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

64 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 516. Signed Limited Edition Heaney (Seamus) The Door Stands Open, 8vo D. (The Irish Writers Center) 2005, Signed Limited Edition No 49/250 copies, designed by Pawel Tryzno, stainless steel covers, folding outer cover and cardboard chemise. (1) €600 - €800 517. Heaney (S.) Seeing Things, 8vo L. 1991, Signed Limited Edn. No. 25/250 Copies, cloth backed boards, matching slipcase; Seeing Things, 8vo L. 1991, First Edn., Signed, grey cloth, d.j.; (also paperback Edn); Seeing Things, 8vo, N.Y. (F.S.G.) 1991, First U.S. Edn., Signed (also paperbacked Edn.) Seeing Things, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1991, Uncorrected Advance Proof, Signed blue wrappers; and alternative paperback edition 1991. Nice Clean Collection. (7) €450 - €650 518. Heaney (Seamus) Beowulf, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1999, Signed, O/S cloth backed boards, gilt lettering, matching slipcase; Beowulf, 8vo L. 1999, Signed, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Beowulf, 8vo, N.Y. 2000, First U.S. Edition, cloth backed boards, & d.j.; (large Print Edition) and First U.S. paperback Edition, as a lot. (5) [Brandes & Durkan, A72a, A72b, A72c, A72d] €300 - €400 519. Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, 8vo, Derry (Field Day) 1983, First Edn., cloth & d.j. (together with First Paperback Edition); Sweeney Astray, 8vo, (F. & F.) 1984, First U.K. Edition, cloth & d.j. (together with paperback Edition); Sweeney Astray, 8vo, N.Y. (F.F.G.) 1984, First U.S. Edition, cloth & d.j. (together with paperback Edition), as a lot. (6) €200 - €300 520. Pound (Ezra) Imagery Letters, 4to Paris, (The Black Sun Press) 1930, Limited Edn. NO. 148/350 Copies, uncut, ptd. wrappers, matching slipcase; Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, 8vo Paris (Three Mountains Press) 1924, First Edn., unopened, red ptd. wrappers. (2) Provenance: Garech de Brun, Luggala. €200 - €300 521 – See page 65 522. Early 19th Century Manuscript Catalogue Co. Offaly: A Manuscript Catalogue of the Library of Loughton, Moneygall, Co. Offaly . Mid-19th cent., full red morocco with blind tooled borders. Short titles of books listed in alphabetical order. Loughton was built in 1777 by Major Thomas Pepper and passed in succession to his daughter-in-law Anne Bloomfield (d 1841), her brother the first Lord Bloomfield (d 1846), his son the second Lord, and his brother-in-law Henry Trench, who purchased the house in 1872. The book titles consist mainly of works of English and French literature, history, genealogy and travel, the latest date given being 1840, and the catalogue may have been compiled by the first Lord Bloomfield on succeeding to the estate in 1841. As a m/ ss., w.a.f. Unique. (1) €350 - €500 523. Renvyle Copy Gogarty (O. St. John) An Offering of Swans and other Poems, roy 8vo Lond. [1930] First Edn., orig. buckram. (1) * Inscribed ‘Renvyle, Connemara, 1930 - Helen Langrishe..’ €100 - €150 534 – See page 65 517 518 522 516 525. Atlas: Cellaruis - Geographia Antiqua:... Set of Maps of Ancient Geography. 4to Lond. 1785 double page title & contents, & 33 dble page engd. maps, first few maps creased, later hf. calf, clean copy. (1) €300 - €400