30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 589/0297

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Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Heaney (Seamus). A Lough Neagh Sequence. Phoenix Pamphlets Poets Press 1969, wrappers (spotted). Inscribed on h.t. ‘To Katherine / Love / Seamus / 9th March 1969’. With two others from the Phoenix series, Michael Longley’s Secret Marriages, Dec. 1968, and Harold Massingham’s The Magician, March 1969. (3)

Lot 590/0297

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Seamus Heaney / Felim Egan. Towards a Collaboration, October 1986 (Brochure, 4pp). With a poem and a note by Heaney and a coloured illustration by Egan. Signed by Heaney. Scarce. (1)

Lot 591/0297

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Signed Limited Edition by Peter Fallon Heaney (Seamus) A Transgression, Lg. 8vo single grey card folded, 4pp. Privately Printed in an Edition of 125 Copies Only by Peter Fallon, at Gallery Press, Loughcrew. Signed by Poet & by Printer. V. good copy. (1) * One of the author’s Christmas Cards. V. Scarce.

Lot 592/0297

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Original Manuscript Poem Heaney (Seamus) The Schoolbag. In Memoriam John Hewitt. A manuscript fair copy in brown ink, Signed and dated November 8 1991, single sheet, and a typescript draft with manuscript corrections in Heaney’s hand showing some variances from the published version. A poem in the making. Each with a single fold mark, else v.g. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 593/0297

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Signed by Each Poet Heaney (Seamus) & John Montague. Poetry Ireland 50/60. Programme for a reading to mark the 60th birthday of John Montague and the 50th birthday of Seamus Heaney, with music by Liam O’Flynn. Gate Theatre, Dublin, 11 June 1989. Includes a Signed Poem by each Poet dedicated to the Other. Attractive item, clean copy. (1)

Lot 594/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) The Makings of a Music: reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats. No. 1 Kenneth Allott Lectures. 8vo Liverpool 1978. First Edn. Signed by Author; From the Republic of Conscience, Illustrated by John Behan, sq. 8vo Gallery 1985. Lim. to 2000 Copies. Signed by Author & Peter Fallon; An Upstairs Outlook, An Evening of Poetry with Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley. 8vo Belfast 1989. First Edn.; and Joy or Night: Last Things in The Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin, 8vo Swansea 1993. First Edn., all orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good. (4)

Lot 595/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) Room to Rhyme, An Anthology of Poems by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley and of Ballads collected by David Hammond. Lg. sq. 8vo Belfast (Arts Council of Northern Ireland) [1968]. First Edn. Photo illus. & decor. orig. decor. red wrappers, lower cover with age discolouration, otherwise a very good copy of this booklet. Excessively Scarce. (1) * Five of Heaney’s Poems were unpublished previously.

Lot 596/0297

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Signed by Author & Artist Heaney (Seamus) From Vitruviana, Watercolour by Felim Egan. 8vo Dublin (Hieroglyph Editions) 2003. First Edn., 4pp (colour printed card folded) Lim. Edn. 1026 Copies. Signed by Author and Artist. V. good. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 597/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) Gravities. A Collection of Poems and Drawings Seamus Heaney, Noel Connor, Oblong 8vo Newcastle upon Tyne (Charlotte Press) 1979 First Edn., Signed & dated by Author, decor. wrappers; Soundings ’72, ed. by S. Heaney. An Annual Anthology of New Irish Poetry. 4to Belfast (Blackstaff) 1972. First Edn., cold. wrappers; In Their Element, a Selection of Poems by Seamus Heaney & Derek Mahon. 4to Belfast (Arts Council of N. Ireland) 1977. First Edn., decor. silver wrappers. All Scarce. (3)

Lot 598/0297

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Heaney (Seamus) A Tribute to Michael McLaverty. Linenhall Library 2005, No. 34 of 250 Signed Copies, stiff wrappers, hand bound by Sydney Aiken in hand marbled paper. A fine copy, superbly presented in a binder’s folder within a cloth folding case. (1)

Lot 599/0297

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Allingham (William) Ashby Manor, A Play, 12mo L. (David Scott) 1882. First Edition, red & bl. title, advert. slip tipped in, Inscribed on hf. title, ‘Bill Friel from Edie Allingham,’ unopened, original red & black ptd. wrappers, with decoration. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 600/0297

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With The Author’s Original Passport Ryan (John) Remembering How We Stood, 8vo D. 1975. First Edn., and with Signed Presentation Inscription, cloth & d.w.; Together With, the Original Passport of John Peter Ryan, with photograph, issued in February 1957. * John Ryan, manager of The Bailey, one of Dublin’s most celebrated taverns was host to most of Ireland’s Litterati during the ‘literary renaissance,’ of mid-20th Century Dublin. (2)

Lot 601/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

The Author’s Second & Third Books O’Sullivan (Seumas) Verses: Sacred and Profane, sm. sq. 8vo D. (Maunsel) 1908. First Edn. (No. 5, Tower Press Booklets – Second Series]. Uncut, orig. ptd. wrappers; also The Earth Lover and Other Poems, Sm. 4to D. (The New Nation Press) 1909. First Edn., Limited to 500 Copies, unopened, orig. printed green wrappers. V. good copies. Rare. (2)

Lot 602/0297

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The Author’s First Book Deane (Seamus) While Jewels Rot, 8vo Belfast (Q.U.B.) Festival Publications, 1966. First Edn., 12pp. orig. ptd. wrappers (somewhat soiled) V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 603/0297

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Dolmen Press: Murphy (Richard) The Woman of the House, 8vo D. 1959. Lim. Edition 250 Copies, title & end leaf with red decoration, orig. ptd. Review Slip from Dolmen loosely inserted, orig. wrappers printed in black & red, edges somewhat browned, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce Miller 34. (1)

Lot 604/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Scarce Dublin Printing Press One of 45 Copies Sheepshanks (Beatrice) The Hat and the Buffalo, sm. 8vo D. (The Selerna Press) 1953. Lim Edn. 32 (45), orig. ptd. wrappers, with two related postcards loosely inserted. Ex. Rare. (1)

Lot 605/0297

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O’Flaherty (Liam). Blue Moon Booklets. No. 1. Joseph Conrad, An Appreciation. E. Lahr, L. n.d., blue wrappers, some spotting to text; No. 8. A Cure for Unemployment. E. Lahr, L. 1931, yellow wrappers, signature stamp to prelim. (2)

Lot 606/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Beckett (Samuel). Murphy. Bordas 1947, First Edition in French, wrappers (upper wrapper loose, backstrip worn, some corners turned towards end). Inscribed and Signed on h.t. ‘For Frank .. with love, Sam, / Paris October 1951’. The original English version was published in 1938. Translation by the author. Needs binding, but rare.

Lot 607/0297

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‘Myles na Gopaleen’ [O’Nolan (Brian)] A folio Ledger (originally an account book) in which is neatly pasted a collection of about 200 original cuttings of the Cruiskeen Lawn column from the Irish Times, mostly two to a page, circa 1951 and later, with a few other items towards end. Subjects include ‘Brendan Being’ (i.e. Behan), Semantics, Sciolism, The Hearse Show, Boardom, Coole Breezes, Drunken Deriving [sic], etc. etc. The cuttings are mostly undated, but clearly a very good selection. As an album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 608/0297

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Flann’s Archive O’Nolan (Brian) (pseudo. Flann O’Brien, Myles na Gopaleen) [1911-66]. An important archive of texts and documents relating to his life and work, in five large folders, as follows: – His birth certificate, 1911, Strabane, copy dated 24.7.1997; his marriage certificate to Evelyn McDonnell, 1948, copy dated 24.2.1997; his original death certificate dated 4.4.1966, giving his profession as ‘writer’ and the cause of death as metastatic carcinoma of pharynx. – A large collection of typescripts in a folder titled SECTION 10, mostly carbon copies, including The Detectional Fastidiosities of Sergeant Fottrell (apparently a proposal for a television series); The Handsome Carvers. A Tragedy in Two Acts by Myles na Gopaleen; The Dead Spit of Kelly. A Play in Four Parts. By Brian O’Nolan, 17 pp; another copy of same; an untitled playscript featuring a Keeper and a Visitor, 19 pp; 21 pp in Irish, numbered 109-139, probably a section of his celebrated novel An B‚al Bocht; about 100 pp cyclostyled typescript in two sections, apparently a playscript or broadcasting script based on Cruiskeen Lawn and featuring Myles, one section with attribution to Fergus Linehan; and a photocopy of a production copy of The Insect Play by the Capek Brothers, translated and adapted by Myles na gCopaleen, 69 pages, 3 acts complete (in envelope). – Frank Hollings, literary agents, and their representatives A. Miller and (the Dublin born writer) Leslie Daiken, a folio numbered Two, containing correspondence with Brian O’Nolan about sale of his manuscripts, including five carbon copy letters from Brian, one (23 March 1965) describing how many of his ms. were stolen by a person who came to visit him while he was immobilised with a broken leg; also a letter dated 14 October 1965 when he was about to go into hospital, ‘where I think the buggers there are going to cut the guts out of me’, etc.; and about 15 letters from Miller and Daiken, many with interesting information about the American interest in Brian’s manuscripts. A very interesting correspondence, which casts much light on Brian O’Nolan’s affairs in his later years. – A folio numbered Three containing important correspondence between Brian O’Nolan’s widow Evelyn and his literary agent A.M. Heath from 1967 (the year after Brian’s death) to 1991, including publication agreements for The Third Policeman and other works, about 50 original letters to Evelyn O’Nolan from agents, researchers and others, and about 30 carbon copies of her letters, containing much information about his works and her circumstances. A highly important and Unique collection, which includes intriguing examples of Brian O’Nolan’s later work, much of it unpublished and unperformed; and information about the sometimes distressing circumstances of his later years, after he was required to resign from the Civil Service, and so had to make his living as a writer. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)