23 July 2013 - Rare Book & Collectors Sale

#0224

Lot 785/0224

SOLD Hammer price €100

Davitt (Michael) The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland, The Story of the Land League Revolution. L. & N.Y. 1904. First Edn., uncut, cloth; Dunn (Joseph) The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cuailnge, roy 8vo L. 1914. First Edn., illus., uncut, decor cloth. Both v. good. (2)

Lot 786/0224

SOLD Hammer price €240

Signed Limited Editions

Langley (Michael) The Lake Without A Name, Poems of Mayo, illus by Jeffrey Morgan, roy 8vo Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 2005. Special Lim. Edn. 13(75) from full edition of 275, signed by Author & Artist, also contains an additional poem, special binding & slip case; also A Jovial Hullabaloo, roy 8vo L. 2008. Lim. Edn. 20 (75) signed, special binding & slipcase. (2)

Lot 788/0224

SOLD Hammer price €90

Signed by Behan Family & Others

O’Sullivan (Michael) Brendan Behan, A Memoir, 8vo D. 1997. First Edn., Signed by Author & various members of the Behan Family, including Brian Behan, & also Hon. Garech de Brun to whom the book is dedicated, d.w.; & with some other related items loosely inserted; Friel (Brian) Two First Night Programmes for Dancing at Lughnasa, for N.Y. (Broadway) and Dublin (Abbey), 1991 & 1992. Scarce. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 789/0224

SOLD Hammer price €90

Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, By C.3.3. 8vo L. (L. Smithers) 1898. Fifth Lim. Edn (1000) uncut, two coloured cloth; also The Ballad of Reading Gaol, illus. by Arthur Wragg. 8vo L. (Castle Press) 1948. Fine illus. thro. out,d.w.; & 6 others on Wilde. (8)

Lot 790/0224

SOLD Hammer price €90

Hyde (Douglas) A Literary History of Ireland, 8vo L. 1899. First Edn., cloth; O’Suilleabhain (Sean) A Handbook of Irish Folklore, D. 1942. First Edn, With a presentation inscription by ‘An Seabhac,’ 1962. on front loose end, cloth backed boards; 2 other vols. (4)

Lot 791/0224

SOLD Hammer price €100

[O’Nolan (Brian)] ‘Flann O’Brien,’ The Hard Life, L. 1961. First Edn., d.w.; The Dalkey Archive, N.Y. 1965. First American Edn., d.w.; Gogarty (O.St. John) As I was Going Down Sackville Street, roy 8vo N.Y. 1937. First American Edn., d.w.; Mac Liammoir (M.) Each Actor on His Ass, L. 1961. First Edn., d.w.; & 2 other items sim. (6)

Lot 792/0224

SOLD Hammer price €950

Lily Yeats Her Book

Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. & L. (Maunsel & Co.) 1912. First Edn., cold. frontis & 7 cold. plts. plus 32 bl. & white plts. & 16 reproductions from paintings, orig. gilt decor. cloth.
* With bookplate of Lily Yeats designed by author. (1)

Lot 793/0224

SOLD Hammer price €300

Limited Edition
With Illustrations by Sean Keating

Synge (John M.) The Playboy of the Western World, A Comedy in Three Acts. 4to L. 1927. Edn. de Luxe Limited 42 (1000), with 10 fine cold. plts. after Sean Keating, uncut, orig. cloth backed green boards. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 794/0224

SOLD Hammer price €700

Carrigan (Canon Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to D. 1905. First Edn., Fold. cold.map, plts. & illus., orig. cloth, gilt, with fac-simile letter loosely inserted; together with Litton (H.)ed. An Index to .. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, roy 8vo Kilkenny 2005. First, d.w. Very good set. (5)

Lot 799/0224

SOLD Hammer price €320

Craig (Maurice) Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size, Folio L. 1977. Signed by the Author., illus. cloth & d.w. Good & Scarce. (1)

Lot 800/0224

SOLD Hammer price €120

Hunting: Neilson (Harry B.) author & illus. The Adventures of Sam Pippins, Esq. with The Kilkenny Hunt, oblong 4to, L. (Simpkin Marshall & Co.) c. 1920’s, illus. decor. boards, some wear. Scarce. (1)

Lot 802/0224

SOLD Hammer price €300

Signed by the Poet etc.

Limited Editions Club: Heaney (S.) Seamus Heaney Poems and a Memoir, sm. folio N.Y. 1982. Lim. Edn. (2000), signed by Heaney, Thomas Flanagan and Henry Pearson, uncut, full decor. leather, & slip case. Good. (1)

Lot 803/0224

SOLD Hammer price €900

Signed by Poet & Artist

Heaney (Seamus) Squarings, A Sequence of forty-eight poems, with forty-eight drawings by Sol. Lewitt. Lg. 4to San Francisco (The Arion Press) 2003. Limited Edn. 339 (400) Signed by S. Heaney & Sol. Le Witt. Orig. decor. cloth, & orig. ptd. Prospectus loosely inserted, both in orig. ptd. slip case. V. Scarce. (1)
* With a Prospectus, & A.L.s. from Author to Mr. Frank Mc Evoy about an earlier edition of same. (1)

Lot 804/0224

SOLD Hammer price €500

Specially Bound Limited Edition

Joyce (James) Finnegan’s Wake, ed. by Denis Rose and John O’Hanlon. Roy 8vo Verona (Houyhnhnm Press Cornwall) 2010. Special Lim. Edn. No. 61 (150) in special binding, with explanatory volume, both in cloth slip case. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 805/0224

SOLD Hammer price €1400

Fine Limited Edition
Signed by Translator, Artist & Publisher

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.)translator The Tain, folio D. 1969. Dolmen Edition IX. Limited Edn. (1750), signed by Thomas Kinsella, Louis le Brocquy, & Liam Miller. Fine illus. thro-out, orig. cloth & pict. d.w. & matching slip case, with orig. prospectus for this volume loosely inserted.
* Lim. to 1750 copies, 750 of which were destroyed in a Shannon Warehouse while awaiting shipment to U.S.A. (1)

Lot 806/0224

SOLD Hammer price €200

Ledwich (Ed.) Antiquities of Ireland, 4to D. 1803. Second Edn., engd. frontis add. engd. title, 40 engd. plts. (some fold.) cont. tree calf, rebacked. (1)

Lot 807/0224

SOLD Hammer price €180

Engraved Plates: Pennant (Thos.) History of Quadrupeds, 2 vols. 4to L. 1781. 2 engd. titles, & 52 full page engd. plts., advert. leaf at end, cont. tree calf, joints cracked, & worn. (2)

Lot 808/0224

SOLD Hammer price €220

Westropp (Thos. Johnson) Two bound volumes of articles offprints etc. on Archaeology, Co. Clare & Limerick by Westropp, some R.I.A. papers etc; & 2 other items, Remains of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, 4to 1887; & Henry Quin, M.D., both cloth bound. (4)

Lot 809/0224

SOLD Hammer price €150

Dolmen Press: Gregory (Lady) Coole, Dolmen Editions X folio D. 1971; Yeats (W.B.) A Tower of Polished Black Stones, Dolmen Editions XI, folio D. 1971; Synge (J.M.) Some Sonnets from Petrarch, roy 8vo D. 1971, vellum & slip case; also The Autobiography of J.M. Synge, roy 8vo D. 1965, vellum backed boards & slipcase; Dolmen XXX, A Bibliography, folio D. 1976, illus., d.w.; & 2 others sim. (7)

Lot 810/0224

SOLD Hammer price €280

Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley

Wilde (Oscar) Salome, A Tragedy in One Act. 4to L. 1927. Frontis decor. title & other plts., uncut,very attractive profusely gilt decor front cloth cover. A very good copy. (1)