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Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000. -
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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
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Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
Purcell Auctioneers: Auction, Comprising a Portion of the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls (Historian and Irish Academic at UCC) From Templemartin, Co. Cork) and Other Clients, 100825, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 474 | Seamus Heaney | Sweeney Astray |
EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 75.00 | ||
| 475 | Seamus Heaney | District and Circle |
2006 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 275.00 | |
| 476 | Seamus Heaney | The Haw Lantern |
1987 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 100.00 | |
| 477 | Frank Ormsby, Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson | The Blackbird's Nest -An Anthology of Poetry from Queens University |
Belfast | 2006 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 478 | Seamus Heaney & Michael Longley | An Upstairs Outlook - An Evening of Poetry |
Belfast | 1989 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 375.00 |
| 479 | Seamus Heaney | From The Republic of Conscience |
1985 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 225.00 | |
| 480 | Seamus Heaney | [signed by photographer] Sweeney's Flight |
1992 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 93.75 | |
| 481 | Seamus Heaney | Station Island |
1984 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 112.50 | |
| 482 | Peter Kavanagh. (Editor) | The Complete Poems |
1990 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 483 | Sean McSweeney and Gerard Smyth | The Yellow River |
2017 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | EUR 75.00 | |
| 484 | Paula Meehan | The Man who was marked by Winter |
1991 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 485 | Michael Longley | The Slain Birds |
Cape | 2022 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 62.50 |
| 486 | Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach |
Cape | 2007 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 487 | Derek Mahon | Selected Poems |
1991 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 488 | Claire Keegan | Small Things like These |
2024 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 75.00 | |
| 489 | Brendan Kennelly | Breathing Spaces |
1992 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 93.75 | |
| 490 | Ciaran Carson | Breaking News |
2003 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 75.00 | |
| 491 | Derek Mahon | Flying Boats |
2014 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 125.00 | |
| 492 | Paul Durcan | Christmas Day |
1996 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 81.25 | |
| 493 | Irish Poetry: Collected Poems of John Montague |
1995 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 494 | W.B. Yeats | On The Boiler |
1939 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 100.00 | |
| 495 | Mary Costello | The River Capture |
2019 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 496 | Kevin Barry | Beatlebone |
2015 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 62.50 | |
| 497 | Sara Baume | A Line made by Walking |
2017 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 498 | Anna Burns | Milkman |
2018 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
