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Heaney, Seamus. District and Circle, signed
Faber & Faber, London 2006, original wrappers. Signed on the title page
by the author.
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120-
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150 (£100-£130 approx)
585
Heaney, Seamus. Human Chain, signed
Faber & Faber, London 2010, original wrappers. Signed on the title page
by the author.
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120-
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150 (£100-£130 approx)
586
Hewitt, John. Collection of signed books and publications
Collected Poems 1932-1967, MacGibbon & Kee, London 1968. No Rebel
Word, Frederick Muller Ltd. London, 1948. The Day of the Corncrake:
Poems of the Nine Glens, Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1969. Those
Swans Remember, privately published Belfast 1969. Prologue for An
Evening at Whitefriars 1970. The Lint Pulling, Ulster Young Farmer 1948.
An Ulster Reckoning, privately published 1971. Coventry The Tradition of
Change and Continuity, Coventry Corporation 1966. Poems by John
Hewitt, reprinted from The Massachusetts Review Vol. 5 No. 2 Winter
1964. All of the aforementioned signed by Hewitt. Also with unsigned
copies of Mosaic, Blackstaff Press 1981, Kites in Spring, Blackstaff Press,
1980, The Rain Dance, Blackstaff Press, 1978, Out Of My Time, Blackstaff
Press, 1974, Ancestral Voices, Blackstaff Press, 1987. (14 items)
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587
Highmore, John. Journal of Travels Made Through the Principal Cities
of Europe
London: Printed For J. Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, 1782. First Edition.
8vo. Calf Gilt. Wherein the TIME employed in going from POST to POST is
marked in HOURS and MINUTES; the DISTANCES in ENGLISH MILES,
measured by Means of a Perambulator fastened to the Chaise; PRODUCE
of the DIFFERENT COUNTRIES; POPULATION of the TOWNS; and
REMARKABLE CURIOSITIES in the CITIES and the ROADS: together with
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BEST INNS, &c. With Appendix etc. Pp. xxxi, [5], 26.
Calf covers a little worn and scratched. Red morocco, label title gilt.
Good. Scarce.
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588
Hilton, James. Goodbye Mr. Chips.
ill. Bip Pares. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. Third
impression with orange wrap around advertisement. Hard Cover. Signed
& Inscribed By the Author. Very Good / Fair. Pp. 128. D.j. cover and book
both illustrated by Bip Pares. Third impression There is the original
orange wrap around advertising label which clips inside covers. Slight
faults to dustjacket. Inscribed: “ To Mr. Nairn from James Hilton with all
good wishes Dec.1934.”
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589
Irish Public Records. 1815-20. Reports from the Commissioners
appointed by his majesty ...
....to execute the measures recommended in an address of the House of
Commons respecting the Public Records of Ireland/The sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth Reports of the Public Records of Ireland. Folio. 2
vols: Pp. (1) 571; (2) 658. Large folios. Very fine double page folding
plates of the Four Courts, Public law offices, the King’s Inns, Dublin
Castle, Courts of Justice in contemporary hand colouring and numerous
other single page plates of Dublin legal buildings. Vol. 2 is inscribed “To
be preserved in the office of the Second Master in Chancery, by order
Wm. Shaw Mason, Secretary - August 1822”. Fine red buckram, gilt titles.
Signed by William Shaw Mason. Scarce.
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300 (£170-£250 approx)
590
1876: Original indenture for the birthplace of James Joyce
The unique manuscript on vellum indenture dated September 1876 for
the house at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar where James Joyce would be
born less than 6 years later to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane
Murray. A remarkable and desirable piece of Joycean ephemera. 20 x
13½in. (51 x 33cm)
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3,000-
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5,000 (£2,500-£4,170 approx)
591
Joyce, James. Dubliners. First edition 1914
Grant Richards London, 1914. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt. No
dustjacket. Spine sunned, front and back covers stained, interior very
good. Dubliners must surely have one of most protracted publication
histories of any book. Grant Richards first accepted it in February 1906,
but shortly afterwards changed his mind. The manuscript then passed to
Elkin Mathews, John Long and Maunsel, before John Falconer of Dublin
accepted it in 1910. In July that year 1,000 copies were printed, only for
the entire edition to be immediately destroyed, most probably at the
behest of the Dublin Castle censors. Joyce engaged in a voluminous
correspondence lobbying various publishers and even wrote an account
of his woes in an article titled ‘A Curious History’. In one of his many
letters of protest sent to Grant Richards in 1906, he declared “I seriously
believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by
preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in
my nicely polished looking glass” (quoted in Slocombe and Cahoon, p.
13). Richards eventually accepted the manuscript in 1914 on the
grounds that no royalties were to be paid on the first 500 copies and
that Joyce guaranteed to purchase 120 copies. Only 746 copies were
bound, of which this is one. A presentable example of this desirable
book.
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2,000-
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3,000 (£1,670-£2,500 approx)
592
[Joyce, James]. Two Worlds edited by Samuel Roth, Volume 1, parts 1-
4, including parts of Finnegan’s Wake.
Published at the sign of Mocki-Grisball, 5th Avenue, New York. Each
issue includes pirated instalments of Finnegan’s Wake. Printed wrappers
in original black slip-cases, covers slightly faded and chipped, interiors
very good.
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200 (£130-£170 approx)
593
Joyce, James. Pomes Penyeach First Edition.
Shakespeare & Company, Paris, 1927. Printed boards, 12mo., pp22 with
tipped in errata. Covers toned, very good otherwise.
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200 (£130-£170 approx)
594
Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere limited edition.
Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, The Fountain Press, New York, 1930. No.
381 of 500. In original green slipcase, splitting, spine of book distressed,
interior very good.
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150-
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200 (£130-£170 approx)
595
Joyce, James & Eugene Goosens. Chamber Music/Six Songs for
Medium Voice. With 3 others.
Curwen, London and Philadelphia, 1930. Printed wrappers, pp26. One
inch triangular piece missing from front cover, interior very good. Also in
this lot: Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, Faber & Faber, London 1932,
spine damaged, otherwise very good, also scarce Chinese translation of
Dubliners in two parts, 1940 and 1941, printed wrappers. (4)
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100-
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150 (£80-£130 approx)
