Purcell Auctioneers: Library of the Late T. J. Hurley, Tralee, Co. Kerry and other Private Clients. T. J. (Tim) Hurley was Closely Connected with Austin Stack, Constance Markievicz etc. , 120424, Birr

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Auction Date
December 04, 2024 - December 04, 2024
Page Size: 671 items in 27 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Sommerville & Ross. Illustrated E. OE. S.

The Smile And The Tear

London 1933 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
127 A. M. Sullivan.

Old Ireland. Reminiscences of an Irish K. C.

1928 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 106.25
128 Rev. W M Thomson,

The Land and the Book: or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy Land,

1883 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
129 Beresford Ellis; Fitzgerald.

Hell or Connaught. The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660; The Geraldines. Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601

1960 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
130 William Addington

Abridgement of Penal Statutes,

London 1795 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
131 Bernardi Gualtheri,

Disputationum Roberti Bellarmini,

Cologne 1619 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 37.50
132 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.

The Mountainey Singer

Dublin 1909 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
133 McGahern, John.

Collected Stories

1992 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 162.50
134 John Banville --

Eclipse

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
135 John Banville;

Ghosts, Signed first edition, first print, HB,

1993 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
136 John McGahern;

The Dark

1965 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
137 John Banville;

Birchwood

1973 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 350.00
138 John Banville;

Kepler

1981 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
139 John Banville;

Nightspawn

1971 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
140 John McGahern --

The Barracks

London 1963 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 50.00
141 John Banville --

The Book of Evidence.

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
142 McGahern, John

The Collected Stories of John Mcgahern

1992 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
143 McGahern, John.

Memoir. With quote in McGahern's hand on half title page.

2005 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 200.00
144 Seamus Heaney;

Door into the Dark

1969 EUR 450.00 - 600.00 EUR 525.00
145 Seamus Heaney;

District and Circle,

2006 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 187.50
146 Seamus Heaney;

North

1975 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 275.00
147 Seamus Heaney;

Aeneid, Book VI

2016 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
148 Heaney, Seamus:

Irish Poetry: Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures

1996 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
149 John Montague;

Drunken Sailor

2005 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
150 Peadar Mac Tomais,

Irish Poetry: Days and Destinies

1919 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
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