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142 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 807. Co. Galway: Egan (Rev. P.K.) The Parish of Ballinasloe, Dublin 1900. First Edn., illus. d.w.; O’Flaherty (Rod.) West of H’Iar Connaught, 4to Galway Reprint 1978, fold. pedigree, cloth & d.w.; Maher (Helen) Galway Authors, Galway 1976. First Edn., Presentation Copy; Gantz (Ida) Signpost to Eyrecourt, Bath 1975. First Edn., d.w.; & 4 other pamphlets. (8) €100 - €150 808. Signed by Most of the Contributors Celebrating Bogland, 4to Dublin 2002. Published by Irish Peatland Conservation Council. Illus. etc. Signed by approx. 25 of the 36 contributors, pictorial boards. V. good. (1) €150 - €200 809. Mac Giolla Choille (Brendán)ed. Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle - Intelligence Notes, 1913-1916, 4to Dublin (Stationary Office) 1966. First Edn., cloth & orig. d.w. Scarce. (1) €120 - €170 810. [Yeats (W.B.)] Kelly (John)ed. The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, Vol. 1 1865-1895, 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1986, illus., cloth and d.j.; Finneran (R.) & others eds. Letter to W.B. Yeats Volume 2, L. 1977, cloth and d.j.; Yeats (W.B.) & Swami (S.P.) The Ten Principal Upanishads, 8vo L. 1938, Second, cloth & d.j.; Foley (D.J.) Yeats 150, 8vo D. 2016, First, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €100 - €150 811. With Fine Engraved Illustrations Bible: Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pontifificis Max. Iussu Recognita, et Celemntis VIII, Auctoritate edita , Versiculis Distincta, ... . Lg. 8vo Venice (Apud Nicolaum Pezzana) 1697. Red & bl. title, with add. engd. title, & 110 fine engd. vignette illustrations in text, title inscribed ‘William Kavanagh’ in cont. full calf, with tooled gilt panel, recased with orig. spine laid down, later mor. label. V. good copy. (1) €450 - €750 812. Mathematics: Ocagne (Lt. Col. Philbert Maurice d’) Principies usuels de Nomographie avec application e divers problemes concernment l’Artillerie et l’Aviation... roy 8vo Paris 1920. Signed Presenation Copy & with Author’s visiting card loosely inserted, orig. ptd. wrappes; also Sabudski & Von Eberhard, Die Wahrscheinlichkeit - srechnug,... und auf die Theorie des Einschiensens, sm. folio Stuttgarts (Fr. Grub Velag) 1906. First Edn., uncut, wrappers. (2) €100 - €150 813. Wood-Martin (W.G.) The Lake Dwellings of Ireland, lg. roy 8vo Dublin 1886. First Edn., illus. thro-out later quarter mor. binding; O’Brien (Henry) The Round Towers of Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1834. First Edn., illus., cont. hf. calf, gilt spine, mor. label. (2) €180 - €250 814. Heaney (S.) The Last Walk, 8vo Meath Gallery Press 2013, First Edn., Limited 497 (500) copies, illustrated by Martin Gale, green cloth glassine d.j. Good copy. (1) €150 - €200 815. Heaney (Seamus) & O’Driscoll (D.) Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney, thick 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 2008, signed by Heaney & O’Driscoll, boards, gilt lettered spine, photographic d.j. Good copy. (1) €350 - €420 816. Signed by James & Lucia Joyce A Cosmological Fairytale of Dublin Joyce (James) The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. A Fragment of Work in Progress [i.e. Finnegans Wake]. MCMXXXIV [1934], Servire Press, The Hague, tall 8vo blue cloth gilt, in illus. d.w. and glassine over wrapper. Initial letter and tailpiece in seven colours and cover in three colours, all by the author’s daughter Lucia. No. XX of 29 copies on Similie Japon of Van Gelder Zonen. Signed at rear by both James and Lucia Joyce. There was also an unsigned edition of 1,000 copies. Uncut and unopened, in fine condition. The glassine over wrapper rumpled and torn, the d.w. a little creased at the upper back, otherwise almost immaculate. As is well known, Lucia Joyce had mental health issues, and spent most of her adult life in an institution. There has been some criticism of her treatment by relatives, but there is little doubt that her father (who had many problems of his own) did all he could to encourage her artistic talents through ventures such as this. ‘In this cosmological fairytale of Dublin, the poet presents in nuce his vision of the childhood of mankind, lifting the local elements into universal relationships of Swiftian humour and magic symbolism.’ Provenance: From the collection of Joyce’s friend Thomas Pugh. (1) €6000 - €8000