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

119 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 662. A New Beginning for Irish Theatre Abbey Theatre. Printed Invitation Card from A.E.F. Horniman, inviting Daniel O’Connor and friend to ‘The Private View of The Abbey Theatre .. December 14th 1904, from 3 to 6 or from 8 to 10 o’clock .. tea and coffee. It is not clear what was on view, apart from the building itself. The Theatre opened for its first performance on 27 December, with the help of a donation of £1,500 from Miss Horniman. (1) €300 - €500 663. [Mac Nie (Isa)] ‘Mac’ The Celebrity Zoo , (First Visit) Some Desultory Rhymes and Caricatures. 4to D. (Brown & Nolan) 1925. First Gen. Edn., 20 illus. & decor. wrappers. V. good copy. (1) €130 - €180 663A. Rare Hugh Lane Association Item Abbey Theatre: A printed Linen Handkerchief, Sold by the Irish Players at $1.00 towards a building to save Sir Hugh Lane’s Great Gift of Pictures for Ireland, April 1913. approx. 47cms square, with 8 single portraits, and large group study of The Abbey Players, imprinted signatures of W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory. In fine condition, framed. (1) €200 - €300 664 – See pages 120 & 121 665. Allingham (William) Ashby Manor, A Play, 12mo L. (David Scott) 1882. First Edition, red & bl. title, advert. slip tipped in, Inscribed on hf. title, ‘Bill Friel from Edie Allingham,’ unopened, original red & black ptd. wrappers, with decoration. V. Scarce. (1) €150 - €200 666. Kavanagh (Patrick). Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and other Poems . Longmans 1960, first ed., brown cloth gilt in glassine d.w. (small portion of glassine torn from top, else a fine copy). Price label attached to f.f.e.p. Signed on prelim, ‘Patrick Kavanagh for Reggie & Elinor Sept. 1960’ with a curious drawing (in something like the style of Giacometti) showing a stooping figure offering a book. (1) €600 - €800 667. ‘One of Yours’ Kavanagh (Patrick) Autograph Signed postcard to his friend Miss Elinor O’Brien at 52 Pembroke Road, Dublin, postmarked probably 1955, apparently from Longford. ‘Cooking not Soho. Stay probably short. Rain from bogs. Personal condition – fair. (Signed) Patrick.’ Recto of card shows a photo of St. John’s Church, Longford, with a manuscript note at foot in Kavanagh’s hand, ‘One of yours’ [Ms. O’Brien was from a Protestant background]. With a few press cuttings concerning Kavanagh, apparently assembled by Ms. O’Brien (in an envelope). (1) €400 - €600 662 666 & detail 663 667 663A