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

61 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 484. Heaney (Seamus) & others [John Malone Memorial Lecture] 6 issue, 1982- 88, Among School Children, (Heaney) Signed; Recollections (Hammond) Signed & inscribed; Dramatis Persona, (Stewart Parker) Signed, Education for Renewal, (Skilbeck) Signed, Is Comprehensive Education Still Worth Fighting For? (Sockett) Signed; Why Can’t they be Like Us, (Hayes) Signed, all 8vo, ptd. wrappers (varied colours). [Brandes & Durkan A35] €200 - €300 485. [Heaney (Seamus)] A Parcel of Poems for Ted Hughes, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1995, 300 copies, Signed by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, ptd. wrappers; Elborn (G.)ed. Hand and Eye, An Anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell, 8vo, Edin. (Tragara Press) 1971, Privately Printed, Limited No. 87/275 copies, illus., cloth backed boards; Humphries (B.) A Garland for Stephen, 4to Edin. (Tragara Press) 1991, Signed by some Contributors including Ted Hughes, Edwin Morgan, Limited Edn. 129 / 150 Copies, illus. ptd. wrappers. (3) [Brandes & Durkan B26, B120] €180 - €220 486. Signed by the Author Heaney (Seamus) New Selected Poems 1966-1987, 8vo, L. 1990, Signed, O/S Copy, cloth backed boards, ptd. label, slipcase; Opened Group, Poems 1966-1996, 8vo L. 1998, Signed, O/S Copy, cloth backed boards, ptd. label, matching slipcase. (2) [Brandes & Durkan A46c / A70c] €220 - €320 487. One of 100 Copies Signed by the Contributors Hampton (C.)ed. Poems for Shakespeare, 8vo, L. (The Globe Playhouse) 1972, Limited Edn. No. 38/100, Signed by the Contributors, including Cecil Day Lewis, Robert Graves, Dannie Abse and others, leather backed green cloth boards, gilt decoration, matching slipcase. (1) Provenance: Garech de Brun, Luggala. €350 - €500 488. Irish Travels: [Luckombe (P.)] The Compleat Irish Traveller, 2 vols. 8vo, L. 1788, First Edn., frontis, engd. t.p.s., fold. plts. & illustration, Ex. Libris, contemp. full calf, mor. label; Harris (Walter) The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, 8vo, L. (J. Knox) 1766, First Edn., fold. map frontis and other fold. plts. later full calf; Hall (S.C.) The South and Killarney, sm. 4to L. 1853, frontis text illus., Signed by the Author, green cloth, gilt lettering; as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €200 - €300 490. Yachting: Guest (M.) List of Members of the Royal Yacht Squadron and their Yachts, folio Lond. 1897. Port. frontis, uncut, buckram; Jackson (Rob.)ed. The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations, roy 8vo Lond. 1889. Cold. plates, calf backed cloth; Portal (Sir Wm.) Cowes Castle and The Royal Yacht Squadron, Winchester 1927, illus., hf. white cloth; Rules for the Government of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes & Newport 1936, cold. frontis, cloth; & 3 others sim. (7) €120 - €160 491. With 100 Hand-Coloured Plates Shaw (George) & Noder (F.P.) The Naturalists Miscellany, Volume XVI, Only, roy 8vo Lond. c. 1790-1813. With 100 fine hand coloured plates, lacks a title page, cont. hf. mor. As a coll., w.af. . (1) * First Edition of this remarkable series of 24 volumes. €350 - €500 492. Blake (Mrs.) The Realities of Freemasonry, Lond. 1879, frontis; The Constitution of Freemasonry, Dublin 1850; The Two Earliest Masonic M/ss, Manchester 1938; & 1 other, all cloth. (4) €70 - €100 486 487 489 491 489. Travel: Sinnett (Fred.) An Account of the Colony of South Australia, prepared for distribution at the International Exhibition of 1862, (together with a Catalogue of all the Products of South Australia), 8vo, L. (R.K. Burt) 1862, First Edn., lg. fold. map, ptd. wrappers. Ex. Scarce; Calvert (A.F.) Western Australia and its Welfare, 8vo L. 1895, First Edn., full cloth, gilt lettering. (2) €300 - €400