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59 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 412. [Anburey (Thos.)] Travels through the Interior Parts of America, In a Series of Letters, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1789. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, list of subscribers, 1 fold. map, 6 plts. (some fold. linen backed) 2 leaves illustrating American Continental Dollars (misbound), ex. libris copy, with stamps, rebound, recent hf. mor. (2) €200 - €300 413. With Hand-Coloured Plates Kirby (Wm.) & Spence (Wm.) An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1822. Fourth Edn., 2 port. frontis., & 30 hand cold. plts., cont. hf. mor. faded, but good. (4) * Bookplates in all vols. of Lucius O’Brien, older brother of Sir Wm. Smith O’Brien. €200 - €300 414. Cromwell (Thos.) Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. in one, thick 8vo London 1820. First Edn., 121 engd. plts. complete inlcud. engd. title, cont. hf. calf, professional reback. Clean copy. (1) €220 - €320 415. Beckett (Samuel) Happy Days, A Play in Two Acts. 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1962. First English Edn cloth vig. d.w.; also Krapps Last Tape and Embers, 8vo Lond. 1960, boards; & From An Abandoned Work, 8vo Lond. 1958. First Edn., orig. decorated boards. All clean copies. (3) €150 - €200 416. Heaney (Seamus) & Schuchard (Ronald) The Place of Writing, 8vo Atlanta (Scholars Press) 1989, Signed by Both, First Edn., photo frontis, cloth and d.j.; New Selected Poems 1966-1987, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, First Edn., signed, ptd. wrappers, both good. (2) €200 - €300 417. All Signed First Editions Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, A Version from the Irish. 8vo Derry (A Field Day Publication) 1983. First Edn., Signed & dated 22/11/85, on title, orig. green d.w.; also Station Island, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1984. First Edn. Singed and dated 23.11.89 on hf. title orig. d.w.; Hailstones, 8vo Gallery Press 1984. Lim. Edn. One of 250 Copies, Signed on title, orig. blue d.w.; and The Tree Clock, Belfast (The Linen Hall Library) 1990. Lim. Edn. 750 Coies, this copy inscribed on title, ‘... affectionately Seamus Heaney on Publication day.’ Orig. cloth & d.w. All v. good. Brandes & Durkan, A34, A36, A37 & A48. (4) €350 - €500 413 416 414 412 417 415