101. Mahon, Derek.

Red Sails [Signed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2014. 8°. 95 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed by Derek Mahon. With a minor manuscript-correction of a Typo by Derek Mahon on page 83.

102. Marcus, David (Editor).

State of the Art – Short Stories by the New Irish Writers.

London, Sceptre, 1992. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 377 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages discoloured. Dogear.

103. Mattews, Aidan.

Adventures in an Bathyscope.

First Sceptre edition. Sevenoaks, Hodder and Stroughton, 1990. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 225, (3) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Signed by the author on title page. Enclosed is a newspaper clipping about the author. [Sceptre Editions].

104. McCarthy, Thomas.

Questioning Ireland – Essay and Reviews [Rare Hardcover-Edition SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage].

First Edition (simultaneously published in Softcover (Paperpack) and Hardcover). Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2024. Octavo. 420 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. As new condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare Hardcover-Edition which was sold out very quickly. SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage.

105. McCarthy, Thomas.

Questioning Ireland – Essay and Reviews [Signed by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage].

First Edition (simultaneously published in Softcover (Paperpack) and Hardcover). Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2024. Octavo. 420 pages. Original Softcover (Paperback). As new condition with only minor signs of wear. SIGNED by Thomas McCarthy on the titlepage.

106. McDonagh, Philip.

Memories of an Ionian Diplomat.

Delhi, Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2004. 22 cm x 14 cm. IX, 99 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. Association copy: Inscribed / Signed by the author Philip McDonagh to fellow irish poet, Adam Wyeth: “Adam, with best wishes, Philip McDonagh, 25th August, 2006”.

107. McDonnell, Hector (Illustrator).

The Night Before Larry was Stretched [with signed etching]. With an introduction by Terence de Vere White.

Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1984. 20.5 cm x 13 cm. IX, 96 pages. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. Number 48 out of a limited edition of 500 copies / Excellent, close to new condition. Includes orignial, signed etching.

108. McGahern, John.

That They May Face the Rising Sun. [SIGNED] / [Two Volumes: 1. The signed Proof / 2. The unsigned original First Edition.

Uncorrected Proof. London, faber and faber, 2001. Octavo. 298 pages. Original Softcover in Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by John McGahern on the Title Page. From the Library of Canadian Literary Critic John Metcalf, with his name on the front free endpaper. [This rare, signed Proof, comes together with the First Hardcover-Edition of the book “That They May Face The Rising Sun” as well (included in the price !)].

109. McGovern, Alfred G.

Paddy Reilly from Ballyjamesduff.. .. – A Comedy in Two Acts, Four Scenes.

Third Edition. Enniskillen, Herald, 1945. Octavo. 55 pages. Original Softcover. Thecover slightly scruffy with stronger signs of wear and some staining. Still overall in good condition and a very rare publication !

110. McLiam Wilson, Robert.

Eureka Street – A novel of Ireland like no other.

First North American Edition. New York, Arcade Publishing Inc, 1997. 14.5cm x 21.5cm 395 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

111. McMahon, Sean (Edited by).

The Best from The Bell – Great Irish Writing.

Dublin, The O’Brien Press Ltd, 1983. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 191 pages. With illustrations of books on the last four pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

112. [Montague, John] Dorgan, Theo.

Typescript Draft MS for a book of poetry by Theo Dorgan. With occasional manuscript corrections / suggestions / annotations by Dorgan’s early mentor John Montague, the Typescript MS was held among the private papers of John Montague in his West Cork Home. The typescript includes poems like “Closed Circuit”, “The Promised Garden”. Montague is approving several of the poems by simply applying a tick. John Montague made suggestions in pencil on the structure of “Elegy for a Schoolfriend” and more in depth-suggestions on “Nasty Archer”, “Her Body”,″The Width of a Room Between Us”, “Return”, “Reconciliation”, “Sunday Afternoon”. When asked about helping to date this early draft of his poetry, Theo Dorgan immediately gets back to us and he places it from memory into the early 1980’s. Theo Dorgan was surprised and seemingly chuffed that John Montague held on to this Manuscript and he recalls: “These poems, some in revised versions, make up the backbone of my first published collection, ‘The Ordinary House of Love’.” Dorgan continues: “I’m happy to say that most of them survived Montague’s eagle eye, which was of course a great comfort to me at the time. Still is!” Some of these poems selected had previously been published as broadsheets etc. but the skeleton of the Draft hints already at readying it for publication. Theo Dorgan graciously gives us even more information: “Some of the poems in the eventual book go back to when I was a student, others were definitely written in the second half of the 80s. The bulk of it, however, is in this MS. I base my estimation in part on the fact that what you have is a typescript produced, it appears, on the IBM golfball machine that was the pride and joy of Triskel Arts Centre. That machine was bought in 1980 or 1981, I’m fairly sure of that. I was Literature Officer there, then.” Theo Dorgan was part of John Montague’s circle of mentored poets, even though in an email-exchange with him about this typescript he mentions that “John Montague worked far more with Thomas McCarthy, Maurice Riordan and Gregory O’Donoghue than he did with me, and in many ways Gregory O’Donoghue was at that stage the most accomplished of us all – the only one included in JM’s Faber Book.” What followed then in our conversation with Theo Dorgan is a great example why manuscripts, letters, autographs, typescripts and the connections we often make with documents from the past have such meaning in explaining our emotional ties with people who matter to us on our way of forming personality. They are memories transforming into images, floods of empathy and nostalgia for personal moments lost but treasured because they helped us form our values. Presented with the old typescript, Theo Dorgan’s emotionality is tangible and he confesses more in an internal dialogue with himself and John Montague than with us: “I’m sorry to say that the reason John Montague worked with those others more than he did with me is because, in my shameful, youthful arrogance, I much preferred to trust my own judgement, and also, I suspect, because I was closest to John in temperament and feared coming unduly under his influence. That said, there was no-one whose good opinion of a poem I valued more, and we were close all our lives after. Very likely it was a case of old stag/young stag ! Montague taught us by indirection, he made his extensive library of modern and contemporary poetry available to us without stint, would wait for us to find an affinity (as, e.g. mine with Robert Graves and Galway Kinnell) and would then, in a long, ongoing conversation, help us to understand what it might mean for our own poems that we felt such affinities. A guided companionship in reading and making, if you will.”

Ireland, c.1981-1982. A4. 43 pages typescripts. Paperclipped. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some fingerstaining and residue of rust from the paperclip. Wonderful and extremely valuable document of not only a collaboration between two of Ireland’s landmark writers but moreover witness to the becoming, the birth of a true poet. Also included (from a different source) is a second printing of the first edition of the subsequent publication “The Ordinary House of Love” – signed by Theo Dorgan. Right at the beginning of the printed version, instead of a dedication to John Montague, Theo Dorgan placed a quote from Montague’s poem “Wine Dark Sea”: ‘For there is no sea / it is all a dream there is no sea / except in the tangle / of our minds; / the wine dark / sea of history on which we all turn / turn and thresh / and disappear.’ (Collected Poems, page 255). Provenance of the annotated typescript: From the private collection of John Montague’s papers in his recently sold West Cork Home.

113. Montague, John [ed.].

The Faber Book of Irish Verse. [Signed / Inscribed Association copy , heavily annotated by poet Chuck Kruger].

First Faber and Faber edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1978. 12,5 cm x 20 cm. 400 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name and a beautiful inscription by John Montague to Chuck Kruger on the half title: “Love to Chuck – John”. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

114. Moore, Brian.

The Feast of Lupercal.

Second Impression of the First Edition. London, Deutsch, 1975. Octavo. 240 Seiten. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket with some strange, severe staining to the rear. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare !

115. Moore, George.

Conversations in Ebury Street. [With an interesting full-page manuscript letter by George Moore, written in ink into the book verso titlepage].

Second edition. New York, Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1924. 14.5 x 21.5cm. 315 pages. Original hardcover with spine label. Deckled edges. With a fantastic, full-page, signed message written inside the book by George Moore. Very good – condition of the binding with signs of external wear (some spotting). Moore responds in his manuscript note on the halftitle possibly to the request of Frieda Lawrence, wife of D.H.Lawrence, who requested a copy of Moore’s book “The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe”. Moore sent her instead this edition.

116. Moore, Thomas.

The works of Thomas Moore, Esq. Accurately printed from the last original editions. With critical Notes. [With a preface by Ernest Fleischer and a “Biographical and Critical Sketch of Thomas Moore” by J.W.Lake].

In Two Complete Volumes. Leipsic, printed for Ernst Fleischer, 1833-1840. Large Octavo. Vol. I: XL, 751 pages / Vol. II:VI, 252 pages. Including a frontispiece – portrait of Thomas Moore. Original Hardcover. Poor condition of the binding with signs of external wear. Both volumes’ spines are considerably worn and fragile; there is discolouration to the frontcovers of both volumes, and foxing on inside and selective pages of both. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. Internally firm and complete and only with some minor signs of a faded dampstain.

117. Ó Cathasaigh, Thomás [Thomas Casey] / An Craoibhín Aoibhinn [Editor: Douglas Hyde].

Ocht Sgéalta ó Choillte Mághach [‘Eight Stories from Kiltimagh’].

First Edition. Báile Átha Cliath, An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, 1936. Octavo. (2), VI, 136 pages. Original, printed wrappers (Original, publisher’s Softcover boards). Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A very, very rare book !

118. Ó Drisceoil, Con / O’Donnell, Édain.

The spoons murder and other mysteries. Illustrated by Édain O’Donnell.

Dublin, Craft Recordings, 2006. 25 cm. xii, 82 pages. Illustrated with a CD included. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

119. Ó Morónaigh, Seán.

Agallaimh na héigse. Cioradh agus cnuasach. [edited by] Seán Ó Morónaigh.

Camus, Conamara, Colo. na Gailllimhe, Comhlachas Náisiúnta Drámaíochta, [2001], ©2001. 22 cm. 648 pages with illustrations, music, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

120. Ó Muirthile, Liam / Rosenstock, Gabriel.

An Fuíoll Feá – Rogha Dánta / Woodcuttings – New and Selected Poems. Translated by Gabriel Rosenstock. [Inscribed and signed by the author Liam Ó Muirthile].

Baile Átha Cliath, Cois Life, [2013]. 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM. xli, 555 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. SIGNED and Inscribed by the author.

121. Ó Muirthile, Liam / Rosenstock, Gabriel.

An Fuíoll Feá – Rogha Dánta / Woodcuttings – New and Selected Poems. Translated by Gabriel Rosenstock. [Signed on the titlepage by the author Liam Ó Muirthile and the translator Gabriel Rosenstock].

Baile Átha Cliath, Cois Life, [2013]. 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM. xli, 555 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. SIGNED by both, the author and the translator !

122. Ó Ríordáin, Seán Pádraig.

Eireaball Spideoige.

The very rare first edition of the poets first book ! Baile Átha Cliath, Sáirséa agus Dill [Sáirséal Ó Marcaigh], 1952. Small Octavo. 118, [2] pages – [With a frontispiece portrait]. Original Hardcover with the fragile, original, transparent dustjacket (the lettered flaps have been attached to the pastedowns with two small strips of sellotape). The transparent dustjacket in poor condition but the volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Three very small dogears. Name of preowner on endpaper. The first edition of this publication is one of the rarest publications of irish poetry / literature. Scarce ! From the library of irish Historian Tadhg Ó Murchú, with his name on the endpaper.

123. Ó Síocháin (Ó Síothcháin, Sheehan), Conchúr / (Conchubhar, Cornelius) (1866-1941).

The Man from Cape Clear [First English Translation of “Seanchas Chléire. Conchobhar Ó Síothcháin a dheachtuigh. Ciarán Ó Síothcháin is Mícheál Ó Síothcháin do chuir i scríbhinn]. Translated from the Irish by Riobard P. Breatnach. [With a map of Cape Clear Island on both pastedowns].

First English-Language Edition. Dublin and Cork, The Mercier Press, 1975. Octavo. XVI, 171 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some fraying to the rare dustjacket.

124. O’Brien, Edna.

House of Splendid Isolation.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. 16cm x 24cm. 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. Beautifully signed and inscribed during a promotional booktour by author Edna O’Brien during a visit to the english booktown Hay-on-Wye in the year 1994.

125. O’Casey, Sean.

Three Volumes of Sean O’Casey’s famous Autobiography: I. I Knock at the Door – Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me (Rare Second Edition, Printed in the year of the First Edition, 1939) / III. Drums under the Windows (First Edition 1945) / VI. Sunset and Evening Star (First Edition, 1954).

Three Volumes (of Six). London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 – 1954. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Volume I (″I Knock at the Door”): includes a fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “Mrs.Susan Casside in a Gala Dress”, VII, 268, [3] pages / Volume III (″Drums under My Window”): includes a Frontispiece-Photograph of “The Rev.E.M.Griffin”, 339, [2] pages / Volume VI (″Sunset and Evening Star”: includes a very fine Frontispiece-Photograph of “The O’Casey’s” [Niall O’Casey, Breon O’Casey, Sean O’Casey, Shivawn [Shivaun] O’Casey, Eileen O’Casey], VII, 311, [1] pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjackets. All three Volumes in their original state with the original dustjackets frayed but still very good. Volume I and III with two excellent Bookplates / Giftnote to dustjacket of Volume I; Giftnote to endpaper of Volume VI. Exlibris to pastedown “The Vernons” with artwork from artist H. Cutler” .

126. O’Driscoll, Dennis.

Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams. Selected Prose Writings.

Oldcastle, County Meath, The Gallery Press, 2001. 14.5cm x 22cm. 360 pages. Hardcover/ Original cloth with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor tear to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on the dustjacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

127. O’Duffy, Eimar.

[The Cuanduine Trilogy] Volume I: “King Goshawk and The Birds” (First Edition. London, Macmillan, 1926) / Volume II: “The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street” (First Edition. London, Macmillan, 1928) / Volume III: “Asses in Clover” (First Edition. London, Putnam, 1933).

First Edition. Three Volumes (Complete Trilogy). London and New York, Putnam ad Macmillan, 1926-1933. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: 319 pages / Volume II: 407 pages / Volume III: 331 pages. Hardcover / All three Volumes in original publisher’s illustrated cloth (no dustjackets). Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. Stronger signs of staining to cover of Volume I and minor sign of staining to cover of Volume II only. All three bindings firm and sturdy. Very rare first edition set of the complete Trilogy.

128. O’Flaherty, Liam.

The Wild Swan and other Stories. By Liam O’Flaherty with a Frontispiece by P.V.Moon and a Foreword by Rhys Davies. Being No.10 of the Furnival Books.

London, William Jackson (Books) Ltd. [Joiner & Steele], 1932. Octavo (16.3 cm wide x 25.4 cm high). Frontispiece-Woodcut, 60 pages. Original Hardcover (Buckram). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Beautifully signed by Liam O’Flaherty.

129. O’Kelly, Seumas.

Wet Clay.

First Edition. Dublin / London, The Talbot Press / T.Fisher Unwin, 1922. Octavo. 377 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. Gift-Inscription on endpaper.

130. O’Sullivan, M.L. [Michael John] / [Moore, Thomas].

A Fasciculus of Lyric Verses : By the Late M.J.O’Sullivan, Esq., Barrister at Law, dedicated, (by Permission), to Thomas Moore, Esq. [With a Memoir of the Author and a “Biographical Sketch of the Late Joseph Augustine Wade – The Last Production of the AUthor, written a few days before his death”].

First Edition. Cork, From the Machine of W. Scraggs, 102, Patrick-Street, 1846. Octavo. 84 pages. Private half cloth – binding of the time. Bookblock nearly detached form binding. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Interior, pages and titlepage in excellent condition and very clean. Signed and dated by the preowner in the year 1847 (″JSA” or “HA”). Extremely Rare !

131. 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 !

132. 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].

133. [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.

134. 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).

135. Quinn, Niall.

Voyovic and Other Stories.

First edition. Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1980. 15 x 22 cm. 163 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket.

136. Reavey, George [First Literary Agent of Samuel Beckett] / Irene Rice Pereira [American abstract [modernist] artist, poet and philosopher].

The Colours Of Memory [Signed Presentation-copy / With signed, original (!) Artwork by Irene Rice Pereira as frontispiece [George Reavey’s wife at the time of publication] / One of the very rare 26 copies only].

First Edition. New York, Grove Press, 1955. Octavo. 60 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket stained. Small coffee-stain on pages 5/6. An excellent, extremely rare book, being Letter “Y” of only 26 lettered copies. Very good overall-condition with only minor signs of wear.

137. [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.

138. 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.

139. 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.

140. 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.

141. [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.

142. [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.

143. [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.

144. 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.

145. 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.

146. 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.

147. 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.

148. 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.

149. Sheridan, John D.

The Right Time.

Dublin, The Talbot Press Ltd., [c.1951]. 13 cm x 19 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some tearing, fraying to dustjacket. Otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription to front free endpaper.

150. 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.

151. Shorter, Dora Sigerson.

The Tricolour – Poems of the Irish Revolution.

Dublin, Maunsel and Roberts, Limited., 1922. 11 cm x 17 cm. 71 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor smudging and discolouration to pastedowns and endpapers. Foxing to edges.

152. Smithson, Annie M. P.

The White Owl.

First Edition with dustjacket in first issue. Dublin / Cork, The Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. The rare dustjacket with fraying and a larger tear to the bottom. Some foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare Book !

153. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

154. [Somerville & Ross] / Verling, John / [Edith Somerville & Violet Martin].

Somerville & Ross – Portfolio of ten (10) original, large Etchings by John Verling [signed].

Ballydehob / Schull, John Verling & Schull Books, 1984. Folio – Sheets (38.2 cm x 28.5 cm). Ten original etchings in bespoke Folder with original tissue-guards. Original Hardcover-Folder with one additional, signed inlay-etching to frontcover. The ten etchings and the folder with the original inlay-art, are all in mint condition. The etchings all protected by their original tissue guards. A stunning publication of a wonderful West Cork – Artist. A must-have for all collector’s of rare and signed Somerville & Ross collectables, this find is simply an unusual occurance because the artwork was originally designed to be framed. One usually never finds this edition with the artwork still in its original folder !

155. Stephens, James.

Insurrections.

Dublin, Maunsel, 1912. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. 55 pages. Original Hardcover. Endpaper missing. Otherwise in very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription from eminent irish artist Brian Lalor to Erik and Myrna Haugaard in September 1975.

156. Stephens, James.

The Crock of Gold. With decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie.

Fifth printing. New York, Collier Books, 1972. 13,5 cm x 20 cm. 228 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to half title.

157. Stuart, Francis.

Black List, Section H. A Novel. With a preface and postscript by Harry T. Moore.

First Edition. Carbondale and Edwardsville / London and Amsterdam, Southern Illinois University Press / Feffer & Simons, Inc., 1971. 15 cm x 22 cm. VII, 442 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. Slight spotting/discolouration on page edges. Clean inside with intact binding.

158. Stuart, Francis.

Black list, section H.

London, Penguin, 1996. 20 cm. 416 pages. Softcover / Paperback. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare / Out-of-Print ! [Penguin twentieth-century classics].

159. Stuart, Francis.

The Pillar of Cloud.

First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz, 1948. Small Octavo. 232 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare and even rarer in the original dustjacket. Tiny Bookseller-stamp to endpaper.

160. Swift, Jonathan.

Gulliver’s Travels. Illustrated by Hans Baltzer and edited by Elaine Moss.

Second Impression. Originally published by Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin W8. London, Constable Young Books Ltd. 1964. 21.5 cm x 30 cm. 176 pages. Generously illustrated in colour throughout. Original Hardcover with black-and-white illustration on front cover and title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some slight damage to corners (bumped).

161. Swift, Jonathan.

The Works of Jonathan Swift [The Illustrated Limited Dryden Edition]. Edited by Temple Scott. With a Biographical Introduction by Rt. Hon. W.E.H.Lecky.

No.317 of only 400 sets of the limited Dryden Edition (handnumbered). 14 Volumes. London, George Bell and Sons, 1900. Octavo (13 cm x 18,5 cm). Hardcover / Professionally restored half-leather by using the orginal publisher’s boards. The extremely rare, limited Dryden Edition, here complete and expertly restored. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All illustrations in place with the original tissue-guards.

162. [Swift, Jonathan] Irving, David.

The Elements of English Composition [With an essay on ‘Critical examinations of a passage in the writings of [Jonathan] Swift’].

The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1816. Octavo. X, 318 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interimsbinding. Binding slightly rubbed. Endpaper with small abrasion (minor tear). Bookseller-sign on pastedown: “Sold by J.Bolster, Bookseller, No.7, Patrick Street, Cork”. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle) / Name of preowner John Meade in ink on titlepage.

163. Synge, John M.

A Few Personal Recollections, with biographical Notes by John Masefield.

Identical Reprint of the Original Cuala Press Edition from 1915. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1971. 16cm x 24cm 34 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

164. Synge, John M.

In Wicklow and West Kerry.

Dublin. Maunsel & Roberts, 1921. 12 cm x 17 cm. 136 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only some minor signs of external wear.

165. Tarlach Ó Huid.

An Dá Thrá.

First Edition. Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin], Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teo, [1952]. Octavo. 242 pages. Original Hardcover with the very rare, illustrated dustjacket. Loosely inserted is an advertising – leaf by the publisher, dated “Nollaig, 1952”. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

166. Taylor, Alice / Ní Choileáin, Orna / Taylor, Patrick / et al.

Be Inspired – Gems from Irish Publishing. Extracts from 30 Great Irish Books.

Dublin, Publishing Ireland, 2009. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 207 pages. Several black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

167. [The Rare Volume One] – O’Brien, Fitz-James.

The Diamond Lens [14 pages in: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume I – January, 1858 – No. III] – Here on Offer is a the original bound inaugural Volume I of “The Atlantic Monthly”, signed and inscribed, possibly by a distant family-member of Fitz-James O’Brien: “D.D.O’Brien, Mallow” – “Presented by D.D.O’Brien to L. O’Kelly”. A later, 19th century ownership-signature is: “John L. Williams”. The entire Volume includes the following numbers: Volume I – November 1857 – No.I. / Volume I – December 1857 – No. II. / Volume I – January 1858 – No. III. / Volume I – February 1858 – No. IV. / Volume I – March 1858 – No. V. / Volume I – April 1858 – No. VI //

Boston, The Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1858. Octavo. IV, 768 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Binding in poor but still good + condition with some stronger signs of wear, spine starting, mild foxing throughout and some faded damp-staining to the outer paper-margins inside only. Endpaper, Half-title and titlepage slightly detached. This is the very rare inaugural Atlantic Volume with a wonderful irish provenance, possibly even a relation to Fitz-James O’Brien.

168. Viney, Michael.

A Year’s Turning. Written and Illustrated by Michael Viney.

First Penguin edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1998. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. VIII, 232 pages. With numerous illustrations by the author. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to title page and his markings and annotations in the text.

169. Viney, Michael.

The Broken Marriage – A Study in Depth of a Growing Irish Social Problem. Reprinted from The Irish Times.

Dublin, The Irish Times, 1970. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 26 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers.

170. Wakeman, John.

A Sea Family. New and Selected Poems.

First edition. Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005. 14 cm x 21 cm. 56 pages. With 8 illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the poet’s dedication to Kruger and his wife Nell to title page. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. [Bradshaw Poets].

171. Wall, Mervyn.

The Complete Fursey – Two Novels: I. “Unfortunate Fursey” and II. “Return of Fursey”.

First Edition of the Sampler. Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1985. Octavo. 234 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some mild foxing only.

172. Watson, Sir William.

Ireland Unfreed – Poems and Verses written in the early months of 1921.

First Edition. London, The Bodley Head, 1921. Small Octavo. 46, [2] pages. Original Harcover (publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor damage to the halftitle.

173. Welch, Robert.(editor).

The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.

New York, The Oxford University Press, 1996. Octavo XXVII, 618 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

174. West, Anthony C.

The Ferret Fancier. A Novel.

Dublin/London/Old Greenwich, Conn., O’Brien press/Allison and Busby/Devin-Adair, 1983. 21 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Classic Irish fiction Bd. 5].

175. Wilde, Oscar.

Collection of Four Rare Presentation Review Copies of Publisher Methuen & Co., with publisher’s Ephemera (presentation-slip regarding the wish for Review and publication-date, as well as a booklet “The Library of Devotion”) / The collection includes: 1. Intentions (4th Edition, 1909) / 2. Lady Windermere’s Fan – A Play about a Good Woman (3rd Edition, 1909) / 3. An Ideal Husband (3rd Edition, 1909) / 4. The Importance of Being Earnest – A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (3rd Edition, 1909).

4 Volumes. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. Pagination: “Intentions”: 263 pages / “Lady Windermere’s Fan”: 157 pages / “An Ideal Husband”: 246 pages / “The Importance of Being Earnest”: 181 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear and mild staining to bindings only.

176. Wilde, Oscar.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3.3. [Oscar Wilde].

Later Edition of the First Edition [7th printing of June 1899]. London, Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8°. 31 pages. Original Hardcover (Quarter cloth with mustard boards). Unusually excellent condition of the binding but with some stronger signs of occasional foxing to the text and the edges (several pages are entirely without foxing) with only very minor signs of external wear. Bookplate of film-critic Leonie Graetz (Exlibris was made by the artist Hermann Westphal) to the front pastedown.

177. Wilde, Oscar.

The Duchess of Padua – A Play.

Second Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. VI, [3], 183 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

178. Williams, N. & Breen, Chr.

When Summer’s In The Meadow.

First edition. New York, Soho Press, 1989. 14 cm x 22 cm. 224 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

179. Williams, Niall.

Four letters of Love.

First edition. London, Macmillan Publishers, 1997. 14 cm x 22,5 cm. 342 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the author’s signature and his dedication to Kruger and his wife Nell on title page.

180. Yeats, W.B.

Collected Plays.

Second Edition, Second Reprint. London, Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1960 14 cm x 20 cm. 705 Pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

181. Yeats, W.B.

Drømmerier over barneår og ungdom. [First Danish Edition of “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”]. Oversat af Valdemar Rørdam.

København/Kristiania, Haase/Cammermeyer, 1924. Octavo. 180 pages. Original softcover / Publisher’s printed wrappers. The very fragile wrappers in unusually, very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of former owner William Borberg on titlepage. Rare !

182. Yeats, W.B.

The Collected Plays of W.B Yeats.

Third printing of the second edition. London, Macmillan, 1960. 14 cm x 20,5 cm. Frontispiece,705 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Previous owner’s name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings in the text.

183. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.

184. [Youghal] Williams, Alexander / Gwynn, Stephen.

Beautiful Ireland – Leinster / Ulster / Munster / Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams / Described by Stephen Gwynn. [With 48 colour illustrations (12 in each Province-section)].

First Edition. London / Dublin / Belfast, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, no year [c.1912]. Octavo (18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). Frontispiece, 64, 64, 64, 64 pages [Total of 256 pages]. Original, beautiful, clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher’s original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces.