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

90 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 676. Manuscript in Irish Manuscript Anon : A manuscript copybook containing poetry and historical notes in attractive clean Irish hand and in English, 1930 - 40’s, including a translation into Irish (possibly original) of a Poem by Archbishop MacHale of Tuam, some cuttings laid in. Gleanings of a literary scholar. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €120 - €180 677. [Yeats (W.B.)] Scott-James (R.A.)ed. The London Mercury and Bookman , Issues Nos. 207 & 233, Jan. 1937 & March 1939, each including Poems by Yeats. No. 207 - The Three Bushes, and No. 233, - Four Recent Poems, with a photo of Yeats, orig. ptd. wrappers; The Dublin Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 2 - April - June 1951, with Diarmuid and Grania, A Play in Three Acts, by George Moore andW.B. Yeats. Now First Printed, With an introductory note by Wm. Becker. 4to D. 1951, 41pp wrappers. Scarce. (3) €80 - €120 680. Scarce First Edition Joyce (James) Pomes Penyeach, 24mo Paris (Shakespeare and Company) 1927. First Edition. Copyright page and hf. title, with errata slip tipped in at end, in original pale green boards, spine worn & faded. (1) €300 - €400 676 680 678. Very Limited Edition Yeats (Wm. Butler) In the Order of the R.R. & A.C. to Remain a Magical Order? Written in March 1901, and given to the Adepti of the Order of R.R. & A.C. in April 1901. [This Essay must not be given to any but Adepti of the Order of R.R. & A.C.] printed at foot of front wrapper. 8vo [No Place, No Imprint] 30pp., [2 (blank)] orig. brown wrappers, sm. ink stain at foot of front cover, uncut, orig. wrappers. V. good copy. (1) * One of the rarest of Yeats’ writing. €1250 - €1750 679. Presentation Copy toW. Stevens, with A.L.s. Yeats (W.B.) The Shadowy Waters, roy 8vo New York (Dodd Mead and Co.) 1901. First American Edition. Hf. title, [64]pp., orig. grey boards with red & black printed label, variant binding not noted by Wade. The spine held tight by d.w.?? Wade 31. * Inscribed on front loose blank, ‘W. Stevens fromW.B. Yeats with all good wishes 1901,’ also with A.L.s. from 18 Woburn Buildings, Euston Road, to ... Dear Mr. Stevens fromW.B. Yeats.’Yeats finishes letter ‘ You were I think the first editor in England who ever published verse or prose of mine.’ Sm. hole on front blank where letter was pinned. (2) €1000 - €1500