19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 263/0234

SOLD Hammer price €280

O’Hegarty (P.S.) A History of Ireland under The Union 1801 to 1922, roy 8vo L. 1952; O’Sullivan (D.) The Irish Free State and its Senate, L. 1940; Simms (J.G.) The Williamite Confiscation in Ireland 1690 – 1703, L. 1956. Signed; Inglis (B.) The Freedom of the Press in Ireland, L. 1954, All First Edns & d.w.’s. (4)

Lot 264/0234

SOLD Hammer price €240

Kavanagh (Patrick) Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and Other Poems, L. 1960. First Edn., cloth, gilt; Self Portrait, sm. 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1964. First Edn., pict. d.w.; The Green Fool, L. 1971, d.w.; Lough Derg A Poem, 4to L. 1978. First Edn., orig. ptd. wrappers. (4)

Lot 266/0234

SOLD Hammer price €550

Shakespeare Head Edition

Yeats (Wm. Butler) The Collected Works, 8 vols. roy 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) Shakespeare Head Press 1908. Port. Vol. I, red & bl. titles, uncut, 1/4 vellum & grey boards. V. good set.
* Bookplate of Aileen Wythes. (8)

Lot 267/0234

SOLD Hammer price €540

Signed by Author

Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, 8vo L. 1922. Lim. Edn. 390 (1000), Signed by Author Port. frontis, uncut, orig. vellum backed boards, no dust jacket as usual. V. good copy. Wade 133. (1)

Lot 268/0234

SOLD Hammer price €240

Signed by the Author

Stephens (James) The Crock of Gold, L. 1912. First Edn. Signed by author & dated 1912, hf. title, orig. cloth, & in a slightly later green mor. backed cloth box. (1)

Lot 269/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Bodkin (Thomas) Four Irish Landscape Painters, sm. 4to D. 1920. First Edn. illus., orig. buckram stained.
* Contains comprehensive Exhibition Lists of the works of George Barrett, James A. O’Connor, Walter Osborne, & Nath. Hone. Scarce. (1)

Lot 270/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Joyce (James) Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, sm. 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1932. First Edn., boards, & orig. ptd. orange d.w.; Kiely (Ben) There was an Ancient House, L. 1955, First, Signed Pres. Copy, d.w.; also Counties of Contention, Cork 1945 First, Signed Pres. Copy, d.w. torn. (3)

Lot 271/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Irish Literature: Kinsella (T.) Notes from The Land of the Dead, D. (Cuala) 1972; also Another September, D. 1958, d.w.; The Dun Emer 1903 – 1908; The Cuala Press 1908 – 1946, photocopy; Wetherbee (W.) Donn Byrne: A Bibliography, N.Y. 1949; Kennelly (B.) Evasions, D. (Closet Press) 1979; Stewart (A.M.) The Limerick Veteran; or The Foster Sisters, Baltimore 1873, decor. cloth; & 2 early Hodges Figgis Catalogues. A lot. (1)

Lot 272/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Synge and the Ireland of His Time, 8vo Dundrum 1911. Lim. Edn. (350), unopened, cloth backed boards, stained; also Higgins (F.R.) Arable Holdings: Poems, D. 1933. Lim. Edn (300), orig. cloth backed boards., v. good copy. Wade . (2)

Lot 273/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

Cuala Press: Gogarty (Oliver St.) Elbow Room, D. (Cuala Press) 1939 Lim. Edn. (450), orig. cloth backed boards; also An Offering of Swans and other Poems, roy 8vo L. n.d. Preface by W.B. Yeats, port. frontis, orig. buckram; & William Butler Yeats, A Memoir, by Gogarty. Sm. 8vo Dolmen 1963, port. frontis. cloth. Good. (3)

Lot 274/0234

SOLD Hammer price €70

Irish Female Biography: Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert, 1770 – 1806, 2 vols. L. 1929 – 1930, First, d.w.’s; Fitzgerald (Brian) Emily Duchess of Leinster 1731 – 1814, and Lady Louise Conolly, 1743 – 1821, L. 1949 – 1950, d.w.’s; Bell (Mrs. G.H.)ed. The Hamwood Papers of The Ladies of Llangollen & Caroline Hamilton, L. 1930; Bessborough (Earl of,)ed. Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle, L. 1940; & 1 other. (7)

Lot 275/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Irish & English Catholics: Relation of Two Free Conferences, Between Father L’Chess, and Four Considerable Jesuits, … Sent in a Letter from Paris, to a Considerable Popish Lord in England. Sm. 4to [L.] 1680. FIRST EDN., [IV], 34pp., title, torn & some repair, recent boards. (1)

Lot 277/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Russell (Geo. W.) Selected Poems by A.E., L. 1935, First, d.w.; also Denson (Alan) Printed Writings by George W. Russell (A.E.) A Bibliography, Illinois 1961. First, d.w.; Shaw (Bernard) The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, L. 1932, wd. cut illus., decor. boards; Beckett (S.) & others Our Examination Round this Factification for Incamination for Work in Progress, sm. 4to L. n.d.; O’Casey (S.) Two Plays, L. 1930, d.w.; & 7 others same authors. (12)

Lot 278/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Signed Presentation Copies

Theatre: Mac Liammoir (Michael) Put Money in thy Purse, L. 1952; All For Hecuba, L. 1946; Each Actor on His Ass, L. 1961; An Oscar of No Importance, L. 1968, All First Edns, Signed Pres. Copies; Edwards (Hilton) The Mantle of Harlequin, D. 1958, First, d.w.; & 5 others sim. (10)

Lot 280/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

All First Editions

O’Brien (Edna) Mother Ireland, N.Y. & L. 1976; A Rose in the Heart, N.Y. 1979; Some Irish Loving, N.Y. 1979; The High Road, L. 1988; House of Splendid Isolation, L. 1974; also American Edn. of same, N.Y. 1984. All First Edns, & 2 others One Signed. (8)

Lot 281/0234

SOLD Hammer price €160

Praeger (R.L.) The Botanist in Ireland, D. 1934. Signed First; The Way that I Went, D. 1997. Lim. Edn. Reprint No. XX of 100 Copies; Kennedy, Ruttledge, & Scroope, The Birds of Ireland, Edin 1954. First, Signed by R.F. Rutledge, d.w. (3)

Lot 282/0234

SOLD Hammer price €240

Dunlop (R.) Ireland under The Commonwealth, 2 vols. Manchester 1913, First, cloth; Emmet (Thos. Addis) Ireland Under English rule, 2 vols. N.Y. 1903. First, cloth, gilt; Orpen (G.H.) Ireland Under the Normans, 4 vols. Oxford 1968. reprint, d.w.’s. (8)

Lot 283/0234

SOLD Hammer price €360

Collection of over 75 Dolmen Editions

Dolmen Press: Raine (K.) The Lost Country, sm. folio L. 1971. Lim. Edn. Signed, mor. backed; French (Frances Jane) The Abbey Theatre Series of Plays, D. 1969; Guinness (Bryan) The Clock, Poems and A Play, D. 1973; Montague (J.) Tides, Chicago 1971; Kinsella (T.) Another September, 1962; Murphy (Rich.) The Last Galway Hooker, 1961; Clarke (A.) Old Fashioned Pilgrimage, 1967; Clarke (David R.) Dry Tree-Poems, 1966; Hutchinson (P.) Expansions, 1970; Beckett (S.) Zone, trans., D. 1972; Webber (R.) Lady and Gentleman, D. 1963; & approx. 63 others sim., mostly First Edns., many hard backs, all v. clean. As a coll., w.a.f. A lot. (1)

Lot 284/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Bindings: Gould (Rob. Freke) The History of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs etc., 3 vols. lg. 4to L. 1883. Ports plts. etc., a.e.g., orig. full gilt block tooled heavy mor. V. good. (3)

Lot 285/0234

SOLD Hammer price €140

Irish Literature: Moore (Geo.) Aphrodite in Aulis, roy 8vo L. 1930. Signed Lim. Edn. uncut, vellum; Raine (Kathleen) The Lost Country, sm. folio D. 1971. Signed Lim. Edn., mor. backed boards; Strong (L.A.G.) The Big Man, roy 8vo L. 1931, Signed Lim. Edn., buckram; & 9 others, all roy 8vo from Dolmen, by P. Colum, D. Devlin, R. Weber, J. Swift, Liam Miller, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, also Retrospect, … Seamus O’Sullivan & Estella Solomons. A lot. (12)