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Lot 240/0210
SOLD Hammer price €160
[Harry Clarke] Walters (L. D’O) The Year’s at the Spring, An Anthology of Recent Poetry. 4to L. 1920. First Gen. Edn. Hf. title, cold. frontis & 11 cold. plts., plus bl. & wh. plts. & illus., lacking front loose blank, orig. cloth backed boards. (1)
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Lot 241/0210
Clarke (H.)illus. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, 4to, Alabama (The Southern Classics Library) 1982, cold. frontis, 31 plates (7 tipped in cold.), full gilt decor. leather. Good clean copy. (1)
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Lot 242/0210
SOLD Hammer price €440
Clarke (H.) illus. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson, 4to N.Y. (Bretano’s) [1916] illus. hf. title, cold. frontis & illus. t.p., 39 plts. (15 tipped in cold.), First U.S. Edition, orig. decor. cloth. Good & Scarce.
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Lot 243/0210
SOLD Hammer price €70
Irish Music: Hogan (Ita Margaret) Anglo-Irish Music 1780 – 1830, 8vo Cork 1966. FIRST EDN. frontis & 1 plts., d.w.; O’Sullivan (D.) Songs of the Irish, 4to D. 1960, cloth; Mc Namara (C.) & Woods (P.) The Living Note, 4to D. 1996; & 1 other sim. (4)
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Lot 244/0210
SOLD Hammer price €120
Hart (H.C.) A List of the Plants found in the Islands of Aran, Galway Bay, 8vo D. 1875. First Edn., engd. map frontis, 32pp., later boards cover. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 245/0210
Signed Presentation Copy to Lady Castletown
Black (A. & C.)Publishers: Butler (Lady Elizabeth) illus. Letters from the Holy Land, 4to L. 1903. Signed Lim. Edn. 181 (250), 16 cold. plts. includ. frontis, uncut, orig. decor. cloth. Good.
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Lot 246/0210
SOLD Hammer price €280
Juvenalia: Praeger (S. Rosamond) How they Went to School, oblong folio L. (Blackie & Son) n.d. [1903] First, 24 cold. illus., 1 joint repaired, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards. Good. (1)
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Lot 247/0210
SOLD Hammer price €620
Signed by Artist
Kernoff (Harry) Woodcuts, 4to D. 1942. Signed Limited Edn. 139 (220). 34 illus. plts., orig. cloth, v. good. Ex. Libris Fr. Sean Corkery, with his B.P. (1)More details › -
Lot 248/0210
SOLD Hammer price €520
Signed by Artist
Kernoff (Harry) Thirty-Six Woodcuts, 4to [Dublin] 1951. Lim. Edn. (No. 326), Privately Printed, 36 illus., orig. cloth. V. clean copy. From the Library of Rev. Fr. Sean Corkery, with his bookplate. (1)More details › -
Lot 249/0210
SOLD Hammer price €400
Signed by Samuel Beckett
Dolmen Press: Zone, by Guillaume Apollinaire. Trans. by Samuel Beckett, 4to D.(Dolmen Press) 1972. Lim. Edn. 78 (250), signed by Beckett & specially bound, uncut, mor. backed, & in orig. slip case, v. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 250/0210
SOLD Hammer price €800
Signed by Samuel Beckett
O’Brien (Eoin) The Beckett Country – Samuel Beckett’s Ireland, 4to D. (Black Cat Press) 1986. Lim. Edn. 123 (250), Signed by Samuel Beckett, photo illus. thro.-out, silk end papers, & fine full crushed mor. with gilt decor. of branch of a lark-tree on each cover, in orig. slip case. V. fine copy of this rare item. (1)More details › -
Lot 251/0210
SOLD Hammer price €200
Beckett Photographs: Minihan (John) Beckett, lg. 4to 2006, Signed by Author Photographer, illus. thro-out, orig. pict. wrappers. (1)
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Lot 252/0210
SOLD Hammer price €320
Bookplates: Vinycomb (John) Fifty Book-Plates, (Ex Libris), 4to 1906. Lim. Edn. No. 16 Pres. Copy Inscribed by Author to Arthur Deane, M.R.I.A., 50 book plates mounted on separate sheets; also Day (Rob.) Masonic Book Plates, 4to L. 1903. Pres. Copy inscribed by Author to F.J. Biggar, M.R.I.A., wrappers; & many other items some duplicates. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 253/0210
SOLD Hammer price €575
Robertson (J. Geo.) Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny, Lg. oblong folio Kilkenny (Boetius Press) 1983. Lim. Edn. (585) This Copy N. of the extra limited edition in hf. leather Twenty Six Lettered Copies. Plates etc., hf. calf, marble sides, in cloth box. (1)
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Lot 254/0210
Scrap Album: Folio album containing some fine original watercolour landscapes, flower pieces, fruit, one singed Alfred Burnside,’95, another view near Holywood, Co. Down, etc., some pencil sketches, coloured engravings, bl. & white plts., some litho music covers, an old Japanese photograph, photo of panel by S.R. Praeger, etc., folio orig. boards. As an Album, w.a.f . (1)
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Lot 255/0210
Signed by Sam. Beckett & Louis le Brocquy
Beckett (Samuel) Stirrings Still, illustrated by Louis le Brocquy. Folio N. York (Blue Moon Books) 1988. Lim. Edn. No. 70 of 200 Copies, Signed by Beckett & le Brocquy, hd. made paper, uncut, special vellum backed cloth, with gilt design, & cloth slip case. (1)More details › -
Lot 256/0210
SOLD Hammer price €750
Signed Limited Edition
Blackshaw (Basil) Blackshaw, edited by Eamon Mallie. Lg. thick 4to L. 2003. First & Limited Edn., Not numbered. Signed by Artist & Editor, profusely illus. thro-out in colour, cloth, pict. d.w. & slip case. Excellent. (1)More details › -
Lot 257/0210
SOLD Hammer price €150
Lynch (Stanislaus) Rhymes of an Irish Huntsman, folio L. 1937. FIRST EDN., hf. title, cold. frontis & 7 cold. plts., orig. cloth, nice clean copy. (1)
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Lot 258/0210
Signed Limited Edition
[Thompson (Hugh)] Barrie (J.M.) The Admirable Crichton, lg. 4to n.d. [c. 1920] Limited Edn. No. 99 (500) signed by illustrator Hugh Thompson, 20 fine mounted coloured plts. (includ. frontis), uncut, orig. profusely gilt decor. full vellum. V. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 259/0210
SOLD Hammer price €350
Sumptuous Special Edition
Shirley (E. Philip) The History of The County of Monaghan, folio Patrick O’D. Fox Reprint 1988. cold. frontis, text illus., fold. map, t.e.g. full blue mor., lg. tooled gilt borders 7 decoration, mor. labels, in matching slip case.
* This copy was specially bound for the publisher to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Clogher Historical Society at which the then President of Ireland was Guest of Honour. It is signed by Mary Robinson, the binder, and many others. (1)More details ›