30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 141/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Cross (Eric) The Tailor and Ansty, 8vo L. 1942. First Edn., Foreword by Frank O’Connor, port. frontis, cloth & d.w. With 2 Programmes for Performances of the above at The Abbey & The Peacock, 1968 loosely inserted. (3)

Lot 142/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Leonard (Hugh) Home Before Night, L. 1979. First Edn., Signed Presentation Copy; Out After Dark, L. 1989. First Edn.; Rover and other Cats, L. 1992. First Edn., illus.; A Wild People, L. 2001, First Edn., all orig. d.w.’s; also Summer, A Play, L. 1979. A production copy, profusely annotated, orig. wrappers. (5)

Lot 143/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

O’Connor (Ulick) Sputnik & other Poems, N.Y. 1967; Irish Tales and Sagas, L. 1981. First, illus by Pauline Bewick, pict. d.w.; All Things Counter, D. 1986; One is Animate, D. (Beaver Row Press) 1990; Executions, Dingle 1992; The Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970 – 1981. A Cavalier Irishman, roy 8vo L. 2001. First, illus. 7 illus. d.w. All First Edns. (6)

Lot 144/0297

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With Letter from Author [Patterson (W.H.F.)] Songs of a Port, by W.H.F. 8vo Belfast 1920. First Edn., frontis & decor. thro-out, orig. decor. boards. V. good. (1) * Signed pres. Copy to T.E. Spence, Dec. 21st, 1943, & with A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted. (1)

Lot 145/0297

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Scarce Signed First Editions Irvine (John) Wind from the South, sm. 8vo Belfast 1936. First Edn., Signed by Author, & Signed by Artist, W.H. Fry. on frontis, orig. cloth; Willow Leaves, Lyrics in the manner of the early Chinese poets, 8vo Belfast 1941, First, Signed Pres. Copy to W.H. Fray, 1941, cloth; The Quart Stream Poems, sm. 8vo Belfast (Derrick Mc Cord) 1944. Lim. Edn., No. 74 (100), Signed Pres. Copy, cloth; With No Changed Voice, Belfast 1946. First Edn., pict. wrappers; Green Altars, Poems, 12mo Owenvarra Press 1951. First, Signed, wrappers; Lost Sanctuary, Belfast (Quota Press) 1954. First Edn. Signed, pict. wrappers; The Flowering Branch, 16mo Belfast 1945, cloth & pict. d.w.; & 1 other. Good lot. (8)

Lot 146/0297

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Coole Park & The Gregorys: Gregory (Anne) Me and Nu: Childhood at Coole, 8vo Buckinghamshire (C. Smythe) 1970. First Edn., illus. by Joyce Dennys, cloth & d.w. Nuala Costello’s copy, Signed by her. Mrs. Costello, author of Music of Connaught, lived at Tuam, and was a friend of the family; Robert Gregory 1881 – 1918. A Centenary Tribute, 8vo 1981, illus.; and A Guide to Coole Park, Co. Galway. Home of Lady Gregory, by Colin Smyth, 1973, illus. All v. good. Scarce. (3)

Lot 147/0297

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Brownlow (Timothy) & Carew (Rivers) Figures out of The Mist, sm. square 4to D. (New Square Publications) 1966. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies, Signed & inscribed by both authors, cloth; also by Brownlow, The Hurdle Ford, 4to D. 1964. First Edn., wrappers; and Climbing Crough Patrick, B. Columbia, Canada 1998. First Edn., Signed & Inscribed, pict. boards. (3)

Lot 148/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

The Author’s First Book ROS (Mrs. Amanda M’Kittrick). Irene Iddersleigh. Belfast, Baird 1897, First Edn. of her First Book, orig. dec. cloth, slightly shaken. Scarce. Laid in is her card, addressed from the house she built at Larne Harbour with the proceeds of the book; tipped in is a TL (copy) dated Aug. 13 1900, discussing her spiritual beliefs. ‘Of course I’ve given you my sincere views but as a writer I vary them’. Signed in pencil on h.t., W. Godfrey Macourt (?), 12 July 1898, and profusely decorated throughout with small attractive sketches, pencil and ink, unsigned, probably by Mr. Macourt, but just possibly by the author. On reverse of the final page, p. 189, is a passage headed ‘Olive Oil’ in manuscript, signed A. McK. R., possibly in the author’s hand. An interesting copy of a scarce book, printed at the expense of the author’s husband. (1)

Lot 149/0297

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With Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley Farr (Florence) The Dancing Faun, L. (Elin Mathews & John Lane) 1894. First Edn. hf. title, red & bl. illustrated title, 15pp adverts etc., orig. decor. blue cloth. V. good. Rare. (1) * Florence Farr, actress, model, singer, Women’s Rights activist and prolific writer, important member of The Golden Dawn, good friend of W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, & others & one time mistress of George Bernard Shaw.

Lot 150/0297

SOLD Hammer price €280

The Author’s First Book, Signed Stuart (H.) [Francis Stuart], We Have Kept the Faith, sm. 4to D. (The Oak Leaf Press) 1923. First Edn., Signed on front loose blank & inscribed, ‘To Helen from Francis Xmas 1923,’ somewhat browned as usual, orig. cloth backed green boards with ptd. label. (1) * A very good Signed Copy of this Scarce Item.

Lot 151/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Published at Kilkenny by Standish O’Grady Martyn (Edward) The Tale of a Town and An Enchanted Sea, 8vo L. 1902. First Edn., hf. title, orig. gilt lettered blue cloth. V. good. *Scarce. (1) * George Moore adapted ‘The Tale of a Town’ for the Irish Literary Theatre under the name ‘The Bending of the Bough.’

Lot 152/0297

SOLD Hammer price €160

The Arts & Crafts Movement Irish Art: Elliott (Robert) Art and Ireland, Preface by Edward Martyn. 8vo D. n.d. [c. 1906]. First Edn. frontis & 8 plts., uncut, unopened, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 153/0297

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Inscribed to W.B. Yeats ‘Fitzurse (R.)’ (pseudo. of Geoffrey Phibbs), It Was Not Jones (poems). Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, L. 1928, First, Hogarth Living Poets No. 2, boards, scarce. Inscribed on t.p. ‘To Mr. Yeats / with the writer’s greatest respect / Geoffrey Phibbs 3.5.28’. (1)

Lot 154/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

O’Grady (Hugh Art) Standish James O’Grady The Man & The Writer. A Memoir. Roy 8vo D. 1929. First Edn., uncut, unopened, port. frontis, blue cloth with labels, & orig. d.w. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 155/0297

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Signed by The Author O’Flaherty (Liam) Red Barbara and other Stories, N.Y. & L. 1928. First Edn., Lim. Edn. (600) Signed by Author. Illustrated by Cecil Salkeld, plts., uncut, orig. cloth backed boards. V. good. (1)

Lot 156/0297

SOLD Hammer price €325

Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, 4to L. (Hodder and Stoughton) 1900. First Edn., hf. title, t.e.g. edges untrimmed, original gilt decor. blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good copy. Wade 30. (1)

Lot 157/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Number 23 of 75 Copies Only Ussher (Arland) & Von Metzradt (Carl) Enter these Enchanted Woods: An Interpretation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. 8vo Sanymount Press 1954. First Edn. No. 23 of Limited Edn. of 75 Copies. With pencil corrections thro-out, orig. vellum backed decor. boards; also Dolmen Edition of same D. 1956. Limited to 1000 Copy, with illustrations by Tate Adams. Miller 28; & Dufour Edition of same D. (Dolmen) 1966, with illus., cloth & d.w. All v. good. Scarce. (3)

Lot 158/0297

SOLD Hammer price €250

The Author’s First Book Guinness (Bryan) Twenty-Three Poems, L. 1931. First Edn. Signed Pres. Copy ‘Bryan to Eileen with Best Love, March 1933,’ cloth; Reflections, L. 1947. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy ‘For Maurice [Craig] with affection from Bryan, Oct. 1947’, decor. title, cloth & d.w.; Collected Poems 1927 – 1955, L. 1956; A Fugue of Cinderellas,L. 1956. First Edn. Signed, pict. d.w.; The Rose in the Tree, L. 1964. First Edn; The Clock Poems and a Play, D. Dolmen 1973. First Edn., d.w.; Hellenic Flirtation, L. 1977. First Edn., pict. wrappers; The Engagement, Cambridge n.d. First Limited Edition – Signed Illus., pict. cloth backed boards with title band. A good lot. (8)

Lot 159/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

The Author’s First Books Ussher (Arland) Postscript on Existentialism, 8vo D. (Sandymount Press) 1946. Signed First Edn. boards & d.w.; The Twilight of the Ideas & other Essays, D. (Sandymount Press) 1948. First Edn; The Face of Ireland, L. 1949. Signed First Edn., cloth & d.w.; The Magic Rope [Jews], L. 1950. First Edn. d.w.; Three Great Irishmen Shaw, Yeats, Joyce. L. 1952. First Edn., cloth & d.w. also Uncorrected Proof Copy of same, wrappers; Journey through Dread, L. 1955. First, d.w.; and Spanish Mercy, L. 1959. First Edn., d.w. A good collection. (8)

Lot 160/0297

SOLD Hammer price €120

The Author’s First Book O’Farachain (Roibeard [Robert Farren] Thronging Feet, L. 1936. First Edn of Author’s First Book – Signed Pres. Copy, cloth; The First Exile, A Poem. L. 1944. Signed First Edition, cloth; Rime Gentlemen, Please, L. 1945. Signed First Edn., cloth & d.w.; The Course of Irish Verse in English, L. 1948 First Edn., cloth; Selected Poems, L. 1951. First Edn., cloth & d.w. Good lot. (5)