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 466/0220
Box: Cabell (J. Branch) Figures of Earth, roy 8vo L. (Bodley Head) 1925. Illustrated Edn. by Frank C. Pape, gilt decor. cloth; The Way of Ecben, N.Y. 1929, illus. by F.C.Pape, cloth backed decor. cloth & matching slip case; The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck, L. 1924; Domnei L. 1927, frontis by Pape; The Cords of Vanity, :. 1925; The High Place, L. 1923; The King was in his Counting House, L. 1939, orig. decor. d.w.; straws and Prayer-Books, L. 1926; All Above First Edns.; & 8 others by same author. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 467/0220
Box: Wodehouse (P.G.) Right Ho, Jeeves, 8vo L. 1934, First Edn., cloth; & 15 other novels by Wodehouse, some cloth dam. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 468/0220
Box: Modern English Interest: all hard backs, good clean copies, over 40 vols., as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 469/0220
Box: Modern Irish Paperbacks, Box of approx. 95 volumes, all subjects, v. good. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 470/0220
Box: Paperbacks on Irish Republicism & Crime: Collection of over 50 vols. on 1798, The Troubles, some biographies of leaders, some on C.J. Haughey, some of Murders, Trials, and other crimes, all good. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 471/0220
Box: Modern English Novels: Lawrence (D.H.) The Prussian Officer and other Stories, L. (Duckworth & Co.) 1914. First Edn. advert leaf, & 20pp Cat. at end, recased, orig. blue cloth; Conan Doyle (A.) The Sign of Four, L. (G. Newnes) 1892. Second Edn. cold. pict. cloth; James (Henry) The Spoils of Poynton, L. (Wm. Heinemann) 1897. First Edn. adverts at end, blue cloth; Galsworthy (J.) A Modern Comedy, L. 1929, First, green cloth; Huxley (Aldous) Point Counter Point, 8vo L. 1928, First Edn, orange cloth; & 6 other sim. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 472/0220
Box: Irish interest, mostly hard backs, varied subjects, approx. 30 vols. a good lot. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 473/0220
Irish Republican etc: Fox (R.M.) The History of the Irish Citizen Army, D. 1943, First; D’Alton (Charles) With the Dublin Brigade, L. 1929, First, d.w.; Collins (Michael) The Path to Freedom, D. 1922. First, port. frontis cloth; and O’Brien (Nora Connolly) Portrait of a Rebel Father, D. 1935, First, d.w.; Ryan (D.) Sean Treacy and the 3d Tipperary Brigade, Tralee 1945, d.w.; and The Rising, D. 1949, cloth; and others on Wolfe Tone, R. Casement, Maude Gonne, The Great O’Neill, etc., approx. 19 vols. in all, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 474/0220
Music etc: Box of varied Sheet Music, also some odd Brochures etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 475/0220
Box: Irish interest, a good lot of varied books of Irish interest, mostly modern hardbacks. As a box. (40)
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Lot 476/0220
Box: Large box of varied interest, as a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 477/0220
Box: W.B. Yeats: Cornell University Press – The W.B. Yeats Manuscripts, 11 vols. Ithaca & L. 1982 – 2003, all d.w.’s; Foster (Roy) W.B. Yeats, A Life, 2 vols. 1997 – 2003, illus.; The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats, N.Y. 1940; & 8 other hard back vols., with d.w.’s on Yeats. As a box lot, w.a.f. Good. (1)
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Lot 478/0220
Box: General Literature, some Literary, Travel, Children’s interest, etc. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 479/0220
Box: Irish Literature: books by Wm. Trevor, Colm Toibin etc., on History, architecture, Genealogy, some books on Donegal & Limerick, etc., and include. Merriman (B.) The Midnight Court, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1953. Lim. Edn. 36 (200); O’Brien (Eoin) Beckett Country, 4to D. 1986, illus. d.w.; modern poetry by S. Heaney, R. Murphy & others. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 480/0220
Box: Dictionaries: Oxford Universal Dictionary, 2 vols; Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 4 vols. 4to; Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Royal Encyclopedia, & 5 others include. 2 modern Atlases, together 14 vols. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 481/0220
Box: Irish Historical Studies, Nos 113 – 145, together 33 no’s unbroken between May 1994 & May 2010; also approx. 35 other earlier no’s for 1950’s & 60’s, all orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical., w.a.f. A box lot. (1)
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Lot 482/0220
Box: Modern English Literature: approx. 28 modern hardback volumes on T.S. Elliot, Dylan Thomas, Wyndham Lewis, S.C. Cockerell, Cyril Connolly, Ezra Pound, John Updike, Carvo, etc., all good and clean, d.w.’s etc. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 483/0220
Box: The Irish Sword, Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, approx. 36 nos. between No. 50 & No. 111, c. 1993 – 2011, & other odd periodicals. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 484/0220
Box: Interesting mixed lot, some books on travel, collecting pictures, Japanese prints, Irish Glass, some leather bound vols., include. Prayer books, some of children’s interest, and beautiful illustrated volume “Te Deum Laudamus,” sm. folio L.n.d. (c. 1860) illuminated by Esther Faithful Fleet, chrome plts. & pages by M. & N. Manhart, orig. cloth, an attractive vol., as a coll., w.a.f. A box. (1)
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Lot 485/0220
Box: Irish Language: Wolfe (Rev. P.) Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall-Irish Names and Surnames, 1992 Reprint, cloth; de Hae (R.) Clar Litridheacht na Nua-Ghaedhilge 1850 – 1936, Vol. I & II only ex. 3, 2 vols. D. 1938 – 39; R.I.A. – Dictionary of the Irish Language, folio D. 1983. Compact Edn., cloth; & approx. 26 others sim., some on Co. Waterford, and modern poetry, some signed. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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