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AN IRISH FLORILEGIUM
Wendy Walsh & Charles Nelson
Wild and Garden Plates of Ireland. With 48 colour plates after
paintings by Walsh, each tipped in by hand. Introduction by
Ruth Isabel Ross. Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson.
Thames & Hudson 1983, large quarto brown cloth gilt in
laminated d.w., plate list loosely inserted, a fine copy of the
original edition. One of the most attractive books of its time,
scarce in this condition
€200 - €300
360
IRELAND’S PAINTERS 1600 - 1940,
signed by the authors; together with a miscellaneous
collection of Art and Architecture books (A box)
€30 - €50
361
HEANEY, SEAMUS
Eleven Poems, First edition, third issue, bearing the herald
and drum device which replaced the sun symbol on upper
wrapper, publisher’s green wrappers, 8vo, Belfast, Festival
Publications, 1965. There are variants of this issue, the
present copy has no printer’s details at the foot of the lower
wrapper and measures 195 x 122mm. No priority has been
determined between variants.
€100 - €150
362
BRENDAN BEHAN,
Brendan Behan’s Island, London 1962, inscribed by
author, fine in dust jacket; Moving Out and A Garden
Party, two plays, California, Proscenium Press, The
Short Play Series No.3, wrappers; Brendan Behan a
Memoir, Newark Proscenium Press, 1971, wrappers
(3)
€120 - €180
363
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
THERE’S A BIRDIE IN THE CAGE. London (Grayson
& Grayson) 1935, signed limited edition, this one
167/ 250 good copy in slightly discoloured dust
jacket.
€200 - €300
364
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
(JOHN WHELAN) Come Back to Erin, New York
(The Viking Press) 1940, signed on title and further
inscribed on the fly-leaf by O’Faolain “So long ago! -
almost forgotten, September 1982 Christmas 1941,”
bookplate of Joseph A. McDonagh, yellow linen over
boards, title blocked in colour, worn at extremities,
with inserted note from Jack Forsythe explaining the
circumstances of the inscription.
€150 - €200