30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 241/0297

SOLD Hammer price €140

O’Duffy (Eimar) The Wasted Land, D. (Talbot Press) 1923; also London Edition of 1929, cloth; King Goshawk and the Birds, L. 1926. First Edn, – Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; Asses in Clover,L. 1933. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; Life and Money, L. 1932. First Edn., – Signed Pres. Copy, cloth. (5)

Lot 242/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Kavanagh (Patrick) Tarry Flynn, 8vo L. (Pilot Press) 1948. First Edn., hf. title, 195pp., orig. orange cloth, some spots, black lettered spine. Very Scarce. (1)

Lot 243/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

First Authorised American Edition Joyce (James) Chamber Music, 8vo, New York (B.W. Huebsch) 1918, First American Edn. (authorised by Mr. Joyce) hf. title, decor. t.p., publishers note, 36pps, gilt lettered paper boards, (lacks d.j.). Scarce. (1)

Lot 244/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Kavanagh (Patrick) Come Dance with Kitty Stobbling, & Other Poems. 8vo L. (Longmans) 1960. First Edn., hf. title, VI, 44pp., orig. brown cloth with gilt lettered leatherette label on front cover. V. fine copy. (1)

Lot 245/0297

SOLD Hammer price €220

Kavanagh (Patrick) A Soul for Sale, Poems. 8vo L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1947. First Edn., hf. title, [55]pp. green cloth, orig. white printed green dust jacket, two very small straight tears (no loss) Otherwise a very good copy. (1)

Lot 246/0297

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Kavanagh (Patrick) The Complete Poems, Collected, Arranged and Edited by Peter Kavanagh (Peter Kavanagh Hand Press N.Y. 1972), green buckram in repaired d.w., errata sheet with m/ss. correction laid down on f.e.p., a very good clean copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 247/0297

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Periodical: Kavanagh (Patrick) Nimbus (periodical, London 1956), Vol. 3 nos. 3 and 4, orig. wrappers, ed. Tristram Hull & David Wright. No. 3 includes Kavanagh’s essay, A Letter and an Environment from Dublin; no. 4 includes 19 new poems by Kavanagh, with Anthony Cronin’s essay, Innocence and Experience: The Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh and a lithographic portrait of Kavanagh by Patrick Swift. Laid in is a magazine page with Kavanagh’s poem, A Christmas Childhood. V. good. As a lot. Scarce. (2)

Lot 248/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Corkery (Daniel) The Wager and other Stories, roy 8vo N.Y. 1950. First Edn., with bl. & white wood engraved illus. by Elizabeth Rivers, cloth & orig. pict. d.w. (some wear). (1)

Lot 249/0297

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Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Patriotic Suite, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1966. Signed = Limited Edn. No. 32 of 100 Copies, decor. title, decor. vellum type binding, & orig. decor. slip case. V. Good. Scarce. Miller 100. (1)

Lot 250/0297

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Dolmen Press: Montague (John) Poisoned Lands, 8vo D. (Dolmen 1977) Signed Edition No. 12 of 75 Copies Only, frontis, orig. mor. backed green cloth, & matching slipcase. A very fine copy. (1)

Lot 251/0297

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With Manuscript Poem by the Author Young (Ella) Marzilian and Other Poems, 8vo, California (Halyan Press) 1938, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 1 (500), with two paragraph m/ss poem on f.e.p. entitled “For Brysanthe” and dated “22 December 1938,” decor. cloth backed boards. Clean Copy. (1) * This copy appears to be Brysanthe’s Copy for whom the book is dedicated and for whom the songs were made.

Lot 252/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems 1965 – 1975, 8vo L. 1980 First Edn., pict. d.w.’s; also Pre-Occupations, Selected Prose 1968 – 1978, L. 1980. First Edn., orig. d.w.; and District and Circle, L. 2006 First Edn. Signed & Inscribed on title, dated 2 April 2006, orig. boards & d.w. dam. in lr. back cover (with loss). (3)

Lot 253/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) After Summer, 8vo Gallery Press & Derrfield Press 1978. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; also The Tree Clock, 8vo Belfast (Linen Hall Library) 1990. Lim. Edn. 870 copies, cloth & gilt lettered d.w. Both v. good. (2)

Lot 254/0297

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The Author’s First Collection Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, L. 1966, First Hardback Edition, cloth & orig. d.w. Good copy. (1)

Lot 255/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

O’Connor (Frank) Domestic Relations, Short Stories. 8vo L. 1957. First Edn. Signed by Author; The Mirror in the Hallway. A Study of The Modern Novel. L. 1957. first Edn., Collection Two – Stories by Frank O’Connor, L. 1964. First Edn., Signed by Author, all boards & orig. decor. d.w.’s. V. good. (3)

Lot 256/0297

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O’Kelly (Seumas) The Lady of Deerpark, L. 1917. First Edn., 8pp adverts at end, red cloth & orig. d.w. (torn & repaired); Waysiders Stories of Connacht, D. 1918, bl. & white pict. frontis by Michael Wilmore (Michael O’Liammoir) orig. pict. blue cloth; The Golden Barque and The Weaver’s Grave, D. 1919. First Edn., cloth backed blue boards, & orig. d.w. (with tear); The Leprechaun of Killmeen, D. (M. Lester) [1920]. First Edn., blue boards; Wet Clay, D. 1922. First Edn., orig. decor. cloth (d.w. badly dam.) A Scarce Collection. (5)

Lot 257/0297

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The Author’s First Five Books Salkeld (Blanaid) Hello, Eternity! L. 1933. First Edn. orig. ptd. boards. Inscribed Pres. Copy to Mrs. Austin Stack; The Foxe’s Covert, 8vo L. 1935. First Edn. boards & d.w.; The Engine is left Running, D. (Gayfield Press) 1937. First Lim. Edn. No. 4 of 50 Copies, Signed by Author & Artist, decor. boards; A Dubliner, roy 8vo D. (Gayfield) 1943. First Edn., with illus., wrappers; Experiment in Error, Aldington (Hand and Flower Press) 1955. First Edn., cloth & d.w. (some dam). (5)

Lot 258/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Ormsby (Frank, ed.) The Blackbird’s Nest. An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast. Foreword by Seamus Heaney. Blackstaff, Belfast 2006, cloth, d.w. Signed on t.p. by Michael Longley, Moyra Donaldson, Frank Ormsby and a few more. (1)

Lot 259/0297

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Signed Limited Edition of Peppercanister I Kinsella (Thomas) Butcher’s Dozen, 8vo D. 1972. First Edn. Limited, No. 56 of 100 Copies, Signed by Author, orig. mor. backed red cloth boards, with a Signed Manuscript Note to Mr. Leeson, from the author; and a copy of the First General Edition loosely inserted. Scarce & Fine. (1) * The first publication of the author’s own press.

Lot 260/0297

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Dolmen Press etc: Kinsella (Thomas) Nightwalker, D. 1967. First Gen. Lim. Edition (1000), wrappers. Signed Pres. Inscription ‘To Sean and Mary Love and Greetings, Tom’ [Sean J. White]; Another September, D. 1962, cloth; Selected Poems 1956 – 1968, roy 8vo D. 1973. First Edn.; & Fifteen Dead, D. 1979. First Edn., all wrappers; and Harmon (Maurice) The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella – ‘With darkness for a nest,’ D. 1974. First, cloth. As a lot. (5)