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76 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 70 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 396. Ten First Editions by Irish Writers Ridgeway (Keith) The Long Falling, (Houghton Mifflin 1998) First US Edn., signed, v.g. in cloth, d.w.; Ridgway (Keith) The Parts, (Faber 2003) First UK Edn., signed, v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. Inscribed " for Philip / best wishes/ Keith Ridgeway." Ridgeway (Keith) The Parts, (Faber 2003) First UK Edn., signed, v.g. in wrappers; Ridgeway (Keith) Standard Time, (Faber - proof copy), v.g. in paper wrappers, signed; Mathews (Aidan) Adventures in the Bathyscope, (Secker & Warburg 1988) vg. in cloth dust wrapper, signed; Boyne (John) The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket (Doubleday 2012), signed, v.g. in cloth dust wrapper; Barry (Sebastian) The Whereabouts of Aeneas McNulty, signed, v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. Inscribed " to Dr. Phil Murray" on hf title and " Sebastian Barry - Sligo," on title. Carson (Ciaran) Fishing for Amber (Granta 1999). v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper; Walsh (Robert) Wales' Work, (Secker & Warburg 1985) vg in cloth, dust wrapper inscribed " to Dr Philip Murray - with the best wishes of the author Robert Walshe / I have inscribed page 21 to add to the fun." also: als, original envelope Scott (Michael) The Alchemyst, (Doubleday 2007) v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. (10) €150-€200 397. Hughes (Ted) A Tribute to TS Eliot, (Privately Printed by Faber 1987) An address delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of a blue plaque at 3 Kensington Court Gardens, London, 28 Sept 1986, v.g. in slate blue wrappers, stiff glassine and card folder. Signed One of 250 unnumbered copies. Beautiful condition. (1) €120-€140 398. Ballard (J.G.) Empire of the Sun, (Gollancz 1984) First Edn., signed, v.g. cloth dust wrapper bumped. Front hinge weak. Inscribed " for Dr. Philip Murray - all best wishes - J G Ballard"; The Day of Creation, (Gollancz 1987) First Edn. signed, v.g. in cloth, dust wrapper. top edges dusty. Laid in: mls and acs, orig. envelope. (2) €180-€220 399. Kavanagh Dan [Barnes Julian.] Five First UK Editions. Duffy, (Cape, 1980). Inscribed " Dan Kavanagh - once treated by Dr. Murray on that Sligo Medicentre for an unmentionable disease,... " dust wrapper clipped; Putting the Boot In, (Cape 1985), inscribed " Dan Kavanagh - that Sligo Boy...," dust wrapper flaps faintly spotted, some offsetting to ffep; Fiddle City (Cape, 1981), signed in red biro: " Dan Kavanagh," ; Going to the Dogs, (Cape 1987) signed in red biro, " Dan Kavanagh," also [Julian Barnes,]; Arthur and George, [Cape 2005), decorative cloth no dust wrapper issued. All v.g. top edges dusty (5) €180-€250