Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

75 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 643. Rare American Presentation Copies Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, 12mo, N.Y. (Dodd, Mead & Co.) 1901, American Presentation Edition, original decorative wrappers, hf. title, dedit page “ To Miss Georgia .. fromMrs. Tripp,” in custom made maroon cloth clambox; together with The Land of Heart’s Desire, 12mo N.Y. (Dodd, Mead & Co.) 1909, American Presentation Edition, original decorative wrappers, hf. title, dedit. “To Josephine Xmas 1909... from Louie,” in custom-made maroon cloth clambox. [Wade 32]. (2) €400 - €600 645. Gaelic Interest: [Edinburgh Bible Society] Leabhraichean an T-Sean Tiomnaidh air an Tarruing O’N chead Chanain chum Gaelic Albannach, thick sm. 8vo, Edin. (Anderson & Bryce) 1829, First Edn., contemp. full calf, embossed stamp on cover, as is. (1) €80 - €120 646. Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan of the Apes, 8vo, N.Y.(Grosset and Dunlap) 1914, First Edn., hf. title, red cloth, black lettering; Tarzan the Invincible, 8vo N.Y. (Grosset and Dunlap) 1931, First Edn., 2pps, adverts at end, red cloth, black lettering (staining) otherwise good. (2) €250 - €320 647. With Original Manuscript Poem Co. Donegal: Shane (Elizabeth) [Gertrude Hind] By Bog and Sea in Donegal, 8vo L.1923, frontis, with manuscript Poem inserted - The Hills O’Cloghanelley, blue cloth; Piper’s Tunes (From Donegal and Antrim), L. 1927, cloth; The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Shane, 8vo, Dundalk (Tempest) 1945, cloth. (3) €120 - €180 643 644. Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece O’Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo., L. (Longmans, Green and Co.) 1939, First Edition,(alternative grey cover issue), hf. title, 315pps., grey cloth, black lettered spine, original dust jacket, (some wear), otherwise good copy of rare Irish modern masterpiece. [Burgess ‘99] . (1) Note: The book reportedly sold only 244 copies in the first year. The publisher’s London warehouse was bombed by the Germans in 1940, and most of the unsold copes were destroyed. An unknown number of unbound sheets of the first printing that survived the bombing were bound up by Longmans in the second issue grey cloth binding. €3000 - €4000 646