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Click here to subscribeJoyce (James) Finnegans Wake, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1939, First Edn. (First Impression), hf. title, uncut, orig. red cloth, gilt lettered spine, orig. dust jacket, some wear and tears, otherwise clean copy. (1)* Some 3,400 copies of this Edition were printed, of which 950 copies were destroyed.
Rare First Edition [Evans (Mary Anne)] 'George Eliot' Adam Bede, 3 vols. 8vo Edin. & L. (Wm. Blackwood & Sons) 1859. First Edn. 3 hf. titles, 16pp Cat. at end of Vol. III, one gathering loose in Vol. II, orig. yellow ends, and orig. orange / brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (with label), spines gilt, Vol. I with joints repaired, some newscuttings loose or tipped in. Pres. inscription in Vol. I to Amelia Daly (member of Daly Family, Co. Galway), dated April 1859. Sadlier 812. (3)
Beckett (Samuel). Murphy. Bordas 1947, First Edition in French, wrappers (upper wrapper loose, backstrip worn, some corners turned towards end). Inscribed and Signed on h.t. 'For Frank .. with love, Sam, / Paris October 1951'.The original English version was published in 1938. Translation by the author. Needs binding, but rare.
Signed by The AuthorO'Flaherty (Liam) Famine, L. 1937. First English Edn., cloth & orig. d.w. good; also First U.S. Edition of same work, Inscribed copy, "To Paddy Freyer with best wishes from Liam O'Flaherty," in original decor. d.w. spine faded; also Land, L. 1946. First Edn., Signed by Author on t.p., orig. ptd. yellow d.w. All good. (3)
With Illustrations by Willy PoganyColum (Padraic) The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy, sm. 4to L. 1920 First Edn.; also American Edition of same, N. York 1926. Signed by Author; also The King of Ireland's Son, sm. 4to L. 1920 First Illustrated Edn., all with cold. plts. & bl. & white decor. by Willy Pogany, orig. pict. cloth & decor. suede binding. Good. (3)
First English & American EditionsThe Blaskets: O'Sullivan (Maurice) Twenty Years A Growing, roy 8vo L. 1933. First English Edn., also First American Edition N.Y. 1933. Both orig. decor. d.w.s. Good. Also Thomas (Dylan) A File Script of Twenty Years A Growing, L. 1964. First Edn., V. Rare. Film never made. (3)
With Long Inscription by the AuthorO'Donnell (Peadar). Adrigoole. Cape, L. 1929, First, in the fine illustrated d.w., his Second Novel. With a very good inscription on f.f.e.p., 'Bridie Agnes a Stóir, Literature without an ultimate sense of tears is a barren waste; but often a sense of tears without rage is a puddle in a bog. I shall be sorry I wrote Adrigoole if it merely makes a puddle of that big grave where the O'Sullivan woman & her children sleep. Peadar O'Donnell, 28.2.30.'With a proof copy of the same edition in plain wrappers. (2)
The Author's First BookGore-Booth (Eve) Poems, L. (Longmans) 1898. First Edition hf. title, uncut, orig. cloth, gilt lettered spine, v. good copy; The One and The Many, L. (Longmans) 1904. First Edn., hf. title, orig. cloth, gilt decor; The Shepherd of Eternity and Other Poems, L. 1925. First Edn., advert. leaf at end, orig. cloth back orange boards; The House of Three Windows, L. 1926. First Edn., photo frontis, hf. title, cloth backed boards; also Poems of Eva Gore Booth, L. 1929. First Edns., port. photos orig. gilt decor. cloth. A Scarce Collection. (5)
All First EditionsHeaney (Seamus) The Government of the Tongue, The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures... 8vo L. 1988. First Edn = Signed Presenation Inscription, dated 15.X.88. Red cloth & d.w.; The Haw Lantern L. 1987. First Edn., orig. d.w.; Seeing Things, L. 1991. First Edition, orig. d.w. All v. good. (3)
Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, Acting Edition, 8vo L. 1907. First Theatre Edn., with pencil annotations & rough sketches thro-out, orig. ptd. wrappers. Wade 66; The Countess Cathleen, Vol. I of Dublin Plays, 8vo L. 1912. With 2 pp typescript re, play loosely inserted, orig. ptd. boards; Sophocles King Oedipus, sm. 8vo L. 1928, First Edn., adverts. at end, orig. white wrappers painted in green. Wade 160; & 1 other. As a lot. (4)
Muldoon (Paul) Wayside Shrines, 4to Gallery 2009. Signed Limited Edition, No. 188 of 350 Copies, illus. by Keith Wilson, orig. stamped cloth; Selected Poems 1968 - 1983, L. 1986. First Edition, with Signed Presentation, pict. d.w.; General Admission, Gallery 2006. Signed Limited Edition No. 84 of 100 Copies, cloth & pict. d.w.; Maggot, L. 2010. First Edn., pict. d.w. All v. good. (4)
First English & U.S. Editions[Yeats (Jack B.)] Birmingham (Geo. A.) Irishmen All, 8vo L. & Edin. (T.N. Foulis) 1913. First English Edn., 12 tipped in cold. plts. 6pp adverts at end, orig. gilt blocked green buckram; also First U.S. Edition, N.Y. (Fred. A. Stokes) 1913, 12 cold. illus, green blocked cloth, & orig. ptd. wrappers, with onlaid cold. illus. V. good copies. (2)
First Definitive Edition Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Lim. Edn. No. 212 of 375 Copies - Signed by Author, 2 port. frontis, unopened, with orig. ptd. Prospectus, 4pp laid in, olive-green buckram with gilt initials in circle on front covers, spines slightly spotted, otherwise a very fine copy, in brown slipcase. (2)
Fine Copies of the Author's First Two BooksO'Connor (Frank) Guests of the Nation, 8vo L. 1931. First Edn., full green cloth & with very good original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, laid down; The Saint and Mary Kate, 8vo L. 1932. First Edition, Advance Review Copy, with notices tipped-in, green cloth with small stain, in original pictorial dust wrapper, price clipped, but very good. (2)
Signed by The Author and Louis le BrocquyO'Connor (Frank) The Art of the Theatre, Frontispiece by Louis le Brocquy 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg) 1947. First Edition. The title Signed by the Author & the Artist, original coloured boards; also the Midnight Court, 8vo D. (Maurice Fridberg) 1945. First Edn., the f.f.end Inscribed 'Not to be taken' Frank O'Connor 8/10/45, cloth backed boards, & decor. pink d.w. V. good. (2)
O'Connor (Frank) Dutch Interior, 8vo First Edition, cloth; The Common Child - Stories & Tales. First Edition, cloth; The Road to Stratford, L. 1948. First Edition, cloth; and An Only Child, L. 1961. First Edition, and Signed by Author, cloth. all very good in original decor. & pictorial d.w.'s. (4)
O'Connor (Frank) Bones of Contention, 8vo L. 1936. First Edn. orig. pict. d.w.; Crab Apple Jelly, L. 1944. First Edn. torn decor. d.w.; Irish Miles, L. 1947. First Edn., with Signed Pres. Inscription, cloth; Travellers' Samples, Stories and Tales. L. 1951. First Edn., also with First U.S. Edition, of same work, N.Y. 1951, both cloth & decor. d.w.s. (5)
Presentation Copies to Norah RobinsonRobinson (Lennox) The Far-Off Hills, L. 1931. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy, decor. boards & pict. d.w.; Is Life Worth Living? An Exaggeration in Three Acts. L. 1933. First Edition, with long Presentation Inscription, Signed, cloth & d.w.; Pictures in a Theatre, D. (Abbey Theatre) n.d., with long Signed Pres. Inscription, wrappers. (3)
The Author's First BooksWoods (Macdara) Decimal D. Sec. Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesch, roy 8vo D. (New Writer's Press) 1970. First Limited Edition of 200 Copies, orig. decorated colour wrappers; Early Morning Matins, 8vo Gallery 1972. Lim. Edn. 1000 Copies, cloth & pict. d.w.; Stopping the Lights in Ranelagh, D. (Dedalus) 1987. First Edn., pict. wrappers. (3)* All three volumes with Signed Presenation Inscriptions to Katherine Kavanagh, widow of poet Patrick Kavanagh.
The Author's Very Rare Second Published Book[Gogarty (Oliver St. John) & O'Connor (Jos.)] 'Alpha and Omega,' - Blight. The Tragedy of Dublin, An Exposition in 3 Acts. 8vo (Talbot Press) 1917. First (Sole) Edition, some lines underlined in pencil, the title with earlier owner's name 'Douglas Louis Bligh' in pen, 74pp complete, in orig. printed grey wrappers, spine browned somewhat, but a delightful copy of this rarity. (1)* This is Gogarty's second book, preceeded only by 'Hyperthuleana,' which was privately circulated and is of legendary rarity.
All First EditionsGogarty (Oliver St. J.) Tumbling in the Hay, 8vo L. 1939. First Edn., blue cloth & decor. d.w.; Rolling Down the Lea, L. 1950. First Edn., blue cloth & decor. cold. d.w.; It Isn't This Time of Year at All! An Unpremediated Autobiography. N.Y. (Doubleday & Co.) Spring 1954. First Edition, oatmeal cloth & decor. d.w.; also First English Edition of same work, L. Autumn 1954, red cloth & pict. d.w. All v. good. (4)
The Author's First CollectionSigned Presentation to the Memory of Patrick KavanaghDurcan (Paul) O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, 8vo D. (Dublin Magazine Press) 1975. First Edition, orig. pict. wrappers. Very fine. (1)* Paul Durcan won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1974. This copy inscribed, 'Maybe Mary might call round....and then I came to the haggard gate,And I knew as I entered that I had comethrough fields that were part of no earthly estate''To the memory of Patrickand to Katherine Barry Moloney Kavanagh, dear kindest friend,from Paul Durcan, 14 June 1975.'A truly unique Copy.
Signed Presentation Copy to George RussellGogarty (Oliver St. John) An Offering of Swans, and Other Poems. Roy 8vo L. (Eyre & Spottiswoode) n.d. [1924]. First Trade Edition. Port. frontis, orig. blue buckram. V. good copy. (1)* Inscribed 'to George Russell.... from Oliver St. Gogarty 5.VIII.24.'
Presentation Copy to M.J. Mac ManusO'Faolain (Sean) The Great O'Neill A Biography, 8vo N.Y. 1942. First U.S. Edition, Signed Presenation Copy, & with m/ss note from author re errors in the text, cloth & orig. pict. d.w.; also an English Edition of same work, L. 1947, d.w.; The Talking Trees and other Stories, Boston 1970. First U.S. Edition, and First UK Edition of same work, L. 1971, both pict. d.w.; The Irish - A Character Study, N.Y. 1956, d.w. (5)
Signed First Edition Murphy (Tom) The Sanctuary Lamp, 8vo D. 1976. First Edn., pict. wrappers; Famine, Gallery 1977. First Edn., green wrappers; Conversations on a Homecoming, Gallery 1986. First Edn. Signed by Author, cloth & d.w.; also The Seduction of Morality, roy 8vo L. 1994. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w. The Author's First Novel. (4)
Durcan (Paul) Theresa's Bar, Gallery Books 1986 [Revised Edn.], cloth; Christmas Day, L. 1996. First Edn., cloth; Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil, 8vo L. 1999. Signed First Edition, cloth; The Art of Life, L. 2004. First Edn., boards; The Laughter of Mothers, L. 2007. Signed First Edition, boards, all orig. decor. d.w.'s. V. good. (5)
Heaney (Seamus) The Haw Lantern, L. 1987 First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy, 2-III-95,; Electric Light, L. 2001 Uncorrected Proof Copy; Beowolf, roy 8vo N.Y. 2000 Bilingual Edition, cloth backed boards, d.w.; Finders Keepers, Selected Prose 1971 - 2001, roy 8vo N.Y. 2002. First American Edn, d.w.; District and Circle, L. 2006. First Edn., Signed Pres. Copy, Jan. 2007, orig. wrappers. (5)
Robinson (Lennox) The Dreamers. A Play in Three Acts, D. (Maunsel) 1915. First Edition - Signed, cloth backed boards; Oxford Poetry 1917, Ed. by W.R.C., T.W.E., & D.L.S. 8vo Oxford 1917, wrappers. Signed by Lennox, Christmas 1917; The White Headed Boy, L. (Putnam) 1925; The Big House. Four Scenes in its Life, L. 1928; Bryan Cooper, L. 1931, wrappers; The Far-Off Hills, L. 1946, cloth; Dark Days, 12mo D. 1918, wrappers; & 1 other. (8)
Muldoon (Paul) Mules, L. 1982. Signed by Author; Meeting the British, L. 1987. Signed First Edition; Madoc, L. 1990. Signed First Edn.; Shining Brow, L. 1993. Signed First Edn., The Annals of Chile, L. 1994. Signed First Edn., all orig. wrappers; Moy Sand and Gravel, L. 2002. First Edn., d.w.; and Horse Latitudes, L. 2006. First Edn., pict. d.w. all v. good. (7)
First English & American EditionsO'Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor, 8vo L. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1961, First Edn., red boards lettered in gilt & orig. d.j. designed by Sean O'Sullivan. very good copy save for some spotting on fore-edge; also First American Edn., of same N.Y. (Pantheon Books) 1962, cloth backed green boards, & orig. pict. d.w.; together wtih Second English Edition, London (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) 1973, black boards & orig. d.w. A Scarce Collection in fine condition. (3)
Bert Stern (USA, 1929-2013) TWIGGY BEFORE A PAINTING BY BRIDGET RILEY, 1965 large format silver gelatin C print; (no. 5 from an edition of 9) signed lower right; numbered lower left Bert Stern was the son of immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn. His father was a portrait photographer. After dropping out of high school at the age of 16, he started work in the mail room at Look magazine. He worked his way up to become art director at Flair magazine, where he started taking his own pictures. In 1951 Stern was drafted into the army and was sent to Japan where he was assigned to a photographic unit. Stern's first professional assignment was in 1955 for a Madison Avenue advertising agency for Smirnoff vodka. His best-known work is arguably The Last Sitting, a collection of 2,600 photographs taken for Vogue of Marilyn Monroe over a three-day period, six weeks before her death. Stern's book The Last Sitting was published in 1982 and again in 2000. He has photographed Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Twiggy, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Drew Barrymore and Lindsay Lohan among others. “Women are everything," Stern is reported to have said, “Man is just a muscle.” Another notable quote from him is “What makes a great model is her need, her desire; and it’s exciting to photograph desire.” 72 by 72in. (182.9 by 182.9cm)
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN, 1951-1952 Aubusson Tapestry, Atelier Tabard Frères et Soeurs, France; (from an edition of 9) signed with initials and dated in the weave lower left; signed on weaver's label on reverse Collection of George and Maura McClelland Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Louis le Brocquy, Tapestries, exhibition catalogue, 2000 (illustrated); The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.90 (illustrated) Few artists anywhere have had as much experience in tapestry design. Along with his well-known predecessor Jean Lurçat, Louis le Brocquy has proved to be a master of the medium and a landmark figure in the revitalisation of this art form. His experience began in 1948, when Edinburgh Tapestry Weavers invited a number of painters working in London to design a first tapestry. His association with the medium further developed in the 1950s, in his collaboration with the great firm Tabard Frères & Soeurs, founded in the 17th century in Aubusson, France. Later the artist's tapestries were woven in the same historic region by the Atelier René Duché, Meilleur Ouvrier de France. The early tapestry designs include Travellers (1948), Garlanded Goat (1949-50), Allegory (1950), and the Eden Series (1951-52); the latter series, includes Adam And Eve In The Garden. Later there was the Inverted Series (1948-99), the Tain Series (1969-00), the Cúchulainn Series (1973-1999) and the Garden Series (2000). Large-scale tapestry commissions include Brendan the Navigator (1963-64, UCD, Michael Smurfit School of Business, Dublin), The Hosting of the Táin (1969; Irish Museum of Modern Art), the Massing of the Armies (RTÉ, Dublin) and the monumental Triumph of Cúchulainn (National Gallery of Ireland, Millennium Wing). In 1951, Mrs. S.H. Stead-Ellis, whose art collection already included le Brocquy tapestries, commissioned three related tapestries, adaptable as screen, rug and firescreen, on the theme of the Garden of Eden - Adam and Eve in the Garden, Eden and Cherub. He treated the theme with archetypal imagery in a Classical, even traditional manner, the sun and the moon appearing respectively in the male and female spheres. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil appears as in traditional French Medieval tapestry with the birds and butterflies among its leaves, but he adds a Surrealist aspect with eyes as well as leaves (as befits a tree of knowledge) and fish swimming in its branches. Eden remains one of le Brocquy's most interesting works; the vibrant colourful design is based on a series of subdivisions of the classical Golden Section, yet the design bleeds off the tapestry in a most unclassical manner. The leaves of the Tree mingle with the tears of Adam and Eve while the fatal apple is discarded, bitten and segmented. The artist, in an interview with Harriet Cooke published in The Irish Times on May 1973, describes his involvement with tapestry as something he had "rather stumbled into by accident". But after that first commission from Edinburgh Weavers, the medium took on its own distinct fascination: "I always found it a kind of recreation, involving completely different problems, it is refreshing in the sense that one is exhausted in a different way. There is also another aspect of it which is very exciting to the painter, who has this struggle with the angle, and that is the same aspect which is so exciting, say, to the Japanese Satsuma potter, when he puts his jar in the oven and waits on tenterhooks for it to come out. It always comes out a little different from what he had imagined and sometimes he has wonderful surprises. The method I use is a system of notation, a linear design which is numbered in the colours of a range of wools. Although one can visualise what one is doing, to a certain extent, when the tapestry is palpably there this causes an independent birth of something, and that is so contrary to the whole involved process of painting that it is rather refreshing." Dorothy Walker (1929-2002) Published on www.anne-madden.com 55 by 108.25in. (139.7 by 275cm)
Russell (Bertrand) First edition books/phamplets All 8vos, original hard cloth, including: Mysticism and Logic, 1929, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, signed by the author in black ink to f.f.e.p, black cloth with red labels to upper cover and spine, t.e.g., the others uncut; The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (with Dora Russell), 1923, London, George Allen & Unwin; The ABC of Atoms, London, Kegan Paul, 1923; Icarus or the Future of Science, 1924, K.P., Second Impression; Human Knowledge, 1948, Allen & Unwin, d.j.; New Hopes for a Changing World, 1951, A & U, d.j.; Satan in the Suburbs, 1953, A & U, (his first volume of stories), d.j.; Portraits from Memory, 1956, A & U, d.j.; Fact & Fiction, 1961, A & U, d.j. [together with:] two copies of Authority and the Individual, The First Reith Lectures; Physics and Experience, CUP, pamphlet transcript of the Henry Sidgwick Lecture at Cambridge 1945; Philosophy and Politics, for the NBL; and The Atomic Age (Russell one of six contributors). A little bumped and rubbed, d.j.s a little frayed, some spines a little faded, some foxing to edges of blocks; fair to good copies overall, some with bookplates and ownership inscriptions and labels (14)
First Edition Book 'Hounds First!' By F./LT. H. C. Pyper Hunting interest book with dark green paper slip cover with central colour illustration of hounds and huntsmen on horseback. Printed in Great Britain by G.A. Philpot LTD. 56 Ludgate Hill London, E.C.4 black and white photographic images throughout. Some staining to cover reflective of age.
Judy Boyes Signed Limited Edition Prints Two in total, the first 'Late Afternoon Sunlight, Langdale' numbered 301/850 signed in pencil by the artist. Depicts a snow scene with cottage and sheep. The second 'Glencoyne Farm, Ullswater' numbered 192/850, signed in pencil by the artist. Depicts sheep grazing on hillside with lakeland cottages in middle distance.
Tom Dodson Signed Framed Limited Edition Prints. Two in total, the first titled 'The Spot' Numbered 72 of 850, signed in pencil by the artist. Depicting a woman at wash basin with young girl in foreground. The second titled ' The Press', numbered 601 of 850, signed in pencil by the artist. Depicting a young boy ironing trousers. Approx dimensions 10.5 x 15 inches.
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