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

94 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 675. Yeats (Jack B.) A brief ALS on his addressed Notepaper, 1 pp, May 15 1947, to ‘My dear Margaret Clarke’ [the artist, widow of Harry], ‘I thank you from my heart for your sympathy’ [on the death of his wife Cottie, who died at the end of April]. With a shaky signature. With the original addressed and stamped envelope (fully opened). (1) €250 - €350 676. Happy Christmas from Lily Yeats Yeats (Lily) A manuscript Postcard , signed, sending love and good wishes to the Misses Allport in London, Xmas 1932, front of card with portrait of W.B. Yeats when a boy, by J.B. Yeats RHA. (1) €80 - €120 677. Cuala Press. Michael O’Callaghan. 1879-1921. First Republican Mayor of Limerick 1920. Requiescat. (with hand coloured wreath). Bifolium, verses inside by James Stephens and others, with a fine hand-drawn coloured initial by Eliz. Corbet Yeats, concluding with the blunt statement, ‘Michael O’Callaghan / murdered by the enemy March 7th 1921’ Commissioned by his widow. Fine copy, scarce. (1) €400 - €600 678. Cuala Press. A small collection of four promotional Leaflets for Jack Yeats Drawings , Cuala Press and Cuala Industries, probably 1920s or earlier. (1) €80 - €120 679. One of 130 Copies Only Yeats (Jack B.) A Lament for Art O’Leary. Translated from the Irish by Frank O’Connor, with six [hand-coloured] illustrations by Jack B. Yeats RHA. No. 90 of the edition limited to 130 copies. Cuala 1940. The illustrations coloured by Eileen Colum and Kathleen Banfield. Folio blue boards, linen spine with title label, a very good copy with all tissue guards in place. Very scarce. Probably the finest of Cuala’s titles. Jack Yeats had done no new work for the Press for many years ; he must have been seduced by the opportunity to illustrate Eileen O’Connell’s fine poem in memory of her murdered husband. €1000 - €1500 680. Yeats (Jack B.) A good and long ALS to his friend the collector Eleanor Reid in Los Angeles, on his addressed notepaper but from Portobello House, dated January 14 1935, 2 pp. ‘I am delighted that you should be well pleased with “Caballero” & “Waif” for no painting is exactly the same to everyone which seems good and right and fair to me’ .. discussing the meanings of the word ‘Bowsie’- ‘the best known standing for a kind of companionable drinker. The other meaning is for one of those tauteners used on sailing vessels for tightening ropes ..’ (with a sketch) .. thanking her for a gift of fruit and nuts, and sending good wishes to her husband. An unusually long and fulsome letter, but the Reids were generous collectors of his work. With the original stamped, addressed and initialled envelope. €600 - €800 678 675 680 677 679 676