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
575 Paul Durcan

Jesus, Break his Fall, Signed PB,

1980 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.05
576 Pat Tierney

Poetry: My First Wake by Pat Tierney SIGNED

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
577 John Montague

Irish Poetry: New Selected Poems

1989 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 73.80
578 John McKeown

Poetry: Looking Towards Inis Oirr

2004 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 86.10
579 Richard Murphy,

Poetry: Sailing To An Island

1963 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 55.35
580 edited by Gerald dawe,

Poetry: The Younger Irish Poets

1982 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 98.40
581 James H Cousins

James H Cousins: A collection of titles such as The Bell-Branch

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 246.00
582 Don Paterson,

Poetry: Orpheus

2006 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 73.80
583 Daniel Corkery,

Poetry: I Bhreasail A Book of Lyrics

1921 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 147.60
584 edited by Peter Kavanagh,

Poetry: Patrick Kavanagh Man and Poet

1987 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 49.20
585

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Not Available Not Sold
586 Thomas Kenneally,

Ireland and the Irish Now and in Time to Be,

1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.60
587 edited by William Laffan.

Painting Ireland. Topographical Views from Glin Castle

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 61.50
588

Robert Kee. Ireland -- A History.

1980 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
589 Henry Parry Liddon

Life Of Edward Bouverie Pusey by Henry Parry Liddon, 1993-97 Vol 1-4

1993-97 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 123.00
590

Industrial Ireland

1750-1930 An Archaeology. EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
591

Irish Interest: The Irish Country House- a Social History by Peter Somerville-Large,

1996 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
592

Dictionary of Irish Biography from earliest times to 2002 --

2009 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 369.00
593 Robert O'Driscoll,

The Celtic Consciousness -

1982 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.60
594 Small.

An Irish century 1845-1945 from Famine to World War II

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 49.20
595 Michael Coffey,

Coffee Table Books: The Irish In America edited

1997 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 30.75
596

Punch Magazines - 3 vols. for the years 1880, 81 & 82. Quarter calf.

1880, 81 & 82. EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.60
597 A.E. (George Russell)

Irish Literary Interest, -- Imaginations and Reveries. James Stephens -- The Adventures of Seumas Beg.

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 73.80
598 Liam O'Flaherty,

Irish Literature, All things come of age --

1977 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 73.80
599

The Irish Country House a Social History by Somerville-Large.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
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