Purcell Auctioneers: wo Day Sale of the Library of the Late Tommy Smith (Grogan's Pub, Dublin) and Other Select Clients. To include Some Exceptional Items of Irish Literary, Poetic & Historical Interest. Day 1, 90325, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 03, 2025 - September 03, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 326 | The Emerald Wreath by The Author of the 'Boudoir Melodies, |
Dublin | 1852 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 327 | Hubert Butler | Irish Interest: Grand Mother and Wolfe Tone |
1990 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 328 | John O' Donohue | Irish Interest: Eternal Echoes- Exploring Our Hunger to Belong |
1998 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 329 | Irish Interest: A Servant of the Queen by Maud Gonne Macbride |
1974 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 62.50 | ||
| 330 | R F Foster | Irish Interest: The Irish Story |
2002 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 175.00 | |
| 331 | Brenda S Webster | Irish Interest: Yeats- A Psychoanalytic Study |
1974 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 332 | Richard English | Irish Interest: Irish Freedom- History of Nationalism in Ireland |
2006 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 333 | Flann O' Brien- | At Swim Two Birds, Longmans |
1939 | EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 11,000.00 | |
| 333A | O'Brien, Flann [Brian O'Nolan] | At Swim-Two-Birds |
New York | 1951 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 212.50 |
| 334 | R F Foster | Irish Interest: Luck & The Irish-A Brief History of Change 1970-2000 |
2007 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 335 | Elizabeth Keane | Irish Interest: Sean MacBride- A Life |
2007 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 43.75 | |
| 336 | John McGahern | Irish Interest: Memoir |
2005 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 337 | Coppard. A.E. and Robert Gibbings | Rummy that Noble Game expounded in prose, poetry, diagrams and engravings, with a certain account of diversions into the mountain fastnesses of Cork and Kerry |
Berkshire | 1932 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 37.50 |
| 338 | Patrick McCabe -- | The Butcher Boy. Limited edition |
2022 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold | |
| 339 | P Berresford Ellis | Irish Interest: A History of the Irish Working Class |
1972 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 340 | Pat Nevin | Irish Interest:Ireland Where Our Roots Go Deep |
1987 | EUR 50.00 - 81.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 341 | John McGahern | Irish Interest: Memoir |
2005 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 342 | Oscar Wilde. | The Happy Prince and Other Tales. |
1908 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 343 | Dora Sigerson Shorter. | The Tricolour - Poems of The Irish Revolution. 1922. Tales From Bective Bridge. 1943. |
EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 112.50 | ||
| 344 | Padraic Mc Intyre | Irish Interest: The Night Joe Dolan's Car broke Down |
2018 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 345 | Senan Moloney | Irish Interest: Lusitania- An Irish Tragedy |
2004 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 346 | Richard Doherty | Irish Interest: Irish Volunteers in the Second World war |
2002 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 347 | James Joyce. Stephen Hero. 1944. 1st and B. Breathnach. Folk Music and Dances of Ireland. 1971. |
EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 62.50 | |||
| 348 | J Anthony Gaughan | Irish Interest: Thomas Johnson |
1980 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 349 | O'CASEY, Sean | Irish Interest: Rose and Crown |
1952 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/52dd1cf6-f094-4432-955c-f3b20077eb95.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000")
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
