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

136 info@fonsiemealy.ie 504 Fine Collection [Mahon (Derek)] Harbour Lights, 2005; Selected Poems, 1991, Signed; Cyrano de Bergerac, 2004; Life on Earth, 2008; An Autumn Wind, 2010; Selected Prose, 2012; New Selected Poems, 2016; Birds, 2002; The School for Wives, 1986; The Chimeras, 1982; The Hudson Letter, 1995, Signed; Adaptations, 2006; Hightime, 1985 (h.b. & p.b.); New Collected Poems, 2011, Signed; Theatre, 2013; Red Sails, 2014; Raw Material, 2011; Oedipus, 2005; The Yellow Book, 1997; Antarctica, 1985, Signed; Words in the Air, 1998; Journalism, 1996, Signed; all 8vo, Gallery Press, cloth & d.j. Good clean lot. (23) €400-€500 505 Illustrated Volumes: Column (P.) The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy, 8vo L. (G.G. Harrap) 1920, illus. by Wm. Pogany, cold. frontis, & illus., decor. cloth; Browne (F.) Granny’s Wonderful Chair, 8vo L. (G.T. Foulis) n.d., illustrated by ‘Decies’, cold. frontis & plts., decor. cloth; Fitzgerald (E.)trans. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 8vo L. (Hodder & Stoughton) n.d., illus by Edmund Dulac, cold. frontis & plts., decor. cloth; Dulac (E.)illus. Picture Book for the French Red Cross, 4to L. (Daily Telegraph) n.d., illustrated, decor. cloth; O’Connor (Capt. W.F.)trans. Folk Tales from Tibet, 4to L. (Hurst & Blackett Ltd.) 1906, First Edn., illus., decor. cloth; Butler (E.)illus. From Sketch Book and Diary, 8vo L. (A. & C. Black) 1909, cold. frontis & plts., decor. cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (6) €200-€300 506 Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Illustrated Volumes: Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels, 4to L. (Dent & Co.) 1907, cold. frontis & plts. (complete), uncut, decor. green cloth; Lamb (C. & M.) Tales from Shakespeare, 8vo L. (J.M. Dent & Co.) 1909, cold. frontis & text illus & plts., decor. blue cloth; Vernon-Jones (V.S.) Aesops Fables, L. (W. Heinemann) 1933, cold. frontis, text illus., decor. red cloth; Grahame (K.) The Wind in the Willows, 8vo L. (Methuen & Co.) 1951, cold. frontis & plts., green cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4) €150-€200 507 [Behan (Brendan)] Brendan Behan’s Island - An Irish Sketch Book, N.Y. 1962, First Edn., cloth & d.j. (worn); Poems and A Play in Irish, 1981 (p.b.) & 1989 (reprint p.b.); Banville (John) Love in the Wars, 2005; The Broken Jug, 1994, Signed; Long Larkin, 1984, Signed; Nightspawn,1993, Signed, all 8vo, mostly cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (7) €150-€200