RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS' SALE April 30th & May 1st 2025

124 info@fonsiemealy.ie 460 [Durcan (Paul)] Teresa’s Bar, 1976 (h.b. revised Edn.) & First Edn., Poems Going Home to Russia, 1987; [Dunne (Sean)] The Sheltered Nest, 1992, Inscribed; Collected, 2005, & 1 other; [French (Tom)] The First Step, 2009; Midnightown, 2014; Touching the Bones, 2001, Signed, (h.b. & p.b.) all 8vo, Gallery Press, cloth & d.j. As a lot. (1) €100-€150 461 Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Illustrated Volumes: Carroll (Lewis) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 8vo L. (Wm. Heinemann) c. 1908, cold. frontis & plts., decor. cloth; Stephens (James) Irish Fairy Tales, 4to L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1920, cold. frontis, decor. t.p., & plts., decor. cloth; Swift (J.) Guillivers Travels, 4to L. (Temple Press) 1937, cold. frontis & plts., adverts at end, orange cloth; Lamb (C. & M.) Tales from Shakespeare, 8vo L. (J. & M. Dent) 1909, cold. frontis & plts., decor. cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €140-€180 462 Hardie (Kerry) The Silence Came Close, 2006; The Sky Didn’t Fall, 2003; A Furious Place, 1996; The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree, 2012; Cry for the Hot Belly, 2000; Only this Room, 2009; Selected Poems, 2011, all published Gallery Press, all 8vo, cloth & d.j., as a lot. (7) €100-€150 463 Graham (R.)illus. W.B. Yeats, A Prayer on Going into My House, 8vo, Gort (Friends of Thoor Ballylee) 1973, Limited Edn., No. 176 (500), illus., gilt decor. green wrappers. (1) €100-€150