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

139 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 969. Both with Irish Content Fishing: Barry (W.) Moorland and Stream, With Notes and Prose Idyls on Shooting and Trout Fishing. 8vo Lond. 1871. First Edn., hf. titles, orig. cloth backed boards, with gilt stamp of a fly; also Powell Hopkins (Maj. F.) Fishing Experiences of Half a Century, 8vo Lond. 1893. First Edn., hf. title, 8 plts. (include frontis) & text illus., orig. pictorial gilt decor. green cloth. Both v. good. (2) * The second item has chapter on fishing in Achill Island. €140 - €200 970. Yeats (W.B.) Per Amica Silentia Lunae, 8vo, L. (MacMillan) 1918, First Edn., hf. title, blue cloth front cover, designed by ‘Sturge Moore’; The Cutting of an Agate, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1919, First Edn., hf. title, blue cloth, gilt decor. cover and spine; and A Full Moon in March, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1935, First Edn., hf. title, green cloth. As a lot. (3) €250 - €320 971. Yeats (W.B.) Responsibilities and Other Poems, 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1916, First Edn., hf. title, gilt decorated blue cloth designed by Sturge Moore; together with 1917 similar designed cover; also Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, 8vo, L. (MacMillan) 1916, First Edn., cold. frontis, gilt decor. blue cloth designed by Sturge Moore. Good Copies. (3) €200 - €300 972. Yeats (W.B.) Poems, 8vo, L. (T. Fisher Unwin) 1904, First Edn., hf. title, portrait frontis, profusely gilt decor. blue cloth uncut; Poems, 8vo, L. (T. Fisher Unwin) [1912], Third Edn., blind decor. front cover, gilt decor spine; and Wheels and Butterflies, 8vo, L. (MacMillan) 1934, First Edn., hf. title, green cloth. As a lot. (3) €180 - €250 973. Heaney (Seamus) Hailstones, Gallery 1984, wrappers, One of 750 copies; Crediting Poetry , Gallery 1995, wrappers; Anything Can Happen . Townhouse 2004, wrappers; Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid , trans. Heaney, Faber 2009, cloth in d.w.; Homage to Robert Frost , Essays by Brodsky, Heaney & Walcott , N.Y. 1996; all fine. (5) €100 - €200 974. Illuminated Facsimile: Faksimile Verlaig Luzern - The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, 4to, Luzern 2003, illuminated volume, Limited Edn. No. 22 (980) Copies, bound in full goatskin with gilt tooled designs at the Steinbrenner bookbinders, together with commentary volumes in Perspex Presentation Box. (4) €350 - €420 975. One of 250 Sets Yeats (William Butler) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, 8vols. 8vo Stratford-on-Avon (Shakespeare Head Press) 1908, First Edn., Limited Issue, red & black title pages, portrait frontis (Vols. 1, 3, 5, 6) all recent vellum backed cloth, gilt lettering, some restoration, overall good clean set. (8) [Wade 75-82] €1500 - €2000 976. Signed by Seamus Heaney Heaney (Seamus) District and Circle, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 2006, Signed by the Author, green boards, d.j., clean copy. (1) €250 - €320 973 974 975 969 970 972