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The History Sale 2015
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MARY PICKFORD [HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS]
A three page signed typescript, headed ‘Mary Pickford’s Folklore’, containing
a short piece about fighting neighbours and a longer story about the legendary
‘Pooka’, a magical flying horse, ‘told me by my darling grandmother, Catherine
Failey Hennessey, born in Tralee’.
Mary Pickford was an Oscar-winning actress, married to Douglas Fairbanks.
There is an illustration of ‘The Pooka’ by Jack Yeats in one of his ‘Broadsheet’
series.
From the collection of the New York-based writer Seumas MacManus.
€100 - €150
671
MAPS, A BOX
Perrier’s folding Motor Map of Ireland, in 20 panels, cloth-backed, in original
cloth case, pre-1920 (no partition), rare, with a good collection of Irish maps,
Bartholomew’s etc., from the MacManus family home in Mountcharles, about
20, mostly circa 1920-30.
€100-200
Lot 670