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

136 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 943. Both Signed Presentation Copies Fishing: Pickard (F.W.) Sixteen British Trout Rivers, 8vo N. York 1936. First Edn., frontis & plt. orig. cloth; and Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland, 8vo N. York 1938. First Edn., frontis & plts., orig. cloth, both orig. illus. d.w.’s V. good. (2) * Both Signed Presentation Copies. €180 - €240 944. Agriculture: Young (Arthur) A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing An exact Register of all the Business Transacted during Five Years on nearly Three Hundred Acres of various Soils, 4 vols. 1771. First Dublin Edn., Two hf. titles, & 4 plts. (2 fold.) cont. mottled calf, badly worn, but text very good. (4) €200 - €300 945. Signed by Author de Burca (Seamus) The Soldiers Song, - The Story of Peadar O’Cearnaigh, 8vo D. (P.J. Bourke) 1957. First Edn. Thus., Signed Presentation Inscription on front loose blank, illus. thro.-out cloth, orig. cold. d.w., black flap torn away, but present. (1) €130 - €180 946. O’Flaherty (Liam) The Tent, 8vo L. (J. Cape Ltd.) 1926, First Edn., Signed and inscribed on f.e.p. ‘To H.R. Christie with Affectionate Regards from LiamO’Flaherty, Hazelbrook, June 1927, green cloth, ptd. label, d.j.; Spring Sowing, 8vo, N.Y. (A.A. Knopf ) 1926, First U.S. Edn., decor. cloth; Skerrett, 8vo, N.Y. (Ray Long) 1932, First U.S. Edn., red cloth, black lettering, pictorial d.j. (3) €180 - €220 948. One of 50 Copies Only Douglas (Alfred Bruce)trans. Salomé, A Tragedy in One Act Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, sm 8vo Portland, Maine (Thomas B. Mosher) 1911, Limited Edn. No. 20 of 50 Copies, (Printed on Japan Vellum) pale boards, & ptd. label. Good Copy. (1) €180 - €220 949. Very Good Association Gibbon (Monk) Seventeen Sonnets, 8vo, L. (Joiner and Steele) 1932, First Edn., Signed and Inscribed to ‘ Winifred Letts fromMonk Gibbon, green cloth. (1) €100 - €120 950. Mundy (F.N.C.) Needwood Forest and the Fall of Needwood with Other Poems, sm. 8vo, Derby (T. Richardson) 1830, First Edn., Inscribed on f.e.p. ‘Constance Talbot at Markeaton, August 1852’ Ex. Libris J.O. Edwards (bookplate) hf. leather, green buckram boards, gilt decor spine. Good copy. (1) €80 - €120 951. American Tour by Co. Tipperary Priest Meagher (Rev. W.) Templemore, Leaves fromMy Note-Book; or, A Year’s Ramble Through the United States and Canada, in the Years 1871 and ‘72, Sm. 8vo Dublin (J. Duffy & Sons) n.d. c. 1884. First Edn., hf. title, [8], orig. wrappers repaired & bound in at end, recent full green cloth. V. Scarce. (1) €180 - €250 947. Rare Signed Limited Edition O’Flaherty (Liam) The Assassin, 8vo L. (Johnathan Cape) 1928, Signed Special Edition No. 7 (150) Copies. Hf. title, Publishers card loosely inserted, blue cloth, gilt lettering, orig. decorated d.j. (price clipped). V. Good Copy. Scarce in any condition. (1) €600 - €800 943 945 946