Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

10 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 17. English Plays: Anouilh (Jean) The Lark, L. 1955; also Time Remembered, L. 1955; and Becket or The Honour of God, L. 1961, all First Edns., & d.w.’s; Pinter (Harold) The Caretaker, L. 1960; Mortimer (John) Lunch Hour & Other Plays, L. 1960; Osborne (John) Look Back in Anger, L. 1957 Second, d.w.; Millar (Arthur) A View from the Bridge, 8vo Lond. (Cresset Press) 1957. First English Edn. d.w.; Bolt (Richard) Flowering Cherry, Lond. 1958. First Edn., d.w.; Williamson (H.R.) His Eminence of England, L. 1953. First Edn., d.w.; & 2 others. As a lot, good. (11) €120 - €180 18. With Attractive Illustrations Bickerdyke (John) An Irish Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Legend of the Shannon, sm. 8vo Lond. n.d. [1889] with illustrations by E. Morant Cox. frontis, & 4 plts. recent crimson cloth. Scarce. (1) €160 - €240 19. Forbes (John) Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1853. First Edn., with 2 frontis, 2 litho plts. fold. map & wd.-cut text illus., rebacked orig. cloth, gilt decoration. Good copy. (2) €200 - €300 20. Martineau (Harriet) Letters from Ireland, roy 8vo Lond. (John Chapman) 1852. First Edn. in Bk. Form, 220pp + 36pp of adverts at end, orig. cloth, bottom of spine repaired. V. good clean copy. (1) * Rare, important account of travels in Ireland just after the Great Famine. €250 - €350 21. Lawrence (D.H.) The Lost Girl, 8vo Lond. (M. Secker) 1920. First Edn., hf. title, 371pp., orig. brown cloth, gilt lettered spine, lacks d.w., good copy; Du Maurier (Daphne) Mary Anne. A Novel, Lond. (V. Gollancz) 1954. First Edn., hf. title (browned) [379]pp orig. red. cloth, gilt lettered spine, lacks d.w., good copy; Du Maurier (Daphne) Mary Anne. A Novel, Lond. (V. Gollancz) 1954. First Edn., hf. title (browned) [379]pp. orig. red cloth, no jacket, gilt on spine faded. (3) €140 - €200 22. Beckett (Samuel) Endgame, A Play in one Act. 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1958. First Edn., cloth orig. unclipped pictorial d.w., very good; All That Fall, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1957. First Edn., cold. pictorial wrappers; also From an Abandoned Work, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1958. First Edn., orig. cold. pict. wrappers; Waiting for Godot, 8vo N. York (Grove Press) 1954, pict. wrappers; Mercier (V.) Beckett / Beckett, N.Y. 1977, d.w. (5) €250 - €350 23. Beckett (Samuel) Waiting for Godot, A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1956. First Edn. in English, in orig. pictorial unclipped d.w. V. good copy. (1) €225‑€350 24. Synge (J.M.) The Well of the Saints, A Play in Three Acts. 8vo L. (Bullen) & D. (The Abbey Theatre) 1905; also The Tinker’s Wedding, A Comedy in Two Acts. Dublin (Maunsel) 1907. Both First Edns., orig. cloth backed boards.(2) €160 - €240 25. Rare Limited Second Edition Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, 8vo New York (Boni and Liveright) 1922. No. 510 of Limited Edition of 1000 Copies Only. Uncut, orig. black cloth, gilt lettered front cover & spine, somewhat soiled. Ex. Scarce. (1) €600 - €1000 26. Signed by Dev. Plunkett - The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett, 8vo Dublin (Talbot Press) n.d. Signed on title by Eamon de Valera, port. frontis, orig. cloth. (1) €150 - €200 26 19 22 23