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

46 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 350. Fishing: Sandeman (Fraser) Angling Travels in Norway, roy 8vo Lond. 1895. First Edn., hf. title, frontis, numerous plates & include. 4 cold. plts., uncut, orig. cloth, worn; Sanderson (F.) By Hook and by Crook, sq. 8vo Lond. 1892. First Edn., 15 plts. (include 11 hd. coloured), uncut, vellum cloth, stained. Both Scarce. (2) €250 - €350 351. G.A.A.: O’Sullivan (Thos. F.) First History of Great Organisation - Story of the G.A.A., 4to D. 1916, First Edn., illus., adverts, ptd. wrappers, cloth bound. Scarce. Good Copy. (1) €350 - €500 352. Bibliography: Keaney (Marian) Westmeath Authors, Athlone 1969; Kavanagh (Michael V.) A Bibliography of the History of County Kildare in Printed Books, Kildare 1976; O’Hanrahan (B.) Donegal Authors, Dublin 1981; Browne (B.) Living by the Pen, The Authors ... of Co. Wexford, 1997; & 2 others sim. As a lot. (6) €50 - €80 353. Behan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, 8vo, L. (Hutchinson) 1958, First Edn., portrait frontis, cloth & d.j.; Arthurs (P.) With Brendan Behan, 8vo N.Y. (St.Martins Press) 1981, illus., cloth & d.j. (2) €100 - €150 354. Durcan (Paul) Jumping the Train Tracks with Angela, 8vo, D. (Raven Arts) 1983, First Edn., Signed, printed wrappers; The Berlin Wall Café, 8vo, L. (Harvill) 1995, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Ark of the North for Francis Stuart on his Eighteenth Birthday, 28(29) April 1982, 8vo, D. (Raven) 1982, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Life is a Dream, 8vo, L. 2009, Signed, cloth & d.j., along with 8 other books by Paul Durcan, as a lot. (12) €120 - €160 355. Brown (Christy) My Left Foot, 8vo L. (Secker &Warburg) 1954, First Edn., pict. frontis, illus. cloth & d.j.; Down All the Days, 8vo N.Y. (Sein & Day) 1970, First U.S. Edn., cloth & d.j.; Come Softly to My Wake - The Poems of Christy Brown, 8vo, L. (Secker &Warburg) 1971, First Edn. Inscribed on f.e.p. ‘ For Geraldine, Much Love, Chris Brown, Dec. 1971, also “To Geraldine with Best Wishes from Katriana (Maguire) December 1977,” cloth & d.j.; Background Music, 8vo, L. (Secker &Warburg) 1973, First Edn., with letter from Noel Pearson (loose) cloth & d.j. As a lot. €300 - €400 356. Kinsella (Thomas) Butcher’s Dozen, Peppercanister I, 8vo, Dublin 1972. Lim. Edn. 125 Copies, O/S., mor. backed; Peppercanister 3, Vertical Man, roy 8vo Dolmen Press 1973, Lim. Edn. 100 Copies, O/S, mor. backed; Peppercanister 4, The Good Fight, 8vo Dolmen Press 1973. Lim. Edn., 125 Copies, Signed by Author, mor. backed; and Downstream, Poems, 8vo Dolmen Press 1962. First Edn., orig. d.w. & printed wrappers, ‘Poetry Book Society Choice’. (4) €100 - €150 357. Dolmen Press: Synge (J.M.) Queens, 8vo, Dolmen 1986, illus. blue cloth; The Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic MCMXVI, 12mo, D. 1960, ptd. boards; Miller (L.) ed. Retrospective, The Work of Seumas O’Sullivan & E.F. Solomons, 8vo D. 1973, illus. cloth & d.j.; Brennan (M.) The Boyne Valley Vision, 8vo, D. 1980 illus. cloth & d.j.; Cronin (A.) Dead as Doornails, A Memoir, 8vo Dolmen 1976, cloth & d.j.; Miller (L.)comp. Dolmen XXV, lg. 8vo, D. 1976, cloth & d.j. and four other paperbacks published by Dolmen, as a lot. (6) €150 - €220 358. O’Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor, 8vo L. 1961, First Edn., red cloth (no d.j.); The Dalkey Archive, 8vo L. 1964, First Edn., green cloth, d.j.; The Third Policeman, 8vo L. 1967, First Edn., grey cloth, d.j.; The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bocht) 8vo, L. 1973, First Translation, bds., d.j.; together with four other Flann O’Brien books by Anthony Cronin, Ciaran O’Nuallain (2) and one other, as a lot. (8) €200 - €300 351 350 358 355