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Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction of Irish & World Interest Books Which includes a Collection of Signed John B Keane Titles and Ephemera, Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions etc., 52125, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2025 - May 21, 2025
Page Size: 579 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 John B Keane:

John B Keane: Portrait Photograph by Fergus Bourke,one of Ireland's most revered visionary photographers. SIGNED by both John B Keane and Fergus Bourke. Framed and Glazed.

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 350.00
201 John B Keane:

John B Keane: Portrait painting by Kerry artist Jack McKenna (with a certificate of originality)12" X 15.5" plus a copy image of John B Keane

 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
202 John B Keane:

John B Keane: Large Oil painting portrait of John B Keane by renowned Irish Artist Chris McMorrow, framed. 49.5" X 39.5"

 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 625.00
203 Frank 0'Connor.

A Lament for Art 0'Leary translated from the Irish by 0'Connor. With 6 coloured plates by Jack B. Yeats.

1971 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 150.00
204 W.B. Yeats.

On The Boiler.

 1939 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
205 W B Yeats:

The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth: Being Volume Two of Plays for an Irish Theatre By W.B. Yeats .

 London 1904 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
206 YEATS, W.B.

The Herne's Egg: A Stage Play

London 1938 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 50.00
207 W.B. Yeats.

Selected Poems Lyrical and Narrative.

 1929 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 81.25
208 W.B. Yeats.

W.B. Yeats. Poems.

 1927 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 118.75
209 by W. B. Yeats.

A Book of Irish Verse. Selected from Modern Writers with an introduction and notes

LONDON 1895 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
210 by W. B. Yeats.

The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth: Plays for an Irish Theatre

London 1904 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
211 W. B. Yeats.

The Hour-Glass. A Morality.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON 1907 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
212 W. B. Yeats.

The Land of Heart's Desire. Dublin Plays.

London 1916 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
213 Yeats, W. B.,

The Hour-Glass: A Morality.

 London 1907 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
214 W. B. Yeats.

Reveries over Childhood and Youth.

New York. 1916 EUR 140.00 - 160.00 EUR 125.00
215 Lady Gregory.

The Kiltartan History Book.

 1926 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 56.25
216 Lady Gregory.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book - Prose translated from the Irish.

 1919 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
217 Lady Gregory.

The Image and Other Plays.

 1922 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 50.00
218 Lady Gregory.

The Kiltartan Moliere, The Miser, The Doctor & The Rogueries of Scaptin translated by Lady Gregory. b.p. Dublin.

 1910 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 68.75
219 Lady Gregory.

The Kiltartan Wonder Book.

 EUR 150.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
220 Lord Dunsany

Unhappy-Far-Off Things.

 1919 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 87.50
221 Lord Dunsany.

Alexander and Three Small Plays.

 1925 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 125.00
222 Lord Dunsany.

The Old Folk of the Centuries.

 1930 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
223 Author: James Joyce

Finnegans Wake - Special Limited Edition in Leather Edited by Danis Rose & John O'Hanlon

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 275.00
224 Joyce, James; Rose, Danis; O'Hanlon, John

Finnegans Wake (Limited edition, slipcased)

 2010 EUR 75.00 - 125.00 EUR 150.00
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