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

153 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1116. Unique Signed Copy Gate Theatre A leather-bound copy of the Gate Handbook , 1934, edited by Bulmer Hobson, Lim. Edn., No. 461, from the collection of the producer and writer Seamus de Burca, extra-illustrated with a wonderful and unique collection of autographs and photographs of actors and others associated with The Irish andWorld Theatre, many with personal messages, including Sara Allgood, Betty Chancellor, Hugh Leonard, John Arden, Eamon Morrisey, Fionnuala Flanagan, Beatrice Behan, Paudge Behan, Eileen Colgan, Niall Buggy, Brendan Kennelly, Brendan Smith, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Ann Casson, Hugh Hunt, Micheal O’Briain, Jack McGowran, Mairead Ní Ghráda, Reginald Jarman, Seamus Forde, Aodhan Madden, Frank McGuinness, Denis Johnston, Alan Stanford, Eithne Dunne, Máire ní Scolaí, Coralie Carmichael, Francis Stuart, Donal McCann, Maire O’Neill, Brinsley Macnamara, Walter Starkie, Arland Ussher, Vincent Dowling, Stephen Rea, Angela Newman, Lennox Robinson, Breffni O’Rourke, May Cluskey, Christopher Casson, Donal Donnelly, Roy Irving, Cathleen Delany, Paulette Goddard, Anew McMaster, Maureen Delany, Olwen Fouéré, Bryan MacMahon, W.B. Yeats (tipped in), Phyllis Ryan and scores more, far too many to list. The book itself somewhat worn, as is to be expected, but generally in good condition. Undoubtedly the best extant collection in one book of photos and autographs from the golden age of the Irish theatre, completely unrepeatable as most of those featuring are now alas deceased. As a collection of Autographs, w.a.f. (1) €3000 - €5000