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

14 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 60. Rare American Edition Barry (Commandant General Tom) Guerilla Days in Ireland, A First Hand Account of the Black and Tan War (1919- 1921), 8vo, New York (The Devin-Adair Company) 1956, First American Edn., pictorial endpapers, cream cloth, d.j. Clean copy. (1) €250 - €320 61. Signed by Erskine Childers Childers (Erskine)ed. The Riddle of the Sands A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved, 8vo L. (Smith Elder & Co.) 1908, Eight (Second Edition) Signed and Dedicated to W.S. Armour (Son of J.B. Armour author on Irish Politics), folding map frontis, original cloth decor. front cover (later label on spine) Nice Association Copy. (1) €400 - €600 62 . Signed by Gertrude Stein Stein (Gertrude) An Acquaintance with Description, 8vo L. (The Seizin Press) 1929, Signed Limited Edn. No. 97 (225) copies, original cloth. (1) [Note - Haas and Gallup XIV] €250 - €320 63. Hardy (Captain J.L.) (with a foreword by Arthur Conan Doyle) I Escape!, London., John Lane Bodley Head, 1927. First Edn., a v.g. plus clean copy of the 1927 First Edn., Inscribed by the Author to the ffep - “autographed with great pleasure for Judge TW Brown, JL Hardy, July ‘36,”The ffep also bears the ownership inscription of TW Brown. This book comes from the library of Judge James Brown QC, a County Court Judge from County Down who chaired the Internment Review Tribunal in Northern Ireland from August 1971 to May 1972 (presumably the son of Judge TW Brown), yellow cloth, repair to the spine. (1) Note: A Bodley Head P.O.W. escape memoir of which this is an uncommon example. The routine in German camps like Halle, Magdeburg and Zorndorf are well described, and the planning and execution of Hardy’s four (and ultimately successful) escape attempts are given in exciting detail. Among his fellow prisoners were Duncan Grinnell- Milne, with whom Hardy carried out one failed escape, and Roland Garros. Hardy eventually got away and back to the Great War in company with Capt. W.C. Loder-Symonds. After the war (DSO, MC and bar) Hardy, with one leg amputated, became an assassin in Ireland serving in British Intelligence efforts against Sinn Fein and the IRA. One of his victims is alleged to have been the grandfather of the Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll of the TV show, ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys.’This was featured in the BBC Programme ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ with Brendan O’Carroll. The Foreword is by Arthur Conan Doyle who took a different view of Captain Hardy. “ I can say for himwhat he would be the last to say of himself,” writes Conan Doyle, “that a more gallant and chivalrous gentleman never stepped.. like many men of action Captain Hardy writes excellent English.” €250 - €320 64. [Shaw (G.B.)] Social Politics: Fabian Society, a bound Volume of varied Tracts, numbered starting at 1 - 170 (not complete) various contributors, published by The Fabian Society c. 1908-1913, bound together red cloth. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €70 - €100 65. Gaiman (Neil) Anasi Boys, 8vo L. (headline) 2023, Signed by the Author, illus., decorative end papers, illus. cloth and matching slipcase. Good copy. (1) €80 - €100 66. One of 100 Signed Copies Chaskey (S.), O’Casey (Breon) illus . Stars are Suns, 4to L. (Stonemen Press) 1993, Signed Limited Edn. No. 55/100, gilt decor. brown cloth. Good copy. (1) €175 - €250 67. Carrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to Dublin 1905. First Edn., fold. map & illus. thro.-out, & with fac-simile letter from Dr. Brownrigg Bishop, loosely inserted, orig. green cloth; also Litton (Helen)ed. Index to Carrigan’s History, roy 8vo Kilkenny 2005, cloth & d.w. (5) * Ex. Libris Mrs. Margaret Phelan . €550 - €750 60 67 61 66 63