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34 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 284. Cuala Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler) The Cat and The Moon and Certain Poems, 8vo Dublin 1924. Lim. Edition 500 Copies Only; also Yeats (W.B.) Estrangement: Being Some Fifty Thoughts from a Diary kept by Wm. Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine, 8vo Dublin 1926. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies Only; Yeats (W.B.) Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, 8vo Dublin 1932. Lim. Edn. 450 Copies Only, unopened. All orig. cloth backed blue boards. All v. good. (3) €300 - €400 285. Cuala Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler) Seven Poems and a Fragment, 8vo Dundrum, Co. Dublin 1922. Lim. Edition, 500 Copies Only, Device on title, orig. cloth backed grey boards; also Yeats (Wm. B.) The Words Upon the Window Pane: A Play in One Act..., 8vo Dublin 1934. Lim. Edn. 350 Copies Only, wd. cut device on title, uncut, cloth bound blue boards. Both First Edns. V. good. (2) €280 - €350 286. Cuala Press: Rossi (Mario M.) Pilgrimage in the West, trans. by J.M. Hone 8vo Dublin 1933. Limited Edition 300 Copies Only; St. John Gogarty (Oliver) Elbow Room, Dublin 1933. Lim. Edn. 450 Copies Only; Montague (John) A Fair House: Versions of Irish Poetry, 8vo Dublin 1972 Lim. Edn. No. 100 of 350 Copies Only, some unopened, device on titles, orig. cloth backed boards. All v. good. (3) €220 - €350 287. Dun Emer Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler) Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer Press) 1904. Limited Edition 500 Copies Only, woodcut illus. orig. cloth backed blue boards, paper labels. Clean copy, with plastic d.w. (1) €220 - €350 288. Cuala Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler) Last Poems and Two Plays, Dublin 1939. Lim. Edition 500 Copies Only. Wd. cut device on title; also If I Were Four-and Twenty, 8vo Dublin 1940. Lim. Edn. No. 4 of 450 Copies, wd.-cut device on title, both cloth backed blue boards, v. good. Glassine covers.(2) €300 - €400 289. Cuala Press etc: Yeats (W. Butler) The Tables of the Law; and The Adoration of the Magi, 8vo Stratford-upon-Avon (The Shakespeare Head Press) 1914. Lim. Edn. No. 223 of 500 Copies, hf. title, orig. cloth, v. good; Yeats (W.B.) Essays 1931 to 1936, Dublin (Cuala) 1937. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies; New Poems by W.B. Yeats, Dublin (Cuala) 1938. Lim. Edn. 450 Copies Only, both orig. cloth backed blue boards. Good. (3) €300 - €400 290. Cuala Press: A Woman’s Reliquary, 8vo Churchtown, Dundrum, 1913. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies Only, ex libris copy; [Harmsworth] Desmond’s Poems, 8vo Dublin 1930. Lim. Edition, 75 Copies Only, Red & bl. title, text corrected in parts; Poems by Thomas Parnell: Selected by Lennox Robinson, 8vo Dublin 1927. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies Only, front loose blank inscribed ‘Cecil Harmsworth;’ All First Edns., & orig. linen backed blue boards. (3) €300 - €400 291. Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.D., 3 vols. 8vo Dublin 1792. First Dublin Edn., cont. calf, mor. labels, worn; Boswell (James) The Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., 8vo Lond. (Henry Baldwin) 1785. Second Edn., title with engd. vignette, orig. calf, worn, upr. cover loose. (3) €180 - €240 292. Newman (Card. John Henry) Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet entitled ‘ What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?’ 8vo Lond. 1864. First Edn., orig. cloth,lacks spine; The Life of Spollonius Tyanaeus, 8vo Reprinted, disbound; Discourses on The Scope and Nature of University Education, Addressed to The Catholics of Dublin. 8vo Dublin 1852. First Edn., cont. hf. mor. rebacked orig. label; A Letter Addressed to his Grace The Duke of Norfolk on occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent Expostulation, 8vo Lond. 1875, boards & wrappers. As a lot. (5) €200 - €300 293. Illustrated Edition Folio Society: Joyce (James) Ulysses, Preface by Stephen James Joyce. Roy 8vo Lond. 1998. Unusual gilt decor. plates by Mimmo Paladino, orig. blue cloth & slipcase. V. good. (1) €170 - €250 284 293 285 287