TIMED ONLINE RARE BOOK SALE 24th April 2024

136 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 130 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 675. Signed Copies de Valera (Sinead) Coinneal na Nodlag agus Sgealta Eile, D. 1944. First Edn., signed by author; also Fairy Tales of Ireland, by S. de Valera, Dublin 1967, Signed by Author & 'Eamon de Valera'. Both orig. wrappers. (2) €70-€100 676. Carbery (Ethna) Songs from the Four Winds of Eirinn," 6 parts, sm. 4to, D. (M.H. Gill) c. 1906, illustrated by Seaghan MacCathmhaoil, ptd. wrappers, remnants of illus. envelope. Scarce; Brandis (G.B.) Seven Miniature Orchids, 8vo Ontario (G.B. Brandis) 2001, Ltd. Edn., No. 136 (170) copies, illus. ptd. wrappers. (2) €200-€300 677. Privately Printed - Limited to 200 Copies Only Wilde (Oscar) The Portrait of Mr. W.H., 4to Privately Printed No. 189 of Limited Edition of 200 Copies. c. 1904. Hf. title, 48pp. large margins, uncut, orig. ptd. blue wrappers, a few nicks to fore-edge, title printed within floral decorated border. V. good copy. Very Scarce. (1) €300-€400 678. Roberts (Oliver Michael). The Herald of Dawn. Dublin, For the Author by George Roberts 1919, with a drawing by the author's mother. Sm qto grey printed wrappers, 6 pp (partly unopened). Laid in are an ALS from Liam Ó Rinn and a TLS from Cecil O'Neill-Watson, thanking the publisher for copies; also an unsigned sheet (on back of an envelope addressed to Miss G. Roberts, Dalkey) with what appears to be a manuscript account of the author, probably by the publisher (his father or uncle?). An interesting item. Rare. (1) €70-€100 679. Juvenalia: [Allingham (Wm.)] The Fairies, oblong 8vo Lond. (T. de la Rue) [1883] First Edn., illustrated by E. Gertrude Thompson, with 6 coloured plates, & all pages illustrated, orig. gilt decor. pict. wrappers. v. Good. Rare. (1) €160-€220 680. Bartholomew (Ed.) The Biographical Album of Western Gunfighters, oblong atlas folio Huston (Frontier Press of Texas) 1958. Illus. ports. thro.-out, full pict. cloth. (1) €100-€150