51. Craig, Maurice.

Poems – Selected and Edited by Andrew Carpenter. With an Introductory Essay by Lucy Collins.

Signed / Limited Edition No.4/50. Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011. Octavo. 73 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and a small paper-fault to endpaper/pastedown.

52. Colum, Padraic.

Poems.

First Edition. London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1932. Octavo. VIII, 222 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

53. 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.

54. 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.

55. 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.

56. [John Minihan Collection] – [Rosset, Barney / Minihan, John]

Remembering Samuel Beckett (Essay by Barney Rosset, juxtaposed to a printed photograph of Beckett by John Minihan, hugging Rosset in Paris on Beckett’s 80th birthday) – The page of this contribution inscribed and signed by Barney Rosset to irish photographer John Minihan: “To John Minihan – For the Pleasure of being with you for your photog. and your friendship – Barney Rosset 12/16/09”. In: Conjunctions: 53 – Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories, Bi- Annual Volumes of New Writing.

New York, Bard College, 2009. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 346 pages. Some black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by Barney Rosset to John Minihan (Excellent association).

57. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition in Hardcover, which we offer here, is the much better version.

58. Davis, Seamus.

Seamus Davis. Poems and Ballads.

Skibbereen, Bridgetown Publishing, 2003. 20.8cm x 14.6cm. 128 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

59. Heaney, Seamus.

Seeing Things [Signed by Seamus Heaney and with a Beautiful, lengthy Inscription]. With the printed Dedication “For Derek Mahon”.

Second Edition. London, faber and faber, 1991. Octavo. 113 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and beautifully inscribed: “To Christian Tischhauser – with admiration for your commitment to The West Cork Music Festival – Seamus Heaney – 26 June 1996”.

60. [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 !

61. [Heaney, Seamus / Flanagan, T.P.] Kennedy, S. B.

T.P. Flanagan, RHA, PPRUA. [Signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan] Foreword by Seamus Heaney / Catalogue by Martyn Anglesea / An appreciation by John Belmore with notes on selected pictures by T.P. Flanagan and J.K. Jamison. A special edition of this book is limited to one hundred signed copies of which seventy-five are offered for sale. This is one of the 25 copies which were not for sale. It is signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan on the front free endpaper and its provenance is an eminent irish art collection.

Dublin, Four Courts Press in association with the Ulster Museum, 1995. Folio (24 cm x 28 cm). 96 pages with many illustrations in colour and photographs. Softcover. Some staining to endpaper and edge, leading into the outer margins of some pages. Text and illustrations not affected. While the staining is not pretty, this is one of the rare occasions to acquire one of the scarcer signed items from Seamus Heaney (1 of 25 copies from an edition of only 100 signed copies).

62. McGahern, John.

That They May Face the Rising Sun. [SIGNED].

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.

63. Keane, John B.

The Change in Mame Fadden.

Cork / Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1973. 11 cm x 18 cm. 114 pages. Original softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some marks on cover. Clean inside with intact binding.

64. Griffin, Gerald.

The Collegians or The Colleen Bawn – A Tale of Garryowen.

London and Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no year (c.1890). Octavo. Frontispiece, VII, 369 pages. Original publisher’s cloth / Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Late 19th century edition of this irish classic. [The Evergreen Library]

65. Dunne, Sean [ed.].

The Cork Antology.

First edition. Cork, Cork University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. XIII, 434 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear.

66. [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.

67. 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.

68. [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.

69. 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 !

70. [Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Absolutely scarce and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

71. Irish Republican Association.

The Irish in South Africa 1920-1921.

First Edition. Cape Town, Die Nasionale Pers Beperk, [1921]. Octavo. 183 pages. Original Hardcover (green publisher’s cloth with dark lettering and ornament). Upper and lower spine slightly damaged. Binding slightly stained only. Rare !

72. [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.

73. 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.

74. Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne].

The Power of the Dog.

No.103 of a Limited Edition of only 516 copies. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no year [1929]. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispiece, 473 pages. Hardcover / Original quarter vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription on endpaper from 1929: “Eva M. Clarke from O.W.L. – Christmas 1929”. Donn Byrne was owner of Coolmain Castle (near Kilbrittain) until his death in a car accident in 1929.

75. Doan, James E.

The Romance of Cearbhall and Fearbhlaidh. A Medieval Irish Tale here the first time translated from the Irish (Gaeilge) into english by James E. Doan.

Mountrath, Ireland, Dolmen Press, 1985. 23 cm. 80 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Dolmen Texts ; 7].

76. Walsh, Maurice.

The Small Dark Man. [Beautifully Inscribed and Signed].

First American Edition. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. Octavo. 314 pages. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Binding rubbed but overall firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by Maurice Walsh with a segment from his book “The Widdy woman’s dangerous…as everybody knows” – 8 Lines of inscription, beautifully signed by Maurice Walsh in 1930.

77. Irish Book Bureau.

The Tri-Colour Song Book. [Including two pages with “Great 1916 Picture – showing the last stand of the heroes of Easter Week in the GPO just before evacuation with Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke and Joseph Plunkett].

Dublin, Irish Book Bureau, no year [c.1930]. Small Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Fragile with some minor damages only. Overall in good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

78. MacCarthy, Bridget G[erard].

The Whip Hand – A Comedy in Three Acts.

9th edition. Dublin, James Duffy, 1965. Small Octavo. 72 pages. Original Softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

79. 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.

80. 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.

81. 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.

82. [Davis, Thomas].

Thomas Davis: Essays and Poems with a Centenary Memoir 1845-1945. Foreword by An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera.

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1945. Octavo. Frontispiece, 240 pages. Original Hardcover. Some markings within the etxt. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and address of preowner on endpaper.

83. 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” .

84. Ashton, Robert / Michelburne, John.

Two Historical Plays: The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth / Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry.

Dublin, C.M. Warren, No date [c.1880] 9 cm x 14 cm. 144 pages. Softcover / Original, titled brochure. Good condition with signs of external wear. Damage to corners of front page. Spotting on page edges, front and rear page and several pages within. Otherwise clean inside and intact.

85. Haugaard, Myrna / Lalor, Brian.

Voices From Stones.

Dublin, The Academy Press, 1983. 17.3 cm x 24 cm. 68 pages. Many black and white illustrations by artist and author, Brian Lalor. Original Softcover with protective sleeve. As new condition with only very minor foxing to front and rear endpapers and half-title page. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik C. Haugaard.

86. [Yeats, W.B.] Coote, Stephen.

W.B. Yeats – A Life. [with an interesting collection of four (4) newspaper-clippings on W.B.Yeats].

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. 24cm. xii,612 pages. Many illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

87. Robinson, Mary.

Walsingham; or The Pupil of Nature, A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author of Angelina – Hubert de Sevrac – The Widow – Vancenza, &c. &c.&c.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce !