30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 161/0297

SOLD Hammer price €140

All Signed by the Author Mankowitz (Wolf) Make Me An Offer, 8vo L. 1952. First Edn., illus. by Leonard Rosoman, cloth & pict. d.w.; A Kid for Two Farthings, : L. 1953. First Edn., illus. by James Boswell, cloth & pict. d.w.; both Signed Presentation Copies to Maurice Fridberg, Irish Publisher; XII Poems, D. (Dolmen) 1872. Signed Limited Edition, 229 of 250 Copies, cloth; & The Samson Riddle, L. 1972. First, Signed Presenation Copy to Fred Hanna., Illus. by Edward Delaney, cloth, pict. d.w. All Scarce. (4)

Lot 162/0297

SOLD Hammer price €225

Signed Presentation Copy to Fellow Poet The Author’s First Book Higgins (F.R.) Island Blood, L. 1925. First Edn., inscribed on f.f.end “To Joseph Campbell in deep admiration F.R. Higgins March 1925;” The Dark Breed, A Book of Poems, L. 1927. First Edn., inscribed on f.f.end “To M.H.I. Brunicardi Esq., with very best compliments F.R. Higgins, July 27; The Gap of Brightness, L. 1940. First Edn. With typed card, loosely inserted, to Hon. Sec. The English Literary Society, U.C.D., from the author, declining an invitation ‘… to a Lecture on literature by an Oxford clergyman. However as I am busy on the work of developing Irish literature I find it impossible to waste time.” Signed F.R. Higgins. All with orig. d.w.’s. V. good. Rare. (3)

Lot 163/0297

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The Author’s First Book Rowley (Richard) The City of Refuge, and Other Poems. 8vo D. (Maunsel) 1917. First Edn.,; City Songs and Others, D. 1921, both cloth backed boards; The Old Gods and other Poems, L. (Duckworth) 1925. First Edn., Signed Presentation Copy to William Conor (Painter), cloth & d.w.; Selected Poems, L. 1931. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; Fifty Sonnets for Felicity, Mourne Press 1942, First Edn., port. frontis boards; The Piper of Mourne and other Poems, Belfast 1944. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; & 1 other. A scarce collection. (7)

Lot 164/0297

SOLD Hammer price €125

Metropolitan Publishing Co: Robinson (Lennox) Towards an Appreciation of the Theatre, D. 1945; O’Connor (Frank) Towards an Appreciation of Literature, D. 1945; and Farren (Robert) Towards an Appreciation of Poetry, 8vo D. 1947. All First Editions, ptd. boards & with matching decor. d.w. after design by Jack Mac Manus. Full set. All v. good. (3)

Lot 165/0297

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Beckett (Samuel). A collection including: Endgame, L. 1958, First UK, d.w., Gerald Goldberg’s copy with his bookplate; Worstword Ho, L. 1983, d.w., First UK; Krapp’s Last Tape and Embers, L. 1959, First UK, wrappers; Happy Days, L. 1962, First UK, Valentin Iremonger’s copy with his signature (poet and critic). All clean copies. (4)

Lot 166/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

The Author’s Second Collection O’Grady (Desmond) Reilly, tall 8vo Rome 1961. First Limited Edn. 250 Copies. With long Signed Inscription ‘For Tony .. Limerick 27th August 1962,’ cloth & d.w.; also with Uncorrected Proof Copy of same work, Not for Publication, 1967, wrappers, browned. (2)

Lot 167/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

With Signed Postcard Beckett (Samuel) Molloy. Malone Dies. The Unnamable. A Trilogy. Olympia Press, Travellers’ Companion Series, Paris 1959. Orig. green wrappers, a little rubbed. Laid in is a card in Beckett’s hand, dated Paris, 9.12.81, ‘With love from Sam Beckett’. (1)

Lot 168/0297

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[Beckett (Samuel)], O’Brien (Eoin) & Fourner (E.)eds, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 8vo D. (The Black Cat Press) 1992, Ltd. Edn., 63 (130), decor. cloth, green velvet slip case. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 169/0297

SOLD Hammer price €175

Some Signed First Editions Milne (Ewart) Jubilo Poems Roy 8vo L. (F. Muller) 1944. First Edn. on hand made paper; Elegy for a Submarine, 8vo Essex (Plow Poems) 1951. First Edn. Signed, 8pp wrappers; Diamond Cut Diamond, Selected Poems. L. (Bodley Head) 1950. First Edn. Signed; A Garland for The Green, L. (Hutchinson) 1962. First Edn., Signed; Time Stopped, A Poem with prose intermissions. 8vo L. (Plow Poems) 1967. First Edn., Signed. All with orig. decor. d.w.’s. All Fine. (5)

Lot 170/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Presentation Copies to Dr. Maurice Craig, etc Milne (Ewart) Letter from Ireland, roy 8vo D. (Gayfield Press) 1940. First Edn., Signed by Author & Dr. Craig, cloth & d.w.; also Listen Maugan, 8vo D. (Three Candles) 1941. First Edn., Signed by Dr. Craig & inscribed ”To Maurice James Craig This Manifesto of Friendship I hope Ewart Milne, Dec. 1941,’; and with printed advert flyer loosely inserted; Life Arboreal, roy 8vo Tunbridge Wells (The Pound Press) 1953. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy to David Marcus [author] Nov. 1953, cloth & d.w.; & Once More to Tourney, L. (Linden Press) 1958. First Edn. Signed, cloth & d.w. All excellent copies. (4)

Lot 171/0297

SOLD Hammer price €750

Signed First American Edition Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair, roy 8vo N.Y. (Fountain Press) 1929. First U.S. Edition, Lim. Edn. No. 445 of 600 Copies. Signed by Author hf. title decor. title, uncut, orig. gilt decor blue cloth, & glassine cover. V. good. Wade 164. (1)

Lot 172/0297

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Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 8vo L. (Macmillan & Co. Ltd.) 1933. First Edn. Hf. title, edges untrimmed, orig. green cloth, with a design by T. Sturge Moore stamped in gilt on spine, & in blind on upper cover, with attractive orig. decor. d.w., slightly chipped at top of spine, otherwise a very good copy. Wade 169. (1)

Lot 173/0297

SOLD Hammer price €160

Sean Mac Entee’s Copy Milne (Ewart) Forty North Fifty West, 4to D. (Gayfield Press) 1938. Lim. Edn. No. 74 of 250 copies, with wd. cut portrait of author & 6 plts. by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld, orig. pict. wrappers. V. good copy, inscribed by Sean Mac Entee, political & author. (1)

Lot 174/0297

SOLD Hammer price €400

Signed by Beckett Beckett (Samuel)trans. Zone, by Guillaume Apollinaire, lg. 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. Lim. Edn. No. 65 of 250 Copies Signed by Beckett, uncut, orig. mor. backed black buckram, & matching slipcase. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 175/0297

SOLD Hammer price €600

Five First UK Signed Editions Ishiguro (Kazuo) Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005); The Remains of the Day (1989) inscribed “To Dr. Philip Murray – best wishes”, dated11/8/1989. When We Were Orphans (Faber, 2000), Signed; An Artist of the Floating World (Faber, 1986), inscribed “to Dr. Murray – best wishes, 17th November 1986 / Kazuo Ishiguro”, with als, agreeing to sign book, with original envelope, laid in. Edges a little spotted, d.w. spine ends slightly bumped; The Unconsoled (1995) Signed, d.w. spine ends slightly bumped, top edges of all volumes slightly dusty. (5)

Lot 176/0297

SOLD Hammer price €500

de Bernieres (Louis) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, First UK Edn.(1994), cloth, d.w. in removable cover, signed, “for Philip Murray / Kilkenny 2000 / Louis de Bernieres”, White boards rubbed; Corelli’s Mandolin, Advance Reader’s Edition (Pantheon NY, 1994). Original printed wraps, Signed dated 1994 to ffep. In original card slip case; Birds Without Wings, First UK (2004), Signed, dated 1998 (sic) on adhesive label to title page. (3)

Lot 177/0297

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Special Limited Edition Of 26 Copies de Bernieres (Louis) A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil, Belmont Press, 1999, ill. Eileen Hogan, Ltd Edn. One of 26 De Luxe Copies (with 2 extra prints in pocket), lettered A to Z, this copy C. Signed by Author and Illustrator. Fine in original slip case. (1)

Lot 178/0297

SOLD Hammer price €300

First Signed Editions de Bernieres (Louis) A Partisan’s Daughter, (Harvill Secker, 2008), v.g.; Red Dog, First Edn., (Secker 2001) Signed, dated 1998 (sic), on adhesive label to hf title; Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (Vintage, 2001), Signed, dated 1998 (sic) on adhesive label to hf title; A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil (Belmont Press, 1999), ill. Eileen Hogan, Ltd Edn. 58/150, bound with cloth spine, Signed by Author and Illustrator, beautiful copy, top edge dusty; Labels (First Edn., One Horse Press, 1993, Ltd 99/2000), Signed, dated 1993, in original orange wrap-around band; Labels (rep, One Horse Press, 1997) [1993], Signed, dated 1998 on adhesive label to hf title; Gunter Weber’s Confession, (Tartarus Press, 2001), Ltd. Edn. 110/300. In original red French wraps Beautiful copy, top edge dusty. (7)

Lot 179/0297

SOLD Hammer price €100

Kavanagh (Patrick) By Night Unstarred, An Autobiographical Novel. Edited by Peter Kavanagh 8vo The Curragh (Goldsmith Press) 1977. First Edn., orig. boards, pict. wrappers; Warner (Alan) Clay is the World. Patrick Kavanagh 1904 – 1967, D. (Dolmen) 1973. First Edn. boards & pict. d.w.; Nemo (John) Patrick Kavanagh, Boston 1979. First, frontis orig. gilt decor. red cloth. (3)

Lot 180/0297

SOLD Hammer price €180

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Nighwalker, D. 1967. Signed Lim. Edn. No. 83 of 100 Copies Only, orig. cloth backed boards; also Nightwalker and Other Poems, roy 8vo D. 1968. First Edn., cloth & d.w., Miller 106 & 121; also Kinsella (T.) Notes from the Land of the Dead, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1972, No. 156 of Lim. Edn. 500 Copies, unopend orig. cloth backed boards. (3)