Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

104 Tuesday 24th April 224 YEATS, W.B. The CelticTwilight.Men andWomen, Dhouls and Faeries, with a frontispiece by John Butler Yeats, London, Bullen, 1893, first edition, first issue, with publisher in capitals on heel of spine, inscribed “ With the author’s best regards.Feb 19 . (18)94 . € 2,500 - 3,500 225 COLLINS, MICHAEL An Saorstát,The Free State. No. 28.Vol. I. Dublin,Wednesday,August 30, 1922, second edition, Michael Collins Memorial Number, broadside. 16 pp, profusely illus- trated, light crease mark at centre fold, the report of the shooting of Michael Collins, illustrated with many photographs, black-bordered titlepage with headline ‘ Michael Collins Memorial Number’. With contributions by Eoin MacNeill, Kevin O’Higgins, Seamus Ó hAodha,Alice Stopford Green,‘R. H.’, Piaras Beaslai, Margaret Gavan Duffy, Mary Frances McHugh, Ignatius Phayre, Diarmuid Fawcett and P. Brennan, there is a poem on titlepage by‘ O.G. ’ [Oliver St John Gogarty], and a poem on ‘ Bealnablatha ’ by Shane Leslie, also included is a full transcript of General Mulcahy’s Oration at the Grave- side.The cost of this issue in 1922 was two English pounds! € 200 - 300 226 IRISH BOOK LOVER A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography, edited by John S. Crone, volume II, Number 1, 1911 toVolume XXVI, Number 6, 1939, approximately 160 parts in 23 volumes, full and quarter leather, ex libris with cancellation stamps, London & Dublin: Salmond, Hanna and Neale,Three Candles. (23) The Irish Book Lover was a quarterly review of Irish literature and bibliography established by John Smyth Crone. It includes authoritative bibliographies relating to Irish printing and publication at home and abroad, studies, biographies, notes and queries, and obituaries of Irish writers, as well as comprehensive reviewing of contemporary works and some original poetry, all making it a key source for literary researches.The editorial policy, which showed a gentle partiality to Ulster, was non-militant nationalist and increasingly pro-Gaelic. Leading contributors included D.J. O’Donoghue, F.J. Bigger, Ernest R. McLintock Dix, Revd Stephen Brown, Seamus Ó Casaide (editor from 1924), and Colm O Lochlainn - who took over publication, and later editorship, at hisThree Candles Press in Dublin, 1929 € 550 - 650 227 IRISH CYCLIST & MOTOR CYCLIST Conducted by R.J. Mecredy & J.C. Percy. January 15 1918 - January 12 1921, 15 issues including the 1919 34th Birthday Number, with pictorial stapled wrappers, some edges frayed; together with a hand bill, Cork Motorist for theWar. Mr. Leon- ard Dobbin, who organised the Cork Corps of Motor Cyclists, with a list of those volunteers, published by Cork Examiner, September 22nd, 1914. (16) € 150 - 250