Rare Book & Collectors' Sale June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026

138 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1082. O’Driscoll (Dennis) Steeping Stones, Interviews with Seamus Heaney, thick 8vo, L. 2008, Signed by Heaney & O’Driscoll; The Outnumbered Poet, 2013; Troubled Thoughts Majestic Dreams, 2001, (h.b. & p.b.); and three other paperbacks, all inscribed, as a lot. (7) €180 - €220 1083. Heaney (S.) & Longley (M.) An Upstairs Outlook, 8vo Belfast (Linen Hall Library) 1989, Signed by both, ptd. wrappers; A Tribut to Michael Mc Laverty, 8vo, Belfast (Linen Hall Library) 2005, Signed Limited Edn., No. 30/250 copies, marbled wrappers, ptd label; Holly, Card, L. (Enitharmon Press) 2005, Nice clean lot. (3) [Brandes & Durkan] €200 - €300 1084. Carson (Ciaran) Until Before After, 2010; The Irish for NO, 1987; The Twelfth of Never, 1998; The Alexandrine Plan, 1998, Inscribed; In Light of, 2012; The Midnight Court, (A New Translation) 2005, Inscribed, and two paperback copies of ‘Belfast Confetti,’ & 1 other all 8vo, Gallery Press, mostly cloth & d.j., as a lot. (9) €100 - €150 1085. Periodical: Graves & others, Editors: Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, - The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. I - 1849-51 - [In Fac-simile] - Vol. II, 1852-53 - Vol XLV, Consecutive Series, 1915, in uniform hf. green mor. labels by Galwey & Co. faded, plus Vols. XLVI + XLVII, XLVIII, XLIX, bound in 2, suede backed boards; plus 2 large boxes of loose issues, from 1920 onwards. An attractive part set. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1) €450 - €750 1086. Carton Library: [Emile (Paul] & Regnart (J.)trans. Histoire de France, Contenant Les Faicts..., folio, Paris (Robert Fouet) 1696, red & black and vignette title page, marble endpapers and edges. Ex. Libris Carton Library (with bookplate & shelf label), contemp. full calf with floral design gilt border, ornate paneled spine, mor. label and Carton Crest. (1) €300 - €400 1087. Postal History: Two thick Albums containing, free frontis, franked envelopes, stamped items, some postcards etc., etc., & envelope (with & without contents) some scarce postal markings, over 350 items approx. As a collection, w.a.f. (2) €200 - €300 1088. Music: A volume of 19th Century Sheet Music, with works by Thomas Moore, They tell me thourt the Favoured Guest, music by Michael William Balfe; Samuel Lover, The Lord of the West; also Then You’ll Remember Me, composed by M.W. Balfe; and others sim., some Dublin printed, & some with attractive covers, cont. hf. mor., with tooled gilt mor. label ‘Mrs. W. Hamilton’ As music, w.a.f. (1) €130 - €200 1089. Coloured Plates: Paul (William) The Rose Garden in Two Divisions, sq. folio Lond. n.d. [1888] Cold. frontis & 19 full page plates, plus black and white plts., orig. cloth, gilt V. good copy. (1) €175 - €250 1090. Box: Irish Poetry & Literature: Works by Lord Dunsany, Kate O’Brien, Emily Lawless, Stephen Gwynn, St. John G. Ervine, Standish O’Grady, James Stephens, Robin Flowers, Monk Gibbon, T.R. Henn, Padraic Colum, Richard Rowley & others, by A.E., O. St. Gogarty, W.B. & & J.B. Yeats, etc., approx. 42 items, good, some First Editions, mostly cloth, As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: De Veres of Curragh Chase and O’Briens of Dromoland Castle. €150 - €200 1091. Good Collection of Art Books, etc. Box: Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, 1988, 1990, 1992 - 1998, 2002 - 2010, together 19 Exhibition Catalogues, 4to Dublin 1988-2010, profusely illustrated, all orig. pict. boards. As a periodical, w.a.f.; also books on Mary Swanzy, Peter Pearson, Patrick Pye, Liam Flynn Fluid Forms; The Surreal in Irish Art, Harry Clarke, & many others. A box, w.a.f. V. good. (1) €100 - €150 1092. From Curragh Chase & O’Brien Libraries Box: Bindings etc: Spencer (Edmund) The Fairie Queene, 2 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. 1853 Illus by Edw. Corbould, orig. hf. vellum; Tolstoi - Resurrection, Roman Paris 1900, mor. backed; Bryce (James) The Holy Roman Empire, L. 1884 hf. mor.; Daudet (A.) Tartarin sur les Alpes, Paris c. 1890, illus., mor. backed; Shelley - A Selection from the Poems,... Leipzig 1872, full vellum; Coleridge (Sam. Taylor) Aids to Reflection, Lond. (Wm. Pickering) 1839 cont. hf. mor.; 34 vols. in all, many with bookplates or inscriptions As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: De Veres of Curragh Chase and O’Briens of Dromoland Castle. €200 - €300 1093. Box: Russell (Geo. W.E.) Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888, 2 vols. Lond. 1895. First Edn., cloth; & a collection of other books, by or about M. Arnold, others about his father, his connections with the Forsters, the de Veres, O’Briens etc., others by Robert Bridges, J.H. Newman, J. Keats, E.M. Forster, A. Tennyson etc., approx. 55 vols. in all. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: De Veres of Curragh Chase and O’Briens of Dromoland Castle. €120 - €180 1082 1085 1086