30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

#0297

Lot 81/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Strickland (W.G.) A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 4to 2 vols., Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969, (Reprint) cloth & d.j.; together with Hislop (D.)ed. Art Sales Index 2004 – 35th Annual Edition, lg. 4to L. 2004, cloth & d.j. (3)

Lot 82/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1000

The Lindisfarne Gospels [Illustrated Volumes] Evangeliorum Quattuor, Codex Lindisfarenis, 2 vols., Ottent Lausanne (Urs Graf) 1956 – 59, sm. folio, No. 562 (680) copies, Facsimile Editon, 34 tipped in colour plts., and various other monochrom plts., Vol. 1 in full blind decorated vellum, & volume 2 hf. vellum, oatmeal cloth boards, paper wrappers, and original card boxes as issued. (2) * A fine facsimile copy of one of the most significant books from Anglo-Saxon England.

Lot 83/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Liber Ardmachanus Royal Irish Academy: Gwynn (John)ed. The Book of Armagh, lg. thick 4to D. (R.I.A.) 1913. Lim. Edn. No. 331 of 400 Copies. Hf. title, uncut, unopened, fine blind Celtic design suede. (1)

Lot 84/0297

SOLD Hammer price €175

Sumptuous Production, Limited to 100 Copies Egan (Desmond) Irish Poems, with illustrations by Robert Brandy. Folio Luxemburg 1997. Lim. Edn. No. 76 of 100 Copies = Signed by Poet & Artist, Poems in Irish, English & German 9 fine cold. plts. (some dbl. page), cold. decor. cloth, & matching slipcase. Rare. (1)

Lot 85/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1200

Signed Limited Edition of 200 Copies Beckett (Samuel) Stirring Still, folio, N.Y. (Blue Moon) 1988, illus. by Louis le Brocquy, includes one original lithograph, Ltd. Edn. 70 (200), Signed by Samuel Beckett & L. le Brocquy, uncut, original gilt decor vellum backed oatmeal cloth, original cloth slip case. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 86/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

[Wilde (Oscar)] Holland (M.) De Profundis – A Facsimile, sm. folio, L. (The British Library) 2000, Ltd. Edn. 386 (496), frontis, cold. facsimile m/ss pps, cloth, clean copy. (1)

Lot 87/0297

SOLD Hammer price €700

“Macklin Bible” In Fine Gilt Decorated Bindings Macklin (Th.) The Holy Bible, The Old Testament & The New Testament, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists, 6 vols., folio, L. (Thomas Bensley) 1800, engd. dedit page (Vol. 1) & 70 copper engraved plts., numerous head & tail-piece vignettes, (complete), full calf, bordered with gilt fillets, profusely gilt decor. panel spines, some wear., otherwise handsome set. Ex. Libris Clonbrook. (6) * Original printed in 70 parts, it is known as the largest English Bible printed. [Herbert 1441; & Lowndes Vol. 1, p. 192].

Lot 88/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Inscribed Presentation Copies Byrne (Donn) Messer Marco Polo, L. 1921. First Edn. cold. frontis & 4 bl. & white plts. Pres. Copy inscribed to [Sir] James O’Connor … Aug. 1922, and further inscribed by Sir James O’Connor [to] Michael J. Lennon, & signed. Orig. cloth; also Messire Marco Polo, trans. into French by Comte G. O’Kelly de Gallagh, retired Irish Minister to Paris & Brussels, 4to Paris 1943. First French Edn. Pres. Copy inscribed by translator, Dublin 16 Aug. [19]43, with errata slip tipped in, orig. ptd. wrappers; and Macauley (Thurston) Donn Byrne Bard of Armagh, N.Y. 1929. First Edn., frontis & plts., cloth. All Scarce. (3)

Lot 89/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

Donleavy (J.P.) The Ginger Man, 8vo L. (Neville Spearman) 1956, First UK Edn., blue cloth & decor. d.j.; The Ginger Man, Paris (Olympia Press) 1958, First Edn, (Fourth Printing), with d.j. (original flaps), green cloth label, decor. d.j., clean copies. (2)

Lot 90/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

The Carra Edition in Fine Bindings Moore (George) The Collected Works of George Moore, 21 vols., N.Y. (Boni and Liveright) 1922 – 1924, Carra Edition, Signed Ltd. No. 79 (1000) copies, photo frontis, Vol. 1, uniformerly bound hf. green mor., gilt decor spines, raised bands. Good clean set. (21)

Lot 91/0297

SOLD Hammer price €125

[Beckett (Samuel) and others] Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination of Work In Progress. By Samuel Beckett, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, John Rodker, William Carlos Williams etc., with Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Shakespeare & Co., Sylvia Beech, 1929. First, rebound in a plain cloth binding. Includes several essays quoting from Joyce’s Work In Progress, and a short passage on p. 109 about Swift and blindness which was not included in Finnegans Wake (cf. Wade B11). (1) The Letters of Protest are said to have been written by Joyce.

Lot 92/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

Beckett (Samuel). Comment C’Est, Roman. Paris, Les Editions de Minuit 1961, wrs, possibly the first unlimited issue, profusely inscribed by a previous owner. With three other Beckett titles in French, Fin de Partie, Paris 1957; La Derniere Bande, Paris 1959; & Oh les Beaux Jours, Paris 1963, all in wrappers. (4)

Lot 93/0297

SOLD Hammer price €80

Beckett (Samuel). En Attendant Godot. Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, two issues in wrs, one dated 1968, the other 330th Thousand. With a programme for the Pike Theatre Club production in Dublin (First production in Ireland,) and a Programme for a later Abbey production. (4)

Lot 94/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Signed by The Harry Potter Cast Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone, 8vo L. 1997, Signed by 9 members of the film crew, decor. cloth & d.j.; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 8vo L. 2000, Signed by Daniel Radcliffe & Emma Watson, cloth & d.j., clean copies. (2)

Lot 95/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

Signed by J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Others Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 8vo L. 1998, Signed by the Author, and members of the cast including Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson & others, decor. boards, d.j., clean copy; Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. 1997 (paperback), Signed by 14 cast members of the movie, including Daniel Radcliffe & Emma Watson. (2)

Lot 96/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Carroll (Lewis) Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1872, First Edn., illus. by John Tennel, hf. title, illus. throughout text, advert leaf at back, original gilt decor. maroon cloth, staining, otherwise internally clean copy. (1)

Lot 97/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, 12mo, L. (F. Arne) 1903, hf. title, cold. frontis, & illus. through-out, decor. boards, & d.j.; The Tale of Two Blind Mice, 12mo, L. (F. Warne) 1904, hf. title, cold. frontis & illus., decor. boards & d.j.; The Tale of Mrs. Titllemouse, 12mo, L. (F. Warne) 1910, hf. title, cold. frontis & illus., decor. boards & d.j.; The Tale of The Pie and Patty-Pan, 12mo L. (F. Warne) [c. 1905?], hf. title, cold. frontis & illus., decor. boards, & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 98/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Fine Copy of First Edition O’Brien (Flann) The Third Policeman, 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1967. First Edn., original brown boards, lettered in gilt, & pict. dust wrapper by John Farman; also copy of Third Impression, L. 1973, black boards, with orig. d.w. Both copies very fine. (2)

Lot 99/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

First English & American Editions O’Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor, 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1961, First Edn., red boards lettered in gilt & orig. d.j. designed by Sean O’Sullivan. very good copy save for some spotting on fore-edge; also First American Edn., of same N.Y. (Pantheon Books) 1962, cloth backed green boards, & orig. pict. d.w.; together wtih Second English Edition, London (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) 1973, black boards & orig. d.w. A Scarce Collection in fine condition. (3)

Lot 100/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

All Fine Copies [O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ -The Best of Myles, A Selection from ‘Cruiskeen Lawn.’ 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1968. First Edn., port. frontis; Myles Portraits of Brian O’Nolan, .. Edited by Timothy O’Keeffe, 8vo L. (Martin Brian & O’Keeffe) 1973. First, port. frontis; and The Poor Mouth Myles na Gopaleen [Flann O’Brien], 8vo L. (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) 1973. First Edn. in English, (from the Irish). Trans by Patrick C. Power, Illus. by Ralph Steadman., brown boards, orig. pict. d.w.; All very fine copies. (3)