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Auction Report
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
550 Don Paterson,

Poetry: Landing Light

2003 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
551 Rita Ann Higgins

Face Licker Come Home, one act play,

1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.60
552 Campbell, Joseph.

Earth of Cualann. With Twenty-one Designs by the Author

Dublin 1917 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 79.95
553

Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech Longes Mac n-Usnig

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 123.00
554 Brendan Kennelly

New and Selected Poems,

1976 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 36.90
555 Brendan Kennelly

Breathing Spaces,

1992 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
556 Brendan Kennelly and Brian Kelly-Illustrator,

Brendan Kennelly: Cromwell 141 of 150

1983 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.05
557 Brendan Kennelly

Five works by the late Brendan Kennelly: Familiar Strangers

2004 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 36.90
558 Derek Mahon

Night-Crossing, Signed PB,

1969 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 86.10
559 Paul Durcan,

Irish Poetry: Christmas Day

1996 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.05
560 Daniel Berrigan,

Tulips in the Prison Yard by

1992 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
561 Praeger, Rosamund

Old Fashioned Verses and Sketches.

Dundalk 1947 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 67.65
562 Donagh MacDonagh

Irish Interest: The Hungry Grass

1947 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 98.40
563 Longley, Michael.

BROKEN DISHES (SIGNED)

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 49.20
564 Michael Longley,

Poetry: Broken Dishes

1998 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 49.20
565 James Esse,

Irish Related: Hunger A Dublin Story

1918-The Candle Press EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 36.90
566

Medbh McGuckian

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 61.50
567

An extensive collection of poetry books from the library of Rudi Holzapfel Irish Poet

1938 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.05
568 Paula Meehan

Painting Rain,

2009 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 73.80
569 Paula Meehan

Dharmakaya,

2000 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 73.80
570 An Pilbin

Irish Interest: A Tale Of Thule Together with Some Poems

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 61.50
571 Michael D. Higgins. Mick Mulcahy

The Betrayal, with Drawings

1990 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 30.75
572 Dermot Healy,

Poetry: The Ballyconnell Colours

1992 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
573 W B Yeats

Poetry: Everyman's Poetry

2001 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 67.65
574 Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan's Diary

2003 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 49.20
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