23 July 2013 - Rare Book & Collectors Sale

#0224

Lot 708/0224

SOLD Hammer price €140

Republican: Medal, a circular Medal, the obverse with side profile of P.H. Pearse, inscribed “Padraig H. Pearse 1879 – 1916,” the reverse inscribed “Ireland Unfree shall never be at Peace ….,” of Italian Manufacture; together with the rare surviving green ribbon suspension. Scarce. (1)

Lot 709/0224

SOLD Hammer price €240

Republican Medal, a silver Medal, the obverse inscribed Bonn na Dala 1922, with Celtic design surround, the reverse crudely inscribed Martin Power (Waterford), hall marked. Scarce. (1)
* These medals were issued for services rendered to Dail Eireann.

Lot 711/0224

SOLD Hammer price €140

Medal: Parnell (C.S.) an attractive circular commemorative Medal with shamrock and maple leaf surround, the central panel with side profile of Parnell and a border inscription “Ireland’s Army of Independence 1891” the reverse inscribed “Let my love be conveyed to my colleagues and the Irish People,” with suspension, green ribbon and inscribed clasp “Ireland a Nation,” by Jonson (Red. 201505), unusual and scarce. (1)

Lot 713/0224

SOLD Hammer price €640

Republican: Brooches – Cumann na mban, 1916, a very rare bronze and shaped Badge / Brooch, with green, white and gold enamel, inscribed “Cumann na mban – 1916, the centre with crossed pike and rifle, no makers mark, scarce; together with a silver Celtic Brooch, profusely decorated with pierced centre, inlaid with enamel. Scarce. (2)
* Provenance: Miss Anastasia Byrne, Cumann na mban & I.N.P.D.F. (Irish National Prisoners Dependents Fund) by direct family descent.

Lot 714/0224

SOLD Hammer price €1600

Medals: W.W.1 -Irish Guards – PTE T.H. Shannon, 6653, 4 army issue Medals to include (a) a star shaped bronze Medal with crossed swords & rosette (lacks ribbon); (b) a circular bronze Medal with Angel of Destiny (ribbon loose); (c) a sterling silver circular Medal with Man on horseback (lacks ribbon); (d) a sterling silver Medal awarded for Bravery in The Field, with ribbon and clasp, each inscribed onside, a desirable set, as a lot. (4)

Lot 715/0224

SOLD Hammer price €1750

Finlay Mc Cance, W.W.1 Collection

W.W.1: Mc Cance (Finlay) [2nd Lieutenant, [2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Border Regiment] a collection to include his Royal Certificate (posthumously awarded) dated 22nd May 1915; his Medal set to include Cap Badge and three Service Medals and death Medallion inscribed “Finaly Mc Cance,” mounted and framed together; his leather Pouch with gilt lettered name; also a privately published “Memoir of Finlay Mc Cance,” ptd. boards, an attractive and poignant collection. (4)

Lot 716/0224

SOLD Hammer price €100

J.F.K. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Photograph: [J.F.K. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy] Lowe (Jacques) photographer a large black and white photograph Print of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his brother Robert, standing in the oval office, approx. 46cms x 30cms, some fading, photograph bio pic on reverse, as a photo, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 719/0224

SOLD Hammer price €400

J.F.K.’s Pledge to the Farmers

[J.F.K.] A typescript Letter signed on headed paper “John F. Kennedy for President” to a Mr. Ralph H. Hanks of Nebraska, throughout he notes the fine contributions and appreciation for their interest and good work, he also lists his three main aims in where he states his intentions such as the appointment of a secretary of Agriculture, and he finishes by insuring these intentions and plans can not be fulfilled unless they take to the Polls, with a clear signature, as a typescript, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 722/0224

SOLD Hammer price €3000

Presidents of America – Amazing Association Copy

[Kennedy (John Fitzgerald) President U.S.A.] Lossing (Benson J.) New History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent to the Death of President Garfield. Thick imp 8vo NH.Y. [1881] Engd. frontis plts. & text illus., later green cloth. (1)
* This copy with original signatures of J.F. Kennedy, Ronald Reegan, Bill Clinton, Geo. Bush Snr., Jimmy Carter, and Barak Obama on front loose blanks and verso of frontispiece. The volume is accompanied by a folder of letters, visiting cards, menus, original photographs & other memorabilia relating to the collection gof the above autographs. Unique item., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 723/0224

SOLD Hammer price €900

Signed by J.F.K. October 1963

[J.F.K.] Kennedy (Jacqueline) comp. The White House, 8vo, Washington (White House Historical Ass.) 1963, illus., signed by President Kennedy on front cover,collected by Sally Scott (Irish Trade Board) in October 1963, together with a coloured Photograph showing the signing, an attractive and personal association. (2)

Lot 724/0224

SOLD Hammer price €2500

Death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
22 November 1963
A unique collection of nine teletype messages from Reuters news agency to an Irish news organisation recording the first news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 22 November 963, not quite 50 years ago.
The first message, received at 18.42 Irish time, headed ‘SNAP BULLLETIN’, date lined Dallas, Nov. 22, records that ‘President Kennedy was shot today while riding in a motorcade.’ It is repeated a second time for emphasis.
A later message, received at 19.16, reports that ‘A hospital official said the President’s condition was “critical,” He would not elaborate further.’
At 19.42, a further report says ‘Mr. Malcolm Kilduff, assistant White House Press Secretary later formally announced the death of the President.’
Later messages report that ‘The Pope received news of Kennedy’s death with dismay.. He immediately retired to his private chapel for prayers for the President.’ (20.07). There are further messages from Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany, ‘deeply grieved in this hour’; General De Gaulle, of France, ‘President Kennedy died like a solider, under fire, for his duty and in the service of his country’; a report of a newsflash on Moscow Radio, ‘ sorrowful report which has just been received from New York’ etc.; and finally a report of the finding of a rifle, a 7.65 Mauser, on the staircase of the fifth floor of a building near the scene of the assassination.’
President Kennedy’s assassination is one of the defining events of the 20th Century. It is said that almost everyone remembers where and in what circumstances they first heard the news. RTE – then only two years on the air – broke into its programmes for the first time to broadcast a newsflash, read by Charles Mitchel and based on these and similar teletext messages. The reverberations of the killing continue to echo down history; a full collection of books about the assassination would now fill several libraries, and they are still coming.
As a collection, an evocative record of a dreadful day. (1)

Lot 727/0224

SOLD Hammer price €120

[J.F.K. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy], Bishop (J.) A Day in The Life of President Kennedy, 8vo, N.Y. 1964; Sidney (H.) John F. Kennedy – Portrait of a President, 8vo L. 1964; Hamilton (N.) J.F.K. – Reckless Youth, N.Y. 1992; Gadney (Reg) Kennedy, 4to L. 1984; Manchester (Wm.) Remembering Kennedy – One Brief Shining Moment, 4to L. 1983; Anderson (Lois E.) John F. Kennedy, 4to L. 1986; Three profusely decorated Albums of cut-outs relating to J.F.K., as President, family man and friend, and his assassination; also a rare fold-out Memorial Card for J.F.K.; and three other paperbacks relating to J.F.K., as a lot, w.a.f. (a lot)

Lot 728/0224

SOLD Hammer price €660

Autographs
An extensive collection of Autographs, to include film stars, musicians, sports stars, directors, politicians, in two variant size albums, and on printed booklets, menus, photographs, etc. some of the names included – see list.
Liam Cosgrave T.D. – (in English & Irish)
Earl Jellicoe – Admiral of the Fleet
Stanley Woods – Motorcyclist
Paulette Goddard – Film Star
Jimmy O’Dea –
Constance Gunnings – Film Star
P.M. Gilligan – T.D.
Oliver J. Flanagan – T.D.
Bing Crosby – Actor
Jimmy O’Dea’s Cast – Maureen Potter etc.
Petula Clark – Film and Radio Star
Margaret O’Brien – Film Star
Siobhan McKenna – Actress
Norman Hartnell – Designer (Queens Dress Maker)
Ronnie Delaney – Athlete
Anew McMaster – Actor
Henry Kendall –
Bob Hope – Comedian and Actor
Betty Slade – Diver
Kathleen Carroll – Author
Kate O’Brien – Author
Frederick Ashton – Ballet Dance
W. Hyde White –
Shirley Fry – Tennis
J.B. Morton – Journalist
“The Aga Khan”,
Lennox Robinson – Writer
Maureen O’Hara – Actress
Margaret Bushe Sheridan – Singer
Joan Hammond – Singer
Eamon de Valera – President
Dean Acheson – Secretary of State
Oliver Hardy – Comedian
Rita Hayworth – Film Star
Jack Kyle & Barney Mullan – Rugby
Jim Larkin – Trade Unionist
Evie Hone – Artist
Joan Greenwood –
Alexander of Tunis –
Walt Disney –
Judy Garland –
Barry Fitzgerald –
Danny Kaye –
Luciano Pavarotti –
Daniel O’Donnell –
Richard Whitley –
Ron Roberts – (Olympian)
Robert Menzies – (Australian Prime Minister)
Seamus O’Riain – T.D.
J. Maffey – British Ambassador
Risteard O’hAodha – Censor
David Grey – Minister
Oscar Traynor – Minister
Lord Adare & Nancy Adare –
Joe McGrath – Sweepstakes
Delia Murphy – Ambassador to the Vatican
Peter Wilson (Churchill’s Aid) –
Sean McEntee – Minister (TD)
Martyn Lewis – 9 O’clock News Presenter
John Hume – Politician (SDLP)
Orson Welles – Director / Actor
Gregory Peek – Actor
“Coco” The Clown –
London Ballet Group –
Snooker Stars – Ebdon, Hendry, Davis, Parrott, Wattana, Doherty, Swail & others – 2 albums.
As a collection of Autographs, w.a.f. (1)
Provenance: The Williams Family, Co. Offaly, Ireland.

Lot 729/0224

SOLD Hammer price €220

Autograph Album: [John C. Collins – Kitchen Clerks Office, R.M.S. Queen Mary] compiler, a small oblong 12mo Autograph Book containing approx. 30 signatures of stars of the 40’s and 50’s, to include Gracie Fields, Loretta Young, Clark Gable, Virginia O’Brien, Billy Thompson, Bob Hope, George Middleton (Playwright & Director), Jack Solomone (Sound Engineer – Academy Award Winner), George & Marie (Prince & Princess of Greece and Denmark), Sam Burns, Deborah Kelly, Benny Huntman (Promoter), Bill Daly, Ernest Bevin (Trade Unionist), Randy Turpin, Errol Flynn, and others, some loose, as an Album in full leather, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 731/0224

SOLD Hammer price €3000

‘THE MARCONI TAPES 1898

Two lengths of original Morse code ticker-tape, approx. 24 ins. and 19 ins., relating to The First Ever Wireless Transmission of Commercial Information from ship to shore by Gugliemlo Marconi and his team, during the Kingstown Regatta at the Royal St. George Yacht Club near Dublin, 20 July 1898. The first strip with manuscript decoding as follows, ‘HERE A WIRE FORM [sic] MR MARCONI ..’
A unique memento of an Irish occasion of global significance, framed with Marconi’s visiting card and a photograph.
Born in Italy in 1874, Marconi became interested as a young man in the rapidly developing field of electronics. He was not a theoretical scientist, but he was a superb technologist and entrepreneur, able to develop the practical and commercial potential of other men’s discoveries. After early experiments in his attic at home, his mother encouraged him to move to England, where he demonstrated wireless transmission of signals over distances of up to 9 miles in 1896-7. In March 1897 he filed for the world’s first patent in wireless telegraphy, and set up a company with a capital of £100,000, then a very large sum.
Marine safety and ship-to-shore communications were obvious applications, and Lloyd’s insurers asked Marconi to establish a wireless link between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle on the Antrim mainland, to report on shipping entering the channel between Ireland and Scotland. While engaged in this work, Marconi was asked by the editor of two Dublin newspapers – the Daily Express and Evening Mail Mr. Thomas P. Gill, – if he could enable them to report the results of the races at the Kingstown Regatta direct from the high seas. He moved his equipment temporarily from Ballycastle, and set up a transmitter in a tugboat with a special mast. On 20-21 July 1898, Marconi transmitted the results of all the major races from his tugboat, miles out at sea, direct to a land station in the Harbourmaster’s office, where they were printed on a Morse tape machine, decoded and telegraphed to the newspapers.
It was the first use of the wireless telegraph for a commercial, journalistic or sporting purpose: an international ‘first’ of enormous significance.
Marconi’s mother and his first wife were both Irish. He later established his celebrated transatlantic wireless stations in the West of Ireland, the first at Crookhaven in Co. Cork, and the second near Clifden in Connemara, which remained in operation until 1922, when it became a casualty of the Irish civil war.
In 1909 Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. See Michael Sexton: Marconi, The Irish Connection [2005].
Provenance: From the collection of T.P. Gill, then Editor of the Dublin Daily Express, sponsors of the Kingstown event. (1)

Lot 736/0224

SOLD Hammer price €950

Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) & Higgins (F.R.)eds. A Broadside New Series, No’s 1 – 11, January 1935 – November 1935. Together 11 issues, folio D. 1935. Lim. Edns. 300 copies only, each with wd.-cut illus. by Jack B. Yeats & others, all with orig. hand colouring, loose as issued. As a lot. (11)

Lot 741/0224

SOLD Hammer price €100

Bindings etc: Yeats (W.B.) The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892 – 1935, Oxford 1936. T.e.g., silk ends, & full crushed green mor. gilt fillets & decor. raised bands & profusely gilt on panels, by Birdsall; La Roche Foucault – Maxims, 16mo L. 1913, t.e.g., engd. heads etc, full gilt mor. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Douglas (Norman) South Wind, L. (M. Secker) 1917. First Edn., orig. cloth, in cloth box. (3)

Lot 742/0224

SOLD Hammer price €70

O’Donnell (Elliot) The Banshee, 8vo L. n.d. First Edn., hf. title, orig. cloth. Scarce.
* Much of Irish interest. (1)

Lot 747/0224

SOLD Hammer price €210

The Author’s First Book
Signed by Author to Frank Mc Evoy

Higgins (Aiden) Felo De Se, L. 1960. First Edn., d.w.; Langrishe, Go. Down, L. 1966. First Edn., both signed pres. copies to Frank Mc Evoy; also Balcony of Europe, L. 1972; Scenes from a Receding Past, L. 1977; Bornholm Night. Ferry, L. 1983; and Ronda Gorge & other Precipices, L. 1989. Last four items all First Edns. & with orig. d.w.’s. (6)

Lot 749/0224

SOLD Hammer price €140

Darwin (Charles) Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, sm. 8vo L. 1873. First Edn., Second Issue, all plts. & photos present (Plate two in zerox), rebound cloth; Stanhouse (Mrs. T.B.H.) Expose of Polygamy in Utah – A Ladys Life among the Mormons, A Record of Personal experience. 8vo N.Y. 1872, First Edn., frontis & plts. Original cloth. Signed by the author. (2)