Cuala Press
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
£1,625
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, bookplate (W. F. Lyle, dated 1942), a few bumps to extremities, jacket in two parts;
Yeats, Jack Butler. Life in the West of Ireland. Dublin: Maunsel and Company Ltd., 1912. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 150, 4to, original blue cloth, dust jacket, 8 mounted colour plates , 16 tipped-in halftone plates, without the original sketch by Yeats, dust jacket sunned and chipped, auctioneers' ticket to front panel;
Idem, illustrator. Irishmen All, by George A. Birmingham. London: T. N. Foulis, 1913. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original green cloth, each with 12 tipped-in colour plates by Yeats, one spine sunned;
and 14 others, Irish interest, including Vincent O'Sullivan, Poems, 1896, first edition, original boards, spine defective; [Somerville and Ross], Through Connemara in a Governess Cart, 1893, first edition, original cloth; The Humours of Donnybrook, c.1820, broadsheet ballad with 4 hand-coloured woodcuts; James Joyce, Verbannte: Schauspiel in Drei Akten, Zürich, 1919 (original wrappers); 5 Cuala Press hand-coloured cards; Derek Mahon, Resistance Days, Gallery Press, 2001 (one of 175 copies, signed); and similar (18)