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

99 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 766. Dolmen Press: Murphy (Richard) The Woman of the House, 8vo D. 1959. Lim. Edition 250 Copies, title & end leaf with red decoration, orig. ptd. Review Slip from Dolmen loosely inserted, orig. wrappers printed in black and red, edges somewhat browned, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce Millar 34. (1) €160 - €240 767. Very Scarce Publication O’Broin (Padraig) Suibhne Geilt [poems]. Printed wrappers with device, a little frayed, stitched. D., Clo Chluain Tairbh 1943. One of 50 copies, rare. The writer lived in Canada for many years. Earlier work was published for him by Cuala. (1) €80 - €120 768. Hughes (Ted) Five Autumn Songs for Children’s Voices, 4to Devonshire (R. Gilbertson) 1968, Signed, Limited Edn. No. 169, bookplate, pink wrappers; Brown (G.M.) Lifeboat and \Other Poems, 4to, Devon (R. Gilbertion) 1971, Signed & Limited No. 85, blue wrappers; Twelve Poems, 8vo, Belfast (Queens) n.d. red ptd. wrappers; Mac Caig (N.) Three Manuscript Poems, 4to Exeter (Rougemont Press) 1969, Signed Limited Edn., brown wrappers, d.j.; Graham (W.S.) The Seven Journeys, 8vo Glasgow (W. Maclekan) illus., cloth backed boards. (3) Provenance: Garech de Brun, Luggala. €300 - €400 769. FromThe Library of Oliver St. Gogarty [Gogarty (O.S.)] A collection of First, Limited and other Related Editions of Literature, etc., mostly Inscribed by the Authors to O.S. Gogarty, including works by: Briggs, D. Morton, A.E. Bennett, V. Jameson, G. Davidson, M.S.L. (with m/ss poem), R. Hiiyer, J. Drinkwater, F.G. Tuckherman etc. Nice Association Collection. €180 - €220 770. Irish Literature: Eisenstaedt (A.)photographer, ‘George Bernard Shaw,’ a Ltd. Edn. Photographic Print depicting the author and playwright seated with hands to face looking at camera, No. 9/50, Signed by the photographer, framed. (1) Provenance: The C.H. Buhl III Collection, New York. €150 - €220 771. Shaw (George Bernard), An interesting and large Archive of documents with references to the author’s grandfather, Thomas Gurly, an attorney, and his grandmother and his son, the magistrate, John Gurly, with cases involving court appearances, etc. George Bernard Shaw’s connection with Carlow town came through his mother Lucinda Gurly, her father was Walter Bagenal Gurly, grandson of Thomas Gurly who settled in Carlow in the mid- 1700s, where he lived in Bellville and practised as an attorney with offices on Tullow Street. As an Archive. George Bernard Shaw inherited 14 properties in Carlow town which lead to much correspondence between him and the local authority in the 1940 / 50s. The property was eventually gifted by G.B.S. to Carlow. (1) €300 - €500 772. Early Seamus Heaney Publication Heaney (Seamus) The Irish Press - November 29th, 1969, New Irish Writing, folio 4pps., contains 'Maigheleam Mara' (For Sean Oh-tocha, and An Evening at Killard); extremely rare. (1) * Ref. Brandes & Durkan C117. €200 - €300 769 770 773. Signed Copies of Heaney ‘First Recorded’ Appearance on Print [Heaney (Seamus)] Incertus pseudo, ‘Gorgon, A Publication of the English Society (No. 3, November 1959), Q.U.B., 24pps., contribution - Nostalgia in the Afternoon, Signed (Incertus) ptd. wrappers; Gorgon, (No. 4 February 1960) Q.U.B. 20pp, contribution ‘ Aran’ Signed (Seamus J. Heaney), ptd. wrappers; ‘ Gorgon, Michaelmas Term 1961, No. 7, Q.U.B. 34pps, contributors, Her Home, Signed on t.p., with corrections (in pencil on page 18), also Signed by Lawrence Lerner), all printed wrappers. Extremely Rare. (1) [Brandes & Durkan C2, C3 & C7] €2,500 - €3,200 772