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O’NOLAN [BRIAN] (FLANN O’BRIAIN, MYLES NA
GCOPALEEN)
TLS to JB Kilfeather, 1962. From O’Nolan’s home at 21 Watersland
Road, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin to the writer and critic, JB Kilfeather,
at Seancoduff”, 140 Stockman’s Lane, Belfast. “I was very glad
to hear you liked THE HARD LIFE. I wrote it in two months dead
(-me dead).....an enormous sale here, and nearly all reviews
throughout Britain were favourable....a very RC monthly here named
HIBERNIA....was amused to see in it.........an extended notice of
the book, with frequent mention of Father Kurt Fahrt, S.J. It is
being published in the U.S. immediately. I note what you say about
other pieces of mine. I have several plans for the future but the
immediate one is a new book. It’s in my head intact and there is no
problem beyond getting it on paper; not difficult, but tedious. ......”
Signed in ink with the initials M. na G. (“Myles na gCopaleen) typed
underneath.
€400 - €600
807
‘BEST WISHES TO YOU’
SEAN O’CASEY Letters, ed. David Krause, 4 vols complete, Vol. 1,
1910-41; Vol. II, 1942-54; Vol. III, 1955-58; Vol. IV, 1959-64. Cassell
(London, v. I), Macmillan (New York, v. II) & Catholic University of
America Press (v. III-IV), 1975-1992. First or first UK editions, a very
good set in orig. cloth and dust wrappers. A massive and exemplary
work, essential for a detailed study of O’Casey’s life and work.
Each volume fully indexed, with introductions and chronologies,
over 3,000 pages and 2,445 letters. with Atkinson, Brooks (ed.).
The Sean O’Casey Reader. Plays, Autobiographies, Opinions. St.
Martin’s Press 1968, first edn., very good copy in d.w., signed and
inscribed on f.e.p. by O’Casey’s widow Eileen, March 1982, ‘Best
wishes to you’.
€100 - €150
Lot 806
Lot 807