30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 181/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

Kavanagh (Patrick) Lapped Furrows, Correspondence 1933 – 1967 Between Patrick and Peter Kavanagh with other Documents. 8vo N.Y. (Peter Kavanagh Press) 1969. First Edn., Limited to 1000 Copies cloth; Kavanagh (Peter) Sacred Keeper. A Biography of Patrick Kavanagh, 8vo The Curragh (Goldsmith Press) 1980. First Edn., illus. thro-out, cloth & pict. d.w.; Quinn (Antoinette) Patrick Kavanagh. A Biography, D. 2001. First Edn., illus., pict. d.w. (3)

Lot 182/0297

SOLD Hammer price €80

Kipling (R.) Kim, 8vo, L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1901, First English Edn, hf. title, photo frontis, and 9 photo plts. (complete), advert leaf at end, red cloth, medallion on front cover, gilt letter spine, minor wear. Scarce. (1) * This is the Author’s Third Novel.

Lot 183/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Signed First U.S. Edition Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, a Novel (New York, Devin-Adair 1949), First US Edition in dust wrapper, the wrapper photograph by [Bill] Brandt, signed in ballpoint by Kavanagh on f..f.e.p. Clean. (1)

Lot 184/0297

SOLD Hammer price €500

Scarce Limited Edition Cuala Press: Kavanagh (Patrick) The Great Hunger, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1942. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Only, (Out of Series) Decor. title, partly unopened orig. cream cloth backed blue boards, paper label. Bottom of back board, bent with tear, otherwise a very good copy of this rarity. (1) * The above is regarded as the poet’s greatest creative work.

Lot 185/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Joyce (James) – Folio Society: Dubliners, L. 2003; also Portrait of the Artist, L. 1965. Both illus., cloth & in orig. slipcases. (2)

Lot 186/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

With Illustrations by Lucia Joyce Joyce (James) The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies, 8vo, The Hague (The Servive Press) 1934, Ltd. Edn. 311 (1000) copies, illus by Lucia Joyce (The Author’s Daughter), decor. ptd. wrappers, slip case. Scarce. (1)

Lot 187/0297

SOLD Hammer price €2000

“They Lived and Laughed and Loved and Left” Joyce (James) Finnegans Wake, lg. 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 1939, Signed Limited Edition 269 (425), hf. title, uncut, original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. Clean copy. [Slocum & Cahoon 47], lacks slip case. (1)

Lot 188/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

The Only Issue Published [Joyce (James)] The Klaxon. Winter 1923/4 (all pub., quarto.). Only issue of this publication, including a review essay by ‘L.K. Emery’ (pseudo. of A.J. Leventhal) on ‘The Ulysses of Mr. James Joyce’, which the printer of the Dublin Magazine had reputedly refused to set. Other contribs. include H. [Francis] Stuart, and with Arland Ussher’s first published version of the translation of The Midnight Court, & others. Extremely Scarce. (1)

Lot 189/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Inscribed by Oliver St. John Gogarty [Joyce (James)] The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature. 1915. Baillie, L., 4to Dec., cloth. Includes Two Songs by James A. Joyce, also Two Songs by Oliver Gogarty, various essays, engravings etc.. Inscribed on prelim by Gogarty, ‘To my friend Mrs. E. de Verdon Corcoran, with grateful acknowledgements’. Minor damage to head of spine. Laid in at rear is a competent ink drawing of a woman’s head in profile; also The Life of Bret Harte, by T. Edgar. L. 1903. Inscribed on f.f.end to Mrs. E. de Verdon Corcoran by Gogarty. (2)

Lot 190/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

Signed by Author [James Joyce] Daly (Leo) James Joyce and the Mullingar Connection, folio Dolmen Edition XX, D. 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 18 (750) Signed by Author, with Printed Prospectus loosely inserted, cloth & d.w. V. good; together with 1 other item. (2)

Lot 191/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

[Joyce (James)] Rose (D.) & O’Hanlon (J.)ed. Ulysses – James Joyce, large 4to, L. (Folio Society) 2017, illus. by John Vernon Lord, decor. cloth & slip case. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 192/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

Signed Subscribers Copy Joyce (James) & Le Brocquy (L.)illus. Dubliners, D. (The Dolmen Press) 1986, Ltd. Edn. 72 (400), Signed by the Artist, illus. oatmeal cloth, slipcase. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 193/0297

SOLD Hammer price €800

Signed by All the Contributors Wylie (Donovan). 32 Counties. Photographs of Ireland, with new writing by thirty-two Irish writers. L., Secker, 1989, quarto cloth, d.w., orig. slipcase, No. 79 of 150 Numbered Copies Signed at end by all the contributors, including Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, William Trevor, Ben Kiely, Francis Stuart, etc., and with the original signed manuscript of John Banville’s chapter on Wexford, 5 pp, together with ‘unpublished print signed by the photographer’ which should be in the pocket at front. (1)

Lot 194/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Sendah (Maurice) Where The Wild Things Are, oblong 4to, L. (The Bodley Head) 1967, First UK Edn., illus., decor. boards, worn; We are all In the Dumps with Jack and Guy, oblong 4to, N.Y. (Harper Collins) 1993, First Edn., plain boards, decor. d.j., as a lot., w.a.f. (2)

Lot 195/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Doyle (Roddy) The Departers & Other Stories, 8vo, L. 2007, Signed by the Author, cloth & d.j.; Her Mothers Face, 4to L. 2008, illustrated by Frey Blackwood, ptd. boards & d.j.; A Star Called Henry, 8vo L. 1999, cloth & d.j.; and two others. (5)

Lot 196/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Privately Printed for Subscribers Shakespeare: Collier (J. Payne)ed. The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, 8 vols. sq. 8vo L. 1878. First Edn Thus., t.e.g. in fine crushed crimson mor. marble sides, gilt lettered spine with raised bands. V. good set. (8)

Lot 197/0297

SOLD Hammer price €2000

In Fine Binding de Cervantes Saavedra (M.) El Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, Nueva Edicion Corregida Por La Real Academia Espanolo. 4 vols. lg. 4to Madrid 1780. First Royal Spanish Academy Edition, engd. port. frontis Vol. I, 4 engd. add. titles, fold. engd. map, engd. head & tails etc., & 28 full page plts., a.e.g. in cont. full straight grained green mor. lg. gilt tooled borders, line decorated panels, including lg. central panel with attractive corner decorations, and profusely gilt spines, some small wear, otherwise a very fine set. (4) * Presentation copy, inscribed ‘From W. Ronan … to James Roche [Cork Banker]Esq. Cork 10th May 1843.’

Lot 198/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Sons of Usnech, Translated by T. Kinsella from the Irish Designs and decoration by Mia Cranwill. Roy 8vo D. Nov. 1954. Limited, One of 200 Copies, Numbered 65, fine in vellum backed decorated boards; also Revised & Reset Edition of 1960 Limited to 500 Copies, cloth & illus. d.w. Both fine copies. Miller 16, & 16a. (2)

Lot 199/0297

SOLD Hammer price €800

The Author’s First Book Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Starlit Eye, 8vo D. 1952. One of 25 Copies, Numbered 13, & Signed by the Author. With designs on title, & in text, orig. cloth backed decorated boards. Good. Very Scarce. (1) * Miller 4, The Fourth book from The Dolmen Press.

Lot 200/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Peppercanister Publications: Kinsella (Thomas) No. 1, Butchers Dozen, D. 1972; No. 2, A Selected Life, sm. folio D. 1972; No. 3, Vertical Man: A Sequel to a Selected Life, D. 1973. Lim. Edn. 350 Copies; No. 4, The Good Fight, 1973, Signed; No. 6, A Technical Supplement, roy 8vo D. 1976. Lim. Edn. 550 Copies; No. 8, The Messenger, roy 8vo D. 1978; No. 13, One Fond Embrace, roy 8vo D?. 1988. Signed; No. 14, Personal Places, roy 8vo D. 1990., together 8 items. All First Edns. & orig. wrappers. (8)