30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

#0297

Lot 121/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

[Christy Brown] Collis (Robert) Marrowbone Lane, 8vo D. (Runa Press) 1943. First Limited De Luxe Edition No. 50 Signed by Author, gilt decor. limp mor.; also The Silver Fleece, An Autobiography. L. 1940. First, wd. cut illus. by T.G. Wilson, cloth & d.w.; & To be a Pilgrim, Autobiography of R. Collis, Intro. by Christy Brown, roy 8vo L. 1975. First Edn., illus., cloth & d.w. (3) * The author was Christy Brown’s physician & mentor.

Lot 122/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

The Author’s First Book Brown (Christy) My Left Foot, 8vo L. (Secker & Warburg) 1954. First English Edn., frontis & illus., orig. red cloth & pict. d.w.; also My Left Foot, L. (Simon & Schuster) 1955. First American Edn., cloth backed boards, & orig. d.w., both unclipped. Good. (2)

Lot 123/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Brown (Christy) Down All the Days, 8vo L. (Secker & Warburg) 1970. First Edn.; also Down All the Days, N.Y. 1970. Second; and A Shadow on Summer, L. (Secker & Warburg) 1974. First Edn., all cloth & orig. d.w.’s. Good. (3)

Lot 124/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

Steinbeck (John) Bombs Away The Story of a Bomber Team, (Viking 1942), v.g. in cloth, faintly damp stained, front panel of d.w. bright, rear panel age-toned, edges rubbed, a few small tears (loss), in removable protective wrapper. A very collectible copy of the US First Edn.; The Wayward Bus (Heinemann 1947) First UK Edn., v.g. in cloth., d.w. is rubbed and edge-worn, with large tear to head of spine (loss), rear panel soiled; Of Mice and Men (Acting Edition) 1964 reprint, v.g. in wrappers. (3)

Lot 125/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1700

Special Limited Editions, Signed in Slip Case Garcia Marquez (Gabriel) El General en Su Laberinto: Novela. No. 85 of 125 for Ediciones del Equilibrista (Mexico). In maroon cloth, in matching slip case with portrait of author. Fine, in near fine slip case; El amor en los tiempos del colera. First Edition, (Bogota, Oveja Negra, December 1985). In yellow cloth and complete dw. Inscribed (apparently non-author) “Para Antonio – en el dia mas especial de 1986. Feliz cumplea¤os! ?. GM Bogota vii. 3. 86″.” . [For Antonio – On the most special day of 1986 . Happy birthday !] The initialled inscription, GM, probably non-author. (2)

Lot 126/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

With ALS to his Publisher Moore (George). The Brook Kerith. L. 1916, vellum backed boards, orig. glassine wrapper, Edition de Luxe, No. 1 of 250 copies, Signed, fine copy. With an ALS to the publisher laid in, 4 pp, making corrections and asking him to ‘let me down lightly when you come to make up the bill for the corrections’. Also laid in are the original prospectus (worn) and two press cuttings in which Moore discusses the book. (1) Certainly the most desirable possible copy of the book, set in Syria in Biblical times

Lot 127/0297

SOLD Hammer price €2000

Wilde’s Comic Masterpiece [Wilde (Oscar)] The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan, sm. 4to, L. (Leonard Smithers & Co.) 1899, First Ltd. Edn. (1000 copies printed), original gilt decorated cloth, later custom made leather and marble decorated box. Fine Copy. Scarce. [Mason 382]. (1) * Opened originally in 1895, the play was withdrawn due to Wilde’s failed libel case. It was therefore not published until February 1899 in book form, following his release from prison.

Lot 128/0297

SOLD Hammer price €200

Inscribed Presentation Copy Martyn (Edward) The Heather Field and Maeve, 8vo L. 1899. First Edn., Introd. by George Moore., hf. title, partly unopened, advert. leaf at end, orig. decor. blue cloth faded. Scarce. (1) * Inscribed Presentation Copy to Major Moore [his Mayo neighbour from Moore Hall].

Lot 129/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

[Moore (George)] An T£r-Ghort. Sg‚alta le Seorsa à M¢rdha; aistrighthe ¢’n Sacsbh‚arla ag P draig à S£illeabh in, B.A. Baile-Atha-Cliath, Sealy Bryers & Walker n.d. [1902]. Orig. wrappers, decorated in Celtic style; about an inch of upper cover and first five leaves unevenly torn away, with no loss of text, right-hand upper corner slightly abraded throughout, lacking rear wrapper. (1) Dedicated in English by Moore to his nephews Rory and Ulick Moore, native Irish speakers. ‘They may be called to continue a literary tradition into the fourth generation. In this case, they will be able to do it in Irish, and by writing in Irish they will continue the literary tradition of our country’. An exceptionally rare item, dating from Moore’s return to Dublin and his brief dalliance with Gaelic affairs under the influence of Yeats and Hyde. According to Macmillan Dict. of Irish Lit., this publication precedes the English version The Untilled Field [1903]. The damage is unsightly, but could probably be significantly improved by skilful repairs.

Lot 130/0297

SOLD Hammer price €130

[Yeats (W.B.) & Others] Hone (J.) W.B. Yeats – 1865 – 1939, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1942, frontis and various newscuttings tipped in, cloth; Mooney (Bel.) intro. The Tower – W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. (Folio Press) 1987, uncut, cloth backed marbled boards; Ellman (R.) W.B. Yeats Second Puberty, 8vo Washington 1985, illus., ptd. wrappers; Ellman (R.) The Use of Dependance, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, annotated, 8vo, Vermont 1983, illus., ptd. wrappers; Beach (S.) Ulysses in Paris, 8vo N.Y. (Harcourt) 1956, Privately Printed for Friend as a New Year’s Greeting, pictorial boards, glassine covers, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)

Lot 131/0297

SOLD Hammer price €225

Yeats (W.B.) Responsibilities (Poems). L. 1917, Macmillan (Wade 115, Second Impr.) With an original poem by F.R. O’Higgins, ‘Old Galway / To W. Victor Brown’ inscribed and Signed on f.e.p. in Higgins’ hand, 11/3/24. ‘Far in a gardens wreckage, / Stark in a wind cleared moon ..’. Also inscribed on h.t. ‘To B / from your friend / F.R. Higgins’. (1) Victor Brown provided illustrations for some Cuala Press cards and broadsides.

Lot 132/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Yeats (W.B.) The Wild Swans at Coole. L. Macmillan 1919, First Thus, d.w. (repaired). Inscribed on f.e.p. ‘To Sophia Cornwall from Elizabeth C. Yeats May 1919’, with a ms. note by Ms. Cornwall about their friendship. ‘I last saw her in August 1939 .. In a fairer world than this I hope to see her again’. With various cuttings about Yeats laid in or taped in. (1) Includes the first book printing of the poems in memory of Robert Gregory.

Lot 133/0297

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Signed by W.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 8vo D. (The Cuala Press) 1910, First Edn., Limited 400 Copies, Signed and dated by the Author on t.p., “W.B. Yeats, March 26th, 1920” cloth backed boards. Fine copy. Scarce. [Wade 101]. (1)

Lot 134/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats O’Grady (Standish) Finn and His Companions, 12mo L. (T. Fisher Unwin) n.d. Second Impression. Illus. by Jack B. Yeats, hf. title, orig. decor. pict. boards, spine worn. Rare. (1) * Inscribed Presentation Copy ‘To Miss Eileen Rowan from the author Standish O’Grady March 15 1920’ .

Lot 135/0297

SOLD Hammer price €500

Signed by Norah Mc Guinness Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose, roy 8vo L. 1927. First Edn., with 2 cold. plts. (frontis & 1 other) other bl. & white plts. & decoration by Norah Mc Guinness, orig. gilt decor. blue cloth, & decor. d.w. after designs by Mc Guinness. An extremely fine copy. Wade 157. * Fine signed inscription, ‘To Gerald Goldberg with best wishes & hoping he will live happily with Lapwings at Balbriggan.’ (1)

Lot 136/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Yeats (W.B.) Where There is Nothing, Being Volume One of Plays for An Irish Theatre, 8vo N.Y. (Mac Millen Co.) 1903, Ltd. Edn. 4 (100), Japanese vellum, uncut, cloth backed boards, ptd. wrappers, clean copy. Scarce. [Wade 44]. (1)

Lot 137/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

Yeats (W.B). The Wind Among The Reeds. L., Elkin Mathews 1899, First (Wade 27). Orig. dec. cloth, stained and faded but sound, publisher’s flyer laid in. Inscribed to the American writer L. Pearsall Smith by Robert Bridges, later Poet Laureate, Yattendon July 27 1899. (1) An important collection, including The Hosting of the Sidhe, The Song of Wandering Aengus, The Fiddler of Dooney and other well-known poems

Lot 138/0297

SOLD Hammer price €225

The Dun Emer Press First Printing Yeats (W.B.) In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 8vo D. (The Dun Emer Press, Dundrum) 1903, First Edn. Limited 325 copies, [with original prospectus, loosely inserted), oatmeal cloth, ptd. label, some staining. Scarce. [Wade 49]. (1) * Inscription on back end paper “Read with my Love in the Gardens of Hampton Court, Sept. 13, 1903.”

Lot 139/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

With Original Drawing by A.E. A.E. [Russell (George)] The Avatars. A. Futurist Fantasy. L., Macmillan 1933, First Edn., in d.w., with a crayon drawing on t.p. of a woman by a shore, signed “George Russell ‘AE'”. John Chichester’s copy, inscribed on f.f.e.p. to ‘Sheila’, December 1933. (1)

Lot 140/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Signed by the Author [Gallagher (Paddy)] My Story by Paddy The Cope, 8vo L. 1939. First Edn., Signed by Author on hf. title, dated 28 July 1942, green cloth, & orig. d.w. V. good copy. Scarce. (1)