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JAMES JOYCE
Finnegans Wake. New York, Viking Press, 1939, 1st US edition, black
buckram, name erased from end paper, a little wear to spine. In a dust
wrapper probably from a later edition.
€400 - €600
335
KINSELLA [THOMAS] & LE BROCQUY [LOUIS]
The Tain, a unique translation largely from the 8th Century Irish
version, by Thomas Kinsella, published by the Dolmen Press in
September 1969, designed by Liam Miller with brush drawing
illustrations by Louis le Brocquy. Táin Bó Cuailnge is the longest and
most important of the Ulster cycle of heroic tales. Presented in its
original slipcase and signed by Thomas Kinsella on title page.
€500 - €800
336
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Cú na mBaskerville.
Dublin 1934 (Irish translation), d.w. (worn).
€180 - €220
337
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN RA RHA
Stories of Old Ireland and Myself, London 1924, first edition, 34 full
page plates. Sean McGarry’s copy with his signature on front end
paper.
Sean McGarry, an engineer by profession and a veteran IRB
member, was a close friend of both Tom Clarke and Michael Collins.
He was Clarke’s bodyguard in the GPO during the Rising; in the
reorganisation afterwards he became President of the IRB. It is
interesting that he appreciated Orpen’s wry humour.
€100 - €150
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