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

77 fonsiemealy.ie fm All contents and images are subject to copyright 412 One of 100 Copies with Extra Illustrations Grossmann (Edwina Booth) Edwin Booth, Recollections by his Daughter, lg. 8vo New York (The Century Co.) 1894, Ltd. Edn 40 (100) copies, hf. title, portrait frontis, 23 plts. (complete) & 12 additional plts., in fi ne quality full red mor. with gilt fi llet panels and ornate covers by ‘Bradstreets,’ Raised bands. Good Copy. (1) € 400 - 500 413 Botanical Interest: - Mauve (Th.) & Abercombie (John) The Universal Gardener and Botanist, A General Dictionary of Gardening and Botany, thick 4to L. (G.G. & J. Robinson) 1797, Second, 7 plts., marble end paper, full calf, with gilt Greek key design, professional rebacked; Rhind (Wm.) A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, lg. 4to L. 1865, plates, some cold. hf. calf, cloth boards, as is, w.a.f. (2) € 220 - 320 414 Lydgate (John)comp., The Life of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr, 2 vols. L. (Folio Society) 2004, Limited Edn., No. 819 (1000) copies, including facsimile bound in full goatskin with design by David Eccles, all edges gilt; together with the commentary, full green buckram gilt lettering and design, in matching clam shell box. (2) € 250 - 320 415 Behan (B.) & Hogarth (P.)illus. Brendan Behan’s Island, N.Y. (Random House) 1962, First Edn., illus., cloth & d.j.; Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, 8vo L. (MacGibbon & Lee) 1964, First Edn., cream cloth (lacks d.j.); Henerdson (A.) Bernard Shaw, Playboy and Prophet, thick 8vo, N.Y. (D. Appleton & Co.) 1932, illus., cloth & d.j.; Heaney (S.) The Haw Lantern, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn. paperback, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (4) € 150 - 200 416 Heaney (S.) Beowulf, L. 1999, Signed; District and Circle, L. 2006; The Government of the Tongue, L. 1988; The Redress of Poetry, L. 1995, all 8vo, cloth and d.j.; Sweeney Flight, 4to L. 1992, illus., cloth and d.j.; Articulations: Poetry Philosophy and Shaping of Culture, lg. 8vo, D. (R.I.A.) 2008, Signed by James Slevin (President R.I.A.), ptd. wrappers; also 8 paperback Editions, including The Cure at Troy, Field Work, Door into the Dark, Station Island, The Haw Lantern, Death of a Naturalist, Sweeney Astray, and New Selected Poems, all L. (Faber & Faber), ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (14) € 250 - 320 417 Irish Literature: Trevor (Wm.) Excursions in the Real World, L. 1993; The Story of Lucy Gault, L. 2002; Family Sins and other Stories, L. 1990; Leonard (Hugh) Home Before Night, L. 1979, Inscribed by the Author; Deane (Seamus) Reading in the Dark, L. 1996; Banville (John) The Sea, L. 2005; Mac Cabe (Patrick) The Butcher Boy, L. 1992; Mac Mahon (Bryan) The Tallystick, D. 1994; Toibin (Colm) The Master, L. 2004, all 8vo all cloth and d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (9) € 150 - 200