30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 301/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Keane (John B.) Strong Tea, Cork 1963; Man of the Triple Name, Dingle 1984; Owl Sandwiches, Dingle 1985; Love Bites and Other Stories, Cork 1991; Letters to the Brian, Dingle 1993; Christmas Tales, Cork 1993; Innocent Bystanders & Other Stories, Cork 1994; Playwright of the People – A Collection of Tributes,… with Special C.D., Listowel 2004, All First Editions; & 3 others. (11)

Lot 302/0297

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Signed Limited Edition Meehan (Paula) & Foley (Marie) illus. Six Sycamores, 12mo, Belfast 2004, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 60 (150) copies, illus., cloth & decor. glassine wrappers, slip case. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 303/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Ros (Amanda McKittrick) Fumes of Formation, 8vo Belfast 1933. First Edn., Inscribed ‘Mr. Lennox Robinson with the publishers Compliments, decor. orange cloth. Very Rare 2000 copies printed, only about 160 copies bound, the remainder destroyed; Poems of Puncture, 8vo L. n.d. [c. 1912]. First Edn.; orig. blue wrappers; Delina Delaney, L. 1935. Second, cloth backed boards; Helen Huddleson, 8vo L. 1969. First Edn., d.w.; & Loudon (Jack) O Rare Amada, L. 1954. First Edn., Signed by Author, d.w. (5)

Lot 304/0297

SOLD Hammer price €160

Presentation Copies to Mrs. Patrick Kavanagh Ni Chuilleanain (Eilean) Acts & Monuments, D. (Gallery Press) 1972. Signed Lim. Edn. 300 Copies, Pres. Inscription to Katherine Kavanagh, Jan. ’73, cloth & d.w.; Site of Ambush, D. 1975. Signed Pres. Copy to Katherine Kavanagh, d.w.; The Second Voyage, Wake Forest Uni. Press 1977, Signed Pres. Copy, wrappers; The Rose-Geranium, Gallery 1981. First, cloth & d.w.; The Second Voyage, Gallery 1986, d.w.; The Magdalene Sermon, D. (Gallery) 1989. First, wrappers. V. good lot. (6)

Lot 305/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Stein (Gertrude) Paris France, L. 1940. First Edn., illus., cloth; Wars I have Seen, L. 1945. First Edn., illus. cloth & pict. d.w. (spine dam) Signed ‘D. Lynd,’; The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three Plays, 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg – Hourglass Press) 1946. First Edn. thus, illus. by Francis Rose, cloth backed boards, & attractive pict. d.w. (3)

Lot 306/0297

SOLD Hammer price €125

Signed by Each Author Poetry Ireland Pamphlets: First Series – Longley (Michael) The Ship of the Wind, D. 1997; Montague (John) Chain Letter, D. 1997; Kennelly (Brendan) Words for Women, D. 1997; Boland (Eavan) Anna Liffey, D. 1997. All Limited, to 250 Copies, Numbered, & Signed by the Author. Fine. (4)

Lot 307/0297

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Signed by Both Authors Kennelly (Brendan) & Holzapfel (Rudi) Cast a Cold Eye, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1959. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies; The Rain, The Moon, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1961. Signed by Both Authors; Poems, sm. 4to Leeds 1963. Sole Edn.; The Dark About Our Loves, roy 8vo D. (John Augustine & Co.) n.d. First Edn., all orig. ptd. & decor. wrappers. All v. good. Rare. Miller 36 & 45. (4)

Lot 308/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

With Four Manuscript Poems loosely Inserted Ni Dhomhnaill (Nuala) An Dealg Droighin, Cork (Mercier) 1981. First; Fear Suaithinseach, 8vo Maynooth (An Sagart) 1984. First, pict. d.w.; Pharaohs Daughter, Gallery 1990. First Edn., pict. d.w.; also Feis, roy 8vo Maynooth (An Sagart) 1991. First Edn. Signed by Author, & with 2 Manuscript Poems, ‘Ceist na Teangan,’ ‘Oilean,’ ‘Amhrain an Fhir Oig, & ‘An Cuairteois,’ all loosely inserted, cloth & d.w.; & 1 other. As a lot. Rare. (1)

Lot 309/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

Joyce (James) Ulysses, 8vo Paris (Shakespeare & Co.) 1926. Eight Printing, hf. title, in full blue letter, with decorative gilt design and lettering, colourful hand made end papers. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 310/0297

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Signed by Author & Illustrator Adams (Richard) Watership Down, 8vo, L. (Penguin Books (Kestrel Books) 1976, First Illustrated Edn., Signed on f.e.p. by Author & Artist, and also signed by Artist on hf. title, illus. orig. cloth backed boards, illus. d.j. clean copy. (1)

Lot 311/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

Very Fine Complete File Dublin Gate Theatre. Motley (periodical), ed. Mary Manning, Vol. I No. 1 (March 1932) – Vol. III No. 4 (May 1934), 19 numbers complete (Vol. I has 7 numbers, Vol. II has 8, Vol. III only 4). A fine complete set in recent buckram boards (untitled), quarto, orig. covers by Mac Liammoir bound in. Certainly the finest set we have seen and probably the finest existing. Publication was irregular, and sets or even good runs are rare. Contribs. include Lord Longford, Hilton Edwards, ‘E.W. Tocher’ [Denis Johnston], Francis Stuart, Padraic Colum, Sean O Faolain, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Austin Clarke, the Editor, etc., with many excellent theatre photographs and illustrations. An invaluable slice of Dublin cultural life in the early 1930s. (1)

Lot 312/0297

SOLD Hammer price €80

Joyce (James) The Cat and the Devil, 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 1965, First Edn., illus. by Gerald Rose, illus. boards, lacks d.j., otherwise clean copy. (1)

Lot 313/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Thomas (Dylan) 18 Poems, Roy 8vo L. (The Fortune Press) 1934. First End., black cloth, & orig. red printed d.w. spine dam. (with loss). (1)

Lot 314/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

A Rare Collection First Editions Signed Jordan (Neil)The Past (Cape,1980). Specially bound Ltd. Edition 9/50, five raised bands, a.e.g, in matching slipcase, fine, edges of slip case faded; The Past, (Cape,1980) Signed, dated, inscribed “with best wishes”. V.g. in cloth, d.w.; The Past, Uncorrected Proof Inscribed “to Phil, Best wishes” signed, in red card wraps. V.g.; Sunrise with Sea Monster (Chatto & Windus, 1994) Signed, dated, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Shade (Murray/ Hodder, 2004) v.g. in cloth, d.w., slight spotting to edges; The Dream of a Beast (Chatto & Windus, 1983), Signed, Inscribed “best wishes, April Fool”, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Night in Tunisia (Co-Op,1976) v.g. in wraps (no cloth Edn. of First Printing) Signed and dated,15. 12. 1976, Wraps lightly rubbed; Night in Tunisia (Writers & Readers, 1979) First thus, Signed, dated, 1st April 1987, v.g. in removable, glassine-protected d.w., edges dusty; Night in Tunisia Advance Sheets for Chatto & Windus paperback, 1983. Signed, Inscribed with best wishes, dated June 2002. (9)

Lot 315/0297

SOLD Hammer price €220

All First Editions Behan (Brendan) The Scarperer, L. 1964. First American Edn., also First English Edition, L. 1966. Both in v. good unclipped d.w.s; Richard’s Cork Leg, L. (Eyre Metheun) 1973. First English Edn. also First American Edn. N.Y. (Grove Press) 1973, both fine in orig. unclipped pict. d.w.’s; and Poems and A Play in Irish, D. (Gallery) 1981. First Edn., orig. pict. boards. All v. good. (5)

Lot 316/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Rare First Edition Behan (Brendan). The Quare Fellow, a Comedy-Drama. L. 1956, First, d.w., name on e.p., an excellent copy. The play that made Behan’s name, scarce in this condition. (1)

Lot 317/0297

SOLD Hammer price €140

[Behan (Brendan)] Kearney (Colbert) The Writing of Brendan Behan, D. 1977; Behan (B.) After the Wake, D. 1981; Mikhail (E.H.) Brendan Behan – An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, L. 1980; also Interviews and Recollections, 2 vols. New Jersey 1982; and The Letters of Brendan Behan, L. 1992. Signed and Inscribed on f.f.end by Seamus de Burca, ‘… An important book in every resepct.’ All First Edns & in orig. d.w.’s. (6)

Lot 318/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

‘For Jimmy O’Dea, A great small man against a mean big world’ Behan (Brendan) The Hostage L. 1958, first, d.w., with a wonderful inscription on f.e.p, ‘Do’m laoch — ¢ mo ch‚ad o¡che san amharclann [for my hero, from my first night in a theatre] — a great small man against a mean big world, Jimmy O’Dea ¢n a chara — Breand n à Beach in, Brendan Behan 15.xii.1958’. With two programmes for performances of The Hostage laid in. A uniquely desirable copy, from a quintessential Dubliner to another.

Lot 319/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Special Edition One of 4 Copies Behan (Brendan) The Hostage, 8vo N.Y. (Grove Press) 1958, Limited Edn. 2 (4), Signed by the Author, cloth back boards, gilt lettering, clean; The Hostage, 8vo L. (Methuen & Co.) 1958, cloth, gilt lettered spine (lacks d.j.) otherwise good. (2)

Lot 320/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

First English & American Editions Behan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, L. 1958; and Borstal Boy, Adapted for the Stage by Frank Mc Mahon. N. York 1971; also Confessions of An Irish Rebel, L. 1965; and American Edition of same N.Y. 1965. All First Edns., all in original d.w.’s. Very good. Scarce. (4)