L13408

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Lot 312
  • 312

Irish Writers--

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Collection of works by Yeats, Beckett O'Flaherty, LAG Strong, George Russell ("A.E.") and others (11 volumes):
  • Paper
Yeats, William Butler. An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writing of Giraldus and upon certain doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka. Werner Laurie, 1925, 4to, first edition, no.67 of 600 copies signed by the author, frontispiece portrait, 1 engraved plate,other illustrations in text, parchment-backed boards, bookplate of Oliver St John Gogartyspine slightly browned, spine label worn

Beckett, Samuel. Lessness. Calder & Boyers, 1970, 4to, first English edition, no.38 of 100 copies signed by the author, original vellum-backed cloth gilt, in original cloth slipcase, spine slightly browned



Joyce, James. Our exagmination round his factification for incamination of work in progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929, 8vo, with contributions by Samuel Beckett, John Rodker and William Carlos Williams among others, original wrappers, wrappers slightly worn



Flaherty, Liam. The Fairy Goose and two other stories. New York: Crosby Gaige; London: Faber & Gwyer, Ltd.,, 1927, 8vo, first edition, signed by the author, publisher's linen-backed boards decorated with a shamrock design, original dust-jacket, bookplate of William Vincent Sieller, slight spotting, dust-jacket worn



Stephens, James. Etched in Moonlight. New York: Macmillan, 1928, 4to, first edition, no.555 of 750 signed by the author, original linen-backed boards, paper spine label, in original slipcase, bookplate of William Vincent Sieller, slightly spotted, slipcase slightly soiled



A.E. [George W. Russell]. The Rural Community. An address to the American Commission of Agricultural Inquiry. Dublin,: The Rapid Printing Co., 1913, 8vo, inscribed by the author, pamphlet in original wrappers, in paper chemise



together with 4 other works relating to Irish writers and a 1943 reprint of T.S. Eliot's The Dry Salvages, 11 volumes in all

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