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

73 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 573. Heaney (Seamus) The Haw Lantern, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated, red cloth, silver lettered spine d.j.; The Haw Lantern, [Unrevised, Uncorrected Proofs] N.Y. (Farrar Straus Gioux) 1987, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2) [Brandes and Durkan A41] €350 - €450 574. Signed and Inscribed by Seamus Heaney Heaney (Seamus) Door Into the Dark, 8vo, N.Y. (Oxford University Press) 1969, First US Edn., Signed and inscribed Our Poetry is a Gumwhich oozes fromwhence tis nourished ..., (for Betty, 22nd March 1971), black cloth, gilt lettered spine, d.j. (not clipped). Good copy. (1) [Brandes & Durkan A5b] €600 - €800 575. Heaney (Seamus) Station Island, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1984, Uncorrected Advance Proofs, inscribed on front cover ‘ For Philip Murray, Seamus Heaney, August 1995,’ ptd. wrappers; Station Island, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1984, First Edn., black cloth, gilt lettering, d.j. Good copies. (2) [Brandes & Durkan A36] €300 - €400 576. Heaney (Seamus) Diary of One Who Vanished, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1999, First Edn., Signed, ptd. wrappers, green wrappers and yellow cover; Diary of One who Vanished, sm. 4to N.Y. (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) 1999, First US Edition, ptd. wrappers; Diary of One Who Vanished, 8vo, N.Y. (Farrar, Straus & Gioux) 1979, Uncorrected Proof, ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (3) [Brandes & Durkan A73a, A73b] €200 - €300 577. Signed US Review Copy Heaney (Seamus) Wintering Out, 8vo, N.Y. (Oxford University Press) 1973, First U.S. Edition, Signed by Heaney on f.e.p., blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, d.j. (not clipped). (1) [Brandes & Durkan A86] €350 - €500 578. Durcan (Paul) Endsville - NewWriters Press, 8vo, D. (NewWriters Press) 1967, Signed by Paul Durcan, Brian Lynch and John Behan (illustrator), printed wrappers. Scarce; The Art of Life, 8vo, L. (Harvill Press) 2004, with lengthy inscription for the author on t.p., maroon boards, pictorial d.j. (2) €150 - €220 579. Signed by J.P. Donleavy Donleavy (J.P.) The Ginger Man - The Sixtieth Anniversary Edition, 8vo D. (Lilliput Press) 2015, Signed on hf. title, decor. orange boards, pictorial d.j. Good copy. (1) €80 - €120 580. Signed Limited Edition Stephens (James) Collected Poems, 8vo Lond. 1926. Large Paper Copy - Limited to 500 Copies & Signed by Author. uncut & unopened thro.-out orig. vellum backed blue boards. A v. fine copy. (1) €300 - €400 576 573 577 579 580 572