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

225 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 1255 Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and other Poems, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1933, First Edn., hf. title, green blind decor cloth, gilt lettered and chequered spine, blue d.j. with same design, after T. Sturge Moore. Good copy, some blemishes. (Wade 169). (1) € 400 - 500 1256 Yeats (Jack B.) Sligo. L., Wishart 1930. Orig. cloth in slightly rubbed d.w., neatly Signed on f.e.p. ‘Jack B. Yeats / December 1930’, the Franks’ copy. (1) € 150 - 200 1252 Yeats (John Butler) An original self-portrait Sketch, Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York, circa 7” ins x 5” ins, showing him interrogating the viewer with a stern gaze. Provenance: From a damaged copy of his book Essays Irish and American (1918) (book will be supplied to the purchaser). € 2000 - 3000 1257 A Multiple Yeats Association Yeats Family- Beerbohm (Max). And Even Now [essays]. L., Heinemann 1920, sm qto cloth (stained), paper label. Bookplate of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on front pastedown; inscribed on f.e.p. ‘Elizabeth Corbet Yeats / with love from / Lily Yeats / Xmas 1920’; further inscribed below, ‘To Kathleen Franks, in memory of Lily Yeats, from George Yeats / March 18 1949’ [the year of Lily’s death: Elizabeth died in 1940]. A fascinating multiple association copy. (1) € 300 - 400 1258 Yeats (W.B.) Selected Poems Lyrical and Narrative. L., Macmillan 1929, blue cloth a little stained. Inscribed on f.e.p., ‘Erma & T.W. Franks / with all good wishes from/ Lily Yeats / Xmas 1929.’; together with Robinson (Lennox, ed.) A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse. L., Mac Millan 1927. Inscribed on f.e.p., ‘Kathleen Franks / with love from/ Lily Yeats / Xmas 1929’. (2) € 150 - 200 1259 Early Prize Bindings: [Synge (Edw.) Bp of Tuam] A Gentleman’s Religion: In Three Parts, 2 vols. (includes Supplement) 12mo D. (S. Powell) 1730 - 1733. Text loosening, paste downs free, in cont. mottled calf, raised bands, lacks labels. (2) * The front covers of each volume, stamped ‘Premium Praehonorabilis Comitis de Orrery Scholar Carrolovillae’. V. Scarce. € 200 - 300