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

124 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 853. Original Watercolour Drawing Lear (Edward, 1812-1888), artist. A sheet of lined writing paper, approx. 8” x 5”, bearing a watercolour pictogram or pictorial message, with a Lear figure removing his hat, leaves, a green pea, a flowering branch, and a coastal scene with fish, a ship etc., apparently relating to ‘Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Marshall, Mr. V. Marshall & Mr. Churnside’ (the first three being 19th-century Yorkshire relatives of the vendor). With some related correspondence seeking to decipher the message, some published material about a Lear exhibition, etc. An intriguing collection, offered w.a.f. (1) The sheet with watercolour is extremely fragile, please do not remove from plastic cover. Verso is entirely blank. €200 - €300 854. Abbey Theatre: A printed Handkerchief , inscribed “Sold by the Irish Players at $1.00 towards a building to save Sir Hugh Lane’s great gift of Pictures for Ireland, April 1913,” approx. 47cms square, with 8 single portraits after John Butler Yeats, and capitalised by a large group study of the Abbey Players, as a memento, w.a.f. (1) Provenance: The Yeats Family. €150 - €200 855. One of Only 175 Copies “The Author’s Copy” Kinsella (Thomas) The Starlit Eye, 8vo D. (The Dolmen Press) 1952, Limited Edn. of 175 copies, Signed by Author, illustrated by Liam Miller, ptd. wrappers, clipped at fore-edge. V. Scarce. (1) * The author's first book. Provenance: By direct family descent to the Vendor. €400 - €600 856. “Cast a Cold Eye on Life and Death, Horsemen Pass By” W.B. Yeats Prayer Missal [Yeats (W.B.)] The Missal for Sundays and Principal Feast of the Year, 8vo, Belgium 1934, illus. frontis, Signed with initials on f.e.p. “W.B.Y.” (William Butler Yeats), worn leather covered boards. Nice Association Copy. (1) Provenance: Formerly in the Collection of Miss Anne Yeats (Daughter of William Butler Yeats.) €400 - €600 853 854 857. Heaney (Seamus) Eleven Poems, Festival Publications, Queen's University of Belfast [1985], orig. wrappers, First Edn., Second Issue with ten-point star on upper cover, Inscribed and Signed 'for Joe Spears and Peggy, 22nd March, 1969' Fine copy. His first separately published work. A legendary rarity, especially with the early signature and dedication. (1) €2000 - €3000 856 & detail 855