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Lot 74
Burroughs (William S.) The Naked Lunch, first edition, second issue with "New Price NF 18" to lower cover, ink name to endpaper, original printed wrappers, light creasing to spine, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, dust-jacket, priced at "Francs 1500", chipping to spine ends, light creasing to head and foot, Paris, 1959; and 10 others, by the same and similar, modern literature, v.s. (11)
Lot 85
Disney (Walt) Mickey Mouse In Giant Land, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, occasional scattered foxing, original pictorial boards, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, closed tears and creasing to head and foot, still a very good example of a rare jacket, small 4to, 1934.
Lot 87
Dulac (Edmund).- Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac with captioned tissue guards, upper hinge weak with frontispiece detached, original decorated terracotta cloth, gilt, upper joint split at head, 1907 § Andersen (H.C.) Stories..., colour plates by Dulac, original grey cloth blocked in red, n.d., a little rubbed; and 5 others illustrated by Dulac including 2 copies of the later edition of the first, one with frayed dust-jacket, 4to (7)
Lot 91
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, foxing to endpapers, some wear to joints, spine ends and corners a little bumped, jacket price-clipped, browned, spine ends and corners chipped, tape mark to head of upper joint, surface soiling, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 'March 1964' to title verso, upper hinge starting, jacket faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, jacket with staining to spine, spine ends a little chipped and creased, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and a first edition of Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 8vo (4)
Lot 92
García Márquez (Gabriel) El Otoño del Patriarca, first edition, ink name to head of title, original boards, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, light rubbing to head and foot, original publisher's wraparound band, a sharp and bright copy, Barcelona, 1975 § Fuentes (Carlos) Aura, first American edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities, New York, 1965; and 18 others, South and Central American authors, 8vo (20)
Lot 98
Greene (Graham) The Ministry of Fear, first edition, ink gift inscription to endpaper, original cloth, faded, spine darkened, light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners, 1943; Travels with my Aunt, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends, light rubbing to extremities, 1969; and 15 others, Greene, 8vo (17)
Lot 152
Allen (J. Romilly) The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, a Classified, Illustrated, Descriptive List of the Monuments, with an Analysis of their symbolism and ornamentation. Lg. thick 4to Edin. 1903. First Edn., No. 115 of Limited edition of 400 Copies, Signed. hf. title, numerous photo illus., text illus. etc., orig. strong hf. green mor. gilt decor., raised bands & gilt decor. panels on spine. V. fine copy. (1)
Lot 214
Rare Provincial HistoryCo. Cork: Lord (Thomas) The Ancient and Present State of Youghal, Containing a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical and Topographical History there, of to which are added a Description of the Towns, Villages, Churches in the Baronies of Imokilly, and Kilnatalloon, with An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Blackwater, Gentlemen's Seats etc. Sm. 8vo Youghal (Thomas Lord) 1784. First & Only Edition, 13pp Subscribers list, some woodcut decorations, some minor damp stains, principally at start, uncut, recent full gilt decor., mor. gilt spine. (1)* One of the earliest books printed in Youghal. An exceptional copy of this rarity.
Lot 224
Leadbeater (Mary) Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry, with Notes and a Preface by Maria Edgeworth, tall 12mo L. (J. Johnson) 1811, First Edn., hf. title, pp.[IX], 343, later nineteenth-century cloth. A crisp clean copy, complete with half-title.Intended for the improvement of the peasantry and to inculcate in them a desire for neatness and sobriety, this was later translated into Irish, and distributed throughout Connemara. This original edition is very scarce. (1)
Lot 248
Rare Limited First Edition of an Irish ClassicJoyce (James). Ulysses. thick 4to Paris (Shakespeare & Company) 1922. Limited First Edn. No. 375 of 750 Copies, hf. title, uncut, & in orig. blue printed wrappers, and in handsome custom white cloth clambox with morocco label.This copy is believed to have been owned by the same family since publication (1)Provenance: The Family of Kevin Carroll, Scientist.
Lot 346
Forster (E M) Where Angels Fear to Tread (Blackwood 1905) First Edition, in original blue cloth, lacks d.w., good+, bumped and edge-rubbed, general edge wear, spine cloth darkened and faded, partly erasing "E" of author's name and publisher's name, small closed tears to spine ends, neat owner name in ink to hf title, very light age to a few pages, hinges weak, open at title page and rear board, otherwise stitching tight and paper bright, edges dusty. In specially made clam shell case. A scarce copy of Forster's First Book. (1)
Lot 347
Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, (Field Day 1983) First Edn. Signed. V.g. in cloth, d.w. Endpapers and prelims faintly toned.; New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987, (Faber 1988) First Edn. Signed. V.g. in cloth, d.w., small closed tear (no Loss) to top edge rear panel. Inscribed "For Philip Murray - Seamus Heaney - Sligo 1995"; Human Chain, (Faber 2010) First Edn. About Fine in cloth, d.w.; District & Circle, (Faber 2006) First Edn. Near Fine in cloth, d.w. (top edge dusty) (4) WITHDRAWN Sweeney Astray First Edition Signed - 3 items in this lot.
![Signed by W.B. YeatsYeats (W.B.) The Hour-Glass. A Morality L. 1907, orig. grey wrappers [theatre edition]. Signed at head of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/abbd3060-317d-4691-bb31-ab0900d4900c/81e86fdf-5ba2-4287-a502-ab1000add98f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 360
With a Sketch by J.B. YeatsMcGreevy (Thomas) Jack B. Yeats. An Appreciation and an Interpretation. First, June 1945, Special Edition, 250 copies. With an attractive sketch on f.e.p., showing a horse running by the shore with a sailing boat offshore, Signed and dated Dublin June 30th 1946. (1)
Lot 419
Heaney (Seamus) Opened Ground. Poems 1966 - 1996, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1998. First, Limited Edition, No. 210 of 300 Copies, Signed by Author, specially bound, slipcase; Spelling it Out, In Honour of Brian Friel, tall 8vo Gallery Press 2009. Lim. Edn. Signed by the Author, orig. green cloth. V.g. (2)
Lot 461
Important Source Book for the Study of his Early WorksLuce (A.A.)ed. Berkeley (George) Philosophical Commentaries, Generally called the Commonplace Book, An edition diplomatic, transcribed and edited with introduction and notes by A.A.Luce, lg. 8vo L. (Nelson) 1944, orig. buckram d.w. (pp. xlii 485) First Edn. thus - Limited Edn. to 400 copies. A fine copy. Very Scarce. (1)
Lot 486
Possibly Unique IssueUssher (James) Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and Predictions of the Holy, Learned, and Excellent James Usher, Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland, Sm. 4to London (For R.G.) 1678. First Edn. (1 of 4 issues), 8pp. disbound. Ex. Rare. ESTC R504328, Notes one copy only. Not recorded by Sweeney; also Pamphlet: A List of Such of the Names of the Nobility, Gentry and Commalty of England and Ireland, (Amongst whom are several Women and Children) .. . Sm. 4to Lond. (For R. Clavel .. and J. Watts) 1690. First and Only Edition. Title within dbl. lined border, pp [2], 5 - 52, 49 - 70, disbound, good. Scarce. Sweeney 2520?. (2)
Lot 487
Pamphlet: Anon. The State of Irish Affairs, For the Honourable Members of the Houses of Parliament; As they bye represented before them, from the Committee of Adventures in London for Lands in Ireland, sitting at Grocers-Hall for that Service. 4to Lond. (G. Miller) 1645. First and only Edition. pp [1], 26, title within decorated wd. cut border, damp stain lower fore-edge. Disbound. Scarce. Wing S 5318 (First & only Wing printing) Sweeney ; also Pamphlet: Manby - The Considerations which Obliged Peter Manby Dean of Derry To Embrace the Catholique Religion, Sm. 4to Lond. (For Nathaniel Thompson) 1687. First of 4 Wing Printings, pp. 8, 19, [1]. Disbound, Wing M.383; Sweeney 2963. (2)
Lot 503
Co. Waterford interest: Hayman (Rev. S.) The Illustrated Guide to The Blackwater and Ardmore, 8vo Youghal 1875. First Edn., frontis illus. thro.-out, orig. ptd. wrappers; also a later edition of same, published Youghal 1898, illus. etc.; Newenham Harvey & Co., Publishers, Handbook for Waterford and Vicinity, Sm. 8vo Waterford 1876. Second Edn., adverts, wrappers; 1 other item sim. (4)
![Inscribed by Sylvia Beech [Joyce (James)]. Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. By](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/abbd3060-317d-4691-bb31-ab0900d4900c/37f820c1-9512-44cf-bf35-ab1000ae8fb1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 602
Inscribed by Sylvia Beech [Joyce (James)]. Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. By Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams. With Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beech, Paris MCMXXIX. First edition, orig. wraps, a very good copy. Some pages of notes laid in. Inscribed on f.f.e.p. 'For Eileen McCarvill, from her admirer and friend, the publisher of this book, Sylvia Beech, Shakespeare and Co., Dublin July 8 1960'. The 'Letters of Protest' are said to be by Joyce himself. S&C B10. Sylvia Beech was of course also the publisher of 'Ulysses', the person without whom Joyce perhaps would never have achieved fame and renown. (1)
Lot 663
Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) The Street's Kiss, (Limberlost Press 1998) First Paperback Edition. One of 750 unnumbered copies from an Edition of 750. There were also 250 Copies in cloth, Signed by Author. This copy inscribed "A work in progress / for Philip / June 2004, Lawrence Ferlinghetti" Covers slightly rubbed and slightly soiled; Back Roads to Far Places, (New Directions 1971) V.g. in wrappers, inscribed "For Philip / June 2004, Lawrence Ferlinghetti"; Starting from San Francisco, (New Directions, 1967) 5th printing. V.g. in wrappers. Previous gift inscription. Inscribed "For Philip, June 2004, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Inscribed "For Philip and Vivien / in Sligo /June 04"; [Felver: Christopher] Ferlinghetti - A Portrait, (Gibbs & Smith 1998) First Edn. Signed by author and by Ferlinghetti. (4)
Lot 685
Rare First Edition - PoetryHemingway (Ernest) God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, (House of Books 1933) First Edn. No 258 of Limited Edition 300. In original red cloth and glassine wrapper (no d.w. issued). Gilt spine & front board, paper is toned but clean and strong, binding tight. An exceptional copy . (1)
Lot 686
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 cumpleaños! …. 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 688
Carver (Raymond) At Night The Salmon Move, (Capra Press 1976) First thus. V.g. in blue pictorial wrappers. There was a cloth edition of 100 copies, this Edition of 1000 copies was unsigned, but this copy Signed by Carver on title page. In removable protective covers; My Father's Life, (Babcock & Koontz 1986) First thus - it was originally printed in Esquire. This is No. 138 of Limited Edition 200, Signed by the Poet, stitched into Fabriano Roma wrappers. V.g.+. Wrappers faded. Carver's Memoir of his father in which he movingly quotes the end of his poem. Photograph of My Father in his his 22nd Year: "Father I love you / Yet how can I say thank you, I who can't hold my liquor either / and don't even know the places to fish". (2)
Lot 700
All Signed Copiesde 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 709
Exceptional Set of Eleven US & UK First Edition NovelsTheroux Paul Waldo (Houghton Mifflin 1967) V.g. in cloth, d.w. edge-rubbed, creasing to spine end, in clear protective covering. Very nice Copy of Author's First Novel; Fong and the Indians (Houghton Mifflin 1968) Signed v.g. in cloth, d.w. edge-rubbed, creasing to head of spine, one closed tear (no loss) in clear protective covering; Girls at Play (Houghton Mifflin 1969) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w. edge-rubbed, creasing to spine end, in clear protective covering; The Black House (Houghton Mifflin 1974 ) Signed; The Family Arsenal (Houghton Mifflin 1976) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w. edge-rubbed, creasing to spine end, in clear protective covering; The Mosquito Coast (Houghton Mifflin 1982) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Half Moon St. (Houghton Mifflin 1984) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w. V.g. in cloth, d.w.; Picture Palace (Hamish Hamilton 1978) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; The London Embassy (Hamish Hamilton 1982) Signed v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Dr Slaughter (Hamish Hamilton 1984) Signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Chicago Loop (Hamish Hamilton 1990) Signed v.g. in cloth, d.w. (11)
Lot 712
Signed First Edition of the Author's First BookMc Carthy (Cormac) The Orchard Keeper, 8vo, N.Y. (Random House) 1965, First, Inscribed and Signed on hf. title, green cloth back with maroon boards, and gilt lettering in original d.j. designed by Muriel Nasser. Good clean copy; Together with the Advance / Proof Copy, in ptd. wrappers, clean. (2)
Lot 713
First U.K. EditionMc Carthy (Cormac) The Orchard Keeper, 8vo, L. (Andre Deutsh) 1966, First U.K. Edn., red cloth, gilt lettered spine, in original d.j. designed by Stewart Black, clean copy; Together with Advanced U.K. Proof Copy, paperback format, similar d.j., clean; and a later paperback edition. (3)
Lot 718
Inscribed by the AuthorMc Carthy (Cormac) Child of God, 8vo L. (Chatto and Windus) 1975, First English Edn., Signed on t.p., black cloth, gilt lettered spine, decorative d.j. designed by Graham Palfrey-Rogers, good clean copy; Together with the U.K. Uncorrected Proof, L. 1975, maroon ptd. wrappers; and The First U.S. Paperback Edition, N.Y. (The Ecco Press) 1973, decorated wrappers. (3)
Lot 725
Signed First EditionMc Carthy (Cormac) All The Pretty Horses, 8vo N.Y. (A.A. Knopf) 1992, First, Signed by the Author on hf. title, cloth backed boards, and gilt lettering, in original d.j. designed by Chip Kidd. Clean Copy; Together with Advanced Readers Copy, and a Paperback Edition. Clean Copy. (3)
Lot 832
William III: Beschryving der eerpoorten, in's Graavenhaage opgerecht Fagen d'overkomst van William de III. Koning van Engeland, Schotland, Vrankriyk en Ierland, Benevrns een kokt verhaal van de voornaamste zaaken, voorgevallen onder de regeening van den geweezen Konig Jacobus, tot aan des zelfs vlucht, na den slag in Ierland by de rivier de Boyne, na Vrankryk, enz.... Folio Amsterdam (Carel Allard) 1691. First & Only Edition, 20 large double page plts. complete, 24pp. Cont. hf. vellum, marble sides, in recent slip case. Exceedingly Rare. Copac records 2 copies only. (1)* It illustrates the history of the Stadholder King William III and Queen Mary from the birth of the Prince of Wales on 20th June 1688 till the entrance of William and Mary in the Hague on 5th February 1691.
![Illustrated Volumes: Piatt (Hestor Sigerson) The Golden Quest and Other Stories, 4to D. (Three Candles)n.d. [c. 1940]. Sole E](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/abbd3060-317d-4691-bb31-ab0900d4900c/796c11e5-415a-49e0-98c8-ab1400c3eac5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 835A
Illustrated Volumes: Piatt (Hestor Sigerson) The Golden Quest and Other Stories, 4to D. (Three Candles)n.d. [c. 1940]. Sole Edition., frontis illus. title & 5 full page plts., orig. pict. boards; Milligan Fox (C.) Four Irish Songs, 4to D. (Maunsel) n.d. 4 lg. full page illus. by Joseph Campbell, silver printed boards; also Campbell (Joseph) Mearing Stones, sm. 4to D. (Maunsel) 1911. First Edn., frontis & 15 full page plts., orig. wrappers. (3)
![An Bíobla Naofa [The Holy Bible in Irish] Arna aistriú ón mbuntéacs faoi threoir ó Easpaig na hÉireann, maille le Réamhrá](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/abbd3060-317d-4691-bb31-ab0900d4900c/a7d524aa-50ba-4a35-9300-ab1400c3e8cc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 860
An Bíobla Naofa [The Holy Bible in Irish] Arna aistriú ón mbuntéacs faoi threoir ó Easpaig na hÉireann, maille le Réamhrá agus Brollaigh. An Sagart, Maigh Nuad 1981. Intro. by Cardinal Tomas Ó Fiaich, ed. Pádraig Ó Fiannachta. First edition of this new translation from the original Greek, thick quarto, one of a small number bound by Newman's of Dublin in full red faux-mor. gilt over bevelled boards, a.e.g., gilt doublures, six marker ribbons, a handsome production in mint condition. (1)
Lot 91
Heaney (Seamus) Hailstones, 8vo D.(Gallery) 1984. Lim. Edition 250 Copies Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; Sweeney Astray, Derry (Field Day) 1983. First Edn., d.w.; The Tree Clock, Belfast (Linen Hall) 1990. Lim. Edn., 870 Copies, cloth & d.w.; & From the Republic of Conscience, 1985. Sole Edn, wrappers. (4)
Lot 26
"A Voyage up the Mediterranean in his Majesty's Ship the Swifture one of the Squadron under the Command of Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson with a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798…" by the Rev. Cooper Willyams. 1st Edition 1802, J.White Publishers. Important account 309pp., 43 coloured plates etc. Lacks spine and original bounds present but disbound. An opportunity to acquire a very desirable item with scope for repair
Lot 559
KEMPIS, Thomas A: Nine Editions of The Imitation of Christ : 1- John Payne(Transl)- W. Nicoll, 1769, 2nd. edn. PP:xlviii, 252. Cont. full leather and later spine, VG; 2- A Facsimile of the First Edition printed at Augsburg in 1471-2. E Stock, 1893, Limited Edn. of 50 Large Paper Copies. 4to. ¾ morocco; 3- D. Brown, 1702. PP:TP(laid down), 272 (end); (ii), 36 (Meditation & Prayers...) Defective and incomplete ; 4- Roberts, 1714, 8th. edn. with 4 plates. PP:339+45; Plus 5 others, one defective (9)
Lot 951
Technical/Engineering. A selection; Norton Company - Grinding: Wheels, Machines, Methods. Worcester (Mass.): Norton Company, 1922. Publisher's cloth; Gilson, Leslie E. - Woodworking Machinery, Portable Electric Tools & Accessories... London: Parry & Son (tools) Ltd. First Edition, 1964. With price list loosely inserted.; and 3 others. (5)
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