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

149 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 865. Yeats (W.B.). Poems. L., Fisher Unwin , third ed., reprint, 1920, blue-green cloth, gilt spine, with a good photograph of Yeats standing in front of a gate and a rustic stone wall (possibly Galway) pasted to f.f.e.p. above Yeats’ signature dated 1922. The photograph is unfamiliar; a horse can just be seen in the field behind Yeats. (1) €600 - €800 867. Fitzgerald (John) The Time Being, 8vo, Gallery 2021, inset with loose Signed printed card Sister, cloth ptd. wrappers; Mc Breen (Joan) The Wind Beyond The Wall, 8vo, California (S.L.P.) 2020, First Edn., grey cloth, d.j.; A Walled Garden Moylough, California (S.L.P.) 2020, ptd. wrappers; Mc Breen (J.) The White Page - An Bhileog Bhán, 8vo California 2000, signed, printed wrappers; Bourke (Eva) & Woods (V.)eds. Fermata, 8vo, Letterfrack (Artism House) 2016, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (5) €80 - €100 868. Signed Limited Edition [Gregory (Lady)] The Blessed Trinity of Ireland Stories of St. Brigid, St. Colmcille and St. Patrick, 8vo, Worcester (Colin Smythe) 1985, Signed, Limited Edition 44 (50) copies, illustrated by Margaret Gregory, hand coloured, marble endpapers, full calf, blind decor. & gilt highlighted front cover, cloth slipcase. (1) €200 - €300 869. [Yeats (W.B.)] Duryee (M.B.) Words Alone are Certain Good, sm. 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1961, First, inscribed by the author, cloth backed boards; Raine (K.) From Blake to a Vision, 8vo, D. (Dolmen) 1979, First, illus., ptd. wrappers; a framed reprint of “W.B. Yeats presenting George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies,” as a lot, w.a.f. (3) €80 - €120 870. [Wakefield (Ed. Gibbon)] England and America, A Comparison of the Social and Political State of Both Nations, 8vo New York (Harper & Brothers) 1834. First Edn., some browning as usual, cloth; Drummond (Wm. H.) Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., 8vo Dublin 1840. First Edn., port. frontis & fac- simile fold. letter, full tan mor., gilt fillets etc; Sheridaniana; or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lond. 1826. Frontis, port. hf. mor. (3) €120 - €170 871. Provost (Abbé) Le Doyen de Killerine, Histoire Morale, 6vols. 12mo Lyon 1783. New Edn., 6 engd. frontis, cont. hf. calf, marble boards, worn. (6) €120 - €170 872. Russell (George), ‘AE’. A collection of four items, mostly First Editions, each inscribed to the author’s friend Stephen MacKenna, with a fifth not inscribed but signed by MacKenna’s wife Máire, all with label of Stephen MacKenna collection, Lowenac, Camborne, as follows: Homeward Songs By the Way, L. 1908, spine sl. dgd; The Candle of Vision, L. 1918; The Renewal of Youth, L. Orpheus Press 1911, wrappers laminated; Voices of the Stones, L. 1925; The Interpreters, L. 1922. As a collection, w.a.f. (5) €200 - €300 873. Genealogy: Mathews (Thos.) & Bigger (F.J.) The O’Neill’s of Ulster, Their History and Genealogy. Sm. 8vo Dublin 1907. First Edn., frontis recent cloth. (1) €120 - €180 874. Celtic interest. Celtische Alterthumer zu Erlauterung der altesten Geschichten und Verfassung Helvetiens, 8vo Bern 1783. Engd. vignette title, wd. cut & engd. heads, text in old German thro.-out, orig. marbled boards. (1) €100 - €150 866. First Edition with Inscription O’Brien (Flann) pseudo At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo L. (Longmans, Green & Co.) 1939, First Edn., inscribed on f.e.p. “ To My Butty, Rosemary Coyle from the Author, Brain O’Nolan,” (repair to top right of page, slight foxing, plain black cloth, gilt lettered spine housed in custom made clam shell box with label. Exceedingly Rare Inscribed Copy. (1) * Rosemary (Coyle) [1914-2004] was an Irish Artist who exhibited at the R.H.A. Her solo exhibition in 1943 was opened by Sean Keating. €2000 - €3000 865