Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

105 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 574 Rebound at Du ff y’s 1878’ Du ff y Binding Douai Bible. The Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate; the Old Testament .. by the English College at Douay, 1609; and the New Testament .. by the English College at Rheims, 1582. With Annotations, References etc. Published by the Approbation of the Right Rev. Dr. Denvir. Belfast, Read, 1847. Strongly bound in full black tooled morocco, raised bands, gilt title, turn-ins gilt, marbled e.p.’s, a.e.r. Inscribed by a previous owner on prelim, ‘Rebound at Du ff y’s, April 1878’. Du ff y bindings are usually unsigned, and authenticated examples such as this are rare. € 50 - 80 575 A Tale of Real Happenings Bennett (Louie). A Prisoner of his Word. A Tale of Real Happenings. D., Maunsel 1908, red cloth, First Edn. Novel set in Co. Down in 1797- 8. Very scarce, not in NLI online catalogue, COPAC fi nds only 5 copies. (1) Louie Bennett (1870-1956), was a lifelong feminist and trade unionist. Born to a prosperous Dublin family, she was radicalized by the great Dublin strike of 1913, when she worked in a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall. She was co-founder of the Irish Women’s Su ff rage Federation, secretary of the Irish Women Workers Union, and in 1931 the fi rst woman President of the Irish Trades Union Congress. The present work is one of two novels she wrote as a young woman. € 180 - 220 576 Genealogy: [Vicars (Arthur)] The Scale of Precedence in Ireland, By Authority, 12mo Dublin Castle (Ulsters O ffi ce) 1897; and Standing Orders, Viceregal Household and Sta ff , 12mo Dublin Castle (Ulsters O ffi ce) 1897. Both First Edns., a.e.g., in orig. limp crimson mor., gilt lettered. V. good. (2) € 130 - 200 577 Dickens (Charles) The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. L., Bradbury & Evans 1848, red cloth gilt, First Edn. of the last of the celebrated Christmas Books. Gerald FitzGibbon’s Copy (Supreme Court Judge 1924-38, friend of W.B. Yeats), with his engraved bookplate. Spine worn, but a good copy, scarce. Provenance: Yeats family, a gift from the judge. € 80 - 120 573 No, Sir, Not Assassins but the Cream of their Race’ McMahon (John T.), O.B.E., M.A., Ph.D. ‘The Cream of their Race’. Irish Truce Negotiations December 1920 - January 1921. Clare Champion [c.1973], For Author, First, orig. printed wrs, stapled. Inscribed by author on prelim, dated 2.3.73; (with) Building Character FromWithin. The Problem of Leisure. Bruce Publishing Co., Milwaukee, 1940, First Edn., orig. green cloth, 188 pp. Inscribed on f.f.e,p., ‘To my mother from the Jackeen of the family, J.T. McMahon, South Perth, March 18 1940’. The fi rst item is the only complete account of the attempt by Archbishop Patrick Clune of Perth to mediate between Lloyd George and the Irish leaders, with a view to a truce. Fr. McMahon, like Clune a Clareman, was secretary to the Archbishop and kept a diary of their e ff orts,during which Dr. Clune made his celebrated reply to Lloyd George, ‘No, Sir, not assassins but the cream of their race.’ When the mediation was unsuccessful, due to British intransigence, Fr. McMahon embarked for Perth where in time he became an authority on Catholic education, publishing some 30 books. He retired in 1979 and died in 1989. His work is scarce on this side of the world; Neither item found in NLI online catalogue or in COPAC. (2) € 275 - 350