Purcell Auctioneers: Irish & World Interest Books which includes Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories etc., 62525, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2025 - June 25, 2025
Page Size: 672 items in 27 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
188 Charles Dickens

Bleak House

London 1853 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 450.00
189 O'CURRY, EUGENE

On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish: A Series of Lectures

Dublin 1996 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 150.00
190 Welsh writer Aneirin Talfan Davies and others

(Welsh Language) Eight

1967 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
191 J. M. Barrie

The Little Minister

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
192 Edna O Brien

Edna O Brien: Books

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
192A McGahern (John)

Getting Through

(Faber 1978) EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 212.50
193 John McGahern

John McGahern: High Ground

1985 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 112.50
194

The Wrecker STEVENSON, Robert Louis & OSBOURNE

London 1892 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
195

A Presidential suite of books: Keating, Presidents of Ireland

1917 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
196

Fagan, The Diocese of Meath

2001 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 25.00
197 Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey: Sunset and Evening Star

1954 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
198 Samuel Beckett

A Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Dublin 1992 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
199 Flann O'Brien

Myles na gCopaleen Interest: Flann O'Brien

1987 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
200 O'Brien, Flann

The Dalkey Archive, MacGibbon and Kee

London 1964 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 175.00
201

At Swim Two Birds Flann O'Brien

London 1939 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,225.00
202 Flann O Brien

The Third Policeman

1967 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 500.00
203 O'Brien

The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About The Hard Life (An BA al Bocht)

1973 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
204 Flann O'Brien

Golden Hours

1999 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 81.25
205

The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor O'Brien

1961 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 87.50
206 Edmund O'Riordan

Famine in the Valley

1995 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
207

The Georgian Society Records of 18th Century Dublin - Architecture and Decorations

1969 EUR 100.00 - 130.00 EUR 100.00
208 Sweetman

The Medieval Castles of Ireland

1999 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 50.00
209 Joseph John Doke

M. K. Gandhi: An Indian Patriot in South Africa

London 1909 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 575.00
210 George Warburton

The Conquest of Canada

London 1849 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
211

Irish Fiction First editions

Talbot 1974 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
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