Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

120 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 328 KAVANAGH, PATRICK The Great Hunger Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. One of 250 Copies printed. Original quarter line, dark navy paper boards, title label to spine. € 1,500 - 2,000 329 KINSELLA, THOMAS & LE BROCQUY, LOUIS. The Tain Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin, 1969. First edition. vi, [1], 300, [4], pp. Small folio. Black buckram, image of the bull by Le Brocquy in white on upper cover, title in white on spine. Limited to 1,750 copies of which 750 copies are for sale in the United States of America. In slip- case. The Táin Bó Cuailgne - the Cattle Drive of Cooley - is the central story in the great old-Irish saga-cycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the ‘battle of the bulls’. The distinguished poet Thomas Kinsella be- gan translating parts of the Tain while still a young man; short sections were published by Liam Miller’s Dolmen Press in 1954 and 1960. This, the original limited edition of 1,750 copies published in 1969 sold out within months. € 600 - 800