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

8 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1. Thomas (Dylan) Collected Poems 1934- 1952, 8vo Lond. (Dent & Sons) 1952, d.w.; Under Milk Wood, A Play for Voices. Lond. (Dent & Sons) 1954, d.w.; and Quiet Early One Morning, Lond. (Dent & Sons) 1954 All First Edns., & in orig. wrappers; also Our Dylan Thomas Memorial Number, from Adam International Review No. 238, 1953. All v. good. (4) €120 - €170 2. Behan (Brendan) The Quare Fellow, A Comedy-Drama. 8vo Lond. (Metheun & Co.) 1956; also The Hostage, 8vo Lond. (Methuen & Co.) 1958. Both First Edns., orig. unclipped pict. wrappers; and The Borstal Boy, 8vo Lond. (Hutchinson) 1958. First Edn., port. frontis cloth, orig. unclipped pict. wrappers. All v. good. (3) €220 - €350 3. Most Signed by Author Longley (Michael) Poems 1963-1983, 1985, d.w.; The Echo Gate, Lond. 1979, d.w.; An Exploded View, Poems 1968-72, Lond. 1973, d.w.; No Continuing City, Poems 1963-1968, Lond. 1969. Longley’s First Collection; Gorse Fires, Lond. 1991; The Ghost Orchid, 1995; SnowWater, Lond. 2004; Broken Dishes, Belfast 1998, Lim. Edn.; Fishing in the Sky, Love Poems, 1975; & 2 others, same author, together 11 vols., nine of which are signed by author. (11) €220 - €350 4. Hayes (Edward) The Ballads of Ireland, 2 vols. in one, sm. 8vo Lond. Edin. & Dublin 1855. First Edn., 2 decor. add. titles & 2 frontis, attractive str. grained mor., tooled gilt spine & mor. label. V. good; Hyde (Douglas) Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht or Love Songs of Connacht, 8vo Dublin & Lond. 1893. First Edn., orig. hf. mor. mor. label. Front loose blank, inscribed ‘R. Caulfield Orpen Oct. 1893’ 2 other sm. volumes. As a lot. (4) €180 - €250 5. [Langrishe (H.) & Others] Baratariana, A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published during the Administration of Lord Townshend in Ireland, 12mo Dublin 1773. Second Edn., port. frontis & 1 lg. fold. plt., later hf. mor.; also [Moore (Thos.)] Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion, 2 vols. 12mo Lond. 1833. First Edn., cont. hf. mor. Gurteen le Poer copies, inscribed & with bookplates. (3) €200 - €300 6. Cromwell (Thos.) Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. in 2, 12mo Lond. 1820. Two engd. add. titles, an engd. frontis Vol. III, & approx. 134 engd. plts., hf. mor. tooled gilt spines (not uniform) & in recent cloth slipcase. Clean copies. (2) €200 - €300 7. [Otway (Caesar)] A Tour in Connaught, Comprising Sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country and Achill. Sm. 8vo Dublin 1839. First Edn., wd. cut frontis, plates, 5pp of adverts at end. Attractive recent full dark green mor. with tooled gilt shamrocks & other blind tooled decorations, spine with raised bands, & tooled gilt flowers in panels, mor. label. Good. (1) €250 - €400 8. Newry Printing: Towgood (Micaiah) A Dissent from the Church of England, Full Justified: Being the Dissenting Gentleman’s Three Letters. Sm. 8vo Newry (Alexander Wilkinson) 1816. Pp. 428, in near contemporary full cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 6 7 2 3 5