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35-pages, 12mo, sewn in original unlettered stiff drab paper
wrappers: in nice, fresh original state.
BLC dates this [1810?] and Osborne Catalogue, 802, suggests [c. 1820].
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STANLEY (Edward Henry), 15th earl of Derby.
The
Retention of Candahar. Speech … in the … Lords, on Lord
Lytton’s motion of March 3rd, 1881, impugning the policy of
the Government in regard to Candahar. Printed for the Liberal
Central Association … Revised by the author.
The National Press
Agency, Limited
(1881). 16-pages, 8vo, unbound, sewn issued:
small stamp on title-page, otherwise a nice copy.
Stanley (1826-93), politician, diarist, one of the Apostles, the select
undergraduate society that was a formative influence on some
contemporary liberal-minded intellectuals. He voted against the
retention of Candahar believing it to be a burden rather than a benefit:
it was evacuated by the British in April 1881.
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BURNABY (Frederick G.).
A Ride to Khiva: travels and
adventures in Central Asia. With maps and an appendix,
containing, amongst other information, a series of march-
routes, translated from several Russian works.
Cassell, Petter &
Galpin,
1878. SIXTH EDITION, with 3 folding maps (2 in
pockets), pp xviii, 487, (8, adverts), and tipped in advert slip for
Wallace’s ‘Russia’, 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: a little wear at
headbands but the binding sound and strong and the inside
joints intact: a clean and very good copy.
This account of his journey on horseback through Russian Asia brought
him immediate fame.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1417
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YEATS (Elizabeth Corbet): -.
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats.
Born March 11th. 1868. Died January 16th. 1940
(Dublin: The
Cuala Press)
(1940
FIRST EDITION, (4)-pages, 8vo, sewn in oversized original
printed paper wrappers: the wrappers slightly worn, but
otherwise a very good copy.
This appreciation of the life and work of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the
Dun Emer/Cuala Press enterprise was written and issued by her sister
Lilly Yeats. The memoir was set, printed and bound by Mairie Gill and
Esther Ryan, two highly competent presswomen, who had worked at the
Press with Elizabeth for over thirty years. Although no publication date
is given, the text is dated February 1st 1940. Liam Miller, in The Dun
Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press (1973), states that the printing of an
edition of 550 copies was finished in mid-February.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
YEATS (Wm. B.).
Diarmuid and
Grania. A play in three acts. By George Moore and W. B. Yeats.
Now first printed. With an introductory note by William Becker
[in: The Dublin Magazine. Vol. XXVI. No. 2 April - June 1951].
(Dublin)
1951. FIRST EDITION, pages 64 and advert leaves,
4to, original printed wraps: a nice copy.
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CORRIGAN (Aidan).
Eye-Witness in Northern Ireland.
(Printed and published in the province of Ulster by the Voice of Ulster
Publications)
[1969]. FIRST EDITION, 36-pp, 8vo, original stiff
printed paper wrappers: a very good copy.
According to an anonymous pamphlet, “Fianna Fail - The IRA
Connection”, published in the early 1970s, this booklet was not
published in Ulster as stated but was in fact printed in Dublin by the
Cityview Press in 1969 and finannced by the Government Information
Bureau of the Republic of Ireland at a cost of £333. 5s. 3d.
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THOMAS (Ronald S.).
Not That He Brought Flowers
1968. a nice copy in the dust jacket
First Edition
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JOYCE (James).
Corrections of misprints in Finnegans
Wake. By James Joyce.. As prepared by the author after
publication of the first edition.
New York: The Viking Press, for
distribution to purchasers of Finnegans Wake,
1945. FIRST
EDITION, 16-pages, roy 8vo, unbound, wire-stitched as issued,
with the small stamp of the Gotham Book Mart on title-page: a
very good copy.
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KENNELLY (Brendan) & HOLZAPFEL (Rudi).
The dark
about our loves [: verse].
[Dublin: no publisher] Printed by John
Augustine and Company
[1962]. FIRST EDITION, 31-pages, 8vo,
original stiff green pictorial printed wrappers: nice.
Inscribed on half-title “To Derry / ‘Immortal Diamond’ / from
Brendan / 20/12/62”.
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[BERKELEY (George)].
Maxims concerning Patriotism.
By a Lady.
Dublin: Printed in the Year MDCCL. Dublin: Trinity
Closet Press, Reprint Series I,
1978. Pages 7, (1, blank), small 8vo,
original printed wrappers: in very good to nice state.
One of 250 numbered copies. Only three copies of the original edition
are known.
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[RUSSELL (George)].
The inner and the outer Ireland.
Dublin: Talbot,
1921. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, 16-pp,
large 12mo, unbound, stapled, as issued: very good
Denson 41. “Reprinted by permission from Pearson’s Magazine, U. S.
A. “
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1418
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YEATS (Jack B.).
The Treasure of the Garden. A play by
Jack B. Yeats. Scenes and characters together with book of the
words and full directions of playing on a miniature stage
(wrapper title: One of Jack B. Yeats’s Plays for the Miniature
Stage … Coloured by the author.).
Elkin Mathews
[1902]
With 7 woodcut plates, all, and the woodcut on the upper
wrapper, coloured by hand by the author, pages (30), (2,
advertisements), large 4to, original blue printed paper wrapper:
a very good to nice copy in original state.
The last of his plays for children. It was intended that the illustrations
be cut out and mounted on stiff card for performance. Consequently,
complete copies are hard to find. It was also issued with the plates
uncoloured.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1419
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YEATS (Wm. B.): -.
Some critical appreciations of
William Butler Yeats as poet, orator, and dramatist [: wrapper
title].
No printer, place or date, circa
1902
FIRST EDITION,23-pp, small 8vo, original printed paper
wrappers: very good-nice.
Wade page 458, the earliest item listed in his section “Some books about
Yeats and his work’ and suggesting a publication date of 1903.
Contributors include G. K. Chesterton, Richard Ashe King, William
Sharp, R. L. Stevenson & Clement Shorter. “This pamphlet was
compiled by Mr. Quinn prior to Mr Yeats’s first visit to the United
States to lecture, in 1902. “ - Catalogue of the Library of John Quinn.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1420
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YEATS (Wm. B.).
A Tower of Polished Black Stones.
Early versions of The Shadowy Waters … arranged and edited
by David Ridgley Clark and George Mayhew. With five
illustrations by Leonard Baskin and drawings by the poet.
Dublin: Dolmen Edition XI,
1971
With full-page and other illustrations, pages xvi, 70, (1), small
folio, finely bound in full rose morocco, with black morocco
inlays on both boards, in a specially made fleece-lined black
cloth folding library case, with the upper cover and backstrip of
the original dust wrapper retained on the upper board and spine
of the case: a nice copy.
One of 1250 copies. This copy specially bound by Chris Hicks, signed
“CLH 74”.
€200-€250 (£160-£200 approx.)
1421
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YOUNG (John Radford).
The analysis and solution of
cubic and biquadratic equations; forming a sequel to the
Elements of AIgebra, and an introduction to the Theory and
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