Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of the Library of the Late Bruce Arnold (1936-2024). Part Two of the Bruce Arnold Library includes a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare, Signed & First Editions, 42325, Birr

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Auction Date
April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025
Page Size: 666 items in 27 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
511 Swift,

The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver...

1948 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 87.50
512 Leo Daly with an introduction by Bernard Share

James Joyce and The Mullingar Connection

1975 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
513 Stuart Gilbert (editor)

Letters of James Joyce, Three Volume Set James Joyce...

1966 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
514 Leo Daly

James Joyce and The Mullingar Connection

1975 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
515 Charlotte Brooke...

Reliques of Irish Poetry

2009 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
516 Maurice Healy.

The Old Munster Circuit

1939 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
517

The Cabinet of Irish Literature 1st Ed

1895 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
518 Patrick Kavanagh:

The Green Fool...

1971 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
519 Birmingham, George A.

Irishmen All Yeats

London & Edinburgh 1913 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 118.75
520

The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press

Dublin 1973 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
520A Elizabeth Bowen:

To The North, Victor Gollancz...

1932 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 112.50
520B

Dion Boucicault - The Irish Heiress: A Comedy

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 93.75
521 Cathal O'Byrne

From Far Green Hills to which is added The Legend of the Tree of Life

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
522

History of Ireland From The Earliest Times To The Present Day by The Rev E A D'Alton

1913 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
523 W B Yeats;

A wonderful collection of titles by or about this irish Legend such as Collected Plays of W B Yeats

1952 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
524

A Little Book of Drawings....

Dublin 1971 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 162.50
525 Synge, J.M.

Riders to the Sea...

Boston EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
526 Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory: The Journals Vol 1-2...

1987 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
527 W.B. Yeats.

On The Boiler

Dublin 1939 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 EUR 118.75
528 W.B. Yeats

The Shadowy Waters

1900 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 175.00
529 W B Yeats

Letters to W. B. Yeats...

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
530 W.B. Yeats

Sophocles' King Oedipus - A Version for the Modern Stage

1928 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
531 W B Yeats

The Collected Letters of W B Yeats

1986/1997/1994/2005 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
532 C. Bax. (Edited by)

Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, and W.B. Yeats

1941 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
533 W.B. Yeats

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats

1994-1997 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 68.75
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