Purcell Auctioneers: wo Day Sale of the Library of the Late Tommy Smith (Grogan's Pub, Dublin) and Other Select Clients. To include Some Exceptional Items of Irish Literary, Poetic & Historical Interest. Day 2, 90425, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 04, 2025 - September 04, 2025

Page Size: 460 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
701	W Gamble.	Irish Lakes		c 1940	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
702	Brian Na Banban (Brian O' Higgins) .	Sentinel Songs		1915	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
703	Desmond Egan	(Three Desmond Egan signed Broadsides) Desmond Egan & Charles Cullen - Listening to John McCormack, John McCormack Centennial 1884	Newbridge.	1984	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
704	Derek Mahon:	The Man Who Built His City in The Snow SIGNED (in memoriam Wallace Stevens 1879 - 1955, broadside.			EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 37.50
705		Irish Poetry: A large collection of titles some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
706		Irish Poetry: A large collection of titles some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
707	Gibbon, Monk.	The Branch of Hawthorn Tree	London	1927	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
708		Irish Poetry: A collection of titles such as Clouchi Cleamhnais by Criostoir O Floinn SIGNED with a letter others may also be Signed (10)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
709	Thomas Kinsella	Thomas Kinsella: A collection of titles by this renowned Irish Poet (14)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
710		Poetry: Collection of titles such as The Way In by John McAuliffe.		2015	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
711		Poetry: Collection of titles such as A Dublin Documentary by Thomas Kinsella.		2010	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
712		Poetry: Collection of titles such as With Whom Did I Share The Crystal by John Jordan SIGNED , 58/160.		1980	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
713		THE GODODDIN: A VERSION BY DESMOND O'GRADY; Dolmen Editions XXVI O'Grady, Desmond (Ink Paintings by Louis Le Brocquy)	Dublin, Ireland	1977	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 50.00
714		Poetry: Collection of titles such as From There to Here by Ciaran Carson SIGNED.		2018	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
715		Poetry: Collection of titles such as Living Quarters		1992	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
716		Poetry/Literature: Collection of titles such as Ten Poems by James Simmons; Too Great A Vine by Austin Clarke			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
717	David J. O'Donoghue.	The Poets of Ireland. A Biographical Dictionary (1892-93)		1892-3	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
718	James Stephens,	Poetry: Kings and The Moon Poems		1938	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
719		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (20)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
720	Wellesley, Dorothy [Editor]; Yeats, William Butler [Editor]	A BROADSIDE. No. 8 (NEW SERIES) AUGUST 1937.		1937	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
721		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
722	Hayden Murphy	Hayden Murphy: Pigman, Homecomings and The Sin Eater			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 375.00
723		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
724		Irish Interest: Reincarnations by James Stephens		1918	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
725		Irish Interest: Castle Conquer by Padraic Colum		1923	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75

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