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

144 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1020. [Harte (Walter)] Essays on Husbandry, Essays I & Essay II, 8vo Lond. 1764. First Edn., 5 engd. plts. (mis-numbered) & wd. cut illus. thro.-out text, orig. calf, raised bands, lacks label; also The Gentleman Farmer: Being An Attempt to improve Agriculture. Roy 8vo Edin. 1802. Fifth Edn. Port. frontis, 3 engd. plts. uncut, orig. hf. calf. Good. (2) €175 - €250 1021. Plunkett (James) Strumpet City, 8vo L. (Hutchinson) Reprint, Inscribed Compliments and Best Wishes - James Plunkett, cloth and d.j.; The Earl of Longford & O’Neill (T.P.) Eamon de Valera, 8vo L. (Gill & MacMillan) 1970, Signed by O’Neill and Longford, cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (2) €100 - €150 1022. Longley (Michael & Sarah) Out of the Cold, Drawing & Poems for Christmas, 8vo, Newry (Abbey Press) 1999, Signed Limited Edition NO. 393 (500), cloth and d.j.; Hartnett (Michael) Inchicore Haiku, 8vo D. (Sprint) 1999, ptd. boards; Kennelly (Brendan) The Crooked Cross, 8vo D. (Allan Figgis) 1963, First Edn., cloth and d.j. As a lot, w.a.f. (3) €150 - €220 1023. Signed Association Behan (Dominic) My Brother Brendan, 8vo, L. (Leslie Frewin) 1965, First Edn., portrait frontis, illus. throughout, inscribed ‘ Do Brendáin, An Poblhact Abú!’ green cloth, pictorial d.j. (1) €120 - €140 1024. Rare Cavan Provincial Printing [Maxwell (Henry)] Royal Descents of Henry Maxwell, K.P., Seventh Lord Farnham , 8vo, Cavan (William Johnston) 1850, First Edn., Signed and dedicated to ‘ The Marquis of Kildare with Lord Farnhams Compliments,’ inscribed on t.p., interleaved with numerous m/ss notes; bound together with Royal Descent from Henry the Third .. of Lady Amelia Sophia Stanley, Marchioness of Athol, 8vo, Cavan (W. Johnston) 1850, First Edn., interleaved, m/ss notes, contemp. hf. calf, gilt lettered spine. Scarce. (1) €500 - €700 1025. Signed byWilliam Butler Yeats Yeats (W.B.) The Trembling of the Veil, 8vo L. (T. Werner Laurie Ltd.) 1922 [Privately Printed] Signed Limited Edition No.79 (1000) Copies, portrait frontis, uncut, paper backed boards, ptd. label (worn), otherwise good copy. (1) €500 - €600 1026. Colum (Padraic) The Flying Swans, 8vo, N.Y. (Crown) 1957, Second Large Printing Signed and Inscribed ‘ Dear Fran, For You with Good Wishes, Padraig Colum,’ cloth, d.j. (1) €120 - €150 1027. County Tipperary Author Ryan (Chas. E.) With An Ambulance During the Franco-German War, Personal Experiences and Adventures with both Armies 1870-1871. 8vo Lond. 1896. First Edn., Port. frontis, fold. map, orig. cloth, stained. V. Scarce. (1) * Author lived at Glenlara, Tipperary. The book is inscribed by T. Dunne, C.C., Bansha [Co. Tipp.] 1896. €140 - €200 1028. Inscribed Presentation Copy Hingston (R.W.G.) A Naturalist in Hindustan, roy 8vo Lond. 1923. First Edn., Inscribed from Author on hf. title, May 1923, frontis & plts. some text illus. orig. brown cloth & orig. pict. d.w. (1) €80 - €140 1029. Brun (Daniel) The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia, Recollections of a Sojourn with the Khalifa of Matmata. 8vo Lond. 1898. First Edn. in English. Port. frontis & 37 illus. in text, some full page, adverts at end, in orig. pictorial brown cloth, stamped in gilt on upper cover & spine. V. good copy. (1) €160 - €240 1030. Westermarck (Ed.) Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, 8vo Lond. 1914, First Edn., Hf. title, advert. leaf, t.e.g., full dark blue mor., triple gilt fillet borders, raised bands, gilt line decorated spine by Roger de Coverly & Sons. V. good copy. (1) €160 - €240 1029 1022 1023 1025