WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM

Books THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM 326 Heaney, Seamus. A collection of five first editions, including a signed copy of The Burial at Thebes. Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. Faber & Faber, London, 1980, 8vo, blue cloth gilt with publisher’s dust jacket; The Haw Lantern. Faber & Faber, London, 1987, printed card wrappers, inscribed in Heaney’s hand, ‘for Hilda Murphy 25.VI.87; The Spirit Level. Faber & Faber, London, 1996. 8vo, green cloth gilt with publisher’s dust jacket; Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Faber & Faber, London, 1996. 8vo, ivory cloth gilt with publisher’s dust jacket; The Burial at Thebes. Faber & Faber, London, 2004. 8vo, black paper gilt with publisher’s dust jacket, signed ‘Seamus Heaney’ in black ink to the title page. (5) Estimate €300-€400 (approx £260-£350) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 326 327 Joyce, James. Dubliners, illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, limited edition signed by le Brocquy and LiamMiller. Dolmen Press Dublin 1986, natural Irish linen, gilt title, covers embossed with design by le Brocquy signed to the colophon page by Louis le Brocquy and Liam Miller, numbered 493 of 500. Estimate €1500-€1800 (approx £1,310-£1,570) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 327 328 Joyce, James. The Cat and the Devil, first edition. Faber and Faber, London, 1965, first edition, quarto, original pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout in colour by Gerald Rose. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 328 329 The Book of Uí Maine or The Book of the O’Kelly’s with introduction and indexes by R.A.S. Macalister, collotype facsimile, in custom binding. Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1942, large folio, 216pp, custom bound half chestnut calf and marbled boards. Written in Irish, probably in the ancient territory of Uí Mhaine (east Galway, south Roscommon, part of Clare, and the parish of Lusmagh in Offaly) by ten scribes of which the two principal ones were Adam Cusin and Faelan Mac a’ Gabann na Scél. It was written for Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh, Bishop of Clonfert, and later Bishop of Tuam (1378-1394). The contents are described in a marginal note as bolg an tsolathair or ‘bag of mixed content/miscellany’, including genealogies, historical and religious matter, a metrical dinnshenchas (lore of places), a banshenchas or chronicle of famous women, and Sanas Cormaic. Estimate €400-€600 (approx £350-£520) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 329