Purcell Auctioneers: A Private Library of Antiquarian Books, Fine Bindings, Rare Modern Literature/First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Posters, Postcards, Journals, Broadsides, Irish Language etc., 111324, Birr

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Auction Date
November 13, 2024 - November 13, 2024
Page Size: 651 items in 27 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
525 Peter Fallon/

Seamus Heaney Christmas card,

2006 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 295.20
526 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney: The Government of the Tongue,

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
527 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney. Human Chain.

2010 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
528 Brandes and Durcan.

Seamus Heaney. A Bibliography 1959-2003

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
529 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney: [Handbill]: The Harvest Bow [with Braided Stalks of Grain]

(Co. Armagh 2000 EUR 125.00 - 250.00 EUR 159.90
530 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney. The Burial at Thebes.

2004 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 55.35
531 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney. Human Chain.

2012 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 49.20
532 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney: Station Island,

1984 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 135.30
533 Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney: The Midnight Verdict,

1993 EUR 125.00 - 250.00 EUR 98.40
534 Brian Bourke

Poetry: The Midnight Court illustrated

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 98.40
535 Sean Brophy,

Works by Sean Brophy, some are the author's personal copies of his works - Girl Through My Window And Other Poems,

2004 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 67.65
536 Earth Of Cualann

With Twenty-One Designs by the Author Campbell, Joseph (MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh)

Dublin 1917 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 36.90
537

Poetry: The Fire Step by Tom French,

2009 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 49.20
538

Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
539 Nano Reid,

Irish Interest: I Send My Love Along The Boyne by Elizabeth Hickey with illustrations

1966 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
540

Anthony Kerrigan

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
541 Michael Hartnett:

Michael Hartnett: The Killing of Dreams,

1992 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 221.40
542 Carol Ann Duffy,

Poetry: Rapture

2005 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 49.20
543 Muldoon, Paul

Wayside Shrines

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
544

Poetry Journals: Metre- Metre was a magazine of poetry that ran from 1995 to 2005 11 issues

1995 to 2005 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
545 Maire Mhac an tSaoi.

The Miraculous Parish.

2011 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 98.40
546 Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland: In Her Own Image-Drawings by Constance Short,

1980, 1st Ed PB EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 123.00
547 Meabh McGuckian,

Poetry: Selected Poems

1997 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
548

Patrick Kavanagh

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 79.95
549 Linto Kwest Johnson,

Poetry: Tings and Times

1991 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
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