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

146 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 418 TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY. A Confederacy of Dunces Baton Rouge & London, Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition, fifth printing. pp. vii, [5], 338. Cloth, in repaired dust jacket. A major work of American literature, the novel depicts the satirical adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly as he saunters around New Orleans, looking for work and railing against modern culture. The book was written in the early 1960s, but wasn’t published until 1980, 11 years after Toole’s suicide, when the author’s mother took the manuscript to Walker Percy and essentially forced him to read it. “There was no getting out of it; only one hope remained-that I could read a few pages and that they would be bad enough for me, in good conscience, to read no farther. In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.” Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1981 € 200 - 300 419 ATLAS OF IRELAND Prepared under the direction of the Irish National Committee for Geography [Chairman: Joseph P. Haugh- ton]. 97 pages of coloured maps. Dublin, 1979. 104pp. Cloth. There are approximately 250 maps covering thirteen categories of subject-matter: general reference, ge- ology and geophysics, geomorphology and hydrology, soils, climate, flora and fauna, settlement, popula- tion, primary production, manufacturing, tertiary activities, society and culture, and the Irish landscape and its representation on topographical maps. Besides the thematic maps the atlas also includes a six-page general map of Ireland. Contains a one-page foreword by G. F. Mitchell, and a two-page introduction by Joseph F. Haughton. € 50 - 150 420 AUCTION CATALOGUE, of theValuable and Extensive Library and Collection of Autograph Letters of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cork and Orrery, removed from Marston, Frome.Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson &Woods ... on Tuesday, November 21, 1905 and Two following Days. [London], 1905 109 pp. [1]. Wrappers. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Contains many items relating to the family, along with autograph letters from Alexander Pope and Jona- than Swift. There were a total of 736 lots including some rare works on Ireland € 150 - 250 421 AUCTION CATALOGUE Of King’s Inn Library of Valuable Printed Books including a Fine Collection of Travel Books. The property of the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin (Sold by Order of the Benchers).Three day sale in April 1972. London, Sotheby, 1972. 116 pp. Wrappers. Loosely inserted is a printed list of prices realised and purchasers. Staples rusty. Good € 150 - 250