23 July 2013 - Rare Book & Collectors Sale

#0224

Lot 883/0224

SOLD Hammer price €50

Mac Amhlaigh (Donall) Dialann Deorai, 8vo D. 1960. First Edn., orig. boards, with an orig. A.L.s. from author to Frank Mc Evoy loosely inserted; also Diarmaid O’Donaill, D. 1965. First Edn., Signed, & with orig. m/ss Postcard from author loosely inserted, cloth & d.w.; Beoir Bhaile, Agus Scealta Eile, D. 1981. First Edn., boards; and Schnitzer O’Shea, Dingle 1985. First, d.w.; & 2 others in Irish Language. (6)

Lot 884/0224

SOLD Hammer price €75

Irish Theatre etc: Clarke (Wm.S.) The Irish Stage in the Country Towns 1720 – 1800, Oxford 1965; and The Early Irish Stage, Oxford 1955, illus.; O’hAodha (M.) Theatre in Ireland, Oxford 1974; Burke (Seamus) From the Earth to a Star, My Incredible Life. D. 1959., illus. d.w.; Guthrie (Tyrone) A Life in the Theatre, L. 1960. First, d.w.; & 2 others on Guthrie.(7)

Lot 886/0224

SOLD Hammer price €680

Rare First Edition

Begley (Conor) & A. Mc Curtin, The English Irish Dictionary, An Focloir Bearla Gaoidheilge. 4to Paris (S. Guerin) 1732. First Edn., last 2 leaves loose & with small tears (no loss), cont. calf, worn. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 887/0224

SOLD Hammer price €60

[Kavanagh (Patrick) Quinn (Antoinette) Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography, D. 2001. First, d.w.; also Patrick Kavanagh A Poets Country, Selected Prose, D. 2003. Signed Pres. Copy, paperback both with A.L.s. from Author to Frank Mc Evoy; Platt (E.R.) A Patrick Kavanagh Anthology, D. 1973. Lim. Edn., d.w.; & 2 other items. (5)

Lot 888/0224

SOLD Hammer price €120

[Patrick Kavanagh] Kavanagh (Peter)ed. Lapped Furrows, Correspondence 1933 – 1967 Between Patrick and Peter Kavanagh, roy 8vo N.Y. 1969; November Haggard, N.Y. 1971; Patrick Kavanagh A Life Chronicle, 1904 – 1967, N.Y. 2000, d.w.; Sacred Keeper A Biography of Patrick Kavanagh, Orono 1980; & 1 other. (5)

Lot 890/0224

SOLD Hammer price €520

Signed First American Edition

Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, 8vo N.Y. 1949. First American Edn. Signed on front loose blank by author, orig. ptd. d.w. Scarce. (1)

Lot 893/0224

SOLD Hammer price €825

John Coll, b. 1956

Bronze: “Patrick Kavanagh,” approx. 38cms (15″) high, mounted on marble plinth. (1)

Lot 894/0224

SOLD Hammer price €90

Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, N.Y. (Viking) 1945, d.w.; Tindall (Wm Y.) A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake, L. 1969; Ulysses, L. 1937; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, L. 1952, d.w.; Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, L. 1932; Anna Livia Plurabelle, L. 1930, wrappers; & 1 other. (7)

Lot 895/0224

SOLD Hammer price €80

Gogarty (O. St. John) I Follow Saint Patrick, L. 1938. First Edn., illus.; Tumbling in the Hay, L. 1939. First Edn., both cloth & orig. decor. d.w.’s unclipped; An Offering of Swans, L. n.d., port. frontis orig. buckram; Lyons (J.B.) Oliver St. John Gogarty, the Man of Many Talents, A Biography. D. 1980. First Edn, illus. cloth.; & 2 others, Others to Adorn, L. 1938; & Perennial, L. 1946, both First Edns. (6)

Lot 896/0224

SOLD Hammer price €75

Illustrated Volumes: Tynan (Katherine) The Wild Harp, A Selection of Irish Poetry. 4to L. 1913 First Edn., Cold. & other Celtic decorations by C.M. Watts. Includes poems by W.B. Yeats, J. Clarence Mangan, James Joyce, etc., decor. cloth; Doyle (Richard) & Planche (J.R.) The Old Fairy Tale, Told Anew, 4to L. [1865], illus. by Dalziel Bros.; also A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle, lg. 4to L. 1885. Illus. thro-out, gilt decor. cloth. (3)

Lot 897/0224

SOLD Hammer price €260

Signed Limited Edition

Kinsella (Thos.) Finistere, lg. 4to D. (Dolmen) 1972. Lim. Edn. 179 (250), illus., uncut, orig. blind decor. mor. backed cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 899/0224

SOLD Hammer price €100

Walsh (Paul) The Place Names of Westmeath, D. 1957, d.w.; Gwynn (A.) & Gleeson (D.F.) A History of the Diocese of Killaloe, Vol. I [All Publ.] D. 1962, d.w.; Hayward (R.) Munster and The City of Cork, L. 1964, d.w.; Newman (J.) Maynooth and Georgian Ireland, Galway 1979. d.w. All First Edns.,; Saorstat Eireann Official Handbook, roy 8vo D. 1932. First Edn., fine illus. include. fold. map in pocket at end, decor. boards; & 1 other. (6)

Lot 903/0224

SOLD Hammer price €60

[Moore (Thomas)] Dowden (Wilfred S.) The Journal of Thomas Moore, 2 vols. roy 8vo Newark 1983-4; Terhune (A.McK.) & (A.B.)eds. The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, 4 vols. roy 8vo Princeton 1980. All cloth & orig. d.w.’s. (6)

Lot 905/0224

SOLD Hammer price €240

Kinsella (Thos.) Poems & Translations, 8vo N.Y. (Atheneum) 1961. Signed, vellum backed boards; Selected Poems 1956 – 1968, D. (Dolmen) 1973. First, Signed, d.w.; Poems 1956 – 1973, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1980. First, Signed, d.w.; Nightwalker and other Poems, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1967. Proof Copy, orig. wrappers. All v. good. (4)

Lot 906/0224

SOLD Hammer price €70

Dolmen Editions: Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle, ed. by Liam Miller & E. Power. Folio D. 1979. Lim. Edn. 850, illus. cloth, d.w. & slipcase; Rouault (Georges) & de Brun (P.) Miserere, 4to D. 1971. Lim. Edn., illus. lg. oatmeal cloth. (2)

Lot 907/0224

SOLD Hammer price €75

Illustrated Volume: Fitzpatrick (Jim) The Book of Conquests, sm. folio 1978. First Edn., Lim. Edn. No. 46 (275), Signed by Author, & with signed hd. cold. illus. by artist, & some other related material loosely inserted, silver decor. black cloth & pict. d.w. (1)

Lot 908/0224

SOLD Hammer price €30

Periodical: The United Irishmen, Vol. I No. 1 – No. 16 (lacking some nos.), Feb. – May 1848, some pages lacking & some pages with cut outs, loose in old boards. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 912/0224

SOLD Hammer price €120

Box: Irish Biography: Hayes (Richard) Old Irish Links with France, D. 1940. First, d.w.; Skeffington (F. Sheehy) Michael Davitt, L. 1908; Murphy (Seamus) Stone Mad, 8vo D. n.d. Signed Pres. Copy, illus.; Cross (Eric) The Tailor and Ansty, L. 1964, d.w.; Mc Alear (E.C.) The Sensitive Plant – A Life of Lady Mount Cashell, 1958, d.w.; Share and Bolger Irish Lives, 4to D. 1971; & 13 others sim. As a lot. (1)

Lot 914/0224

SOLD Hammer price €40

Coloured Plates: Morris (Rev. F.O.) Picturesque Views of the Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Gt. Britain and Ireland, Vols. II, III, & IV, 3 vols. 4to L. n.d. numerous cold. plts. cloth; Nevill (R.) Old Sporting Prints, 4to L. 1908, illus. cloth. (4)

Lot 915/0224

SOLD Hammer price €320

Templemore Harries, Staghounds

Co. Tipperary: Templemore Hunt Scrapbook, a good scrap album of varied material including numerous photos etc., relating to hunting in Tipperary, c.1885 – 1910, include photos of hunts & huntsmen, different family groups, gentlemen’s seats in the area, news cuttings, prints, & an orig. ptd. poem “The Tipperary Hunt” by F.H.W., an orig. coloured bl. & white sketch dated 1879, family names mentioned include Jackson, Pilkington, Rolleston, Lidweill, Fitzpatrick & others, also some military photos, in a thick oblong folio hf. calf bound album. As a scrapbook, w.a.f. (1)