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

126 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 692. Unique Copy with Portrait and Pictorial Message Yeats (Jack B.) A Little Fleet. L., Elkin Mathews n.d. [1909], orig. wrappers, Presentation copy to Yeats’ friend the poet John Masefield, with whom he used to sail toy boats. With a most attractive Signed drawing on f.f.e.p., apparently a portrait of Masefield dreaming of treasure, with a message or story below in what appears to be a pictorial shorthand or storyboard, featuring ships, islands, horses, skull and crossbones, a gallows etc. All the printed drawings are hand coloured, presumably by Yeats. Very good copy, in a recent cloth folding case with leather spine. (1) €3000 - €5000 691. Yeats (Elizabeth C.), Manager, Cuala Press. A good ALS, 4 pp (two sheets) on headed Cuala paper, Oct. 18 1921, with associated envelope, to Ignatius McHugh of Philadelphia, apparently a librarian, replying to his letter (not present). ‘Yes. I too believe Ireland will do great things if only we can all hold on till the settlement is made -- but you have no idea what it means to run a little industry like this through all these bad times - and you can do a little bit for us & for Ireland if you tell people about Cuala work -- we have held on through all¬ parted with a single worker but can not hold on much longer if things do not improve ..’ With a good signature. A note at head of letter says ‘We named the little house Cuala, Cuala was the name of one of the 5 famous roads that led to Tara.’ €400 - €600 690. Superb Lettered Copy O’Connor (Frank), trs. A Lament for Art O’Leary, translated from the Irish .. with six illustrations by Jack B. Yeats RHA. Cuala, D. 1940, folio boards, linen spine, label, d.w. (not original), tissue guards to illustrations. One of 130 copies, this copy numbered ‘K’ (apparently one of a separate limitation of presentation copies). A superb copy of Cuala’s finest book, in original condition apart from the replacement d.w. (1) See illustration also on Front Cover €2000 - €3000