RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE 12th -13th December 2023

20 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 153. [Jerrold (Wm. Blanchard)] ‘Fin-Bec,’ The Book of Menus, roy 8vo Lond. (Grant & Co.) 1876. First Edn., add. litho title, title & text within red decor. border,8pp. adverts at end, a.e.g., attractive publishers gilt decor. green cloth, small upper portion of lower joint broken, otherwise v. good. (1) €160 - €220 154. Signed & Inscribed by Author Gogarty (Oliver St. John) An Offering of Swans, 8vo Dublin (Cuala Press) 1923. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies Only, On Page 22, ‘To the Lady,’ & her name ‘Ottoline Morsell’ has been added in manuscript by Gogarty, orig., cloth backed boards; also An Offering of Swans, roy 8vo Lond. [1941] Inscribed Pres. Copy, ‘To ArnoldWhitridge from his friend Oliver St. J. Gogarty,’ with note in Greek, date Dec. 7th 1941. Orig. buckram. V. good. (2) €200 - €300 155. [O’Nuallain (B.)] ‘Flann O’Brien,’ The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor, Lond. (Macgibbon & Kee) 1961. First Edn., cloth & illus. d.w.; also The Dalkey Archive, Lond. 1968. First Edn., Ex. Libris Copy, front loose blank lacking, d.w.; The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bocht), trans. by Patrick C. Power. 8vo Lond. 1973. First Edn., illus. etc. boards & d.w.; also Flann O’Brien at War, edited by John Wyse-Jackson. 8vo Lond. 1999. First Edn., illus. & d.w.; & 1 other. (5) €180 - €250 156. Early Dublin Printing Burnet (Gilbert)Ed. Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester, Who died the 26th July, 1680, 4to Dublin (Jos. Ray.. for WilliamWinter..) 1681. Lacks port. frontis, VI, 58, some mis-pagination, some repairs, edges weak, recent hf. mor. (1) €160 - €250 157. Yeats (W.B.) Later Poems, L. 1922, cloth; The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Lond. 1933, cloth; Plays in Prose and Verse, Lond. 1931, d.w.; Selected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative, Lond. 1938, d.w.; Letters on Poetry fromW.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, Lond. (Oxford Uni. Press) 1940. First Edn., d.w. (5) €100 - €150 158. Yeats (W.B.) A Full Moon in March, Lond. 1935. First Edn., cloth; Where There is Nothing; Vol. I, of Plays for An Irish Theatre, Lond. 1903; The Hour Glass, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, Vol. II, ... Lond. 1904; & Deirdre, Vol. V, of Plays for An Irish Theatre, Lond. 1907. All First Edns., cloth backed boards; Plays for An Irish Theatre, roy 8vo Lond. 1913, with designs by Gordon Craig, cloth backed boards. As a lot. (5) €180 - €240 159. By Thouvenin Jeune Binding: Petit Careme de Massillon, Eveque de Clermont, 8vo Paris 1822. Hf. title, engd. port. frontis, a.e.g. full cont. olive green straight grained mor., tooled gilt border, & blind tooled lozenger on each cover, blind & gilt tooled spine., Signed ‘Thouvenin Jeune,’V. good. (1) * Famous early 19th Century French binder. €180 - €250 160. [de St. George (Chev.)] Revolutions d’Ecosse et d’Ireland en 1707, 1708 et 1709, Two parts in One, 12mo The Hague 1767. Hf. calf, Scarce. Emf. (1) €100 - €150 156 153 154 & detail 159 155