Fonsie Mealy's RARE BOOKS & COLLECTIBLES December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 120 Imperfections Not Stated 790. [Joyce (James)] Redon (George) artist, An original Menu for “Dejeuner at The Cafe de Paris, Fouguets Bar,” for 14th July 1919, decorated in Art Nouveau taste, approx. 41cms x 29cms (16” x 11½”) recent frame, some stains and repairs. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 792. After Paul Spech, Switzerland (1896-1966) (Joyce (James)) A bronze cast Model of the Death Mask of James Joyce (1882 - 1941), marked on a wooden board with plaque. (1) €500 - €700 793. Cuvee James Joyce [Joyce (James)] A bottle of Joyce’s favourite white Wine, Fendant de Sio, Provins Valais Suisse 2003, Cuvee James Joyce, a special bottling. Bottle with a portrait of Joyce, inscription ‘100 Years of Bloomsday,’ and a biographical note. Cork and seal intact. Scarce. (1) €80 - €100 794. Kavanagh (Patrick) Kavanagh’s Weekly - A Journal of Literature and Politics, (Vol. 1 No. 3) front page, together with a black and white Photograph of Kavanagh in a horse and carriage outside Danny Byrnes, mounted and framed. (1) €150 - €200 795. The First Book fromThe Dolmen Press Dolmen Press: Clifford (Sigerson) Travelling Tinkers, sm. 8vo D. 1951. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies Only, hf. title, wd. cut device on title & end page, 22pp., orig. blue printed wrappers. V. good clean copy. Miller 1. Extremely Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 796. Irvine (John) (1903-1964), Poet. A Portfolio of his work assembled by his friend Terence Graham between 1959 and 1963, including a signed photograph, three autograph signed letters to Graham, signed manuscript copies in Irvine’s hand of six poems, including his poem in memory of Armour of Ballymoney, and two poems said to be unpublished, all neatly mounted in an album bound in stiff card. Irvine, born in Belfast, published about six collections of lyrics between 1932 and 1954, mostly from small presses in Belfast and Dublin. He also edited an anthology of Irish poetry, The Flowering Branch . €400 - €600 795 792 793 796 & detail 791. From the ‘House of the Dead’ James Joyce’s Timpiece [Joyce (James)] A George III period Grandfather Clock , the mahogany body with break neck pediment, and blind fretwork, over a glazed door, enclosing a painted dial, signed May of Dublin, the shaped panel door with crossbanding flanked by reeded columns on a square base with bracket feet, approx. 236cms (93”) high; together with a red brick block, taken during the restoration at 15 Ushers Island. (1) Provenance: No. 15 Ushers Island (House of the Dead) home of James Joyce’s aunts, and by descent. The House surrounding the short story “The Dead” from the ‘Dubliners’ by descent to the present vendor. €1500 - €2000 E . 1 4