Purcell Auctioneers: Book Auction of c. 580 Lots to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from Three Private Libraries, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA etc, 51326, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 377 | Ernest Hemingway | THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA |
London, United Kingdom | 1952 | GBP 280.00 - 320.00 | GBP 300.00 |
| 378 | Standish O'Grady; Jack B. Yeats | Finn and his Companions |
c. 1895 | GBP 75.00 - 90.00 | GBP 93.75 | |
| 379 | Maeve Brennan; John Boyne; Elizabeth Bowen | N Books, including: The Springs of Affection- Stories of Dublin |
1997; 2000; 1982 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 380 | Seamas O’Cathain; Briody | Formation of a Folklorist. James Hamilton Delargy; The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970 |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 381 | Martin Amis | Success; London Fields |
London | 1978; 1989 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 |
| 382 | Patrick McCabe; Neil Jordan; Claire Keegan; Colm Toibin | 9 Books, including: The Dead School |
1995; 2010; 2009; 2024; 2025; 1990; 1996; 2022; 2024 | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | Not Sold | |
| 383 | John Le Carre | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
1974 | GBP 100.00 - 140.00 | GBP 112.50 | |
| 384 | Jonathan Swift; William Molyneux; Philips | A Dialogue in Hybernian Style & Irish Eloquence; The Case of Ireland Stated; St. Stephen’s Green or Generous Lovers |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 385 | Field Day Anthology Of Irish Writing |
1991-2003 | GBP 120.00 - 200.00 | GBP 187.50 | ||
| 386 | John Banville | 5 Books, including: Ghosts |
1993; 2001; 1989; 1997; 2022 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 387 | John Banville | The Party |
1966 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 388 | John Banville; John McGahern | 5 Books, including: Kepler |
1981; 2000; 1986; 1992; 2002 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 56.25 | |
| 389 | John Banville; Paul Joyce | Time Pieces |
2016 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 390 | Lord Byron | The Complete Works of Lord Byron |
Paris | 1837 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 391 | Thomas Ryan; Linehan; Edmund O’Donovan; Lord O’Brien; W. R. Le Fanu | 5 Books, including: Jesuits under Fire in Siege of Hong Kong 1941 |
Dublin | 944; 1952; 1893; 1916; 1910 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 93.75 |
| 392 | J.P. Donleavy | The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival And Manners |
London | 1975 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 162.50 |
| 393 | Maurice Harmon | The Dolmen Press: The Liliput Press |
2001 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 93.75 | |
| 394 | William Trevor; Colm Toibin; Kirstin Morrison; Dolores Mackenna | 11 Books, including: The Collected Stories |
1992; 1994; 2004; 1991; 1993; 1999; 2012; 1997; 1994; 2011; 1987 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 395 | Richard Ellmann; Marice Collis | 9 Books, including: Oscar Wilde |
1987; 1968 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 396 | Patrick McGill | The Red Horizon; Lanty Hanlon - A Comedy of Irish Life |
c. 1915 | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 397 | Shane Leslie | The Cantab; The Anglo-Catholic -A Sequel to "The Cantab" |
1926; 1929 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 398 | Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These |
London | 2021 | GBP 160.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 399 | John B Keane; Gus Smith; Des Hickey | The Contractors; The Real Keane a Biography |
1993; 1992 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 137.50 | |
| 400 | John B. Keane | The Bodhran Makers |
Dingle, Co Kerry | 1988 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 401 | Mong Gibbon; Tom Murphy; Hugo Hamilton | 9 Books, including: The Pupil : A Memory Of Love |
1981; 1994; 2003 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
