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

89 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 681. Signed by Michael Longley Longley (Michael) Ten Poems, 8vo Belfast (Festival Publications, Queen’s University) 1965, First Edn., Signed by the Author, with the purple 9-point star on front cover, advert on back cover, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) €350 - €450 682. Colum (Padraic) A collection of two TLS, one AL and one ALS to the Irish-American journalist and writer Francis Byrne Hackett, 1916-17, one with the original stamped envelope, one TLS on the back of a carbon copy of a TLS from Hackett to Byrne, the AL torn at foot with loss of the signature. Mainly about arrangements to meet, advice about literary agents etc. Hackett was a Kilkenny-born writer and journalist who spent much of his life in the United States and Denmark (he married the Danish writer Signe Toksvig). As a file, w.a.f. (5) €400 - €500 683. McCabe (Patrick) The Butcher Boy, 8vo, Kent (Picador) 1992, First Edn., cloth, d.j. (not clipped). Clean Copy. (1) €60 - €80 684. Sean O’Casey Railway Timesheet [O’Casey (Sean)] Great Northern Railway Co. (Ireland), Engineering Department, an Official printed Timesheet, dated October 2nd, 1908, for J. O’Casey (Sean O’Casey) approved by P. Reid (inspector) total days 12 @ 3/- totalling £1:16:0, and 1 other for work in various parts including Loco Dept., Power House, Sutton, etc., 2pps, as a m/ss. Unique. (2) * Sean O’Casey worked as a Railwayman for a period of 9 years on the GNR. €600 - €700 685. Broadside: The London Gazette, No. 3885 - Monday Feb. 1st to Thursday February 4, 1702, double sided, it includes two Proclamations, one ‘ commanding all Seamen and Soldiers to render themselves to Service, and also ‘ The Seizing of Captain Cohort and La Touche’, as a broadside, L. (Edw. Jones) 1702. (1) €100 - €150 686. Cuala Press: Meyler (O.) Cashel, hand coloured Print, published by Cuala Press, no date, approx. 37cms x 25½cms (14½” x 10”), unframed; Yeats (J.B.) Evening, hand coloured Print, published by Cuala Press, no date, unframed. (2) €300 - €400 688. After Pugin & Ashlin, Architects Co. Laoise: Church of the Sacred Heart at Arles, built by Jas. Scanlan. A fine lithograph view, by J. Lewis, Dame St., Dublin, approx. 12” x 9”, hogarth frame. V. good. (1) €150 - €200 681 687. Susan Mary “Lily”Yeats, Irish (1866-1949) Cuala Industries : The Country Path, Needlework depicting wooded passage with interlined trees and floral overgrow, approx. 23cms x 32cms (9” x 12½”) in contemporary moulded wooden frame. (1) €1000 - €1500 682 684