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33 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 208. Dun Emer & Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Discoveries; A Volume of Essays 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer) 1907. Lim. to 200 Copies Only. Wade 72; and Estrangement: Being Some Fifty Thoughts from A Diary Kept by William Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine, 8vo Dublin (Cuala Press) 1926. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies Only. Wade 150. Both cloth backed blue boards. (2) €300 - €400 209. Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Two Plays for Dancers, 8vo Cuala 1919. Lim. Edn. 400 Copies only, decor. title; also same author, The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 8vo Cuala Press 1924. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies Only, red & bl. title. Both orig. cloth backed boards, Good. Wade 123 and 145. (2) €300 - €400 210. Dun Emer Press: Eglington (John) Some Essays and Passages by John Eglington, Selected by Wm. Butler Yeats. 8vo Dundrum (The Dun Emer Press) 1905. Lim. to 200 Copies Only; also, Tynan (Katherine) Twenty One Poems, by K. Tynan, Selected by W.B. Yeats, 8vo Dun Emer, Dundrum 1907. Lim. to 200 Copies Only. Both orig. cloth backed boards. Wade 232 & 238. The 6th & 10th Publications of Dun Emer Press. V. good. (2) €350 - €500 211. Dun Emer Press & Cuala Press: Johnson (Lionel) Twenty One Poems, .... Selected by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum 1904. Lim. Edn. 220 Copies Only; also Allingham (William) Sixteen Poems, ... Selected by Wm. Butler Yeats. 8vo Dundrum 1905. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies Only; and, Gogarty (Oliver) Wild Apples, with Preface by William B. Yeats. 8vo Dublin 1930. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Only, all orig. cloth backed boards. Wade, 231, 234 & 279. Good. (3) €300 - €400 212. Cuala Press: O’Connor (Frank) The Wild Birds Nest: Poems from the Irish, With An Essay on the Character in Irish Literature by A.E., 8vo Dublin 1932. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Only; also O’Connor (Frank) Lords and Commons Translations from the Irish, 8vo Dublin 1938. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Only; and O’Connor (Frank) A Picture Book, Illustrated by Eliz. Rivers. 8vo Dublin 1943. Lim. Edn. NO. 183 of 480 Copies Only, full page & other illus., all orig. cloth backed boards (one pictorial). Good. (3) €280 - €380 213. Cuala Press: Robinson (Lennox) Poems by Thomas Parnell, Dublin 1927. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies Only; also A Little Anthology of Modern Irish Verse, Selected by Lennox Robinson, 8vo Dublin 1928, Lim. Edn. 300 Copies Only; and, Masefield (John) John M. Synge, A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes , 8vo Churchtown, Dundrum, 1915. Lim. Edn. No. 189 of 350 Copies Only. All orig. cloth backed boards. (3) €225‑€350 214. Dun Emer Press: Hyde (Douglas) ‘An Craoibhín Aoibhinn,’ title, The Love Songs of Connacht Being the Fourth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht, 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer Press) 1904. Lim. Edn. One of 300 Copies Only. Preface by W.B. Yeats. Uncut, partly unopened, orig.cloth backed blue boards, paper labels. V. good. Wade 260. The Third book from Dun Emer Press. (1) €250 - €350 208 209 214 206. EarlyW.B. Yeats Signed by Author, May 10, 1905 Dun Emer Press : Yeats (Wm. Butler) Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum 1904. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies Only, Signed in pen and ink under the printed title, & with one wd. cut illus. orig. cloth backed blue boards. V. good. Wade 94. (1) * This is the fifth publication of Dun Emer Press €1000 - €1500