Lot 127
  • 127

Irish Writing.

Estimate
2,000 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Eight works:
Yeats, W.B. The Celtic Twilight. Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries. Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, first edition, frontispiece, original green ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt (variant with publisher's name in capital and lower-case letters)--Yeats, W.B., ed. Stories from Carleton. Walter Scott, [1899], first edition, original dark blue cloth with paper label on spine--Young, Ella. Celtic Wonder-Tales retold by Ella Young. Illustrated and Decorated by Maud Gonne. Maunsel & Company, 1910, first edition, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in white--Robert Gregory 1881-1918. A Centenrary Tribute with a foreword by his children. Edited by Colin Smythe. Gerrards Cross, 1981, original paper covers--Heaney, Seamus. Station Island. Faber, 1984, first edition, signed by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket; Sweeney Astray. Derry: Field Day, 1983, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket; North. Faber, 1975, first edition, paperback edition--Heaney, Seamus, ed. Threshold No.22, Belfast, Summer 1969, contributions from John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and others, original paper covers; 8vo (8)  

Condition

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