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 Report
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
175A

Somerville Family Records: Records of The Somerville Family of Castlehaven & Drishane

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 162.50
176 Clarke, Austin.

Flight To Africa

1963 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
177 Clake, Austin.

The Flame: A Play in One Act

London EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
178 Clarke, Austin.

Limited Editions - Orphide And Other Poems, Bridge Press, One of 200

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
179 Austin Clarke.

The Singing-Men at Cashel

London 1936 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 200.00
180 Clarke, Austin.

Limited Editions - The Viscount Of Blarney and other plays

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
181 Clarke, Austin.

The Cattledrive In Connaught And Other Poems

London 1925 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 212.50
182 Clarke, Austin

The Sun Dances At Easter

London 1952 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
183 Clarke, Austin.

Pilgrimage And Other Poems

London 1929 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 200.00
184 Clarke, Austin.

The Fires Of Baal

1921 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
185 Clarke Austin.

Forget-Me-Not

Dublin 1962 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 162.50
186

Lady Gregory. The Story Brought by Brigit : A Passion Play in Three Acts

1921 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
187 Clarke, Austin.

Selected Poems; Collected Plays; The Son Of Learning; The Vengeance Of Fionn etc.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
188 Lord Dunsany.

The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

1908 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 250.00
189 Lord Dunsany.

The Donnellan Lectures

1943 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 100.00
190 Barker, Ernst, editor.

The Character Of England

1947 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
191 MacNeice, Louis.

Holes In The Sky, Poems 1944-1947

London 1948 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 400.00
192 MacNeice, Louis.

The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus

London 1936 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 400.00
193 MacNeice, Louis.

Blind Fireworks

London 1929 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 350.00
194 MacNeice, Louis.

The Last Ditch

1940 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 250.00
195 MacNeice, Louis.

A Memorial Address by W.H. Auden, delivered at All Souls, Langham Place on 17 October, 1963

1963 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 400.00
196 MacNeice, Louis.

SIGNED Original Photograph of MacNeice as a young man

1926 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 250.00
196A Louis MacNeice

A extensive collection of titles by or about Louis MacNiece

1926 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 1,625.00
197

Lady Gregory. Poets and Dreamers Studies and Translations from the Irish

Dublin 1903 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
197A

Graham Greene: An interesting collection of titles by or about Graham Greene

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
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