26 September 2012 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale
#0220
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
26 September 2012 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale
#0220
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Lot 279/0220
The Life of William III, Late King of England and Prince of Orange, 8vo L. 1703. Engd. frontis, 9 engd. plts. (lacks map), full calf, tooled gilt spine, mor. label. (1)
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Lot 280/0220
Tagore (Rabindranath) The Post Office, L. 1918; Personality – Lectures Delivered in America, L. 1918; Nationalism, L. 1918; Shantiniketan, The Bolpur School of Rabindranath Tagore, L. 1918; & 4 others same author. (8)
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Lot 281/0220
Lynch (Patricia) Asal Fhar na Monadh, sm. 4to D. 1944. Illus. by Jack B. Yeats. First Edn., in Irish; The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey Goes Visiting, L. 1943, cold. illus.; Strangers at the Fair, D.n.d. cold. illus.; & The House by Lough Neagh, L. 1963. First. (4)
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Lot 282/0220
English Poetry: Good collection if many First Edns., by T.S. Eliot, Roy Campbell, Stephen Spender, Vernon Watkins, Rex Warner, W.H. Auden & others, approx. 20 items, mostly hard back & with orig. d.w.’s. Good. (20)
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Lot 283/0220
Russell (George) A.E. Collected Poems, L. 1935. Inscribed by Michael Mac Liammoir; also The Candle of Vision, L. 1918, First, inscribed to Michael Mac Liammoir; & Song and its Fountains, L. 1932, First; Keane (John B.) The Street and Other Poems,D. 1961. First, d.w.; de Stacpoole (Duke) Irish and other Memoirs, L. 1922. Signed; Merriman (Brian) The Midnight Court, tall 8vo D. & Cork 1982. Lim. Edn. 474 (500), Signed by translator & illustrator, d.w.; & 1 other. (7)
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Lot 284/0220
Genealogical Society of Ireland: Irish Genealogical Series, 24 vols. D. 1995 – 2005, all recent uniform cloth backed boards, with orig. wrappers bound in. V. good. (24)
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Lot 285/0220
Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) Tales of a Wayside Inn, 8vo, Boston (Ticknor and Fields) 1863, illus. hf. title, orig. cloth and a later custom-made leather holding case. Good clean copy. (1)
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Lot 286/0220
Bindings: An attractive collection of 13 leather bound Volumes in morrocco and calf, some prize volumes, mostly 8vo. As bindings, w.a.f. (13)
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Lot 287/0220
Modern English Poetry etc: Hughes (Ted) The Hawk in the Rain, L. 1957, First, d.w.; Season Songs, L. 1976, First, d.w.; Birthday Letters, L. 1998, First, d.w.; Larkin (Philip) The Less Deceived, L. 1955, First, d.w.; The Whitsun Weddings, L. 1964, First, d.w.; High Windows, L. 1974, First, d.w.; Andon (W.H.) Some Poems, L. 1940, First, d.w.; & 6 others. (13)
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Lot 288/0220
Merriman (Bryan) Cuirt an Mheadhon Oidhche, 8vo D. 1912. Preface by Phiaras Beaslai, port. frontis, boards; Banville (J.) The Newton Letter. An Interlude, 8vo L. 1982. First, d.w. (2)
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Lot 289/0220
Swifte (Deane) An Essay upon the Writings, and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift, 8vo L. & Dublin Re-printed 1755. First Dublin Edn. [2] 396, L11pp, cont. full calf, recent attractive profusely tooled gilt professional reback. V. good. (1)
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Lot 290/0220
Smith (Geo.) Essay on the Construction of Cottages, Suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes. 8vo Glasgow n.d. [1834]. Engd. title, & 11 fold. plts. cloth, damp stains. (1)
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Lot 291/0220
Irish Hunts: Fitzpatrick (B.M.) Irish Sport and Sportsmen, 8vo D. 1879. New Edn., orig. photo frontis of Marquis of Waterford, covers in detail approx. 16 Irish Hunts, & some of their personalities. Orig. cloth, gilt. (1)
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Lot 292/0220
[O’Nolan (Brian)] O’Brien (Flann) The Third Policeman, L. 1967. First Edn.; an Beal Bocht, D. (Dolmen) 1964; O’Keeffe (T.)ed. Myles – Portraits of Brian O’Nolan, L. 1973; Cronin (A.) No Laughing Matter, 1989, all orig. d.w.’s. Good. (4)
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Lot 293/0220
Brown (Christy) My Left Foot, L. 1954. First Edn., frontis & illus.; Down All the Days, L. 1970, d.w.; & Wild Grow the Lilies, L. 1976. First, d.w. (3)
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Lot 294/0220
New Cuala Press: Rivers (Eliz.) Stranger in Aran, D. 1946 [1971]; & 6 others sim. by F. O’Connor, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, and A.E. (7)
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Lot 295/0220
Molloy (J. Fitzgerald) The Faiths of the People, 2 vols. L. 1892; also The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington, L. 1897. New Edn; The Romance of The Irish Stage, 2 vols. L. 1897, all orig. cloth, good. (5)
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Lot 296/0220
Head (Sir F.B.) A Fortnight in Ireland, L. 1852. FIRST EDN., fold. map, cloth, spine dam; Finaly (J.) A Treatise on The Laws of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland, D. 1835, cont. mor. pouch binding; Gwynn (S.)ed. Scattering Branches, Tributes to W.B. Yeats, N.Y. 1940, cloth; & 1 other. (4)
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Lot 297/0220
Kite (Ed.) The Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire, roy 8vo L. & Oxford 1860. FIRST EDN., fold. tables, 32 plts. cloth; Wornum (Ralph N.) Analysis of Ornament – The Characteristics of Styles, … The History of Ornamental Art. roy 8vo L. 1860. SECOND EDN., illus. thro.-out, cloth, gilt; Boutell (Rev. Ch.) Christian Monuments in England and Wales, roy 8vo L. 1854. FIRST EDN., illus. thro.-out, cloth. All v. good. (3)
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Lot 298/0220
Mac Caffrey (Rev. J.) The Black Book of Limerick, tall 8vo D. 1907. First, orig. cloth; Simington (R.C.) The Civil Survey … 1654 – 1656, Vol. IV, County of Limerick, 4to D. 1938, map, cloth. (2)
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