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148 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 857. [S.C.] To Betty with so much Love-Sue, L. (The Favil Press) 1967, Privately Printed, hf. title, inscribed on f.p.d., loose letter from author, ptd. boards; Le Confield (Constance) Random Papers, 8vo Sussex (The Grange Press) 1938, First Edn., inscribed by the author, portrait frontis, blue boards, ptd. label; Barrie (J.M.) Courage - The Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews University, May 3rd, 1922, L. 1922, hf. title, grey cloth, red text, with typescript letter referencing same loosely inserted, as a lot, w.a.f. (3) €150 - €200 858. [The Yeats Family] Yeats (John Butler) Early Memories; some Chapters of Autobiography, 8vo, D. (Cuala Press) 1923, cloth back boards; Essays Irish and American, 8vo D. 1918, frontis cloth boards, ptd. label; Jeffares (A.N.) Yeats Sligo and Ireland, 8vo N.Y. 1980, cloth; Bushrui (Suheil) An International Companion to the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. (Smythe) 1989, cloth & d.j.; Faulkner (P.) Yeats and the Irish Eighteenth Century, D. (Dolmen) 1965, ptd. wrappers; White (S.J.)ed. Irish Writing, No. 30, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (a lot) €150 - €200 859. Ellmann (Richard) Eminent Domain, 8vo, N.Y. (O.U.P.) 1967, First Edn., Signed and inscribed, cloth & d.j.; Four Dubliners, 8vo, Washington (L.O.C.) 1986, illus. First Edn., cloth; The Identity of Yeats, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1954, First Edn., cloth; Symons (A.)comp. The Poems of Ernest Dawson, 8vo L. (J. Lane) 1919, illus. by Aubrey Beardsley, frontis, uncut, decor. cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €80 - €100 860. O’Leary (John) Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism, 2 vols. Lond. 1896. First Edn., 2 port. frontis orig. cloth, v. good; Ryan (D.) The Fenian Chief - A Biography of James Stephens, D. 1967. First Edn. d.w.; Doheny (M.) The Fenlon’s Tract, D. 1951, d.w. (4) €130 - €180 861. Eliot (T.S.) The Confidential Clerk, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1954, First Edn., blue clothy, d.j. (price clipped) some foxing otherwise good; Fitzgerald (Ed.)trans. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 8vo, L. (Folio) 1970, illus., decor. cloth & slipcase; De la Mare (W.) Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes, 8vo, L. 1922, boards; Strong (L.A.G.) John Milington Synge, 8vo L. 1941, ptd. boards; Strachey (L.) Eminent Victorians, 8vo L. 1924, illus. cloth, ptd. label; Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, 8vo L. 1911, vellum back boards; and four others by Synge, Bernard Shaw, as a lot, w.a.f. (10) €120 - €150 862. First Edition of Joyce’s First Novel Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 8vo, N.Y. (B.W. Huebsdch) 1916, First U.S. Edition, hf. title, blue cloth blind tooled lettering, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. [Slocum & Cahoon A11]. (1) * The American Edition pre-dates the English Edition by one year, which was printed by the Egoist Press. €1200 - €1800 863. With an unrecorded Joyce Item? Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. L., Egoist [1917], First English Edition (from American sheets, with the Huebsch copyright imprint (1916) on rear of t.p. Orig. green cloth stamped in blind, spine cloth separating at lower hinge, but the hinge holding firmly. A little spotting to upper edge. S. & C. 12. Laid in is a leaflet (4pp, single folded sheet) with ‘Extracts from some Press Notices’, printed in Harlesden, dated 1916 and quoting more than 30 notices by reviewers including Ezra Pound, H.G. Wells, Ernest Boyd, The Freeman’s Journal, Irish Times, Irish Book Lover, and various English, Irish, American and Continental journals, one in Greek lettering. Fold marks, a little scuffed. We have not seen this leaflet before. Its authorship is not stated, but it is certainly possible that it was drafted or approved by Joyce and his associates. The publisher (Harriet Weaver) subscribed to a clipping service for Joyce (see S. & C. p. vii), which may explain the great range of reviews. These clippings are now in the Yale University Library. The leaflet is not recorded by S. & C. (1) €2500 - €3500 864. Beckett (Samuel). Murphy. Bordas 1947, First Edition in French, translated by the author, black cloth, orig. paper wrappers bound in. The English First Edition appeared in 1938. (1) €400 - €600 862 863