30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 101/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Fine Copy of The Author’s First Book Mac Mahon (Bryan) The Lion Tamer, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1948. First Edn., orig. green cloth, & with unclipped pict. d.w. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 102/0297

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Special Edition of 100 Copies O’Nolan (Brian). Myles na gCopaleen. Golden Hours, a Version. Otherwise known as Flann O’Brien At War. With a postschrift by Dr Uli Kochonauer and a new etching by Hector McDonnell. L. 1999, cloth, No. 70 of a Special Edition of 100 copies, Signed by Kochonauer, by the editor John Wyse Jackson and by the Artist (in Irish). Original signed etching by McDonnell Numbered 70/75 laid in. (1)

Lot 103/0297

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O’Nuallain [O’Nolan] Brian, “Mairead Gillan” by Brinsley Mac Namara, this translation into Irish. 8vo D. (Oifig an t’Solathair) 1953. First Edn., hf. title, 97pp., orig. blue green ptd. wrappers. A very fine copy. (1)

Lot 104/0297

SOLD Hammer price €325

Very Rare First Editions [O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ An Beal Bocht, 8vo D. (An Press Naisuinta) n.d. [1941] First Edn. First Issue, without the printers name on end page. One of 500 Copies Only. 111pp, pict. end papers, stiff pictorial wrappers, after design by Sean O’Sullivan., very clean. Very Scarce. (1) * An exceptionally good copy of this rare item.

Lot 105/0297

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With Autographed Note from Author loosely Inserted O’Brian (Flann) [pseud. Brian O’Nolan] Cruiskeen Lawn, by Myles na gCopeleen. [Text in Irish & English with illustrations 8vo D. [Cahill & Co.] 1943. First Edn. 80pp, orig. colour ptd. wrappers. A very good copy of this scarce item, which was widely read and is now extremely hard to get in such nice condition. One of the author’s wittiest work. (1) * With an original manuscript, signed note from the author loosely inserted. (1)

Lot 106/0297

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[O’Brien (Flann)] ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ – An Beal Bocht, 8vo D. (An Press Naisiunta) 1942. Second Edn., 111pp. decor. ends, & stiff cold. pict. boards. V. good. Also copies of Third & Fourth Editions, 1964 & 1975, cloth with d.w.s. (3)

Lot 107/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

O’Brien (Flann) Stories and Plays, roy 8vo L. (Hart-Davis) 1973, First, English Edn; and First American Edn. of same. N.Y. (Viking) 1976; A Flann O’Brien Reader, roy 8vo N.Y. (Viking Press) 1968. First Edn.; O’Nuallain (Ciaran) Oige an Dearthar i Myles na gCopaleen, D. 1973. First Edn., illus., cloth & pict. d.w.’s; also another pictorial item on Flann. (5)

Lot 108/0297

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All First Editions O’Brien (Flann) The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and The Brother, L. (Hart-Davis) 1976; The Hair of the Dogma, L. (Hart-Davis) 1977; and Jackson (John Wyse)Editor, Flann O’Brien At War – Myles na gCopolean 1940 – 1945, L. (Duckworth) 1999. All First Edns., all fine in orig. d.w.’s. (3)

Lot 109/0297

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First American & Second English Editions O’Brien (Flann) At Swim Two-Birds, N. York (Pantheon) 1939. First American Edn., cloth backed yellow boards, orig. black printed yellow d.w., soiled and with head & foot of spine worn with loss; also Second English Edition of same, L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1960. Black boards, gilt lettering, orig. green d.w., v. good. (2)

Lot 110/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1750

A Twentieth Century Masterpiece O’Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo L. (Longmans) 1939. First Edn. Black cloth, gilt lettered spine, top edge green, orig. black & green unclipped d.w. With two printed business cards loosely inserted, one for ‘Lord Noland of Santry – Myles Na gCopoleen,’ in Irish & English, & the other for ‘Myles of the Irish Times.’ Truly a finer copy than the above will be hard to find. * The exceedingly rare author’s first novel, most of the issue was destroyed in 1940 when the Germans bombed London, including Longmans’ premises.

Lot 111/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

Inscribed Presentation Copy to fellow Journalist O’Brien (Flann) The Dalkey Archive, 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1964. First Edn., green boards, gold lettering, a few spots, otherwise very good in original pict. d.w. (1) * Inscribed copy ‘To Aidan Murray with the regards of the author – Brian O’Nolan 22 November 1964,’ Aidan Murray was a journalist with the Carlow Nationalist, the same paper in which Myles wrote under the name of George Knowall.

Lot 112/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1500

Limited Edition 110 Copies. Signed Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1964. First Limited Edition 110 Copies, No. 57, Signed by the Author, limitation page, hf. title, XV, 202pp., orig. green mor. backed boards, (v. small hole on spine) with slipcase. (1) * An extremely fine copy.

Lot 113/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

One of 75 Signed Copies with Two Original Plates Dolmen Press: Synge (J.M.) Some Sonnets from ‘Laura in Death,’ after the Italian of F. Petrarch. Ed. by Robin Skelton, Illus. by Jack Coughlin, roy 8vo D. 1971 (Dolmen Editions XII). Limited Edn., No. 7 of 75 Signed Copies. With two original drypoint illustrations. Full vellum. V. good in orig. slipcase. Miller 175. (1)

Lot 114/0297

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Joyce (James) Ulysses, thick 4to, Paris (Shakespeare & Co.) 1924, Fourth Edn. hf. title, reverse printed wrappers, cream ground and duck egg blue text on front cover and spine, with price on back cover “sixty francs,” worn, housed in custom made blue clam box. [Slocum & Cahoon ?]. (1)

Lot 115/0297

SOLD Hammer price €700

Limited Edition Signed by W.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, 8vo, L. (T. Werner Laurie) 1922. Privately Printed, Ltd. Edn. 845 (1000) Signed by the Author, hf. title, photogravure frontis, original paperback boards, label, & original d.j. clean Copy. [Wade 133]. (1)

Lot 116/0297

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[Synge (John M.)] The Works of John M. Synge, 8vo 4 vols., D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1910, First Edn. 4 photogravue frontis, Ex. Libris Gladys & Harrie Schutze (Bookplates) uncut, orig. buckram, gilt lettered spines, some fading. Otherwise Scarce. (4) * Gladys Schutze (1884 – 1946) women’s suffragette, novelist and political activist. She was a messenger for the W.S.P.U. and provided a safe house during the “Cat & Mouse” Movement of the 1910’s, at Glebe House in Chelsea, London.

Lot 117/0297

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[Joyce (James)] Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, Paris [1925], printed by Maurice Darantiere, Dijon. Qto, orig. wrappers, repaired. Includes a section by Joyce From Work In Progress [i.e. Finnegans Wake], also contribs. by Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein, W.C. Williams, Ernest Hemingway (his story Soldier’s Home), etc. A rare item. (1)

Lot 118/0297

SOLD Hammer price €160

All First Editions Brown (Christy) Come Softly to My Wake, The Poems of Christy Brown. L. (Secker & Warburg) 1971, First Edn.; Background Music, Poems. L. 1973. First U.K. Edn.; also Back Ground Music, N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1973. First U.S. Edn; Of Snails and Skylarks, Poems, L. 1977. First U.K. Edn; and Of Snails and Skylarks, N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1978. First U.S. Edn., all orig. d.w.’s. (5)

Lot 119/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Brown (Christy) Wild Grow the Lilies, An Antic Novel. 8vo L. (Secker & Warburg) 1976 First English Edn., orig. cloth & unclipped, d.w., together with Uncorrected Advance Proof, of same. L. 1976, printed orange wrappers; also Wild Grow the Lilies, N.Y. (Stein & Day) 1976. First American Edn., cloth & unclipped d.w. Good lot. (3)

Lot 120/0297

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Brown (Christy) Il Mio Piede Sinistro [Italian translation of My Left Foot]. Edizioni Paoline, Modena, orig. wrs (torn), inscribed shakily on h.t. ‘For Dr. Collis – My Socrates / Christy 1960’. Dr. Robert Collis was the doctor who took Christy Brown under his wing and supervised his treatment, enabling him to live a reasonably full life. His introduction is printed here in Italian. A Fine Association Item. (1)