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 2, 90425, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 04, 2025 - September 04, 2025

Page Size: 460 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
726		Irish Interest: Ancient Irish Poetry by Kuno Meyer		1911	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
727		The Dolmen Press: Riders to the Sea by J M Synge		1969	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
728		Ulster Songs and Ballads GREGORY, Padric	Dublin / London	1920	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 37.50
729		The Dolman Press: The Brazen Horn by Denis Johnston limited to 1050 copies		1976	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
730		Patrick & Peter Kavanagh: A Patrick Kavanagh Anthology edited by Eugene Robert Platt		1973	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
731	Richard Rowley Richard Rowley	Workers Poems	London	1923	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
732		Irish Interest: A Likely story by Mary Lavin		1967	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
733		Irish Poetry: Ballads in Prose by Nora Hopper.		1894	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
734		Irish Interest: Irish Eclogues by E Lysaght		1915	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
735		Mairin Mitchell - A Shuiler Sings- A Poery publication with poems concentrating mainly on the West of Ireland. Her Father was Sessional Crown Solicitor for King's County based in Parsonstow (Birr)n			EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
736	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 237.50
737	Michael Hartnett	An Seabhac, Padraig O'Shiochfhraidh (Padraig Shugrue, Seanfhocal na Mumhan. Specially translated by Michael Hatrnett for Mairtin O'Shiochfhraidh (Marty R Shugrue) Vice chairman of Pan American World Airways on the occasion of his address to the Eight Nat		1986	EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,000.00
738	Michael Hartnett	The Killing of Dreams,		1992	EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,312.50
739	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 425.00
740	Michael Hartnett	Culu Ide: The Retreat of Ita Cagney SIGNED	(Curragh), Ireland	1975	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 100.00
741	Michael Hartnett	The Naked Surgeon SIGNED HB, No DJ.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
742	Michael Hartnett	A Farewell To English. SIGNED in both Irish and English	Dublin:	1989	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 212.50
743	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 500.00
744	Michael Hartnett	The Killing of Dreams SIGNED Twice		1992	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 106.25
745	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 350.00
746	Michael Hartnett	Haicead SIGNED Twice, 1st Ed		1993	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 150.00
747	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
748	Michael Hartnett	A Farewell To English.SIGNED Twice	Dublin:	1975	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 125.00
749	Michael Hartnett	'The Naked Surgeon' Illustrated with Various Woodblock Prints Signed by the Poet			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 68.75
750	Michael Hartnett	A Necklace of Wrens SIGNED		1987	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 125.00

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