Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022
136 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 739. Waterloo Interest: The Peace Coach Conveying News of the Victory of Waterloo - Crossing Waterloo Bridge, coloured engraved Print, busy scene of horses and carriage crossing bridge with figures saluting, published by R. Pollard, Holloway near London 1815, approx. 33cms x 44cms (13” x 17”) in hogarth type frame. (1) €150 - €180 750. Signed by Harold Pinter Pinter (Harold) Poems, 4to L. (Enitharmon Press) 1968, Limited Edn. Signed 130 (200) copies, red leather backed cloth boards; Five Screenplays, L. (H. Karnac Books Ltd.) 1971, Signed Limited Edn. 26 (150) copies, dual red & black cloth, gilt lettered spine; The Dwarfs, A Novel, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, Signed Limited Edn. No. 104 (150) copies, cloth backed marble boards, glassine cover. Nice lot. (3) €500 - €700 751. Inscribed by the Author O’Flaherty (Liam) The Martyr, 8vo L. (V. Gollancz) 1933, First Edn., inscribed on f.e.p. ‘ To Kathleen in Whose .. one gets always a warmwelcome LiamO’Flaherty, or the wrong way round 25/5/33, black cloth, yellow d.j., (some wear); The Puritan, 8vo L. (J. Cape) 1931, First Edn., inscribed “ To the Pure, all is Pure Here O Cheers, Liam, 25.5.33,” decor orange cloth, decor d.j. (some wear). (2) €300 - €400 752. Thornbury (Geo. W.) The Monarch of the Main; or, Adventures of the Buccaneers, 3 vols. Lond. 1855. First Edn., adverts end of Vols. I & III, Vol. II lacks front loose and orig. cloth; Keith (Conway) Taming A Shrew, A Novel, 3 vols. Lond. 1863. First Edn., unopened, adverts end of Vol. I & II, orig. cloth. (6) €130 - €180 753. Joyce (James) Exiles, A Play in Three Acts, 8vo L. (Grant Richards Ltd.) 1918, First Edn., hf. title, cloth backed boards, ptd. label, on front cover and spine (some wear), otherwise good copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A14]. (1) €500 - €700 754. First U.S. Edition Joyce (James) Exiles A Play in Three Acts, 8vo N.Y. (B.W. Huebsch) 1918, First U.S. Edition, hf. title, green cloth backed grey boards with blind lettering to front cover. Good copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A15]. (1) €200 - €300 740. Original Botanical Drawings Kinnaird (Elizabeth) artist Botanical Drawings North Antrim and Donegal, portfolio, 28 original watercolour specimens depicting Orchids, Primrose, Hawthorn, Fushia and other Wild Flowers, loose, house in a custom-made, hf. calf marble board presentation box with mor. label. (1) Provenance: Given by the Artist to E.D. Popper, (Linen and Damask designer) Malone Road, Belfast. €1200 - €1500 754
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