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102 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 762. Limited Edition, Signed O’Meara (John J.)ed. The Voyage of St. Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land, 8vo Dublin (Dolmen) 1976. Lim. Edn. No. 79 of 750 Copies. Signed by Editor., illus. wd. cuts & printed in red, blue and black, unopened copy, cloth & orig. d.w.; Goldsmith (Oliver) The Deserted Village, 8vo Dublin (Hawthorn Press) 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 6 of 75 Copies Only. Illus. by Carey Clarke, and hd. cold. initials, orig. cloth backed printed pictorial boards. Both v. good. (2) €160 - €220 763. Engineering Pamphlets: 1. Instructions for Blasting Rock in the Works on the River Shannon, 8vo Dublin 1840, fold. plt.; 2. Manning (Rob.) On the Results of a Series of Observations on the Flow of Water off the Ground in the Woodburn District, near Carrickfergus, Ireland, L. 1866, plate; 3. Neville (Parke) On the Water Supply of the City of Dublin, 8vo Lond. 1874. plts.; & approx. 6 others sim. As a coll. w.a.f., cont. hf. mor. The late Fred Dixon’s copy with his bookplate, ‘F.E. Dixon.’ (1) (1) €130 - €180 764. Merryman (Bryan) Cuirt an Mheadhon Oidhche, 8vo Dublin 1912. Port. frontis uncut, orig. buckram backed boards. The contents page inscribed ‘Seamus na Casaide, 29.V.1912; O’Connor (F.) The Midnight Court, A New Translation, Dublin (Maurice Fridberg) 1945 First Edn., boards, & d.w.; Cuirt an Mhean Oiche, ed. by Daithi O’hUaithne, & Signed by him, vellum backed boards; & 1 other sim. (4) €120 - €170 765. Prior (James) Memoir of the Life and Character of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1826. Second Edn., port. frontis. Vol. I, recent attractive green mor. backed marble boards, raised bands, & tooled gilt panels with harp motif, mor. labels. V. good set; also A Letter from the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord.., 8vo Lond. 1796. First Edn., hf. title, recent marble boards, with gilt lettered mor. label front cover. (3) €200 - €300 766. Gogarty (Oliver St. John) It isn’t this time of Year at All!, N. York 1954. First American Edn., d.w.; Collected Poems, N. York 1954, First Edn., d.w.; Mr. Petunia, Lond. 1946, First Edn., d.w.; I Follow Saint Patrick, 1950, d.w.; Tumbling in the Hay, Lond. 1939, First Edn., cloth; also O’Connor (Ulick) Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lond. 1965., d.w. (6) €70 - €120 767. One of 150 Signed Copies Muldoon (Paul) Plan B, 8vo, L. (Enitharmon Press) 2009, Limited Edn. No. 24/150 copies, Signed by Author and photographer, full cloth ptd. label, matching slipcase; Selected Poems, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 2016, Signed, grey boards, d.j. (2) €120 - €140 768. One of 25 Numbered Copies Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, Signed Limited Edition, V (XXV) 25 copies reserved for the Author, cloth backed boards, ptd. label, matching slipcase. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A46c] €1200 - €1600 769 – See page 103 770. First US Edition Signed by the Author Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, 8vo N.Y. (Oxford University Press) 1966, Signed First US Edition, hf. title, blue green cloth, gilt lettered spine, d.j. (not clipped). Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A2b] €1500 - €2000 762 767 770 768