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

149 info@fonsiemealy.ie 556 A Gift to Gay Byrne Keane (John B.) Is the Holy Ghost Really a Kerryman, 8vo D. (Mercier Press) 1976, First Edn., inscribed to ‘Gay, Kathleen & all the Byrne’s, that your goat might never dread the lake and your cabbages always free from worms,’ ptd wrappers; The Good Thing, 8vo Delaware (Proscenium Press) 1978, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Purcell (D.) The Time of My Life, An Autobiography, 8vo D. (G. & M.) 1989, Signed by Gay Byrne, illus., cloth & d.j. (3) €100-€150 557 Forde (H.A.) The Fruit of Spirit, 8vo, L. (The de La More Press) n.d., illustrated by I. de B. Lochyer, unopened, ptd. wrappers. (1) €60-€100 558 [Festival Publications] Longley (M.) Ten Poems, 8vo, Belfast (FP. Queens) [1965], ptd. wrappers; Newmann (Joan) First Letter Home, 8vo Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1966], pt. wrappers; Simmons (James) Ballad of a Marriage, Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1966], ptd. wrappers; Dugdale (N.) The Disposition of the Weather, 8vo, Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1967] ptd. wrappers; Lerner (L.) Spleen, Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1966] ptd. wrappers; Brown (G.M.) Twelve Poems, 8vo, Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1968] *Final Title of the Series; Parker (S.) Maw, 8vo, Belfast (F.P. Queens) [1968], ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (7) €250-€350 559 Lodge (David) Pastoral, 8vo, Winston-Salem (Shadowy Waters for Emory) 2001, Signed No. 8 (26) copies, marbled wrappers, ptd. label, publishers envelope; Byatt (A.S.) Heavenly Bodies, 8vo Emory University 1999, Ltd. Edn., blue wrappers, ptd. label, publishers envelope, as a lot. (2) €180-€220