30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 609/0297

SOLD Hammer price €700

Flann O’Brien’s Bookcase / Desk A large William IV period Irish mahogany Secretaire Bookcase, the moulded cornice over two glazed doors, and a pull out writing drawer with drop front and moveable writing slope, and with two panel doors underneath, 84″ high, 46″wide; together with a watercolour painting of the same bookcase by his late brother, Michael O’Nuallain, and two black and white photographs of Brian O’Nolan & the other of his mother with three children of the family. (4)

Lot 610/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

“An Cois Bocht” O’Nualainn (B.) aka Flann O’Brien, a group of three original black and white Photographs to include two studio shots, and one with glass in hand, together with the authors “blackthron” Walking Stick. Provenance: The O’Nuallain Family, to the present vendor.

Lot 611/0297

SOLD Hammer price €220

Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels O’Flaherty (Liam) Thy Neighbour’s Wife, L. 1923. First Edn. of the Author’s First Book; The Informer, L. 1925. First Edn; The House of Gold, L. 1929. First Edn.; Return of the Brute, L. 1929. First Edn., The Puritan, L. 1932. First Edn.; Sherrett, L. 1932. First Edn., all orig. cloth. Scarce. (6)

Lot 612/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Signed Limited Edition [O’Flaherty (Liam)] O’Flaithearta (Liam) Duil, 8vo D. (Sairseal agus Dill) 1953. Limited Edn. No. 373 of 500 Special Copies, Signed by Author, uncut, orig. pink cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 613/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Signed & With Variant Dust Wrapper O’Flaherty (Liam) Insurrection, L. (Victor Gollancz) 1950. First Edn., orig. green cloth & orig. red & black printed d.w.; also Insurrection, L. (Victor Gollancz) 1950 First Edn., inscribed Pres. Copy, ‘To Paddy Freyer with best wishes from Liam O’Flaherty,’ green cloth, with red & black ptd. variant dust wrapper, ‘The Gollancz – 2/6 – Cheap Editions.’ Both very good. Ex. Scarce. (2)

Lot 614/0297

SOLD Hammer price €280

Very Good Signed Copies O’Flaherty (Liam) The Fairy Goose and Other Stories, 12mo N.Y. (Crosby Gaige) 1927. Lim. Edn. No. 525 (1190), Signed by Author, unopened, orig. cloth backed decor. boards, & orig. d.w.; also A Tourist Guide to Ireland, 12mo L. (Mandrake Press) n.d. First Edn. Presentation inscription on f.l.fly ‘To Jack Lyon … from Liam O’Flaherty.’ Orig. cloth backed decor. boards, & d.w. Both v. good. (2)

Lot 615/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Autobiographies by O’Flaherty O’Flaherty (Liam) Two Lives, L. 1930. First English Edn., port. frontis, orig. pict. d.w. frayed at edges, also First U.S. Edn. of same work, cloth; I Went to Russia, L. 1932. First Edn., port. frontis, decor. cloth; and Shame the Devil, L. 1934, First Edn., port. frontis. Inscribed on hf. title, ‘To Peggy Freyer [wife of Paddy Freyer) with best wishes from Liam O’Flaherty,’ orig. cloth, with red label on front cover. (4)

Lot 616/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Short Stories by O’Flaherty O’Flaherty (Liam) Spring Sowing, L. 1924. First Edn; The Tent, L. 1926. First Edn.; The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty, L. (Cape) 1937. First Edn., d.w. (dam.); & Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories, L. 1948. First English Edn., cloth & d.w. (dam.) (4)

Lot 617/0297

SOLD Hammer price €220

Signed by The Author O’Flaherty (Liam) Famine, L. 1937. First English Edn., cloth & orig. d.w. good; also First U.S. Edition of same work, Inscribed copy, “To Paddy Freyer with best wishes from Liam O’Flaherty,” in original decor. d.w. spine faded; also Land, L. 1946. First Edn., Signed by Author on t.p., orig. ptd. yellow d.w. All good. (3)

Lot 618/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Yeats (W.B.) The Celtic Twilight, Sm. 8vo L. (Lawrence and Bullen) 1893. First Edn., Advert leaf, hf. title, frontis by John Butler Yeats, uncut, orig. green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, second issue binding. Very good copy. Wade 8. (1)

Lot 619/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Russell (George) ‘A.E.’ The Renewal of Youth, No. VII, ‘The Orpheus Series,’ sm. 4to L. (Orpheus Press) 1911. First Edn., wrappers; The Interpreters, L. 1922. First Edn., Signed by Author with two line quotation, blue cloth & d.w.; ‘A.E.’ Dark Weeping, with Designs by Paul Nash, No. 19 of The Ariel Poems, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1929. Lim. Edn. No. 349 of 400 Large Paper Copies, Signed by A.E., boards; Enchantment and Other Poems, 8vo N.Y. (Fountains Press) 1930. Lim. Edn. No. 437 of 542, unopened, orig. cloth backed decor. boards. All v. good. (4)

Lot 620/0297

SOLD Hammer price €140

Russell (George) ‘A.E.’ The Mask of Apollo and Other Stories, D. (Whaley & Co.) n.d. Signed “George Russell ‘A.E.’, orig. cloth backed boards; Homeward Songs by the Way, sm. sq. 12mo L. & N.Y. (J. Lane) 1908; and The Earth Breath and Other Poems, sm. sq. 12 L. & N.Y. (J. Lane) n.d., both decor. boards. All v. good. (3)

Lot 621/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Russell (George) ‘A.E.’ The Irish Home-Rule Convention, sm. 8vo N.Y. (Mac Mullan) 1917. First Edn., with articles by A.E., Rt. Hon. Horace Plunkett, & John Quinn, decor. boards; Thoughts for a Convention, 8vo D. 1917. First Edn; Ireland and The Empire at the Court of Conscience, D. 1921; The Inner and the Outer Ireland, D. 1921; The Government of Ireland, by Mrs. J.R. Green, Foreword by A.E., 8vo L. 1921, all orig. ptd. wrappers. A lot. (1)

Lot 622/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Presentation copy to Maud Joynt [Russell (Geo.)] ‘A.E.’ – The Divine Vision and other Poems, 8vo L. (MacMillan) 1904. First Edn., in orig. blue cloth with gilt fillet border & gilt lettering. (1) * Signed by Maud Joynt and with single page A.L.s. with Irish Stateman letterhead to her from the author, mentioning W.B Yeats.

Lot 623/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

With Original Sketch by the Author Russell (George) ‘AE’ Collected Poems, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1928. The title with orig. pen & chalk drawing of mountainous landscape with wooden fence in foreground, Signed George Russell ‘AE’, orig. cloth. (1)

Lot 624/0297

SOLD Hammer price €130

Signed by Author O’Flaherty (Liam) The Life of Tim Healy, roy 8vo L. 1927. First Edn., Signed and Inscribed f.f.end ‘Liam, O’Flaherty Hazelbrook, Kimmage Road, August 1927,’ cloth; together with a good portrait photograph of O’Flaherty as a middle aged man, approx. 9 1.2″ x 7 1/2″. As a lot. (1)

Lot 625/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

MacDonagh (Donagh) Veterans and Other Poems, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1941. Lim. Edn. No. 164 (270) Copies, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good; also Happy as Larry, 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg) 1946. First Edn., illus. by Francis Rose, orig. cloth & decor. d.w. With 3 Programmes for Productions of same at The Abbey Theatre, with wd-cut illus. by H. Kernoff, 1947, for the Olympia 1955, & The Mercury Theatre, London, & another item; also A Warning to Conquerors, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1968. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w. (3)

Lot 626/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

Inscribed Copies West of Ireland:Mullen (Pat) Hero Breed, L. 1936. First Edn., Signed Presentation Inscription, ‘To Dr. Anderson… Oct. 7, 1936,’ cloth; also Irish Tales, L. 1938. First Edn., Signed Presentation Inscription, ‘To Tomas O’Muirahertaig [Photographer etc]… August 16, 1939; cloth & orig. d.w.; Mac Giollarnath (Shean) Peadar chois Fhairrge… D. 1937. First Edn., illus., cloth backed boards; Griffith (Richard) The World of Robert Flaherty, L. 1953. First Edn., illus, d.w.; & 1 other on Aran Islands. (5)

Lot 627/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

With Illustrations by Willy Pogany Colum (Padraic) The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy, sm. 4to L. 1920 First Edn.; also American Edition of same, N. York 1926. Signed by Author; also The King of Ireland’s Son, sm. 4to L. 1920 First Illustrated Edn., all with cold. plts. & bl. & white decor. by Willy Pogany, orig. pict. cloth & decor. suede binding. Good. (3)

Lot 628/0297

SOLD Hammer price €125

[Disraeli (Benj. Earl of Beaconsfield)] Endymon, 3 vols. L. 1880. First Edn., 3 hf. titles, 2pp. adverts end of Vol. 3, orig. crimson cloth, silver lettered spines, some minor stains, spines faded. (3)