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raised a tremendous storm in Dublin theatrical society, and were the
cause of many pamphlets. “ - Lowe, Arnott & Robinson 1810.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
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SYNGE (J. M.).
The Playboy of the Western World.
Edited by Stanley Sultan, with brush drawings by Louis le
Brocquy.
Barre, Massachusetts, Imprint Society,
1970
FIRST EDITION THUS, with 6 plates, pages 132, (3), small
folio, original bright yellow cloth, gilt, in matching cloth and
paper boards slip-case, with the publisher’s wrap around printed
title slip: a nice, fresh copy.
Limited edition of 1950 numbered copies: this copy numbered “W M
W” and signed by Le Brocquy and Stanley Sultan. The wrap-around
publisher’s title slip is rarely found.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1337
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SYNGE (John M.): - Skelton (Robin),
ed.
Some sonnets
from ‘Laura in Death’ after the Italian of Francesco Petrarch.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press,
1971
FIRST EDITION THUS, with frontispiece portraits by Jack
Coughlin and two extra drypoint engravings, signed by the artist,
in a printed folder in an end pocket, pages 60, (1), roy 8vo,
original full vellum, top edges gilt: with a small name stamp on
the front flyleaf otherwise a bright, fresh, virtually as new copy in
the original unlettered plain white dust-wrapper, in the original
unlettered buff coloured stiff board slip-case
Copy number 45 of 75 nunbered copies (of which only 50 copies were for
sale), specially bound, signed by the editor and with two extra drypoint
engravings, both signed by the artist. A handsome book designed by Liam
Miller.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1338
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SYNGE (John M.).
The Aran Islands. With drawings by
Jack B. Yeats.
Dublin: Maunsel...,
1911
With 12 striking black and white plates after Jack B. Yeats, pages
xiv,256, 8vo, pleasantly and recently bound in half dark green
morocco, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt, top edges gilt, other
edges uncut: a nice copy.
A modern classic: here issued as part of Maunsell’s handsome ‘Library
Edition”
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
YEATS (Wm. B.).
Poems.
T.
Fisher Unwin
[1913]. With a portrait frontispiece, pages xvi, 316,
8vo, original blue cloth: foot of spine lightly marked, otherwise a
very good, mostly unopened copy of the variant issue of the
binding by Althea Gyles with blind-stamped covers and gilt spine.
Wade 100. The seventh English edition, revised.
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GUINNESS (Bryan), second Baron Moyne.
The Clock.
Poems and a Play [Working the Dolls].
Dublin: The Dolmen Press,
1973. FIRST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece (sketch by
Augustus John), 88-pages, 8vo, original cloth: a nice copy in the
dust wrapper.
Inscribed “Ciaran [McGonigall] / from / Bryan / Nov 1977. “
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SYNGE (John M.).
to Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats.
Selected by Ann Saddlemyer. 1971. a nice copy.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Another copy, fine but for slight
marking on spine, is available at £45.
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YEATS (Wm. B.): - Raine (Kathleen).
Yeats, the Tarot and
the Golden Dawn.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, New Yeats Papers II,
1972. FIRST EDITION, with 42 illustrations on 31 plates, 60-
pages, roy 8vo, original stiff printed paper wrappers: a bright,
fresh copy.
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DEVLIN (Denis).
Edited and introduced by Brian Coffey.
1967. a very good to nice copy in dust wrapper.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies, signed by the editor.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1339
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SYPNIEWSKI (D. O.).
Impressions of England; or.
Observations of an exile, on the principles and prosperity of the
British nation, and the misfortunes of his own country.
Printed for
the Author, by W/ H. Compton …Marylebone.
(1843)
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages 77, (1), (2, blank), 8vo,
original brown printed paper wrappers, edges uncut: some slight
wear to spine, but the binding strong and otherwise a very good
to nice copy in original state.
Privately published and rare: COPAC locates copies at L and UL and
WorldCat makes no additions. The Author, a Polish exile, is credited
with “The Wrongs of my Country”, “A Discourse on the Historical and
Political Events of Europe”, etc.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[CURRIE (James), MD, FRS].
A
letter commercial and political addressed to the Rt. Honble.
William Pitt: in which the real interests of Britain, in the present
crisis, are considered, and some observations are offered on the
general state of Europe. The second edition, corrected and
enlarged.
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson,
1793. Pages
(4), 72, 8vo, recent wrapper: first and final page lightly dusty,
otherwise very good.
The issue in which the final paragraph comprises two lines and the catch-
word on p. 68 is “escape, “. “An enquiry into the causes of the general
calamities which affect the commercial and manufacturing interests”,
with many references to America, “The genius of Watt, Wedgewood, and
Arkwright, has counteracted the expense and folly of the American war.
“, etc. Kress B. 2475. Written to persuade the prime minister not to
declare war with France. When it became known that Currie was the
author, his practice suffered a little.
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[HUME (Hugh), third earl of Marchmont].
A serious
exhortation to the electors of Great Britain: wherein the
importance of the approaching elections is particularly proved
from our present situation both at home and abroad.
London:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row,
1740. FIRST
EDITION?, 60-pp, with half-title, 8vo, unbound, sewn as issued,
uncut and, in large part, unopened: little dusty at beginning and
end, otherwise very good copy in original state.
Opposing the Walpole ministry. There was another 1740 edition with a
different pagination.
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CHURCHILL (George Spencer), 6th Duke of
Marlborough: -.
In the matter of the most noble the Duke &
Duchess of Marlborough. Before Sir Wm. Page Wood, Vice-
Chancellor, August 7th, 1853.
Henningham and Hollis,
1853.
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 123-pages, unbound, sewn as issued:
the first and final page lightly soiled but otherwise a very good
copy.
Mainly comprising the ‘speech’ of Sir Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury
(rembered as the author of audacious sayings and as the mythical source
of innumerable stories), who appeared for the sixty-year old Duke in this
child custody case.
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[CLEMENT (Simon)].
Faults on both sides: or, an essay
upon the original cause, progress, and mischievous consequences
of the factions in this nation... By way of an answer to the
Thoughts of an Honest Tory [by Benjamin Hoadly]. The second
edition.
Printed and sold by the booksellers...,
1710. 56-pp, 8vo,
recent marbled paper boards: some light browning, but a very
good copy.
Hanson 1167, “mainly financial”. Kress 2662. Goldsmiths’ 4616.
Morgan M284. A reissue of the first edition, with the title-page partly
reset. A widely circulated contribution to the pamphlet war initiated by
Benjamin Hoadly’s Thoughts of an Honest Tory – a somewhat ironic
title in that Hoadley went on to become a leading spokesman for the
Whigs.
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JENKINS (Edward), M. P.
The Shadow on the Cross: the
present crisis of the Turkish Question.
Robert Mullan,
1876.
FIRST EDITION, pages 38, (2, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a
very good to nice copy.
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