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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225 Alfred P. Graves, editor

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Poems of J.S.Le Fanu

1896 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
226 Susan L.M. Mitchell

Aids to the Immortality of Certain People in Ireland

1913 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 56.25
227 Dr. Peter Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh Country

1978 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
228 Austin Clarke

MNEMOSYNE LAY IN DUST

1966 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
229 Hayes (Maurice)ed.

The Flight Path

1996 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 100.00
230 Aidan Carl Mathews, editor

Immediate Man Cuimhni ar Chearbhall O Dalaigh

1983 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
231

Eavan Boland -- Limitations

New York 2000 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 118.75
232

The Whoseday Book in matching black Irish linen slipcase

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
233 John O'Donohue

Divine Beauty- The Invisible Embrace

2003 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
234 Eavan Boland

The War Horse

London 1975 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 162.50
235 Eavan Boland

Anna Liffey

1997 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
236

(Eavan Boland Related, Ten First Editions, First Prints) Object Lessons

1996 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
237

(Eavan Boland, 10 First Editions First Prints) New Collected Poems

2008 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 212.50
238

(Eavan Boland related, Ten First Editions) An Origin Like Water

1967 -- 1987 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 162.50
239 John McGahern

The Leavetaking

1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
240 John McGahern

The Leavetaking

1974 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 37.50
241 John Banville

The Ark

1996 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 375.00
242 Banville, John

The Sea

London, UK 2005 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 56.25
243 John Banville

Ghosts

1993 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
244 Edna O'Brien

The Country Girls

1960 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
245 Edna O'Brien

Girl

2019 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
246 Edna O Brien

Girls in Their Married Bliss

1964 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 187.50
247 Graham Greene

The Lawless Roads

1939 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 400.00
248 Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana

1958 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
249

George A Little - Malachi Horan Remembers

Dublin 1943 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 237.50
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