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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402 | Robert Lloyd Praeger | The Way That I Went |
1937 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 403 | Patrick Kavanagh; Peter Kavanagh | By Night Unstarred. An Autobiographical Novel; The Green Fool |
1977; 1973 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 404 | Eilis Dillon; Anthony Cronin | Across the Bitter Sea : a novel; The Life of Riley |
1973; 1964 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 405 | Hugh Leonard; Anne Enright | N Books, including: Home Before Night |
1979; 1989; 1992; 2002; 2007 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 406 | Pat Mullen | Irish Tales |
London, United Kingdom | 1938 | GBP 100.00 - 140.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 407 | Lord Dunsany; William Rothenstein; Hugh Findlay | A Night at the Inn; The Year; Twenty-Four Portraits; Isle of Destiny |
1920; 1946; 1920; 1941 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 408 | John O’Donohue | Anam Cara |
1997 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 409 | William Trevor; Jamie O'Neill | Night at the Alexandra; Disturbance- A Novel |
1987; 1989 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 410 | George Moore; S K Hutton | Confessions of a Young Man; Celibate Lives; By Eskimo Dog-Sled and Kayak |
1933; 1927; 1919 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 411 | Roddy Doyle; Ciaran Carson | The Van; The Star Factory |
1991; 1997 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 412 | James Plunkett; Jamie O'Neill; John Peck | Strumpet City; At Swim, Two Boys; Dublin from Downing St. |
1969; 2001; 1978 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 413 | Paul Durcan | A School Geometry Parts I-IV; French Grammer; The Ideal Temperance Reciter |
1955 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 414 | Claire Keegan; Frederic Mullally | Walk The Blue Fields; The Silver Salver-The Story of the Guinness Family |
2007; 1981 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 415 | Flavius Josephus; William Whiston; Mrs L T Meade; J H Mortimer; John Forbes; William S Braithwaite | The Works of Flavius Josephus; A Sister of the Red Cross- A Tale of the South African War; Confessions of a Book agent or Twenty years by Statge and Rail; Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest; The Book of Elizabethan Verse |
1844; 1906; 1829; 1908 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 416 | Jacob Poole; William Barnes | A Glossary With Some Pieces Of Verse Of The Old Dialect Of The English Colony In The Forth And Bargy County Of Wexford Ireland Formerly Collected By Jacob Poole |
London | 1867 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 350.00 |
| 417 | T Ryle Dwyer; John Horgan; Alex Findlater | Short Fellow-a biography of Charles J Haughey; Sean Lemass- The Enigmatic Patriot; Findlater- The Story of a Dublin Merchant Family 1774-2001 |
1999; 1997; 2001 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 418 | Peter Stanford; T Ryle Dwyer; Kazuo Ishiguro | Lord Longford- an authorised life; Nice Fellow-a biography of Jack Lynch; The Remains of the Day; The Unconsoled |
1994; 2001; 1989; 1995 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 419 | Lady Gregory; Lennox Robinson | Lady Gregory's Journal |
1946 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | GBP 225.00 | |
| 420 | Brendan Kennelly | The Florentines |
1967 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 | |
| 421 | Evelyn Waugh; Graham Greene | Officers and Gentlemen; The Honorary Consul; A Burnt Out Case |
1955; 1973; 1961 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 56.25 | |
| 422 | Maxine Jones; Robert Munter | Successful Irish Business Women; A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775 |
1992; 1988 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 423 | Brian Moore; Mary O'Rouke | Lies of Silence; Letters of my Life |
1990; 2016 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 424 | W.B. Yeats | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil |
New York | 1927 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 425 | W B Yeats | The Wild Swans at Coole |
London | 1919 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 412.50 |
| 426 | William Butler Yeats | Selected Poems |
New York | N/A | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | GBP 312.50 |
