691. Tagore, Rabindranath.

Red Oleanders: A Drama in One Act.

London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1925. 13 x 19.5cm. 181 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition other than minor signs of shelf wear and some mild foxing.

692. Henley, Pauline.

Spenser in Ireland. [Presentation copy]

First Edition. Cork, Cork University Press / Educational Co. of Ireland, 1928. Octavo. Frontispiece-Fold-Out-Map of Ireland, 231 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor signs of foxing only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Pauline Henley on the endpaper: “With every good wish to a devoted lover of Ireland, Mlle. Etiennette Beuque. Pauline Henley – July 21st, 1928”. In his book: A ‘Manly Study’?: Irish Women Historians 1868-1949, N. Smith writes that Pauline Henley had previously corresponded with Etienne Beuque in the same year when Mlle. Beuque, a french writer on contemporary irish history, had asked her about Terence MacSwiney. This book must have travelled with her response to France. Excellent association copy !

693. Durell, Penelope.

Discover Dursey.

Second printing. Beara, Ballinacarriga Books, 2000. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. X, 273 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Occasional markings and annotations by Chuck Kruger in the text. With a wonderful, handwritten card by the author Penelope “Penny” Durell, thanking Chuck Kruger and his wife Nell for a pleasant afternoon in Courtmacsherry and enclosing her book as a gift.

694. [de Valera, Éamon]

Collection of eleven (11) important publication on Éamon de Valera, including some interesting newspaper-clippings. The collection of books include: 1. Diarmaid Ferriter – Judging Dev – A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera / 2. Tim Pat Coogan – De Valera – Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Paperback Edition)/ 3. Ronan Fanning – Éamon de Valera – A Will to Power / 4. J.P.O’Connell and John A. Murphy – De Valera and his Times / 5. Owen Dudley Edwards – Éamon de Valera / 6. John Bowman – De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 / 7. Joseph Lee and Gearoid O Tuathaigh – The Age of de Valera / 8. Kevin J. Browne – Éamon de Valera & The Banner Country. With a Foreword by Thomas P.O’Neill / 9. Kevin Boland – Up Dev ! / 10. T.Ryle Dwyer – De Valera’s Finest Hour (1932-1959) / 11. Proinsias Mac Aonghusa – Quotations from Éamon de Valera – With a Preface by Charles J. Haughey, TD / Two very interesting newspaper-clippings and a xeroxed pamphlet: “The Anglo-Irish Treaty and Mr.de Valera’s Alternative.

Dublin / Cork / Oxford, Mercier / Glendale / Oxford University Press / and others, c. 1982 – 2007. Octavo. More than 1500 pages. Four Volumes in original Hardcover with dustjacket and several Volumes in orginal softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

695. Arntzenius, A.C. / Dunning, A.J. / Snellen, H.A.

Blood Pressure Measurement and Systemic Hypertension [2nd Einthoven meeting on past and present cardiology – In Memory of Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)]

Breda (Holland), Medical World Press, 1981. Octavo. 340 pages with illustrations. Hardcover with dustjackets. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the private Research-library of Irish Professor of Medicine Eoin O’Brien. Very Rare !

696. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander.

August 1914. Translated by Michael Glenny.

First english Translation. London / Sydney/ Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1972. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 645 Pages. One fold out map at back of book. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Red Painted top edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Edge stained. Ex Libris (Erik Haugaard).

697. Royal Academy of Arts.

Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860. Patrols Their Majesties the King and Queen. Short Catalogue.

First Edition. London, Burlington House Piccadilly, 1934. 14cm x 21cm. 320, XXXVI, 4 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

698. Carola, Leslie Conron [editor].

The Irish – A Treasury of Art and Literature.

Beaux Arts Editions, 1993. 25 cm x 33 cm. 368 pages. With c 200 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tear to rear dustjacket upper corner. Out of Print.

699. Sheppard’s Irish Auction House.

Loughton House : September 27-30, 2016. The Entire Contents and Other Important Clients.

2 volumes. Durrow, Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, 2016. 17 cm x 23.6 cm. 400 pages including colour photographs of 2573 items. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight bump on the right top corner of the front cover of Vol.I.

700. McDonald, Frank / Doyle, Peigin.

Ireland’s Earthen Houses. Photographs by Hugh MacConville.

Dublin, A. & A. Farmar, 1997. 24.4 cm x 17 cm. 32 pages. With black and white and colour illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Interior near fine condition.