Adam's Works on Paper Art & Literature 12th March 2019

41 Works on Paper 12 th March 2019 88 EPHEMERA A very large collection of mainly Irish ephemera, 1970s-2018, including theatre/opera/ballet pro- grammes, art exhibition catalogues, calendars (in- cluding two with Harry Kernoff woodcuts), interna- tional rugby programmes, invitations of all sorts, recording almost 50 years of Irish cultural life in all its variety. As a collection, w.a.f., s.n.s.r. € 250 - 350 87 IRISH LITERATURE WORKS BY OSCAR WILDE, J.M. SYNGE, PATRICIA LYNCH, ROBERT COLLIS & OTHERS, in two boxes. Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lim. Editions Club, NY 1937, lithographs by Zhenya Gay, no. 691 of 1500 copies signed by the artist, full leather, slipcase; about 10 others by or about Wilde, some in paperback; Synge’s Two Plays, Four Plays, Poems, blue cloth gilt, Maunsel; five works by James Stephens; five by Patricia Lynch; three books by Robert Collis, including Marrowbone Lane, Runa Press 1943, limited and signed, FIRST; eight books by Ulick O’Connor; and about 50 others, including some paperbacks and periodicals. As a collection, w.a.f. € 100 - 150 89 IRISH LITERATURE, A LARGE COLLECTION including Liam Miller, Dolmen Bibliography 1951-1976, one of 50 copies signed and specially bound; works by John Banville (5 hardbacks in d.w., some first editions), Bri- an Moore (4), Colm Toibin, Edna O’Brien, John Montague (Collected Poems), Richard Murphy (Collected Poems), Michael Longley (A Hundred Doors, Cape 2011, lim. ed. signed, no. 25 of 75 copies, leatherbound, slipcase); Miser- ere, transl. Máire Mhac an tSaoi (ill. Roualt); Eagar, Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material; and a quantity of mostly 20th century poetry (mostly in box 13), including Ewart Milne, Monk Gibbon (Seventeen Sonnets, 1932, inscribed), Patrick Kavanagh, Austin Clarke, Brendan Kennelly, Thomas Kinsel- la, F.R. Higgins (Salt Air, lim. ed.); Aftermath of Easter Week (1917, wrappers torn, possibly signed by ‘Michael Scot’) : about 170 volumes in all, including paperbacks and some periodicals. Generally a clean lot. As a collection, w.a.f. € 350 - 550 86 CHARLES LEVER, A COLLECTION OF HIS WORKS including The Daltons, (2 vols); Roland Cashel, 2 (vols); Harry Lorrequer; Tom Burke, (2 vols); Charles O’Malley, (2 vols); The Dodd Family, (2 vols); The Knight of Gwynne, (2 vols); Jack Hinton, 1857; The O’Donoghue, 1858: (15 vols) uniformly bound in half leather, marbled boards, contrast- ing labels, spines profusely gilt, Chapman & Hall 1857-59, Browne illus., a few bindings slightly damaged; also Our Mess, Curry 1843-4, FIRST EDITION, recent binding; also Lever’s Life by Fitzpatrick, (2 vols) and a few other volumes by Lever, about 23 vols. in all. As a collection, w.a.f. € 100 - 150 85 IRISH LITERATURE OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY AND BEN KIELY. Gogarty, Many Lines to Thee [letters], Dolmen 1971, d.w.; Elbow Room [poems], New York 1942, FIRST, d.w.; I Follow St. Patrick, L. 1938, FIRST, d.w.; Oliver St. John Gogarty, a Biography by J.B. Lyons, inscribed to Eoin O’Brien; about ten other books by or about Gogarty, mostly paperback reprints; and ten books by or about Ben Kiely : about 23 in all, including some recent paperbacks. As a collection, w.a.f. € 100 - 150 90 BOOKS ON DUBLIN AND REGION Three boxes including books by Pritchett, MacThomais, Cowell, Frederick O’Dwyer, Herbert Kenny, James Col- lins, Harvey, de Breffny (Houses of Ireland), Liddy, Mike Bunn, Maurice Harmon, Desmond Guinness, Maurice Craig (Dublin 1660-1860, Cresset Press, FIRST in d.w.), Maurice Gorham, Peter Pearson, Kelleher, Eliz. Bowen, Denis Gwynn, Muriel McCarthy, Malton’s Dublin (Dolmen 1978), Picture of Dublin (Curry 1843), Maxwell, Derry O’Connell (Antique Pavement); Tom Corkery, De Courcy Ireland, Richard Hayward, Gilbert’s History of Dublin (3 vols, reprint, slipcase), Harrison (Memorable Dublin Houses 1909), Michael O’Brien, Pat Liddy, etc., mostly 20th century, mostly good copies with dust wrappers, some paperbacks and periodicals; about 120 volumes. As a collection, w.a.f. € 150 - 250 THE COLLECTION OF PROF. EOIN O’BRIEN.