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to … the House of Commons, … 1810, 8vo L. 1810. SECOND EDN., cont. hf. calf, worn; = Public Character of 1800 – 1801, 8vo D. 1801. FIRST EDN., lg. fold. frontis, hf. mor. (2)
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Lot 452/0196
Celtic Society: O’Donovan (John) Miscellany of The Celtic Society, 8vo D. 1849. FIRST EDN., orig. cloth backed boards. (1)
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Lot 453/0196
Limited Edition Reprint in Fine Binding
Co. Down: [Harris (Wm.)] The Ancient and Present State of the County of Down, 8vo n.d. LIM. EDN. No. 1 (50). Reprint. Fold. map, fine full green mor. tooled gilt decor., raised bands, mor. label, in marbled slip case. V. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 454/0196
Ryan (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow, 8vo D. 1833. FIRST EDN., lacking fold. map, cloth, dam. Scarce (1)
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Lot 455/0196
Military: A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines .. with An Index and A Succession Colonels, 8vo L. 1808. Cont. reversed calf, mor. label. (1)
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Lot 456/0196
Republican Interest: Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, 1917 Edition, 8vo Compiled by Weekly Irish Times, fold. maps; = Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story, & With the I.R.A. in this Fight for Irish Freedom; = Mac Donagh (Thomas) Songs of Myself, 8vo D. 1910. FIRST EDN.; = Macardle (D.) Tragedies of Kerry, sm. 8vo D. 1924; = Curry (Dr. C.E.) Sir Roger Casement’s Diaries, Munich 1922; = Pearse (P.H.) From the Hermitage, 8vo D. 1915, all orig. ptd. wrappers; = & 4 others sim. (11)
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Lot 457/0196
Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems: 1965 – 1975, 8vo L. 1980. First paperback Edn. Signed on title page, decor. boards; = The Cure at Troy, 8vo 1990, Derry Field Day, Signed on title, cloth & d.w.; = and The Redress of Poetry – Oxford Lectures, L. 1995. FIRST EDN., Signed on title, d.w. All good. (3)
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Lot 458/0196
Fagan (Wm.) The Life and Times of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. Cork (John O’Brien) 1847. FIRST EDN., port. frontis. Vol. I; = O’Brien (R. Barry) The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, 2 vols. L. 1899;= Barrington (Sir J.) Personal Sketches of His Own time, 2 vols. L. 1869; = Mc Carthy (J.) Reminiscences, 2 vols. L. 1899. all cloth. (8)
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Lot 459/0196
Complete Run of fine Literary Review
Periodical: The Kilkenny Magazine, an All-Ireland Literary Review, No. 1 – No. 18, Complete in 16 nos., 8vo Kilkenny Summer 1960 – Autumn) Winter 1970, orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good.
* Early appearance of Thos. Kinsella, John Montague, Brendan Kennelly, John Broderick, Bryan Mac Mahon, Ben Kiely, Brian Friel, Des. O’Grady, Hubert Butler, Seamus Heaney & many others. (16)
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Lot 460/0196
Co. Armagh: Coote (Sir Charles) Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, with Observations… under the Direction of The Dublin Society, 8vo D. 1804. FIRST EDN., lacks maps. Recent attractive hf. crimson mor. marble sides, mor. label. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 461/0196
Ormsby (Lambert Hepenstal) Medical History of the Meath Hospital, and County Dublin Infirmary, 8vo D. 1888. SECOND EDN., hf. title, 19 photo & other plts., orig. cloth. Good. Rare.
* With a very good Directory of Past Students at the end of the Volume. (1)
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Lot 462/0196
Fitzgerald (Percy) The Lives of The Sheridans, 2 vols. L. 1886; = Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence, 2 vols. L. 1863; = Hare (A.J.C.) The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, 2 vols. L. 1894; = Mollony (J. Fitzgerald) The Romance of the Irish Stage, 2 vols. N.Y. 1897, all cloth. (8)
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Lot 463/0196
With Rare Trial Binding
Cuala Press: Tynan (Katherine) Twenty One Poems, Selected by W.B. Yeats, 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer Press) 1907. LIM. EDN. (200), in unusual contemporary red suede binding – a trial, worn at spine etc.; = Yeats (W.B.) The Speckled Bird, ed. by Wm. H. O’Donnell, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1973. LIM. EDN. 3 (500), cloth backed boards & slip box; = Yeats (John Butler) Letters from Bedford Park, D. 1972. LIM. EDN. (500), cloth backed boards. (4)More details › -
Lot 464/0196
Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) introd. Certain Noble Plays of Japan: … Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound. D. 1916. LIM. EDN. (350); = A Packet for Ezra Pound, D. 1929. LIM. EDN. (425); = & Essays 1931 to 1936, D. 1937. LIM. EDN. (300), all orig. cloth backed boards. Good. Wade 269; Wade 163; Wade 194. (3)
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Lot 465/0196
Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Two Plays for Dancers, D. 1919. LIM. EDN. (400); = October Blast, D. 1927. LIM. EDN. (350); = The Death of Synge and other Passages from An Old Diary, D. 1928. LIM. EDN (400), all unopened, & orig. cloth backed boards. Good.
Wade 123; Wade 156; Wade 162. (3)
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