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

107 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 713. Heaney (Seamus) Door Into the Dark, N.Y. 1969, OUP, First US Edn., orig. cloth in d.w. (slightly marked), V.G., Signed and dated t.p. 16th March 1971; with a copy of the First Paperback Edn., 1972, Review Copy. (2) €400 - €600 714. Heaney (Seamus) Door Into the Dark, L. 1969, Faber, orig. cloth in d.w., fine Poetry Book Society Bulletin with Heaney introduction laid in First Edn. of his second major trade collection. Very good condition. (1) €400 - €600 715. Heaney (Seamus) Opened Ground, Poems 1966 - 1996. L. Faber 1998, First Edn., No. 42 of 350 copies specially bound in qtr cloth, slipcase, Signed at rear. Fine. (1) €400 - €500 716. Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, N.Y. 1966, O.U.P., First U.S. Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., V.g., Signed and dated on t.p. 16th March 1971, with a copy of the UK First Edn., Third Impression, 1966, in a soiled and torn d.w., and two copies of the First Paperback Edn., L. 1969, one well used. (4) * His first major trade edition. €300 - €500 717. Heaney (Seamus) Wintering Out, L. Faber 1972, First Edn., orig. cl. in d.w. (sl. marked), very scarce; also the First Paperback Edn., 1972, and a 1973 reprint. His third trade collection. (3) €300 - €400 719. Heaney (Seamus) Opened Ground, Faber 1998, First Edn., the regular edition, orig. cloth in d.w., Fine, Signed on t.p.; with the same, N.Y. 1998, First U.S. Edn., orig. cloth in d.w., Fine. (2) €200 - €300 720. MacNally (Leonard) The Justice of the Peace for Ireland, 4 vols. 8vo Dublin 1812. Full calf; Cruttwell (Rev. C.) The New Universal Gazetteer; or Geographical Dictionary, 4 vols. Lond. 1808. Lacks maps, full cont. calf. As a coll., w.a.f. (8) €80 - €120 721. Schuyler (Eugene) Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian, Tukistan, Khokand, Bukhara and Kuldja, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1876. Fourth Edn., 2 hf. titles, 2 frontis, 19 full page plts., 2 fold. maps, text illus., cont. hf. calf, worn. (2) €180 - €260 722. Co. Tipperary Born Author Butler (Col. Sir W.F.) The Campaign of the Cataracts, Being a Personal Narrative of the Great Nile Expedition of 1884 - 5. Roy 8vo L. 1887. First Edn., frontis, 6 plts. lg. fold. map & text illus. 32pp. Cat at end, orig. pict. cloth. Scarce. (1) * The Author was born at Ballyslateen, Golden, Co. Tipperary. He was instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Mounted Police. His wife Lady Elizabeth Butler was a painter of international frame. €150 - €220 713 716 719 718. Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, L. 1966, Faber, orig. cloth, orig. d.w., lower spine slightly faded as usual, else fine. First Edn., of his first regularly published trade collection, rare in this condition. (1) €1000 - €1500