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Heaney, Seamus. Triptych. Broadsheet, 3 verse poem. Produced and printed by the renowned Boston typographer Alex Green at Black Pages Books in Waltham in an edition of only 26 copies, 18 of which were commercially available. Handset on Rives BFK in Centaur and measuring 8″ x 18″. Previously unpublished and (assumed) the Nobel Laureate's last published work.
23rd November 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
26th October 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
28th September 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
7th September 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Carisle, Nicholas. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland; Exhibiting the Names of the Several Cities, Towns, Parishes and Villages, with the Barony, County, and Province, to Which They Respectively Belong . Collected from the Most Authentic Documents. London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street by William Savage, Bedford Bury.  1810. Very Rare
27th July 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
4 Civil War/1916 related photographs. Unique Items 8" X 6"
6th July 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
A Very Good Quality Swiss Antique Music Box. The musical movement features a drum and an array of 6 engraved bells struck by a selection of butterfly and flower strikers. All contained within an inlaid rosewood cabinet.
25th May 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
The Dublin Evening Post. Dated Tuesday November 6 1798. Issue Number 7538
27th April 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Yeats, W. B.. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at The Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-On-Avon, 1908. Limited 1000, 8-volume set. Original boards recovered in grey linen and vellum spines, identical to original including gilded titles and front bds, by Antiquarian Bookbinders, Dublin. Bright, bindings tight, all tissue guards and frontis. VG++ throughout
23rd March 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Thomas Kinsella. The Tain. translated by T. Kinsella. Dublin. Dolmen Press 1969. 1st edition. Limited edition. Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy. Original signatures of Kinsella and Le Brocquy (tipped in) on limitation page. Good pictorial dust jacket and fine original decorative slip case. Extremely rare signed first edition.
16th February 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
John McGahern The Barracks. Faber, 1963. First Edition Signed. Very Good + in cloth. Unclipped dj. Protective cover. Beautiful copy.
19th January 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Unique annotated and interleaved copy of Onomasticon Goedelicum. Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae. Index, identifications to Gaelic Names of Places and Tribes found in Irish MSS. And Printed Books by Edmund Hogan. Dublin. 1909. Interleaved, with inserts also, copious manuscript notes in Irish and English in contemporary hand. bound in 2 volumes by Galwey & Co,. Dublin. note in pencil ‘Edmund Hogan’s copy’. A wonderful and unique compilation with lengthy notes, corrections, manuscript maps etc on both the interleaved pages and on the margins of the book. Contains great deal of valuable supplementary information to original text, for example piece and map on Dubh Linn, which deserves serious scholarly research
15th December 2021 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
The Northern Muse – Claddagh Records. 1968. Record sleeve designed by Barrie Cooke. Poems read by Seamus Heaney & John Montague. One 12 in. 331/3 r.p.m. disc. Heaney’s first ever recorded readings of 10 poems from Death of a Naturalist and the “forthcoming work “. Six of Heaney’s poems on this record were not published until a year later in 1969 making this first reading extremely rare. of Door Into The Dark . Montague reads 11 of his poems on this record. The actual record is in excellent condition and may never have been played. An outstanding item for any serious Heaney collection.
17th November 2021 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Webb & Thompston Large ETS Staff Instrument Type B with Interlocking
20th October 2021 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
15th September 2021 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
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14th July 2021 from 10am
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16th June 2021 from 10am
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21st April 2021 from 10am
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