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45 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 361. Synge (J.M.) In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara, 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1911, First Edn., illustrated frontis & 7 plts by Jack B. Yeats, blue cloth gilt lettering; Yeats (W.B.) Reveries, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1916, First Edn., coloured frontis & 2 plts., gilt decor. blue cloth designed by Sturge Moore; Yeats (W.B.) On the Boiler, 4to, D. (Cuala Press) ptd. wrappers illustration by J.B. Yeats; O’Sullivan (S.) The Dublin Magazine, July-September 1934, ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (4) €200 - €300 362. Yeats (Jack B.) Sligo, 8vo, L. (Wishart & Company) 1930, First Edn., green cloth and d.j.; La La Noo, 8vo, D. (Cuala Press) 1943, Limited Edn., No. 111 (240) copies, cloth backed yellow boards. (2) €180 - €220 363. Illustrated by Jack Butler Yeats Birmingham (G.A.) Irishmen All, 8vo, L. (T.N. Foulis) 1914, (reprint), coloured frontis & 10 other cold. plts., cloth and decor. d.j.; Yeats (J.B.) Sailing Sailing Swiftly, 8vo L. (Putman) 1933, First Edn., text illus, yellow cloth, d.j. (2) €200 - €300 364. Toibin (Colm) The Testament of Mary, 8vo, L. 2012, Exclusive Signed Edition, cloth and d.j.; Mahon (D.) Somewhere The Wave, 8vo Gallery Press 2007, Signed Limited Edn., No. 279/450 copies, illus. by Bernadette Kiely, cloth & glassine cover. (2) €200 - €300 365. Dahl (Roald) The B.F.G., 8vo, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1982, First Edn., illustrated by Quentin Blake, grey cloth, gilt lettered spine, decor. d.j. Good clean copy. (1) €180 - €220 366. Seuss (Dr.) The Cat in the Hat, 8vo, L. (Collins & Harvil) 1958, First UK Edn., illustrated, 61pps., decor. endpapers, laminated boards, previous owner's name on f.p.d., later glassine cover. Good copy. (1) €180 - €220 367. One of Fifty Copies Only Toibin (Colm) Nora Webster, 8vo, Tuskar Rock Press, 2014, Signed, Limited Edn. No. 23/50 copies, full leather, cloth slipcase. (1) €200 - €300 368. 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) €300 - €400 369. Inscribed by John McGahern McGahern (John) Night Lines, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1970, First Edn., Signed on f.e.p., cloth & d.j; The Leavetaking, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1974, First Edn., Signed on f.e.p., cloth & d.j.; Getting Through, 8vo L. 1974 (lacks t.p.), Signed on f.e.p., cloth & d.j.; The Pornographer, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1979, First Edn., Signed on f.e.p., cloth & d.j.; High Ground, L. (Faber & Faber), Signed and inscribed on f.e.p., cloth & d.j.; Amongst Women, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, First Edn., Signed and inscribed, cloth & d.j.; That they may Face the Rising Sun, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2002 cloth & d.j. As a lot. (6) €700 - €800 369 & detail 365 366 367