RARE BOOK AND COLLECTOR'S SALE July 30th & 31st, 2024

103 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 714. Signed & Inscribed by Author Beckett (Samuel) Comedie et actes divers 8vo Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1966. First French Edition. Orig. cream wrappers lettered in blue and black and with publisher’s device on both covers, glassine jacket. (1) * Half title inscribed by author to the writer Andre Marissel, dated July? 1966. Six short plays translated by author from English. V. good copy. €120 - €180 715. Rare Cuala Press Publication [Yeats (Jack Bulter)] The Wren Boys, 4to 3pps. D. (Cuala Press) n.d., hand coloured title page with illustration by Jack B. Yeats, printed boards. Scarce. (Pyle 2035). (1) €500 - €700 716. [Cuala Press] Wellesley (D.) & Yeats (W.B.)eds. A Broadside (New Series), No. 2, 4, 7, 10 & 12 (1937) 4 issues, also No. 3 (New Series) March 1935, all with hand cold. illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Limited Edn., of 300 copies only of each, loose. Good copies. (5) €400 - €600 717. I’ll Colour in 500 Little Fleet Yeats (Jack B.) Autograph Note, signed, Little Fleet, illus: Yeats, Jack B. O. Yeats, Jack B., Autograph Note, signed. Written to “ Mr. Mathews,” of Elkin, Mathews, publishers from“Cashlauna Shelmiddy,” in South Devon. After apologizing for not writing sooner, Yeats asks that 500 copies of “Little Fleet,” an Elkin Mathews book, be sent to him for “Coloring wrappers with additional original drawing to some”On a 3½” by 4 inch card, which is attractively matted and framed, also with a colour reproduction of one of Yeats’ paintings. Fine. (1) €350 - €420 718. Cuala Press. Three attractive hand- coloured Prints, two from designs by Jack Yeats, The Wren Boys and Saint Patrick at Tara, the third a verse from St. Patrick’s Breastplate, ‘I Bind This Day to me forever ..’ with hand-drawn and coloured initial letter by Eliz. Corbet Yeats. (3) €300 - €500 719. Cuala Press. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats . Born March 11th 1868. Died January 16th 1940. Memorial text by Lily Yeats. Orig. illus. wrs, (4) pp. Scarce. Dated note in ink on upper cover. (1) €100 - €200 720. Synge (J.M.) The Aran Islands, Drawings by Jack B. Yeats, D. & L. 1907, First Edn., (apart from a handful of advance copies dated 1906), with 12 fine plates by Yeats, spine a little dulled, else v.g. (1) €200 - €300 721. Paul Wunderlich (1927-2010) [Joyce (James)] Le Chapeau de James Joyce, bronze model of the author’s hat, Limited Edn., No. 1173/5000, by Wunderlick. (1) €80 - €120 722. One of 60 Copies Only O’Siadhail (M.)writer & King (Cecil) artist, Four Poems, portfolio, Galway (Kinvara Press) 1984, Signed Limited Edition, No. 54/60, with four illustrations, in original orange cloth box with printed label. (1) €350 - €420 714 717 715 720 721 722