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

170 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 934 With a Sketch ‘AE’ [George Russell]. Collected Poems . L. Macmillan 1927, FIRST EDITION. Inscribed on t.p. ‘For Mr Walter G. Lacy / George Russell / ‘AE’, over a Signed ink sketch of a mountain and shore scene. Later bookplate and signature on front pastedown. (1) € 200 - 300 935 Signed by Paul Henry Henry (Paul) & O’Faolain An Irish Portrait, The Autobiography of Paul Henry, R.H.A., 8vo L. (B.T. Batsford Ltd.) 1951, First, Signed by the artist on f.e.p., cold. frontis, illus., red cloth, d.j. worn. (1) € 200 - 300 936 Yeats Family An album inscribed by Erma Norah Franks of Weston House, Churchtown, Dundrum, a gift from her mother, containing her manuscript copies of poems by W.B. Yeats, also a drawing in the style of a Cuala Press card signed E.C.Y[eats], and a poem by Joseph Campbell in Lily Yeats’ hand and Signed by her; (with) a Victorian album of cabinet photos of members of the Franks family; and a prayer book inscribed to ‘Nonie Franks / on her Con fi rmation Day / from her godmother / Lucy Franks / March 28 [19]34’. As an album, w.a.f. (3) € 200 - 300 937 Unique Illustrated Volume of Celtic Interest O’Donoghue - Ross (Tighe) The Celtic Way - The Spirituality of an Ancient Race - Whose Time has Come Again, sm. folio Kerry (Privately Printed) 1999, 25 coloured illustrations printed on vellum, with Celtic spiritual sonnets, inscribed, in a leather metal mounted handmade binding decorated in the Celtic taste with coloured stone inset. Unique. (1) € 800 - 1000 933 Macnie (Isa, ‘Mac’). A very good collection of four original caricatures in ink and watercolour, all signed ‘Mac’, each circa 8” ins x 6 ½ ” ins, framed and glazed, as follows: - Sean O’Casey, Author of ‘Juno and the Paycock’, etc.; - Arthur Shields [the Abbey actor] as ‘Hyacinth Halvey’ [in the play by Lady Gregory]; - Miss Sara Allgood [the Abbey actress], signed twice; - Untitled, probably Lennox Robinson, the Abbey manager and playwright; And with a signed hand-coloured print of her well-known drawing reprinted from the Irish Times showing W.B. Yeats and George Russell passing each other on Merrion Square, one with his head in the clouds, the other looking down at his feet. Isa Macnie [1869-1958] was an Irish cartoonist and caricaturist; her book ‘The Celebrity Zoo’ was published in 1925. She was also an active su ff ragette, an actress, a pianist and a noted sportswoman (she was Irish ladies’ croquet champion in 1907). Her father was a Scottish printer who moved to Dublin. As a collection. (1) € 800 - 1200