 | David Hockney. LIVINGSTONE, Marco. David Hockney. London: Thames and Hudson, 1983. 4to. pp. 251. Illustrated throughout with 185 illustrations, 36 in colour. Original pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Signed by David Hockney on the half-title in his characteristic bold hand, dramatically striking through his printed name in blue ink and writing his signature beneath in […] €850.00 |
 | BEST, George. Blessed: The Autobiography. (Signed Limited Edition) London: Ebury Press, 2001. First edition, special limited edition, signed by George Best on the half-title. Royal 8vo. pp. 374. Bound in full black morocco leather, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A fine copy, housed in the publisher’s large presentation box, with the original folding illustrated biography and accompanying ephemera; the outer presentation […] €675.00 |
 | COLLINS, Michael. Typed Letter Signed in Irish (“Mícheál Ó Coileáin”) as Minister for Finance of Dáil Éireann, concerning the National Loan. Department of Finance, Mansion House, Dublin, 21 July 1920. One page, quarto, on official bilingual Dáil Éireann / Department of Finance letterhead, dated 21 July 1920, signed in ink “Mícheál Ó Coileáin” as Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance). Addressed to Mr J. P. Cooney, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Collins formally acknowledges receipt of £255 5s. sterling, requests the relevant application forms covering the subscription, and […] €5,750.00 |
 | COLUM, Padraic. Arthur Griffith (Inscribed by Mulcahy and Colum with letter from Richard Mulcahy) Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1959. First edition. Octavo. pp. xvi, 400. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed by the author. Presentation copy inscribed by Richard Mulcahy (Risteárd Ua Maolchatha) to Alice Lyons: “To Alice, 4.12.59, a hot cake, from the oven.” Loosely inserted is a two-page autograph letter signed from Mulcahy to “Dear Alice”, discussing […] €1,500.00 |
 | McCARTHY, Cormac. The Gardener’s Son (Signed Limited Edition) New Jersey: Published by Ecco Press, 1996. pp. 93. Limited edition 149 of 350. It is McCarthy’s first screenplay and his first historical work, predating his historical novel, Blood Meridian, by almost a decade. [WR] €950.00 |
 | Two Original Photographs of Richard Mulcahy, including one with Michael Collins at Arthur Griffith’s Funeral (Signed by Richard Mulcahy) Dublin, August 1922. Two original black-and-white photographs (each 7 × 10 cm), housed in the original brown leather presentation wallet with gilt decorative borders and Mylar windows. The funeral photograph signed by Richard Mulcahy in black ink at the lower margin. Fine condition. A rare photographic grouping centred on General Richard Mulcahy (1886–1971), one of […] €2,250.00 |
 | BEASLAI, Piaras. Michael Collins Soldier and Statesman (Inscribed by Richard Mulcahy) With portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. First edition. pp. xii, 430. Green cloth, titled in black. Signed presentation copy from Risteárd Ua Maolchatha to Alice, dated Nodlaig / 1937. A near fine copy. Presentation copy inscribed by General Richard Mulcahy (Risteárd Ua Maolchatha) to Alice, dated Nollaig (Christmas) 1937. One […] €975.00 |
 | LYNCH, David. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. (Signed First Edition) New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2006. Square octavo. pp. [x], 177. Publisher’s original blue boards titled in silver on upper cover and spine, with wraparound water-motif design. A fine copy. Boldly signed by David Lynch in blue ink on the half-title. This beautifully produced volume presents filmmaker David Lynch’s reflections on creativity, Transcendental […] €750.00 |
 | ALI, Muhammad. The Greatest. My Own Story (Inscribed by Muhammad Ali and acclaimed actor LeVar Burton) With Richard Durham. New York: Random House, 1975. First edition, first printing. Thick octavo. pp. [10], 416. Publisher’s black boards, upper cover and spine lettered in red, in the original unclipped dust jacket. A landmark sporting autobiography, published when Muhammad Ali stood not merely as the world’s most celebrated heavyweight champion, but as a global […] €750.00 |
 | BEST, George. Scoring at half-time: Adventures on and off the Pitch (SIGNED COPY) Published by Ebury Press, 2003. Illustrated. pp. 329. First edition. Slight mark on title-page as pictured, otherwise a very fine copy. Signed on title-page by George Best. Signed copies of Scoring at Half-Time by George Best hold special appeal for football fans and memorabilia collectors. Published in 2003, this autobiography captures the essence of the […] €275.00 |
 | BUSBY, Matt: Soccer at the Top: My life in Football [Signed by Matt Busby] London: Weidenfeld and Nicolas, 1973. pp. First edition. pp. 178. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by Sir Matt Busby on the title page. [WR] €435.00 |
 | MARTIN, George, R.R.: A Game of Thrones [Signed First Edition] Bantam Books, New York, 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by George R. R. Martin on the title page. A fine copy in the original dust jacket. A Game of Thrones is the landmark debut novel in George R. R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire series, first published in 1996. The […] €475.00 |
 | O’BRIEN, Edna. The Little Red Chairs. Signed Limited Edition London: Faber and Faber, 2015. First edition. pp. [viii], 299. Quarter red calf on navy paper boards, title on printed on spine. Limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by Edna O’Brien. A fine copy in slipcase. €350.00 |
 | DOYLE, Roddy. The Commitments. [THE TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY RODDY DOYLE] Dublin: King Farouk, 1987. Large post octavo. First edition, first impression. pp. [iv], 144. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by Roddy Doyle on half-title. A fine copy. Very scarce. The true first edition published by the author who couldn’t find a publisher. The Heinemann edition appeared a year later. This is the story of The Commitments, a band with […] €975.00 |
 | McGAHERN, John. Memoir. (Signed by the Author) London: Faber and Faber, 2005. pp. [viii] 272. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by John McGahern on titlepage. A very good copy in dust jacket. One of the greatest works by this supremely gifted writer, sadly no longer with us. This is certain to become one of the most sought-after of […] €175.00 |
 | BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland (Signed first edition by Tom Barry in rare dust-jacket) Dublin: Irish Press Limited, 1949. First edition. Octavo. pp. 228. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with sixteen photographic plates and two folding maps. A particularly desirable association copy, inscribed by Tom Barry on the front free endpaper: “Cork. 11.9.1954. On the occasion of the visit of […] €875.00 |
 | O’DWYER, Sir Michael. The History of the O’Dwyers. (Signed first edition from the author) Originally published as The O’Dwyers of Kilnamanagh. The History of an Irish Sept. Preface and biographical profile by Tom O’Dwyer. With illustrations and maps. London: Murray, 1933. First edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 360. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy, inscribed from the author. Scarce. Here is […] €385.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus. Selected Poems 1966–1987. (Signed limited edition) New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. Limited signed edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by Seamus Heaney on the limitation leaf, this being copy no. 46. 8vo. pp. [8], 273. Original publisher’s brown cloth, upper cover blocked in blind with Heaney’s monogram, black morocco-backed spine with gilt lettering, housed in the original black […] €950.00 |
 | HENDRICK, Charles. Autograph Receipted Trade Bill for Woollen Drapery. Dublin: Woollen Drapers at the Sun, in High Street, 5 July 1759 (receipted 29 May 1763). Printed engraved trade bill, completed in manuscript and bearing an attractive engraved trade device depicting the radiant sun, the emblem of the business. Addressed to Edmund Hogan Esq., the account details the purchase of 4¾ yards of drab cloth, […] €265.00 |
 | ROSS-LEWIN, R.S.S. Poems by a County Clare West Briton. Limerick: George McKern & Sons, 1907. Octavo. pp. 94. Green cloth boards, titled in black. Some toning, otherwise a very good copy. The Ven Richard Sargint Sadler Ross-Lewin (1848-1922) was an Irish Anglican priest and poet. He was Archdeacon of Limerick from 1919 to 1921. Originally from County Clare, Ross-Lewin attended school in Bristol, then […] €125.00 |
 | O’MEARA, Barry Edward. Autograph Letter Signed, with Quotation from Napoleon. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, small quarto, Montague Square, London, Monday, 3 March [c.1827], addressed to “My Dear Sir” (Mr. Roy of Great Alie Street, Bloomsbury). O’Meara discusses the placement of a passage in a forthcoming publication, advising that it should appear “either at the beginning or the ending of the observations.” He then transcribes […] €2,250.00 |
 | BECKETT, Samuel. Signed Photograph. Original black-and-white photographic portrait (90 v 145mm) of Samuel Beckett, boldly signed in blue ink across the lower white margin. A striking head-and-shoulders image of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, novelist and poet, whose sparse, existential works, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, transformed twentieth-century literature and theatre. Beckett was famously reserved […] €875.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus. Station Island (Signed first edition) New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. First American edition, first printing. 8vo. pp. 123. Original quarter green cloth over cream paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page: “Seamus Heaney, 26.xi.’87.” One of the Nobel Laureate’s most important collections, Station […] €450.00 |
 | The Cotton Club. Original Menu. Signed by Sally Gooding. Harlem, New York. c.1929–1937. Original illustrated folding menu from the legendary Cotton Club, Harlem, featuring an Art Deco cover depicting fashionable patrons beneath the club’s famous title and address, 142nd Street & Lenox Avenue. Signed in pencil on the front cover by the African-American jazz singer Sally Gooding, a featured performer at the club during the 1930s. Internally printed […] €850.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus: District and Circle. [SIGNED] London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition. Green paper boards. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Seamus Heaney was born near Castledawson, County Derry, and grew up on his father’s small farm. He was the eldest in a Catholic family of nine children. Heaney attended St. Columb’s College, […] €575.00 |
 | Muhammad Ali. Signed Photograph with The Beatles (Dual autograph Muhammad Ali A.K.A Cassius Clay) Large-format original black-and-white exhibition photograph depicting Muhammad Ali during a lively public training session, dramatically captured as the heavyweight champion towers over The Beatles lying playfully at his feet. Signed by Ali in bold blue felt-tip to the upper right. Measuring 762 × 508 mm (30 × 20 inches). Fine condition. The meeting between The […] €950.00 |
 | BEHAN, Brendan: Brendan Behan’s Island An Irish Sketch-book. With drawings by Paul Hogarth (Signed by Behan and Hogarth) Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition. pp. 192. Green and brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and illustrator on title page. First published in 1962, Brendan Behan’s Island is a vivid, humorous, and affectionate portrait of Ireland and its people, captured through […] €650.00 |
 | O’CASEY, Sean. Drums Under the Windows. (First edition, with ALS from O’Casey to Flann Campbell with Photograph) Frontispiece. London: Macmillan, 1945. First edition. Octavo. pp. [v], 340. Grey buckram, titled in gilt. Tipped on to front free endpaper is an autograph letter signed from Sean O’Casey to Flann Campbell. Loosely inserted is a fine photograph of O’Casey. A very good copy in price-clipped and frayed dust jacket. Ayling & Durkan A 24. […] €1,250.00 |
 | Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN, Seán. A Handbook of Irish Folklore (SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR) Introductory note by Séamus Ó Duilearga. Dublin: Folklore Society, 1942. First edition. pp. xxxi, 699. Green buckram, title in gilt on evenly faded spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Desmond, dated Xmas, 1942, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Rare signed copy. Ireland is one of the oldest kultur-lander in Europe, […] €485.00 |
 | RIVERS, Elizabeth (1903–1964). Woman with Harp. Original pencil drawing on paper. Original pencil study depicting a seated female harpist, executed with the fluid, economical line for which Elizabeth Rivers is admired. The composition captures both the quiet concentration of the musician and the graceful architecture of the Irish harp, demonstrating Rivers’ exceptional ability to suggest form and movement through remarkably few strokes. The restrained modernist handling […] €1,250.00 |
 | CARTY, Francis. Legion of the Rearguard. (Signed by the Author) London: J.M. Dent, 1936. Second edition. pp. [vii], 272. Blue cloth, title in black on spine. Signed by the author on front endpaper. A very good copy in rare frayed pictorial dust jacket. Rare. An historical novel set in Ireland during the Civil War that followed the signing of the Treaty. When the split came […] €275.00 |
 | MCDONAGH, John (ed.). A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets’ Anthology (signed and dated by Seamus Heaney) Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 305. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine, blue silk marker ribbon. Presentation copy, signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper: “Seamus Heaney / 6 April 2012. ”A fine copy. A particularly attractive anthology of contemporary Irish poetry in which twenty-two of […] €250.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster (Signed by Sir David Attenborough on the title-page) London: BBC Books, 2009. 8vo. pp. 416. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. Signed by Sir David Attenborough on the title-page. Sir David Attenborough’s celebrated autobiography, first published in 2002 and here extensively revised and updated to include his later broadcasting career, including the landmark […] €350.00 |
 | GORE-BOOTH, Eva. The Buried Life of Deirdre. With twelve illustrations (Limited to only 256 copies) London: Longmans, 1926. First edition. Quarto. pp. xi, 64, 12 (drawings). Quarter linen on grey papered boards, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 256 numbered copies. Minor wear to extremities. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Rare. JISC with 9 locations only. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), poet, dramatist, suffragist, […] €875.00 |
 | O’CASEY, Sean. Oak Leaves and Lavender or A World on Wallpaper. (Signed first edition) London: Macmillan, 1946. First edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 163. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper: “Inscribed to / Patricia & Richard Ahearne / by / Sean O’Casey / With all good wishes. / Devon, 1946.” A very good copy. A scarce presentation copy of O’Casey’s […] €350.00 |
 | O’BRIEN, Kate. Distinguished Villa. A play in three acts (Author’s first appearance in print) London: Benn Limited, 1926. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. 89. Printed yellow wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. JISC locates only 6 copies. Kate O’Brien was born in Limerick to a middle-class, Catholic family with a Cromwellian ancestor in 1897. She was educated at Laurel Hill Convent and later University College Dublin. In the […] €475.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus. Autograph Letter Signed to “Andy & Michele”. Dated 7 April 1998. Mentioning Beowulf, Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and James Joyce. Two pages quarto (300 x 210mm). Written in black ink on personal headed paper: 191 Strand Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. Signed “Seamus”. Folded as posted. Fine condition overall, with expected fold lines and light creasing from handling. A warm, highly personal and unpublished autograph letter by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, rich in literary and Dublin […] €3,500.00 |
 | YEATS, Jack B. The Market Group by Jack Butler Yeats, pencil sketch, depicting a group of five men gathered together, Approx. 13cms x 10cms (5” x 4”). Framed and glazed, with green mount in Hogarth type frame. This lively pencil sketch belongs to the world that Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) returned to throughout his career: markets, fairs, race meetings, and other gatherings where ordinary people became the principal actors in his art. Although modest in […] €1,450.00 |
 | LE BROCQUY, Louis. A Portfolio of Eight Irish Portraits in Words and Watercolour. EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES Dublin: Irish Hospice Foundation, 1990. Quarto. Half black linen binder’s folder, lettered in white. Edition limited to 1000 copies [This copy No. 82], signed by Louis Le Brocquy. A fine copy in matching slipcase. Very scarce. Published in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation, this attractive portfolio contains eight watercolour portraits by […] €1,450.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus. Beowulf. (Signed limited edition) London: Faber and Faber, 1999. pp. ix, 106. Quarter russet cloth on cream boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Green paper-covered slipcase. Edition limited to 325 copies only, O/S (Out of Series), signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in the original slipcase, the binding fresh and bright throughout, signed in […] €1,250.00 |
 | O’MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man’s Wound (Limited to 51 Copies Only. Extremely Rare Signed Limited Edition) Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles for Rich & Cowan, London, 1936. Demy octavo. First edition. Quarter vellum parchment on green buckram boards, titled in gilt. Special edition limited to 51 copies, signed and numbered by Ernie O’Malley [No. 48]. Vellum with usual mild staining. Top edge gilt, […] €1,850.00 |
 | DE VALERA, Éamon. Signed portrait photograph. A fine black-and-white half-length portrait photograph of Éamon de Valera, signed prominently in white ink across the lower right of the image, “Eamonn De Valera”. With the original government harp-stamped envelope, the photograph shows the Irish statesman in later life, wearing his characteristic round spectacles and dark suit, posed formally against a softly lit interior […] €450.00 |
 | EDWARD SULLIVAN The Book of Common Prayer (Bound and signed by one of the greatest binders who ever lived) Oxford: Printed at the University Press, [c. 1904]. pp. 294 leaves. 155 x 90 mm. (6 x 3 1/2”). [294]. A magnificent Edward Sullivan binding in hunter-green morocco, the covers richly gilt in a dense pointillé field with scrolling floral sprays, centred on a shaped onlaid panel of refined Persian inspiration. Gilt and Inlaid by […] €9,500.00 |
 | KEANE, Molly. Loving and Giving. (SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY) (Copy) London: André Deutsch, 1988. First edition. Octavo. pp. 232. Bound by Hunter & Foulis in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Edition limited to 100 copies for sale [this copy being No. 54]. Signed by the author. A fine copy in fine slipcase. A handsome limited edition of Molly Keane’s […] €275.00 |
 | GALLWEY, Hubert. The Wall Family in Ireland 1170 – 1970 With maps, coloured armorial frontispiece, numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. Kildare: Leinster Leader, 1970. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 317. Blue papered cloth, titled in gilt. Fine copy in frayed dust jacket. In this work the Wall family is traced from a fief in Normandy. One of the first knightly families to occupy Irish lands after […] €275.00 |
 | Bush, Kate. How To Be Invisible (Signed first edition) London: Faber & Faber, 2018. First edition, first printing, the number line ending in “1”. Square 8vo. pp. xxix, 192. Publisher’s original black cloth boards lettered in silver and bronze to upper cover and spine. A fine copy. An exceptional signed first edition of Kate Bush’s celebrated collection of lyrics, gathering together more than one […] €950.00 |
 | TERESA, Mother (Saint Teresa of Calcutta). Signed photographic portrait with peace quotation, San Francisco, 1985. San Francisco, 1985. Original black-and-white photographic portrait (image approx. 250 × 200 mm), mounted on card (overall approx. 300 × 260 mm), printed with Mother Teresa’s well-known peace quotation beneath the image. Signed in black ink below the text: “God bless you / Me Teresa MC”, and dated in print San Francisco, 1985. With a […] €750.00 |
 | BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN (Constitution of Ireland) with signature of Eamonn de Valera. Dublin: Stationery Office, [1978]. Crown octavo. pp. v, [1], 214. Original printed pale blue wrappers bearing the Irish harp to upper cover and priced “10p” to lower panel. With tipped-in autograph of Éamon de Valera, adding an appealing association with one of the principal architects of modern Ireland and the driving force behind the adoption […] €475.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. A Life on Our Planet. My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Signed first edition by Sir David Attenborourgh) London: Witness Books, 2020. First edition. Octavo. pp. [iv], 266. Original publisher’s pictorial dust jacket over decorated boards, titled in white on spine. Silk marker ribbon. A fine copy, warmly inscribed by Sir David Attenborough on the half-title: “Best wishes, David Attenborough.” The book was published to accompany Attenborough’s landmark documentary film and serves as […] €395.00 |
 | KINSELLA, Thomas & Louis Le BROCQUY. The Tain. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy, Translated and signed by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne Dublin: Dolmen, 1969. Imperial octavo. First edition. pp. vi, [2], 294, [2]. Black buckram with an illustration of a bull in white by Le Brocquy on upper cover, title in white on spine. Signed by Thomas Kinsella. Limited edition of 1750 of which 750 were for sale in the USA. A fine copy in near […] €1,850.00 |
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