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The History Sale 2015
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SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
THE BORN GENIUS, Detroit (Schuman’s) 1936 signed, green
linen boards, paper labels, a very fine copy in a slip-case.
€100 - €200
376
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
[Jonathan Cape] A Nest of Simple Folk, London 1933 - Bird
Alone, New York (The Viking Press) 1936, fine copies in dust-
jackets, slightly bumped (2)
€100 - €200
377
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
MIDSUMMER NIGHT MADNESS London (Jonathan Cape)
1932, inscribed by the author “Signed for Jack Forsythe”,
Sean O’Faolain, January 1978” - A Purse of Coppers, London
(Jonathan Cape) 1937. Fine copies in dust-jackets (2)
€100 - €200
378
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
THE MAN WHO INVENTED SIN, New York (The Devin-Adair
Company) 1997, illu. Elizabeth Rivers, signed, also inscribed
to Anne from Sean February 1949 - Bird Alone, London
(Jonathan Cape) 1936, signed, also inscribed “A good title
- folksy? Joyce liked it he told me, signed for Jack Forsythe -
September 1982.”
€100 - €200
379
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING (play) London (Jonathan
Cape) 1938 - Teresa, London (Jonathan Cape) 1947 - Come
Back to Erin, London (Jonathan Cape) 1940 - I Remember! I
Remember! London (Rupert Hart-Davis) 1962. All fine copies
in dust-jackets (4)
€80 - €140
380
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN (1900-1991)
VIVE MOI! Boston (Little, Brown and Company) 1964 - A
Summer in Italy, London (Eyre & Spottiswoode) 1950, etc (5).
€50 - €100
381
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN 1900-1991)
COLLECTED SHORT-STORIES, anthologies etc., a parcel (9).
€50 - €100
382
PADRAIC COLUMN - A COLLECTION,
COMPRISING:
The Road Round Ireland, New York (The Macmillen Company)
1926 - the dust-jacket with design by Paul Henry - The King
of Irelands Son, London (Harrys) 1929, illus. after Pogany -
Old Pastures, New York, 1930, fine in dust-jacket, etc.
€150 - €300
383
CHARLES A. READ,
The Cabinet of Irish Literature with: WILLIAM ROSCOE, Life of
Lorenzo de Medici (2 Vols) 6th edition, London 1825, polished
calf with gilt lines, armorial insignia University of London on
covers, bookplate of Seán T. Céallaig.
€40 - €80
384
HERBERT SELBY JNR.,
Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York (1964) 5th printing, dust
jacket, signed by another; William Burroughs, The Naked
Lunch, London 1964, (1st English edition), dust jacket,
signature of another typed in; Morgan Llywelyn, Lion of
Ireland, London 1974, dust jacket
€30 - €50