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Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist signed first edition
Faber & Faber, London 1966. First Edition, Third Impression with original
wrappers. Signed and dated by Heaney on the title page “to set the
darkness echoing Omagh 12th May 1972” and together with loosely
inserted ticket to The Omagh Players presentation of “The Hard Road An
Entertainment in Words and Music with Seamus Heaney, David
Hammond, Tony McAuley”, which took place on the day prior to Heaney
signing this example at Omagh. Scarce. Also Heaney, Seamus.
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978, London, 1980. First Edition,
together with Heaney, Seamus. Seeing Things signed by the author Faber
& Faber London, 1991. Signed on the title page by Heaney, original
wrappers. (3)
€
500-
€
700 (£400-£560 approx)
452
Seamus Heaney, signed & dated greeting card
The card design after a watercolour by Felim Egan, signed by Seamus
Heaney and dated in his hand 5 December 1995. Signed in the owner’s
car while bringing Mr Heaney and his wife to Dublin Airport en route to
collect the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. 6 x 4¼in. (15.24 x 10.80cm)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
453
No lot
454
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level, signed.
Heaney, Seamus. Faber and Faber. London, (1996). Pp. 81. Signed limited
edition 34/350 in original slipcase.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
455
Hutton, Mary A. The Táin
Talbot Press, 1924. Second Edition. 4to. Signed and Inscribed by the
Author. Good Pp.xii, 495. 2nd and best edition. Original decorative covers
with gilt title & ornate artistic design. Illustrated with 6 attractive plates
by Seán Mac Cathmhaoil. The first edition of 1907 was not illustrated.
Scarce.
Corners and spine ends bumped & rubbed.
€
120-
€
180 (£100-£140 approx)
456
Douglas Hyde, four first edition volumes
The Children of Lir, Dublin, 1940, signed; The Children of Túireann,
Dublin, 1941, signed; Songs of St. Columcille, 1942, inscribed; Dánta
Éagsamhla, 1943, signed.
€
150-
€
250 (£120-£200 approx)
457
Hyde, Douglas, An Craoibhín Aoibhinn,1909, signed by the author
together with a photograph of William Butler Yeats and a Paul Henry
Retrospective Exhibition catalogue, 1957. (3)
€
80-
€
120 (£60-£100 approx)
458
le Brocquy, Louis, exhibition catalogues.
A collection of 10 illustrated catalogues featuring the work of Louis Le
Brocquy & Anne Madden 1962-88. Dawson Gallery exhibitions 1962, ‘64,
‘67,’70, ‘73, ‘75 (Dolmen printing), & ‘79. Brendan the Navigator Tapestry
1963/4. Plus 2 others Paris Modern Museum of Art ‘76, Arts Council
publication Images of Yeats, Joyce, Lorca, Picasso, Beckett & Francis
Bacon 1978-87 (1988). Some scarce catalogues. Occasional useful
annotation. (10)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
459
Martin, Liam C: Dublin Shop fronts & Street Scenes. Privately Printed,
1974 and A Look at Legal Dublin
Privately Printed, 1974. First and only edition. Limited Edition of only
500 copies. This copy is signed by the author on half title page. With
wonderful illustrations of Dublin by the author. Small oblong folio in
soft covers. A Look at Legal Dublin. Dublin, The Cobblestone Press, 1975.,
Oblong Folio. No. 250 of 350 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated. Pp.
41. Inscribed to Trevor West. (2)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
460
O’Cobhthaigh, Diarmuid. Douglas Hyde: An Craodhin Aoibhinn.
Maunsel & Co. Ltd, Dublin & London, 1917. Blue cloth, Gilt and blind
embossed; together with a letter from Douglas Hyde to Lady Moore
regarding a “little book about Zozimus”. (2)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
461
1932 Ó Faoláin, Seán. Midsummer Night Madness, signed by the
author
Together with A Nest of Simple Folk, First Edition, 1933. (2)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
462
O’Farrell, Patrick. The Irish in Australia.
1987, New South Wales University Press. Signed to the fly-leaf by
various Australian lawyers & jurists, the guests at a luncheon in honour
of Justice Niall McCarthy (1925-1991) at the Parliament of New South
Wales; together with a luncheon menu signed by Maurice Curran and
the invitation to Niall McCarthy.
Called to the Bar in 1945 and the inner Bar in 1959, Niall McCarthy was chairman
of the Bar council from 1980 until his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1982.
The renowned barrister of his day, his work included representing Charles Haughey
in the Arms Trial.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
463
O’Madden, Charles-Henri Butler. Notes et Documents Authentiques
Sur La Famille Butler O’Madden
1877. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Pp. 256. Illustrated. Wormhole
through the whole book from front cover to rear cover, impact on text is
minimal. Partially split along spine edges at covers. Signed and inscribed
by author. Rare.
Wormhole through the whole book from front cover to rear cover, impact on text
is minimal. Partially split along spine edges at covers.
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
464
O’Sullivan, Seamus [James Sullivan Starkey] signed works (3).
This is the House and other Verses. Dublin: Privately Printed, 1942. First
Edition. 8vo. Pp.11.Facetiae et Curiosa being a selection from the note
books of the late J.H. Orwell, made by his friend Seamus O’Sullivan.
Dublin: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition. No.38/100 copies. The
Twilight People (1905). All are author signed, the first two also inscribed.
€
200-
€
250 (£160-£200 approx)
465
Robinson, Lennox. The Lost Leader a Play in Three Acts
(1918). Based on the life of Charles Stewart Parnell. INSCRIBED “Sylvia
Lynd: from Lennox Robinson/ Christmas 1918”. Sylvia Lynd, Writer, wife
of Robert Lynd, Irish Republican writer.
€
120-
€
160 (£100-£130 approx)
466
Rooney, John. A Genealogical History of Irish Families with Their
Crests and Armorial Bearings
Rooney, John. A Genealogical History of Irish Families with Their Crests
and Armorial Bearings . New York: O’Hart Publishing Company , 4to.
Hardcover. Very Good Pages, 529, vi. Illustrated with 69pp. of colour
plates of Crests & Armorial Bearings. Also with full page monochrome
plates. Rare.
Professionally rebound & with small internal professional repair.
€
300-
€
400 (£240-£320 approx)