101. O’Sullivan, Seumas.

The Rose and Bottle and Other Essays.

First edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1946. 14 x 22cm. (8), 126 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some signs of wear to dustjacket, foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good condition.

102. Pearse, Padraic / Mac Piarais, Pádraic.

Bhodaigh an Chóta Lachtna [″Adventure of the Churl of the Grey Coat” / “Tale of the Carle in the Drab Coat”].

First Edition. Baile Átha Cliath, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1906. 8°. III, 72 pages. Original Softcover. Besides some fraying to the pages 19-23 in unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Very Rare !

103. Pearse, Pádraic H.

Plays – Poems – Stories.

Sixth Edition. Dublin/Cork/Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., [1924]. 8°. Portrait of Pearse as Frontispiz, XIX, 340, VIII pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Preowner’s name on endpaper (″Katie O’Shea”). [Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse].

104. [Pearse, Padraig] O’Flynn, Criostoir.

A Man Called Pearse – A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin), Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta (FNT) (National Publications Ltd.), 1980. 13 cm x 18 cm. VI, 232 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor signs of foxing to edges.

105. [Pearse, Patrick / Pearse, Pádraic] Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais.

An Mháthair agus sgéalta eile. [The Mother and Other Stories].

Second Edition with Vocabulary. Dun Dealgan [Dundalk], The Dundalgan Press [William Tempest], 1927. 19.5cm x 12.8cm. 95 pages with frontispiece and further beautiful illustrations throughout the publication. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition of the rare softcover-issue with only minor signs of external wear.

106. Pohli, Paula.

“This – That – These – Those – ? –”.

Original Linocut – Experimental Art, philosophizing on Pronouns. [County Mayo], Paula Pohli, no year [c.2015]. 15 cm x 29 cm. Excellent condition. Signed and limited edition (No.2 of only 25).

107. [Puttnam, David] O’Brien, Edna.

Time and Tide. [Signed / Inscribed]. A Novel.

First Edition. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Octavo. 325 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by Edna O’Brien to Lady Patsy and Lord David Puttnam. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the personal library of producer David Puttnam.

108. [Rees-Mogg, William / Cholwell House] [Lever, Charles].

Arthur O’Leary – His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands. Edited by his friend, Harry Lorrequer and Illustrated by George Cruikshank. [William Rees-Mogg’s personal copy from his library at Cholwell House and with his armorial Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown].

New Edition. London, Henry Colburn, 1845. Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Arthur O’Leary, 364 pages with ten illustrations by Cruikshank (including the Frontispiece). Hardcover / Original 19th century half leather with two spine-labels, professionally rebacked and restored by a professional bookbindery. Original pastedowns retained with the original bookbindery-label of C.T.Jefferies & Sons from Bristol. Some of the Cruikshank-plates very good, some with strong foxing (as usual). The text fresh and clean. After the restoration, this Volume is now in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

109. Robinson, Lennox.

Eight Short Stories.

London, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, no year [c.1919]. Small Octavo. 114 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket carries a portrait of Lennox Robinson on the cover. The rare dustjacket with some fraying and two corners missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a private entry of the preowner to the endpaper.

110. Rohan, Dorine.

Barriers Within.

Dublin ; Cork, Mercier Press, 1974. 19cm. 113 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective Mylar. Excellent condition first edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by the author.

111. Rooney, Hubert E.

The Well-Known Songs of Ireland. [Forty Songs] Edited and arranged by Hubert E. Rooney.

Dublin, James Duffy & Co. Ltd., (1905). Quarto. 85 pages with 40 songs (text and set to music). Beautiful modern half leather with marbled – paper – covered boards. Bound by Dublin bookbinder J.F.Newman with the original printed wrappers. The volume is now in protective collector’s mylar ! Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare in this excellent condition. The paper of this publication is notoriously frail and was professionally restored and strengthened. With an inscription in gaelic by one William de Teal (Tipperary) in July 1911.

112. [Russell, Matthew].

The Irish Monthly – No. 837 – March, 1943: Essays included are: John J. Ryan – Ireland and Portugal / E.J.Coyne – Money, Credit and Banking – II – What are Bank Deposits ? / Gabriel Fallon – The Playboy To-Day / Aodh de Blacam – Ireland That Might Have Been / Books Reviewed: Publications in Irish / Untruisms / Studies in Life //

Dublin, The Irish Monthly, 1943. Octavo. VI, 41 pages with local irish advertising. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

113. [Russell, Matthew].

The Irish Monthly – No. 838 – April, 1943: Essays included are: Francis MacManus – Waterton Said Rats ! / Edwrad Fitzgerald – A Sermon in Stone / E.J.Coyne – What are Bank Deposits ? / Gabriel Fallon – Satire, Comedy and a Revival / Aodh de Blacam – If I Were The Minister ! / Books Reviews /

Dublin, The Irish Monthly, 1943. Octavo. IV, 43 pages with local irish advertising. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

114. [Russell, Matthew].

The Irish Monthly – No. 841 – July, 1943: Essays included are: Emily Hughes – Minstrels / Francis MacManus – Tennyson’s Irish Tale / E.J.Coyne – Money, Credit and Banking – What is Credit ? / Gabriel Fallon – Some Drama Festival Reflections / Aodh de Blacam – Searchlight on Islam / Books Reviews /

Dublin, The Irish Monthly, 1943. Octavo. IV, 43 pages with local irish advertising. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

115. Shaw, Bernard.

Back to Methuselah [A Metabiological Pentateuch]. [With several items of Ephemera included] With a Preface by Mr.Shaw and with Wood Engravings by John Farleigh.

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1939. 19 cm x 28 cm. LVI, 260 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective slip-case. Excellent condition edition with only very minor signs of external wear to the slipcase. The ephemeral items include an advertising card for this publication from “The Leicester Galleries, London” , The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Clb from July, 1939, Number 119. The printed Letter’s title was: “If there are Four Hitlers” / Also included is a pamphlet of the Limited Editions Club on the artwork of John Farleigh.

116. Sheehan, Canon.

The Sadness of Autumn / The Loneliness of Winter / The Magic of Spring.

Three Volumes. Cork and Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1973. Octavo. 93, 95, 91 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

117. Sheehan, [Canon] Rev. P.A.

Collection of three publications by Canon Sheehan: 1. “Miriam Lucas” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1924) / 2.″The Queen’s Fillet” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1919) / 3. “Luke Delmege” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1924).

26th edition. New York / Toronto / Bombay / Calcutta / Glasgow, Longmans, Green and Co., 1919-1924. Octavo. 470, 376, 580 pages. Original Publisher’s Hardcover. All three Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

118. Sheehan, [Canon] Rev. P.A.

My new Curate – A Story Gathered from the Stray Leaves of an Old Diary.

26th edition. Boston / London / Glasgow, Marlier Publishing Company, 1925. Octavo. X, 480 pages including 18 illustrations (including frontispiece). Original Publisher’s Hardcover. Titlepage loosened – otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

119. Sheridan, John D.

Joking Apart. Illustrated by Paul Noonan.

Dublin, The Talbot Press Ltd., 1964. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 202 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

120. Sheridan, Thomas / [Benjamin Franklin (mentioned as Subscriber with his address as Ambassador in Paris) / George Washington (mentioned as Subscriber)].

A General Dictionary of the English Language – One main Object of which, is, to establish a plain and permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To which is Prefixed A Rhetorical Grammar. Dedicated to the Volunteers of Ireland. [Including a List of Subscribers mentioning among others also: “Benjamin Franklin (Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, at Paris, who ordered 20 copies)” / Mentioning also as Subscriber: “His Excellency General George Washington, Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States of North America”)].

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by P.Wogan at The Old Bridge and P.Byrne, College-Green, 1784. Octavo (14 cmx 21 cm). [10], LXIX, 825 [unnumbered] pages. Including a lenghty section mentioning the Irish Subscribers to this Dictionary with name and town. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original, red spine-label with gilt lettering. In protective Mylar. Binding rubbed and with some minor loss to leather. The binding firm and strong and endpapers and pastdeowns intact and NOT cracked ! Small signs of a faded dampstain without any consequence to the very good condition throughout. One page with a tear (Letter G). The unpaginated section was collated as complete.