WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 15/16 MAY 2021

81 THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR - TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 1 MAY - 15/16 MAY 2021 Kevin Barry 180 Kevin Barry’s schoolbook on French, signed and inscribed. Mademoiselle De La Seigliere paperback, signed “K. G. Barry” in pencil (4 times) and ink (twice), on inside cover and flyleaf, some French phrases in Barry’s hand on end papers in both pencil and ink, and “League Final 1918, Mountjoy beat Blackrock 7-6”. Condition: Cover distressed, pages bumped edges, but signatures and inscriptions clearly legible. Provenance: Family of Kevin Barry; Thence by descent Estimate €1,000-€1,500 (approx £870-£1,300) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 180 181 Kevin Barry’s schoolbook on Shakespeare, signed and inscribed. The Life of Henry The Fifth edited by G.C. Moore Smith. Signed in Irish “ Caomgain de Barra” and in English “K. G. Barry, I Senior, Belvedere College, Dublin” and “C. de Barra” and “K.G. Barry” twice more, all on flyleaf, also inscribed in another hand “Barry is a bloody awful [excised]”. Signed again “K.G. Barry” on endpaper thrice, along with a mathematical question and some drawings of heads, one possibly one of his Jesuit teachers. Condition: Cover stained, shaken, fair, but interior good, signatures and inscriptions are clear and legible. Provenance: Family of Kevin Barry; Thence by descent Estimate €1,000-€1,500 (approx £870-£1,300) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 181 182 1920 (1 November). Kevin Barry In Memoriam card, Barry family issue. “I nDil Cuimne ar Caoimín de Barra”with Irish inscription obverse and English on reverse, including verses fromWilliam Rooney and Maeve Cavanagh. Condition: Very fine. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 182