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

124 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 675. Yeats (W.B.) The Land of Heart’s Desire, sm. sq. 8vo Lond. (T. Fisher Unwin) 1894. First Edn. [500 Copies Only] With design by Aubrey Beardsley on title [ & front wrapper], hf. title, 43pp., some m/ss notes≠at underlining, orig. decor. pict. light purple wrappers, front blank inscribed & dated 1894. Now bound, with colourful floral endpapers, & limp full mor., gilt lettered spine. V.g. Wade 10. (1) €350 - €500 676. Yeats (W.B.) The Tables of the Law, and The Adoration of the Magi, sm. sq. 8vo London (Elkin Mathews) 1904. First Published Edition. Hf. title pp[a-2] title, with Prefatory Note on verso, fly title, 60pp, 4pp adverts, Vigo Cabinet Series printed inside covers, decor. blue paper covers. Wade 25. Good. (1) €200 - €300 677. [Yeats (W.B.)] The Song of Mongan, The Dome, An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (New Series) October 1898, (page 36), illus., ptd. wrappers. (1) €150 - €200 678. Very Rare Yeats Publication Yeats (W.B.) ‘Countess Cathleen’. Programme for a drawing-room performance at the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, January 1899. 4 pp, single folded sheet, Dublin printed, with a note about the play, dramatis personae (with the Countess of Fingall as Countess Cathleen) and a list of tableaux. The first performance of scenes from the play, four months before the first full stage performance. Cover a little browned, traces of mounting to rear, otherwise v. good. “The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; The shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” * Exceptionally Rare. €200 - €300 679. Yeats (W.B.) The Land of Heart’s Desire, L. Fisher Unwin 1894, First Edn., orig. wrappers with design by Beardsley, printed slip laid down on f.f.e.p. The publisher’s copy with his bookplate. Wade 10. Upper hinge fragile, but a good copy. (1) €200 - €300 680. W.B. Yeats in Irish Yeats (W.B.) Caitlín ní Uallacháin . Dráma Náisiúnta. An t-Athair Tomás Ó Ceallaigh d’aistrigh ó’n mBearla. A Play translated from the English of W.B. Yeats by the Rev. Thos. O’Kelly, B.D. D., Gill 1905. Wrappers, 16mo, stapled, a good copy but extensively marked (mostly in pencil) for a performance, deleting or amending lines, etc. Wade p405. * Yeats’ works have been translated into many languages, but this work appears to be the only one separately translated into Irish. Exceptionally Rare. (1) €200 - €300 681. [Yeats (W.B.)] A fine quality black and white Press Photograph, depicting William Butler Yeats seated reading wearing his glasses, mounted with inset m/ss signature “W.B. Yeats, May 25, 1923,” as a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €350 - €420 682. Broadsheet: Cannon (Moya) Lady Gregory at Cill Ghobnait, Gort (Colin Smythe) 2006, Signed by the Poet; Yeats (W.B.) On a Child’s Death, Colin Smythe 1978, Limited Edn., of 90 copies on Japanese Hosho paper scarce. (Inscribed to Lady Gregory’s grandson Major Richard Gregory & Bobbie his wife); Duffin (Ruth) The Cheat, Cuala Press No. 276 (illustrated by Emma Duffin) as a lot, w.a.f. (3) €180 - €220 676 677 681 680