Purcell Auctioneers: c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc., 21925, Birr

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Auction Date
February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025
Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
175 John B Keane

Sive a play performed by Listowel Players with John B Keane playing Pats Bocock- A Mercier Press production Vinyl Record

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
176 John B Keane -

Self Portrait The Author of Sive and The Year of the Hiker, A Mercier Press Production- Vinyl Record

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
177 John B. Keane;

Letters to a Successful T.D.

1968 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 175.00
178 Signed John B. Keane.

John B. A Biography by Smith and Hickey and .. others

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
179 John B. Keane --

Big Maggie,

Cork, 1969 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
180 John B Keane:

Man of The Triple Name, 1984; The Gentle Art of Matchmaking plus 4 others; ALL 1st Ed PB

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
181 John B Keane:

Under The Sycamore Tree,SIGNED 1st Ed , 1997; The Ram of God SIGNED, 1992; Stories From A Kerry Fireside, SIGNED, 1980 (3)

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
182 John B Keane:

The Bodhran Makers: A High Meadow, 1994; More Irish Short Stories, 1987 plus 3 others (6)

EUR 40.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
183 Benedict Kiley --

A Cow in The House,

1978 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
184 John B Keane:

Christmas Tales, 1993; A High Meadow, 1994 plus 3 others (5) ALL 1st Ed PB

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
185 Teresa Deevy -

Three Plays: Katie Roche; The King of Spain's Daughter; The Wild Goose,

London. 1939, EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 125.00
186 John B Keane:

Dan Pheaidi Aindi, 1977; The Gentle Art of Matchmaking, 1973; Plus 3 others.

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
187 John B. Keane -

The Journal of Irish Literature, published 1972 containing the first appearance of his short story "The Change" this publication also did a feature on Listowel Writers.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
188

The Quare Fellow BEHAN, BRENDAN.

London 1956 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
189 1 Liam O'Flaherty

The House of Gold

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 237.50
190 Liam O'Flaherty,

Two Years

1930 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
191 Liam O'Flaherty.

A Cure for Unemployment (1931)

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 125.00
192 Edna O'Brien;

Country Girl, A Memoir

2012 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
193

Edna O'Brien signed letter from 1971, in answer to a correspondent asking her opinion to the greatness of Ernest Hemingway.

1971 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 237.50
194 Flann O Brien.

The Third Policeman

1967 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 93.75
195 Flann 0'Brien.

The Hard Life.

1973 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 68.75
196 William Trevor 1st Ed (American):

The Love Department Trevor, William

1967 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
197 William Trevor;

The Hill Bachelors,

2000 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
198 John McGahern,

The Collected Stories

1992 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
199 John McGahern;

Memoir

2005 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00