82
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
612
1826: Irish poet Thomas Moore handwritten note and portrait
A short note handwritten and signed by Moore requesting that one of
his letters should be franked together with a contemporary small pencil
on paper portrait of Moore. (2 items)
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
613
1962 (18 January) Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Briain, Myles na
gCopaleen) letter to JB Kilfeather
Typescript. From O’Nolan’s home at 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan, Co.
Dublin to the writer and critic, JB Kilfeather, at “Seancoduff”, 140
Stockman’s Lane, Belfast. “I was very glad to hear you liked THE HARD
LIFE. I wrote it in two months dead (-me dead).....an enormous sale here,
and nearly all reviews throughout Britain were favourable....a very RC
monthly here named HIBERNIA....was amused to see in it.........an
extended notice of the book, with frequent mention of Father Kurt
Fahrt, S.J. It is being published in the U.S. immediately. I note what you
say about other pieces of mine. I have several plans for the future but
the immediate one is a new book. It’s in my head intact and there is no
problem beyond getting it on paper; not difficult, but tedious. ......”
Signed in ink Brian Nolan with the initials M. na G. (“Myles na
gCopaleen) typed underneath. This letter shows the author in good form
& his humour is to the fore as is his apparent hurry to write another
book. The book he “has in my head” was to become the Dalkey Archive.
However his work on this was to be delayed due to illness and work on a
television series. It was eventually published in 1964. A scarce example
of a letter from this comic genius, and even rarer, an example of him in
good humour 10 x 8in. (25 x 20cm)
€
800-
€
1,000 (£670-£830 approx)
614
Paget, John. Hungary and Transylvania; with remarks on their
condition, social, political, and Economical.
London: Murray, 1839. First Edition. Royal 8vo. Original cloth. Good 2
vols. Pp. (1) xxii, (4), 483; (2) xii, 631. Illustrated. Hand coloured folding
map in vol. 1. Green cloth gilt.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
615
Power, Very Rev. P. Canon. The Place Names of the Decies.
London: Nutt, 1907. First Edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. xxvii, 503. Original
green cloth covers & decorative green morocco with title & Celtic design
in gilt on spine. A highly sought after and very scarce book. Some cover
stains. Endpapers & hinges reinforced with sellotape. Annotations in the
hand of previous owner, renowned Norwegian linguist Hakon Mellberg.
Rare.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
616
Praeger, Rosamund. Old - Fashioned Verses and Sketches
Dundalk: Tempest, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. Original Boards. Very Good /
Good. 63 pp. Illustrated. Original boards in edge worn & stained
dustjacket
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
617
Reeves, James. Arcadian Ballads signed limited edition
Whittington Press 1977. Limited to an edition of 250 of which this is
196. Original boards with slipcase. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
Signed by both the artist and author.
€
80-
€
120 (£70-£100 approx)
618
Reid, John. Turkey and the Turks: Being the Present State of the
Ottoman Empire.
London: Tyas, 1840. First Edition. 8vo. Full Calf. Good Pp. viii, (2), 310.
Illustrated with 7 of the 8 plates called for. Lacking single page map of
Constantinople and the Bosphorus. Calf covers a little worn, scuffed and
lightly faded here and there. Black morocco, label with title gilt on spine.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
619
Rivers, Elizabeth. Stranger in Aran
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1946. First & Limited Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Near
Fine Pp.78. Illustrated by the author & 4 of the illustrations have been
hand coloured by her as well. No. 70 of 280 copies.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
620
Russell, George (“Æ”): The House of the Titans and Other Poems with
original drawing
MacMillan & Co. Ltd. London 1934. Signed and dedicated by the author
with an original pastel artwork on the title page.
€
300-
€
500 (£250-£420 approx)
621
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. First Edition, first printing, with author signed
dedication inserted and another author signed note.
Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, 1897. First Edition.
The true first printing, being on thicker paper [the sheets bulking a
little over an inch], with the pages untrimmed, and with the final leaf
[pp. 391/392] blank [i.e. WITHOUT the ad for the Shoulder of Shasta].
Richard Dalby, in his 1983 bibliography of Stoker, states that “later
issues of the first edition carry an advertisement for The Shoulder of
Shasta on the rear flyleaf [392]” and that the “publishers cannot
confirm any other points regarding status of the first issue, nor the
exact publishing date.” This copy also has an eight-page terminal
catalogue beginning with an advertisement for The Amazing Marriage
by George Meredith, ending with one for The Whitehall Shakespeare,
and carrying no mention of Dracula.
Loosely inserted a note “John Garford from Bram Stokers, 9.11.09”
and a note dated 1895 on Lyceum Theatre paper to CW Heverard
concerning the music of King Arthur, both in Stoker’s hand.
Original yellow cloth with title in red, cover soiled, spine sunned and
worn at top and bottom, edges of covers worn away in parts, interior
light overall toning, possibly tropicalised, but overall a sound copy of
this extremely rare first printing of the first edition. Housed in a
recent yellow cloth clamshell box. (3)
€
5,000-
€
7,000 (£4,170-£5,830 approx)
622
[Kahlert, Karl Friedrich.]. The Necromancer, a German story : or Tale of
the Black Forest. Rare Irish edition of this Gothic horror story and
forerunner to Dracula.
[Kahlert, Karl Friedrich.]. The Necromancer, a German story: or Tale of
the Black Forest: founded on facts. Translated from the German of
Lawrence Flammenberg. By Peter Teuthold. Printed by Brett Smith,
Dublin 1795. First Irish edition, pages 160: (2), (3) - 172, (4, blank), 2
vols, 12mo, bound in 1, with separate title-pages, signatures and
pagination, contemporary calf, with label, gilt: one or two early
gatherings a little proud, otherwise a very good-nice copy of a very
rare book. The very rare first Irish edition of a novel first published by
the Minerva Press in 1794. Blakey 166. Garside, Raven and
Schowerling, 1794:34. Summers Gothic Bibliography 442. Frank The
first Gothics 209. One of Jane Austen’s seven “Horrid Novels”, once
thought to be a figment of her imagination. This Irish edition is rarer
than the Minerva predecessor; it is the only Irish edition of any of the
“Horrid Novels” we can find recorded. A desirable forerunner to Bram
Stoker’s Dracula.
€
3,000-
€
5,000 (£2,500-£4,170 approx)
623
Shinpen Suiko Gaden (Water Margin).
Japan: Hoki, 8vo. Good two vols. Pp.(1) 76; (2) 92. Illustrated with 34
woodblocks - 8 full page colour, 10 full page & 16 half page black &
white by Yoshitoshi. Text and woodblocks are printed on rice paper -
each leaf is like the pages in an uncut book with no text on the verso of
each leaf. Overall condition is very good.
€
300-
€
400 (£250-£330 approx)
