RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st

104 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 686. Kavanagh (Patrick) The Great Hunger, 8vo, D. (The Cuala Press) 1942, First Limited Edn., cloth backed blue boards, glassine cover; A Soul for Sale, 8vo, L.(MacMillan & Co. Ltd.) 1947, First Edn., cloth & d.j.; Come Dance with Kitty Stobbling and Other Poems, 8vo L. (Longmans) 1960, First Edn., cloth, gilt lettering; O’Tuairisc (Eoghain) Lux Aeterna, 8vo D. (Allen & Figgis) 1964, First Edn., cloth. As a lot. Good. (4) €250 - €320 687. Vallencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) A Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic or Irish Language, ... to which is prefixed An Essay on the Celtic Language. 8vo Dublin 1781. Second Edn. with Additions. Plates II - VIII, cont. full calf, mor. label, lower cover loose. A very clean copy. (1) €200 - €300 688. Astronomy: Ferguson (James) Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, and made easy to those who have not studies Mathematics. 8vo Lond. 1790. Eight Edn. lg. fold. frontis & 17 fold. plates, complete, cont. calf, worn, but a v. clean copy. (1) €250 - €400 689. Burke (Edmund) The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 8vo Dublin (Wm. Wilson) 1777. Hf. title, attractive oval vignette on title, [8] 440pp, cont. full calf, mor. label, joints cracked, upr. cover detached. (1) €160 - €240 690. Heaney (Seamus) & Ted Hughes (Ed.) The School Bag [anthology]. L. 1997, Faber, First Edn., cl. in d.w.; with The Rattle Bag, L. (Faber), 1982 First Paperback Edn. (2) €100 - €200 691. Heaney (Seamus) The Spirit Level, N.Y. 1996, First U.S. Edn., cloth, with an audio cassette, in slipcase; with another copy of the First U.S. Edn., cloth in d.w., and a copy of the paperback Edn. (3) €130 - €180 692. Heaney (Seamus) The Human Chain, L. 2010, Faber, First Edn., No. 142 of 350 copies specially bound and Signed, slipcase, fine; also the Regular Edition, cl. in d.w.; also the First U.S. Edn., N.Y. 2010, cl. in d.w., all fine. (3) €300 - €500 693. Very Scarce Edition Heaney (Seamus) North, L. 1975, Faber, First Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., slightly faded and marked. A very unusual copy in which the imprint details(opposite contents page) are printed in blind (no ink), visible only in a raking light, otherwise as previous item. Possibly a very early copy, printed before the rollers were fully inked? (1) €300 - €500 694. Heaney (Seamus) North, L. 1975, Faber, First Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., Fine copy. Includes two poems in memory of his mother. (1) €300 - €500 695. With Coloured Illustration Heaney (Seamus) The Riverbank Field, Poems, with colour illus. by Martin Gale Gallery, Loughcrew 2007, First Edn., No. 272 of 500 Signed Copies, cloth in orig. plain d.w. (reinforced), fine. (1) €400 - €500 686 692 688 695 693 691