CHRISTMAS RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE December 11th & 12th, 2024

118 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 880. Thompson (Hugh) Illustrator. Goldsmith (Oliver) She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, Lg. 4to Lond. n.d. [c. 1920’s] Cold. frontis & 24 tipped-in coloured illustrations, attractive gilt decor. cloth. (1) €100 - €150 881. Moore (Thomas) Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance, 4to Lond. 1817. First Edn., recent hf. calf, mor. labels; also Odes of Anacreon, translated into English Verse. 4to Lond. 1860. First Edn., frontis & some plts., list of subscribers, binding dam. text loose. As a lot, w.a.f. (2) €100 - €150 882. Harrison (Florence) illustrator. Rossetti (Christina) Poems, Lg. thick 4to Lond. (Blackie & Son)n.d. Decor. title, cold. frontis & 35 full page cold. plts. also 34 bl. & white ditto, uncut, full cream cloth, with attractive gilt decor. V. good. (1) €140 - €200 883. Signed by 25 Contributors Carpenter (Andrew) & Fallon (Peter) eds. & Bunn (M.) photographer The Writers, A Sense of Ireland, 4to D. (O’Brien Press) 1980, First Edn., Signed by 25 contributors, including Jennifer Johnston, William Trevor, Michael Hartnett, Brian Friel, Peter Fallon, Eilean ni Chuilleanain, Eavan Boland, John Banville and others, black buckram gilt lettered spine, d.j. (1) [Brandes & Durkan B43a] €400 - €600 884. One of 120 Copies Heaney (Marie) & Lynch (P.S.)illus . Irish Myth and Legend, The Names Upon the Harp, lg. 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 2000, Signed Limited Edn. No. 66/120 copies, illustrated throughout, white paperback green boards, with gilt lettered spine and matching slipcase. (1) €200 - €300 880 885. Signed by Author and Artist Heaney (Seamus) & Lewritt (Sol)artist Squarrings - a Sequence of Forty-Eight Poems, lg. 4to, San Francisco (The Arion Press) 2003, Signed Limited Edn. No. 203 (400) copies, illustrated, decor. grey cloth, matching slipcase. (1) €1000 - €1500 882 886. Signed Lettered Copy Heaney (Seamus) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, folio N.Y. (Nadja) 1984, Signed Lettered copy ‘G’ uncut, blue cloth, printed label. Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A30b] €500 - €700 883