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

95 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 822. Tax problems of the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1954-1956 A File of Correspondence relating to the financial struggles of the Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Ltd, from 1954 but mostly of 1956 (also one letter of 1946): tax assessments, bank statements, letters from the Inspector of Taxes, D. O’Connor & Co. (chartered accountants), McCann White & Fitzgerald (solicitors) and others; two letters from Terence de Vere White. Pamela Pyer the company’s secretary writes re Hilton Edwards’s and Micheal Mac Liammoir’s personal accounts and hopes of grants from the Arts Council. As a lot. As an archive, w.a.f. (1) €200 - €300 823. Signed byW.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) Three Things, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1929, Signed Limited Edition No. 122/500 Copies, illus. by Gilbert Spencer, blue boards, gilt lettering; The Green Helmet, 8vo, L. 1911, ptd. wrappers; together with two ‘Acting’ copies of Cathleen ni Houlihan and The Shadowy Waters, as a lot. (4) €220 - €320 824. With a Fine Original Watercolour by the Author Masefiled (John) With the Living Voice an Address... Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 24th October 1924, [London: Heinemann, 1925]. Printed tan wrappers. Wrappers somewhat creased and lightly soiled, but a good copy. (1) First Edition, preceding the Limited and Board bound issues. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to an American admirer in April of 1948, below which Masefield has executed a lovely ink and watercolour drawing of a single-masted sailing ship at sea, with two crew members working the rigging. Formerly affixed to the half-title is a slip inscribed: With the Living Voice. Spoken soon after the founding of the S.A.S.V. John Masefield, This is among the most attractive Masefield inscriptions incorporating a watercolour we have handled. Simmons 64. €200 - €300 825. With Original Manuscript De la Mare (Walter) Peacock Pie, manuscript transcript, with dedication to Monk Gibbon, dated 29.1.1952, together with Envelope(with notes), also The Winnowing Dream, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1954, inscribed on f.e.p. with passage Moon follows Moon, through the Night-time Sky, to think he missed any of these makes me Sigh, illustrated by Robin Jacques, ptd. wrappers, and issuing envelope, as a lot. (2) €400 - €600 826. With Illustrations by the Authors Daughter Hughes (Ted) Animal Poems, roy 8vo, Devon (Ric. Gilberton) [1967], (Proof Copy) Signed and dated ‘Ted Hughes, 25 Sept. 1971’ (not inscribed colophon page) illustrated on pages 3 and 4 with fantastical creature and a bird in ink by Frieda Hughes /(signed) loose in salmon pink decorative wrappers. Good Copy. (1) €400 - €500 827. Sean O’Casey Railway Timesheet [O’Casey (Sean)] Great Northern Railway Co. (Ireland), Engineering Department, an Official printed Timesheet, dated October 2nd, 1908, for J. O’Casey (Sean O’Casey) approved by P. Reid (inspector) total days 12 @ 3/- totalling £1:16:0, and 1 other for work in various parts including Loco Dept., Power House, Sutton, etc., 2pps, as a m/ss. Unique. (2) * Sean O’Casey worked as a Railwayman for a period of 9 years on the GNR. €350 - €500 828. The Authors First Book Deane (Seamus) While Jewels Rot, 8vo Belfast (Q.U.B.) Festival Publications, 1966. First Edn., 12pp orig. ptd. wrappers (somewhat soiled). V. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 823 825 824 829 822