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Lot 261/0297
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Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Poems, 8vo D. 1956. First Edn., Lim. to 200 Copies, No. 62, with illustration on title by Elizabeth Rivers, orig. cloth backed boards, & d.w. V. good. Miller 22. (1) * The author’s first collection of poems.
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Lot 262/0297
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Signed Copies of The Author’s Best Known Volumes Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Another September, D. 1958. First Edn., Pres. Copy Signed by Author, cloth, & orig. d.w.; also Downstream, D. 1962. First Edn., Signed by the Author & the Publishers, cloth, d.w., & Poetry Book Society Slip. both fine copies. (2)
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Lot 263/0297
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Signed Limited Edition Kinsella (Thomas) Vertical Man, Peppercanister 3, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1973. Edition Limited, No. 29 (100), Signed by Author; The Good Fight, Peppecanister 4, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1973. Edition Limited No. 74 (125), Signed by Author. Both in special mor. backed boards. Fine. (2)
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Lot 264/0297
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Kinsella (Thomas) Poems & Translation, 8vo N.Y. (Atheneum) 1961. First Edn., vellum backed boards; New Poems 1973, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1973. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Poems 1956 – 1973, D. (Dolmen) 1980. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Collected Poems, Manchester 2001. First Edn. Signed on note, d.w. All fine. (4)
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Lot 265/0297
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Heaney (Seamus), Hughes (Ted)eds. The School Bag, thick 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1997, Ltd. Edn., 27 (300), Signed by the Editors, gilt lettering cloth backed boards, slip case; The Spirit Level, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1996, Ltd. Edn. 167 (350), Signed by Heaney, cloth backed boards, slip case. Clean copies. (2)
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Lot 266/0297
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Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966 – 1987, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990. Ltd. Edn. 96 (100) Signed by the Author, cloth backed boards, slip case; Selected Poems 1966 – 1987, 8vo N.Y. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1990, First American Edn. Ltd. Edn. 90 (200), Signed by the Author, cloth with gilt lettering, slip case. Clean Copies. (2)
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Lot 267/0297
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Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966 – 1987, L. (Faber Members) 2015, cloth backed decor boards; Sweeney Astray, 8vo Derry (Field Day) 1983, First Edn., printed wrappers; Anything Can Happen, 8vo, D. 2004 (For Amnesty International), ptd. wrappers. Clean Copies. (3)
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Lot 268/0297
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Heaney (Seamus) & Connor (Noel) Gravities, A Collection of Poems and Drawings, oblong 8vo, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Charlotte Press) 1979, illus., Signed by Heaney on t.p., ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 269/0297
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Rare First Edition with Dust Jacket Kavanagh (Patrick) The Green Fool, 8vo L. (Michael Joseph) 1938, First Edn., First Issue, hf. title, some pencil annotations, original green cloth, silver lettering on spine, with original green and cream d.j. (torn with loss). Scarce. (1) * The First Edition was suppressed due to a libel threat by Oliver St. John Gogarty against Kavanagh, over derogatory remarks that Kavanagh made about his wife.
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Lot 270/0297
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Signed Limited Editions Longley (Michael) The Rope-Makers, Frontispiece by Sarah Longley. Roy 8vo L. (Enitharmon Press) 2005. Signed Lim. Edn. 95 (175); also Wavelengths, roy 8vo L. 2009. Illus. Signed Lim. Edn. 27 (175), both in orig. marble paper boards; The Ship of the Wind, Eight Poems. 8vo Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997. Lim. Edn. No. 82 (250) Signed by Author, wrappers; No Continuing City, Poems 1963 – 1968. L. 1969; Men Lying on A Wall, L. 1976; Selected Poems 1963 – 1980, 1981; The Ghost Orchid, L. 1995. Signed Pres. Copy; Broken Dishes, Newry 1998. Lim. Edn. No. 64 (250), Signed, All First Edns. V. good, as a lot. (8)
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Lot 271/0297
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Longley (Michael) The Echo Gate, Poems 1975 – 79, 8vo L. 1979. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Patchwork, with drawings by Jim Allen. 8vo D. (Gallery) 1981. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed by Author & Artist, cloth backed boards; Out of The Cold, Drawings & Poems for Christmas. Newry 1999. Lim. Edn. 244 (500) Signed by Author & Artist, cloth & pict. d.w.; The Weather in Japan, L. 2000 Lim. Edn. 138 (150) Signed by Author, special boards & orig. d.w. All v. good. (4)
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Lot 272/0297
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The Author’s First Book & Others, Mostly Presentations to Katherine Kavanagh [Kavanagh (Patrick)] Liddy (James) Esau My Kingdom for a Drink, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1962. First Edn., wrappers. Miller 48; Blue Mountain, D. (Dolmen) 1968. Signed Presentation Copy to Katherine Kavanagh, ‘The first signed copy in love, James Liddy,’ cloth & decor. wrappers. Miller 135; A Life of Stephen Dedalus, sm. 4to San Francisco (White Rabbit Press) 1969. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine Kavanagh; Corea Bascinn, Dolmen 1977. First, Signed, ‘for Katherine Kavanagh,’ wrappers; Chamber Pot Music, 8vo Berkeley (Hit & Run Press) 1982. Signed, ‘To Katherine …,’ wrappers; A White Thought in a White Shade, D. (Kerr’s Pinks) 1987. First, Signed ‘For dearest Katherine,’ cloth & d.w.; The Ladybird Shivered, with Richard Shaw & Paul Enea. 8vo Blue Canary Press 1992, First, wrappers. Liddy has signed his contribution, Poems for Katherine Kavanagh. (7) * Katherine Kavanagh, nee Maloney, was Patrick Kavanagh’s wife.
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Lot 273/0297
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Greene (Graham) Loser Takes All, 8vo, L. 1955; A Burnt-Out Case, 8vo L. 1961; A Burnt-Out Case, N.Y. 1961; The Comedians, 8vo, L. 1966; May We Barrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, 8vo L. 1967; Travels With My Aunt, 8vo L. 1969; A Sort of Life, 8vo L. 1971; The Honorary Counsel, 8vo L. 1973; The Human Factor, 8vo L. 1978; Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, 8vo L. 1980; Getting to Know the General, 8vo, N.Y. 1984; The Tenth Man, 8vo L. 1985; The Captain and the Enemy, 8vo L. 1988, mostly First UK / American Edition, all cloth & d.j.s., as a collection, w.a.f. (13)
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Lot 274/0297
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Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, 8vo L. (W. Heineman) 1932, First UK Edn., cloth; Journey without Maps, 8vo L. (W. Heineman) 1936, First UK Edn., Inscribed & dedit on hf. title (possibly Graham Greene?); The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, 8vo L. 1950, First UK Edn.,; The End of the Affair, 8vo L. 1951, First UK Edn., all cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
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Lot 275/0297
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Greene (Graham) British Dramatists, 4to, L. (Wm. Collins) 1942, First UK, cloth & d.j.; Lord Rochester’s Monkey, 4to, L. 1974, First UK, ptd. wrappers; The Great Jowett, 8vo, L. 1981, Signed Ltd. Edn, 25 (525) copies, cloth; Monsignor Quixote, 8vo, L. 1982, Proof Copy, ptd. wrappers; A Dream Diary, 8vo L. 1992, First UK, cloth & d.j.; The Virtue of Disloyalty, 8vo, L. 1972, Ltd. Edn., ptd. wrappers; A Wedding Among the Owls, 8vo L. 1977, Ltd. Edn., ptd. wrappers; & 2 other related pamphlets, as a lot, w.a.f. (9)
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Lot 276/0297
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Signed by Graham Greene Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph?; 8vo L. 1989, Signed Ltd. Edn., 493 (950), cloth; Yes & No and for Whom the Bell Chimes, 8vo L. 1983, Signed Ltd. Edn. 285 (750), cloth; Reflections on Travels with My Aunt, 8vo N.Y. 1989, Signed Ltd. Edn. 238 (250), gilt lettered wrappers; How Father Quixote Became a Monsignor, 8vo Los Angles 1980, Signed Ltd. Edn., 260 (33), cloth; Ways of Escape, 8vo Camden 1980, Signed Ltd. Edn., 137 (150), cloth & slipcase; A Quick Look Behind, Footnotes to An Autobiography, 8vo, Los Angles 1989, Signed Ltd. Edn. 251 (33), cloth & slipcase. As a lot, w.a.f. (6)
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Lot 277/0297
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Dolmen Press: O’Connor (Frank) The Little Monasteries, Poems translated from the Irish. Roy 8vo D. & L. (Dolmen) 1963. Limited Edition 1050 Copes, printed in black and blue, buckram & slipcase; also Towards an Appreciation of Literature, D. (Metropolitan Publishing) 1945. First Edition, with decor. d.w. Both v. good. (2)
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Lot 278/0297
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Fielding (Helen) Bridget Jones Diary, 8vo, L. (Picador) 1996, cloth & d.j.; Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason, 8vo, L. (Picador) 1999, cloth & d.j., clean copies. (2)
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Lot 279/0297
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Signed Presentation of Author’s First Book With Original Typescript Poem Hutchinson (Pearse) Tongue without Hands, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1963. First Edn. Signed Presentation, cloth & d.w.; Expansions, D. (Dolmen) 1969. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Watching The Morning Grow, Gallery 1972. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine Kavanagh, & with Orig. Typescript Poem dedicated to her, Signed loosely inserted, cloth & d.w.; The Frost is All Over, Gallery 1975. Signed First Edn. cloth & d.w.; Selected Poems, Gallery 1982. First Edn. Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine, cloth & d.w.; Le Cead na Greine, D. 1989. First Edn d.w.; Friends Songs, roy 8vo D. 1970. Lim. Edn. No. 75 (130), wrappers. A vrey good lot. (7) * Katherine is late wife of Patrick Kavanagh, Poet.
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Lot 280/0297
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Signed by Patrick Kavanagh’s Wife Stuart (Francis) A Hole in the Head, L. 1977. First Edn. Signed & dated Sept. 1988, cloth & d.w.; also Uncorrected Proof. Not for Publication for same volume, Signed by Katherine Kavanagh, & her sister H [Helen] Maloney, wrappers; Black List, Section H, L. 1975. First Edn., signed by H. Maloney, d.w.; The High Consistory, L. 1981. First Edn., d.w.; & Pigeon Irish, L. 1932. First Edn., black cloth, no d.w. (5)
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