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

104 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 723. One of 75 Copies Only Lyndsay (R.)artist, Plunkett (J.)w. The Character of Dublin, oblong folio, D. (R.K.L. Publications) 1988, Signed Limited Edition No. 8/75, illus., full leather, gilt decor. front cover, with portfolio of Signed print in matching leather and cloth bound slip case. (1) €250 - €320 724. One of 20 Copies Only O’Drisceoil (J.) writer Artfolio 3, Brian Kennedy 1996, portfolio D. (Green on Red Gallery) 1996, Limited Edn., of 20 (1 artists proof and 1 printers proof ) in original orange cloth container. (1) €300 - €400 725. Very Rare Early Edition [Merriman] Mac Giolla Meidhre (Brian) Mediae Noctis Consilium, ... De Comitatu Clarensi in Momonia A.D. MDCCLXXX. Poema Heroico-Comicum, .. 12mo Dublin (Padruig O’Briain) 1893. Orig. limp green cloth, gilt lettered front cover. V. good copy. V. Scarce. (1) €170 - €220 726. Early Irish Railway File [Keogh (M.F.) & Bagwell (J.) & Others] Great Southern &Western Railway. A thick file of documents, generally typescript or cyclostyled, mostly relating to conditions of service in the 1920s, Telegrams, signed Letters, of considerable interest potentially to railway buffs, mostly relating to wages and conditions. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €500 727. 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) €800 - €1000 728. Kernoff (Harry) RHA An original Signed Woodcut , a portrait titled ‘Man of Dingle – Seamus Beag’, 21cms x 15cms (8 ½” x 6”), and another titled ‘Over to the Blaskets – Kerry’, 19cms x 15cms (7 ½” x 6”), both framed and glazed. (1) €500 - €700 729. Very Fine Unopened Copy Yeats (William Butler) The Celtic Twilight, Men andWomen, Dhouls and Faeries. Sm. 8vo London 1893. First Edn., Second Issue. (publisher’s name in lower case at bottom of spine). Frontis by J.B. Yeats with tissue guard, hf. title, advert. leaf at front, XII, 212pp, entirely unopened thro-out, orig. green cloth, with blind publisher’s device on the back cover gilt lettered spine, and orig. glassine cover. Wade 8. V. good copy. (1) €200 - €300 730. Signed Limited Edition Beckett (Samuel) Imagination Dead Imagine, 8vo Lond. (Calder and Boyars) 1965. Special Limited Edition, No. 70 of 100 Copies Only, Signed by Author. Issued in Advance of First Edition, orig. gilt lettered grey buckram, clear plastic wrapper, and slipcase. V. good. (1) €350 - €500 731. Fine Association Copy Shaw (Geo. Bernard) The Author’s Apology fromMrs. Warren’s Profession, Thin 8vo New York (Brentano’s) 1905. Introd. by John Corbin. First Edn., hf. title, 66pp partly unopened (a couple of pages with small tears at fore-edge) orig. boards with printed title, & black ties, in blue cloth wrappers & matching slipcase. V. good. (1) * Half title inscribed by author to John Corbin, who wrote the introduction, ‘ Inscribed for John Corbin Surely a critic[?], but not yet tyrannical. Thanks G. Bernard Shaw / 23 Nov. 1905.’ This is Shaw’s apology referencing his controversial play “ Mrs. Warrens Profession,” which debates the topic of prostitution. €120 - €170 728 723 731 727 730 724