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

50 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 411. [Cuala Press] Broadsides, 1935-1937, 2 vols. lg. 4to Shannon (I.U.P.) 1971, reprints, coloured illustrations after Jack B. Yeats, cloth backed boards; together with O’Connor (F.) A Lament for Art O’Leary, lg. 4to, I.U.P., 1971,, illus., cloth backed boards, glassine cover. Good clean copies. (3) €180 - €250 412. [Joyce (James)] Gas from a Burner, sm. folio, D. (Distillers Press) 2012, Signed Limited Edn., NO. 12/100 copies, illustrated by Jamie Murphy and Mary Plunkett, cloth backed boards with blind design by Tom Duffy (Five Lamps). Clean Copy. (1) €300 - €400 414. One of Only 20 Copies [James Joyce] Cole (Stephen)ed. & Fogarty (Anne) contributor The Works of Master Poldy, 2 vols., D. (Distillers Press & Salvage Press) 2013, Limited Edn., No. 5/20 deluxe edition, together with Portfolio of Limited Prints Signed by the Artist Jamie Murphy, in leather back and cloth backed boards in matching slipcase. (1) €800 - €1000 413. One of 30 Copies Only [Titanic] Murphy (Jamie) Albert, Ernest and the Titanic, oblong folio, D. (Distillers Press) 2012, Signed Limited Edn., No. 16/30 copies, illustrated, bound by Duffy Bookbinders (Five Lamps), grey cloth and matching slipcase. (1) Note: Working towards his Master’s degree at NCAD, Jamie Murphy applied himself to making a book that relates, in visual form, the story of the Titanic’s two resident printers. An ocean liner is a world in microcosm, requiring an entire support system and all manner of skills, designers and printers among them. Abraham“Albert”Mishellany and Ernest Corbin designed and printed “the restaurant menus, stationery, note pads, programmes of events” and even the tickets. In the aftermath of the disaster, these ephemera, as with virtually everything associated with the Titanic, became much sought after mementoes and have sold for thousands at auctions. Murphy has commemorated the printers in the medium of linocut, one of the most basic printmaking techniques. The book he has made with the images, plus the kind of letterpress methods employed by his subjects, also uses powder from coal salvaged from the site of the wreck. €800 - €1200 414 412