31. Higgins, Michael D.

Season of Fire. Poems by Michael D. Higgins ; with drawings by Mick Mulcahy.

Dingle, Brandon, 1993. 21cm. 90 pages. Illustrated. Original softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

32. Hutton, Mary A.

The Táin – An Irish Epic Told in English Verse by Mary A. Hutton.

Dublin, Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small Quarto (18 cm x 22 cm). XII, 495 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Top edge gilt. The Volume now in collector’s Mylar. Binding with some fraying and rubbing to spine. As usual, the text deckled edges with some foxing. Last page of the Appendix unopened with a small tear. A very rare and important book with all the History and insight into “The Táin”.

33. [John Minihan Collection] – [Beckett, Samuel] Doherty, Francis.

Samuel Beckett.

London, Hutchinson University Library, 1971. 8°. 156 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan. Includes an interesting newspaper-clipping on Beckett: “Celebrating Beckett”.

34. [John Minihan Collection] – [Heaney, Seamus] Minihan, John.

First Day Cover of the commemorative stamp for Seamus Heaney. Signed by irish photographer John Minihan, whose portrait of Heaney was used for the stamp. The first day cover is illustrated with a quote from Heaney’s “Bogland”: “We have no prairies – To slice a big sun at evening – Everywhere the eye concedes to – Encroaching horizon…”

Dublin, Anpost, 2014. 19 cm x 13 cm. 1 page. Original Softcover. Excellent condition. Signed and dated by John Minihan on August 28th, 2014.

35. [John Minihan Collection] – Hogan, Desmond.

The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea and Other Stories.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Internal pages fine. Manuscript letter from the author Desmond Hogan to irish photographer John Minihan loosely inserted.

36. [John Minihan Collection] – Hogan, Desmond.

The Leaves on Grey.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. 13 cm x 20 cm. 119 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Manuscript Postcard from author Desmond Hogan to irish photographer John Minihan loosely inserted.

37. [John Minihan Collection] – O’Connor, Ulick.

Executions.

First edition. Dingle, Brandon Books, 1992. 15 x 23 cm. 183 pages. Hardcover (Original cloth with dustjacket). Very good condition. From the collection of photographer John Minihan. Inscribed by Ulick O’Connor to John Minihan on the front free endpaper. Few clean markings inside.

38. Joyce, James.

Chamber Music.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1971. Octavo. 44 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. Perforation to first four pages. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

39. Joyce, James.

The Restored Finnegans Wake. Edited and with a Preface and Afterword by Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon. Note by Seamus Deane. Appendices by Hans Walter Gabler and David Greetham.

[London], Penguin Classics / Pearson, 2012. Octavo. X, 523 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

40. Joyce, James.

Ulysses. Vom Verfasser geprüfte, definitive Deutsche Ausgabe von Georg Goyert.

Zweite deutsche Ausgabe. Zürich, Rhein-Verlag, 1930. 8°. 632, 611 Seiten. Originale, schwarze Halblederbände auf 3 falschen Bünden mit vergoldetem Rückentitel und Stehkantenvergoldung. Außergewöhnlich guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Perfektes Geschenkexemplar.