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

69 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 364 Binding: Carleton (William) Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 5 vols. D. (Baldwin & Cradock) 1836, Fourth, illustrated by W.H. Brooke, engd. frontis to each volume, vignette t.p., uniformly bound in hf. green leather, marble boards, mor. labels. Clean Set. (5) € 180 - 220 365 Bienstock (J.W.)trans. Oeuvres Completes du Comte Leon Tolstoi - ‘Guerre et Paix,’ 6 vols. (in 2) thick 8vo, Paris (P.V. Stock) 1903 - 1904, illus. orig. wrapper,s bound in contemp. mor. backed marble boards, mor. label. Clean Set. (3) € 300 - 400 367 [Studholme (John) of Thursley] An Essay on Human Nature, 12mo Carlisle 1777. First Edn., 184pp plus errata tipped in at end, cont. qtr. calf. V. good copy. (1) € 200 - 300 366 Interesting American Association: Ste ff ens (Lincoln) John Read Under the Kremlin, sm. 8vo Chicago (Will Ransom for The Walden Book Shop) 1922. Private Press Limited to 235 Copies, uncut, orig. wrappers, with bookplate removed; also by same author Moses in Red, The Revolt of Israel as a Typical Revolution.. 8vo Philadelphia 1926. First Edn., Signed by Louise Bryant, with book label of William C. Bullitt, orig. cloth with decor. label. (1) * John Reed, author & socialist, was married to Louise Bryant. He wrote ‘ Ten Days that Shook the World,’ about the 1917 October Russian Revolution. He died of typhus in 1920, and is the only American to be buried within the walls of the Kremlin. Louise Bryant later marriedWilliam C. Bullitt, First American Ambassador to Russia in 1933-36, and later from 1936 to France. He was credited as having saved Paris from bombing by the Germans. He and Bryant eventually split up acrimoniously, maybe the reason for removing his bookplate from her copy of the Reed Book. Provenance: Both volumes from the estate of Anne Bullitt, only daughter of Bullitt and Bryant. € 200 - 300 See Biographical Note before Lot 153. 368 Russian Interest: [The Dowager Marchioness of Du ff erin and Ava] My Russian and Turkish Journals, 8vo L. (J. Murray) 1917, hf. title, frontis, hf. calf, marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with mor. labels; Seeger (C.L.)trans. Memoirs of Alexander Iswolsky, formerly Russian Minister of Foreign A ff airs and Ambassador to France, 8vo, L. (Hutchinson & Co.) 1920, frontis, illus., hf. calf, marble boards, gilt decor. spine with mor. labels; Dziekenska (Kasimir)trans. The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska..., 8vo Chicago (A.C. McClurg) 1899, Seventh, frontis, in attractive full calf with ornate gilt panels, decorated panelled spine, Signed on inside front cover “Bauliner,” Clean Copies. (3) € 180 - 220 369 Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1912, First, hf. title, cold. frontis & 7 cold. print,s numerous line and other drawings, blue cloth (badly stained); Orpen (Sir William) Stories of Old Ireland & Myself, 4to N.Y. (Henry Holt & Co.)1925, frontis & 33 plts. (complete), cloth backed gilt lettered boards. (2) € 300 - 400