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THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION Art & Collectibles · 10 DECEMBER 2016 AT 2PM
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Seamus Heaney, Field Work
1979 New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition. 8vo,
boxed in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on
spine, together with uncorrected page proof of Field Work.
Contains publisher’s photo-copy of p16 and business
card of Patricia H Strachan, editor, inscribed “We’ll be
publishing in November”.
Estimate €300-€500 (£260-£430)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 282
283
Seamus Heaney, Poems and a Memoir, signed limited
edition.
1982 New York, The Limited Editions Club, illustrated
by Henry Pearson, Introduction by Thomas Flanagan,
preface by Seamus Heaney. Tall 8vo, bound in soft leather
and boxed. Signed by Heaney, Flanagan and Pearson and
numbered 1,150 of a limited edition of 2,000.
Estimate €500-€700 (£430-£610)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 283284
Slipper’s ABC and four illustrated books on fox hunting
and country pusuits.
Somerville, Edith. Slipper’s ABC Of Fox Hunting, London,
1903. Elephant folio, 20 colour plates by the author. boards
and spine very worn, interior very good; Ross, Martin and
Somerville, Edith, A Patrick’s Day Hunt, London, 1902,
condition, very good.; Edwards, Lionel, My Irish Sketch
Book, London, 1938; Armour, G.D. A Hunting Alphabet,
An A B C. London, 1929, condition, very good; and
Caldecott, Randolph. Last “Graphic” Pictures, London,
1888, condition, good. (5)
Estimate €150-€200 (£130-£170)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 284