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 41/0196
Signed by Author
Heaney (Seamus) North, L. (Faber & Faber) 1975. FIRST EDN., Signed by Author, 10th June 1975, orig. blue wrappers; = also The Faber Library Edition of same work, published L. 1996, boards & d.w.; = also Field Work, L. 1979. FIRST EDN., orig. pict. wrappers. (3)
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Lot 42/0196
Heaney (Seamus) The Redress of Poetry, L. 1995. FIRST EDN., dark grey boards & pict. d.w.; = The Spirit Level, L. 1996. FIRST EDN., green boards, & pict. d.w.; = Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971 – 2001, 8vo L. 2002. FIRST EDN., white boards & d.w.; = & The Burial at Thebes, L. 2004. FIRST EDN., black boards & d.w. Good clean lot. (4)
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Lot 43/0196
Signed by the Author
Kennelly (Brendan) Salvation The Stranger, 8vo D. 1972. FIRST EDN., signed, d.w.; = Selected Poems, ed. by Kevin Byrne, 8vo D. 1985. SIGNED LIMITED EDN. 258 (750), d.w.; = Moloney Up and At It, roy 8vo D. & Cork 1984. Illus. by J. Verling, LIM. EDN. 239 (500), signed by both author & artist, d.w.; = Collection One Getting Up Early, D. 1966, FIRST EDN., d.w.; Dream of A Black Fox, D. 1968, FIRST EDN., d.w.; = Selected Poems, D. 1969; = Good Souls to Survive, D. 1968, d.w.; = Shelley in Dublin, D. 1974, FIRST EDN., wrappers. (8)
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Lot 44/0196
Hughes (Ted) Crow From the Life and Songs of a Crow. 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1970. FIRST EDN., cloth, & v. clean d.w.; = also Graves (Robert) Colophon to Love Respelt, roy 8vo Barnet 1967. Privately Prints, LIM. EDN. 124 (386), signed by Author, d.w. Both v. clean copies. (2)
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Lot 45/0196
The Author’s First Collection
Heaney (Seamus) Death of A Naturalist, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1966. FIRST EDN., Signed by Author & Dated on front blank, front loose end lacking, & repaired with cellotape, otherwise a very good copy, orig. cloth, & d.w. V. clean copy. Brandes & Durkan A2c. (1)
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Lot 46/0196
Modern Signed English First Editions
Le Carre (John) The Looking Glass War, L. 1965; = The Little Drummer Girl, N.Y. 1983; = The Russia House, L. 1989; = and The Secret Pilgrim, L. 1991, ALL FIRST EDNS & SIGNED.; = De Lillo (Don) End Zone, l. 1973, paperback; = The Day Room, N.Y. 1987, d.w.; = and Underworld, L. 1997, ALL FIRST EDNS & SIGNED; = also 2 others signed by Louis de Berniers. As a lot, w.a.f. (9)
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Lot 47/0196
Irish Literature: Clarke (Austin) Night and Morning. Poems, No. 1 of Third Series, Tower Press Booklets. 8vo D. 1938. LIM. EDN. (300); = also The Echo at Coole and other Poems, 1968; = Later Poems, 1961; = Flight to Africa, 1963, & 4 others by same Author; = Stuart (Francis) We Have kept the Faith, 12mo D. (Oak Leaf Press) 1923. FIRST EDN. OF AUTHORS FIRST BOOK, cloth backed boards, & 2 others same author; = also others by S. Heaney, S. Deane, James Liddy, etc., together 18 items in all. As a lot. (1)
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Lot 48/0196
Barry (Commd. Gen. Tom) Guerilla Days in Ireland, D. 1949; = Limerick Fighting Story, Told by the Men Who Made It. 8vo Tralee (Kerryman) c. 1922, illus., wrappers; = Martin (F.X.)ed. Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising, Dublin 1916, L. 1967, d.w.; = & 3 others. (6)
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Lot 49/0196
Dunlop (Rob.) Ireland under the Commonwealth, 2 vols. 8vo Manchester 1913. FIRST EDN., orig. cloth, v. good. (2)
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Lot 50/0196
All Signed Presentation Copies
Mac Donagh (Donagh) Happy as Larry, 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg) 1946. FIRST EDN., inscribed on title by author “For George, … July 1946,” with illus. by F. Rose, decor. d.w.; = The Hungry Grass, Poems, 8vo L. 1947. FIRST EDN., inscribed on t.p. “For George …. October 1947,” cloth & d.w.; = also Sheridan (N.) & Mc Donagh (D.) Twenty Poems, sm. 8vo D. (Privately Printed) 1934, LIM. EDN. 141 (300), Signed by author, orig. wrappers. All good. (3)More details › -
Lot 51/0196
O’Sullivan (Seamus) Common Adventures: A Book of Prose and Verse. Nicholas Flamel: A Play in Four Acts… roy 8vo D. (Orwell Press) 1926. SIGNED LIMITED EDN. 150 (200), partly unopened, uncut, boards; = The Rosses and other Poems, D. 1918, FIRST EDN., cloth backed boards; = Poems, D. 1912, FIRST EDN., port. frontis, advert leaf at end, uncut, cloth; = Collected Poems, D. (Orwell Press) 1940. LIM. EDN. (300), orig. cloth, & d.w. All v. good. (4)
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Lot 52/0196
With Coloured Illustrations by Norah Mc Guinness
Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose, roy 8vo L. 1927. FIRST EDN. With 2 cold. & other illus. by Norah Mc Guinness, orig. gilt decor. blue cloth. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 53/0196
Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, 4to L. 1901. FIRST EDN., hf. title, orig. blue cloth with gold decor. Wade 31. Good copy. (1)
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Lot 54/0196
Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. & L. 1910. FIRST EDN. LIM. EDN. (150), no orig. sketch, but cold. frontis & 7 cold. plts., plus 48 bl. & wh. illus., orig. blue cloth, gilt decor. (1)
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Lot 55/0196
Modern Irish Poets: Clarke (Austin) Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, folio D. (Dolmen) 1966. Illus. by J. Coughlin, & Pres. Copy signed by J. Coughlin, 2 other Dolmen Editions of Clarke; = 3 others by Thomas Kinsella; = 3 by John Montague; = 3 by Derek Mahon & 3 other’s Kevin Faller, Macdara Woods & E. Ni Chuilleanain. (15)
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Lot 56/0196
Shaw (Geo. Bernard) Complete Plays with Prefaces, 6 vols. 8vo N.Y. 1963. Frontis., orig. cloth, good set. (6)
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Lot 57/0196
Seymour (St. John D.) Neligan (H.L.) True Irish Ghost Stories, D. 1914. FIRST EDN.; = Reynolds (J.) Ghosts in Irish Houses, 4to N.Y. 1946, illus., d.w.; = Tremayne (P.) Irish Masters of Fantasy, D. 1979, d.w.; = & 2 others sim. (5)
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Lot 58/0196
Strickland (Walter G.) A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 2 vols. 8vo D. & L. 1913. FIRST EDN., illus., orig. blue buckram. A very nice copy. (2)
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Lot 59/0196
Mac Lysaght (E.) Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century: after Cromwell, D. 1939, d.w.; = Mitchel (J.) History of Ireland, Glasgow 1869; = Maxwell (C.) Dublin Under the Georges, L. 1956, d.w.; = Gaiety Theatre Dublin – 70th Anniversary, 4to D. 1941, illus., boards; = & 2 others. (6)
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Lot 60/0196
With Fine Illustrations
Limited Edn: Newbolt (Henry) Drakes Drum and other Songs of the Sea, 4to L. n.d. LIM. EDN. No. 55 (250), Signed by Artist, 12 fine mounted cold. plts. (includ. frontis), uncut, orig. gilt decor. vellum, orig. box. V. good copy. (1)
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