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

141 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 792. Signed byW.B. Yeats Yeats (W.B.) Later Poems, 8vo, L. (MacMillan) 1922 First Edn., signed and dated on title page “W.B. Yeats, Dec. IV, 1922,” hf. title, uncut, original green blind decor cloth, [Wade 134]. (1) €500 - €700 793. Heaney (Seamus) The Burial at Thebes, 8vo Lond. 2004. First Edn. Signed by Author, cold. d.w.; Human Chain, Lond. 2010. First Edn., d.w.; Seeing Things, Lond. 1991. First Edn., paperback; Seamus Heaney, R.I.A. CunninghamMedal, narrow folio Dublin 2008, Lim. Edn., Signed by President of R.I.A., & 4 other items. (9) €200 - €300 794. 1798: O’Brien (R. Barry) The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 2 vols. thick roy 8vo D. n.d. c. 1920. First Edn. plts. orig. green cloth. Very clean copy. (2) €100 - €150 795. Inscribed Copy One of Two O’Flaherty (Liam) Darkness, A Tragedy in Three Acts, 4to L. (E. Archer) 1926, portrait frontis, inscribed ‘ To G.F. Keating with affectionate regards from LiamO’Flaherty,’ No. 4 (100 copies, uncut, green buckram in leather backed matching slipcase; Famine, 8vo L. (V. Gollancz) 1937, First Edn, cloth & d.j.; Insurrection, 8vo Boston (Little Brew & Co.) 1951, First Edn., cloth & d.j., as a lot. (3) €300 - €400 796. Signed by Aldous Huxley Huxley (Aldous) Eyeless in Gaza, thick 8vo, L. (Chatto &Windus) 1936, Signed Limited Edn. No. 185 (200) copies, uncut, cloth back decor. boards, good copy; Essays Old and New, 4to L. (The Florence Press) 1926, Signed Limerick Edn. No. 54 (650) copies, uncut, cloth backed marble boards. (2) €200 - €300 797. McGahern (John) Getting Through, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1978, First Edn., Signed on f.e.p., grey cloth, d.j. (price clipped); The Pornographer, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1979, First Edn., orange cloth, d.j. (not clipped); High Ground, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1985, First Edn., Signed, cloth and d.j. (not clipped); Memoir, lg. 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 2005, Uncorrected Proof, Signed, ptd. wrappers. Clean lot. (4) €400 - €600 798. Capote (Truman) In Cold Blood, A True Account of a Multiple Murder and It’s Consequences, 8vo N.Y. (Random House 1965) First Edn., hf. title, photo frontis, purple cloth, gilt lettering, d.j. (not clipped) some stains, otherwise good copy; together with a collection of the New Yorker Magazine and other with articles about Truman Capote. (1) €600 - €800 799. Irish Railways etc: Cotton (Chas. P.) Manual of Railway Engineering in Ireland, 8vo Dublin 1861. First Edn., 4 fold. plts., full mor., Railway Clearing House - Official Railway Map of Ireland, lg. folio linen backed coloured map, Lond.1906, mor. backed; Draughtsman’s Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing, sm. folio Lond. 1874, cold. plts., etc., cloth; Whishaw’s Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, & 4 others sim. As a lot, w.a.f. (8) €150 - €200 800. Stanley (Henry M.) In Darkest Africa, 2 vols., L. (Sampson, Low etc.) 1890, First, frontis, fold. map & illus., decor. cloth. Good copy. (2) €200 - €300 801. Very Fine Copy Fullarton (A.) Compiler. The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 3 vols. sm. folio D. L. & Edin. 1846. First Edn., lg. fold. map of Ireland,νmerous other fold. maps, some engd. views, etc. cont. hf. green mor. gilt lined spines & mor. labels. V. good copy. (3) €200 - €300 802. Deane (Seamus)Ed. & Carpenter (A.), Williams (Jon.) The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols. 4to Derry 1991, First Edn., orig. cloth, gilt spines, in orig. matching slipcase. (3) €180 - €250 803. Inscribed Edition from the Author Waugh (Evelyn) The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) 1959, Second Edn., frontis, inscribed on f.e.p. “ Dear Bob (Robert Laycock (Major General)) I can’t hope you will be able to read this, but I need it as a pledge of Loyalty and as a Christmas Card Eveyln, also loosely inserted a postcard to Miss M. Joyce Lambert signed by Knox, together with a 4pp manuscript letter dated January 4th, 48’ to the same recipient, blue cloth, d.j., housed in custom made box with mor. label. Good Copy. (1) €300 - €500 804. Carrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to Reprint Kilkenny 1981 Reprint, illus. & cloth, slipcase; Litton (Helen) An Index to ... Carrigan’s History .. of the Diocese of Ossory, roy 8vo 2005. First Edn., d.w.; Leslie (Rev. J.B.) Ossory Clergy and Parishes, roy 8vo Enniskillen 1933, cloth. All good. (6) €220 - €350 805. [Goldsmith] Scott (Temple) Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered, Sm. folio N.Y. 1928. Lim. Edn. No. 213 of 750 Copies. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author, illus., uncut, orig. cloth. (1) €120 - €170 806. Bindings: Record - The Irish International Exhibition 1907, sm. folio Dublin (Hely’s) 1909. Port. frontis, plts., thro.-out, cont. hf. green mor.; Nutting (Wallace) Ireland Beautiful, sm. folio Massachusetts 1925, First Edn., plts. thro.-out, fine quarter crimson mor., raised bands, mor. label. Both v. good. (2) €100 - €150 792 800