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

224 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 1251 Inscribed by The Author’s Sisters Mac Swiney (Terence J.) The Revolutionist, A Play in Five Acts. 8vo D. (Maunsel) 1914. First Edn., orig. cloth backed boards. (1) * Inscribed on f.e.p. by Mac Swiney’s two sisters”... le meas Maire Nic Suibhne / Eithne Nic Suibhne” Laid in at rear is a note signed Moira [not Maire Mac Swiney], dated 3.8.22, asking recipient [probably Ethna O’Byrne] to pay a taxi fare, saying ‘ It is wonderful to be in Republican territory .. There is fi ghting in Bruree & Kilmallock. I am staying with Miss Mac Swiney in Cork. She is ever so kind to me & so nice’ A scarce item even without the signatures. € 350 - 500 1253 V. Rare Hugh Lane Association Item Abbey Theatre: A printed Linen Handkerchief, inscribed Sold by the Irish Players at $1.00 towards a building to save Sir Hugh Lane’s Great Gift of Pictures for Ireland, April 1913. approx. 47cms square, with 8 single portraits, and large group study of The Abbey Players, signed by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory. Folded and in original envelope. In fi ne condition. (1) Provenance: From the Collections of the late Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, grand daughter of Lady Gregory. € 325 - 450 1254 Yeats (W.B.) Poems. L., Fisher Unwin 1912 (sixth English edition, revised). With a portrait (loose). Blue cloth, profusely gilt, spine a little faded. Alice Franks’ copy with her signature on t.p. Wade 99. (1) € 150 - 200 1248 Manuscript Exercise Book Gore Booth (Eva) A small octavo notebook containing Italian language exercises, with label inscribed ‘Eva Gore Booth / Casa Caraggio / Bordighera,’with about 20pp of various manuscript notes and exercises, interspersed with some attractive small pencil drawings, mostly of women, one of a bespectacled man remarkably like James Joyce. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) * Eva was a sister of Constance, Countess Markievicz, of Lissadell, ... two girls, both beautiful, one a gazelle...’ [W.B. Yeats]. € 250 - 350 1249 The Personal Copy of Joseph Mary & Grace Plunkett Hyde (Dr. Douglas) Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht, or The Love Songs of Connacht. ( Being the Fourth Chapter of the ‘Songs of Connaght’), now for the fi rst time Collected, Edited and translated by Douglas Hyde, L.l.D. MRIA. Fourth Edition, Dublin 1905. Fine copy in an attractive full morocco binding, Three Candles binding label at rear. Joseph Mary Plunkett’s copy (signatory of the 1916 Proclamation), with his signature in Irish on front blank dated 1911, and with a later inscription ‘To John Burke, who comes like an angel of light in the dark places, from Grace Plunkett, Easter 1949.’ John Burke was a solicitor and a friend of Jack Yeats and his circle. A superb association copy of a book which was one of the foundation stones of the Irish Revival. (1) € 1200 - 1800 1250 Presentation Copy from Lady Constance Markievicz’s Husband Markievicz (Casimir Dunin) The Memory of the Dead; A Romantic Drama of ‘98, in Three Acts, Sm. 8vo D. (The Tower Press) 1910. Sole Edn., hf. title with Presentation Inscription, ‘ To R. Justice from Dunin Markievicz 1910’. Photo frontis showing Countess Markievicz on set, & other sim. illus., recent cloth, with original wrappers bound in. Very good. Ex. Scarce. (1) € 300 - 400