RARE BOOK, LITERATURE & COLLECTORS’ SALE May 30th & 31st
91 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 576. Republican Interest: Beaslai (P.) & others, Dublin’s Fighting Story 1916 - 21, 8vo Tralee (The Kerryman) 1947, illus., ptd. wrappers; O’Halloran (A.J.) & others, Limerick’s Fighting Story, 1916-21, 8vo Tralee (The Kerryman) c. 1947, illus., ptd. wrappers; Beaslai (P.) & others Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain, 8vo, Tralee (The Kerryman) c. 1947, illus., ptd. wrappers, later cloth binding, as a lot. (3) €130 - €180 577. Irish Fishing: Adams (Joseph) Salmon and Trout Angling, Lond. n.d. First Edn., illus. plts.; also The Angler’s Guide to the Irish Fisheries, 8vo Lond. 1924. First Edn., plts. thro.-out; Barker (F.D.) An Angler’s Paradise, Recollections of Twenty years with Rod & Line in Ireland, Lond. 1929. First Edn.; Drought (Capt. J.B.) Green Memory of Days with Gun and Rod, Lond. 1937, First Edn., illus. all orig. cloth. (4) €100 - €150 578. Fishing: Irish interest - Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1913. Second Edn., fold. map frontis plts. etc.; Geen (Philip) What I have Seen While Fishing and How I Caught my Fish, 8vo Richmond 1905. First Edn., port. frontis plts.; Hanna (Thos. A.) Fly-Fishing in Ireland, Lond. 1999. First Edn., illus.; Hodgson (W. Earl) Salmon Fishing, Lond. 1906. First Edn., cold. & other plts. All orig. cloth & good. (4) €160 - €220 579. Coloured Plates Plues (Mgt.) Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants, 8vo, L. (Houlston & Wright) 1864, First Edn., cold. chrome plts. throughout, uncut, cloth, gilt lettered spine; Moore (Th.) British Wild Flowers, 8vo, L. (Reeve & Co.) 1867, First Edn., hf. title, 24 cold. chromo plts., cloth, gilt lettered spine; Rohde (E.S.) A Garden of Herbs, 8vo, L. (H. Jenkins Ltd.) 1926, Revised Edn., frontis, plts., hf. cloth hand painted floral boards. (a lot) €200 - €300 580. Sporting : Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph) The Fowler in Ireland, or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wild Fowl and Seafowl, 8vo Lond. 1882 hf. title, illus. plts. & text, advert. leaf at end, in fine recent hf. crimson mor. raised bands, gilt decorated spine; Fitzpatrick (B.B.) Irish Sport and Sportsmen, Dub. 1878. First Edn., orig. photo illus., orig. gilt cloth; Bickerdyke (John) Wild Sport in Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1897. First Edn., profusely illustrated, adverts front & end, orig. gilt decor. paper boards. All v. clean. V. good lot. (3) €200 - €300 581. Montague (J.) The Figure in the Cave and other Essays, 1989, First Edn. Hardback, with d.w.; also paperback of same, and The Great Cloak, D. (Dolmen) 1978, First; Durcan (Paul) Life is a Dream, 40 Years Reading Poems Lond. 2009, d.w.; The Laughter of Mothers, L. 2007, First Edn., d.w.; & 1 other same author; McGahern (John) Love of the World Essays, L. 2009, d.w.; Moore (Brian) Lies of Silence, L. 1990, First Edn., d.w. (8) €100 - €150 582. 1798: Wolfe Tone (Wm. T.)ed. Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of The United Irish Society. 2 vols. roy 8vo Washington 1826. First Edn., engd. port. frontis loosely inserted Vol. I, uncut, recent green cloth. Good. (2) €80 - €120 583. Heaney (Seamus) Seeing Things, L. 1991, Fabers, First Edn., No. 115 of 250 copies specially bound, Signed, slipcase; with a copy of the regular First Edn. (2) €300 - €400 584. Heaney (Seamus) The Spirit Level, L. 1996, Faber, First Edn., No. 91 of 350 copies specially bound, Signed, slipcase; with the regular First Edn., 1996,d.w. (2) €300 - €400 585. Heaney (Seamus) Seeing Things, First U.S. Edn., N.Y. 1991, with the Paperback Version. (2) €100 - €150 578 584 586
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