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Flann O’Brien, At SwimTwo Birds, First Edition

Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, 8vo, first edition,

first issue, black cloth gilt.

Originally published by Longmans in 1939, At

Swim-Two-Birds was a commercial failure with less

than 240 copies sold by the outbreak of the war.

Additionally, the Longmans London premises and

all unsold copies with it were destroyed by the

Luftwaffe in 1940.

Estimate €400-€600 (approx £340-£510)

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664

O’Donovan, John (Ed.) The Topographical Poems

of John O’Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh

O’Huidhrin.

1862, Dublin: Printed For the Irish Archaeological

and Celtic Society By Alexander Thom, First Edition.

Royal 8vo. Edited in the original Irish from Mss. in

the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with

translation, notes, and Introductory Dissertations.

Original light brown cloth.

Estimate €250-€350 (approx £212-£297)

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665

O’Malley, Charles. The Irish Dragoon.

William Curry, Jun And Company, Dublin, (1841)

Two volumes. Quarter red morocco, gilt embossed

spine, and marbled boards. Together with Voltaire

(François Marie Arouet). The Age of Louis XV. Being

the Sequel of the Age of Louis XIV. Volume I, London,

G. Kearsly, 1770; and Addison, Joseph and Steele,

Richard. Together with The Guardian. 18th-century

full calf panelled London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1714.

(4)

Estimate €150-€200 (approx £127-£170)

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