Purcell Auctioneers: c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. , 121025, Birr

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
250 Colm Toibin

Nora Webster

2014 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
251 Michael Hartnett, Desmond Egan

Choice Rogha

2023 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
252 Phil Lynott

Songs for While I'm Away

1974 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,000.00
253 Philip Lynott

Philip

1977 EUR 200.00 - 240.00 EUR 1,250.00
254 John Banville

The Singularities

2022 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
255 J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone

2016 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
256 Tom McCaughren

The Silent Sea

1987 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
257 Rosangela Barone

The Oak Tree and the Olive Tree. The True Dream of Eva Gore-Booth

-1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
258 John M Synge

In Wicklow and West Kerry

1912 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
259

Imelda May; A Lick and a Promise

2021 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
260 Brendan Behan

Hold Your Hour and Have Another

1983 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
261 Franklin W Dixon

The Hardy Boys, Hunting for Hidden Gold

1951 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
262

Irish Carnegie Libraries, A Catalogue & Architectural History

1998 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 150.00
263 Sebastian Barry

A Thousand Moons

2020 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
264

The Night Before Larry was Stretched

1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
265

Sally Rooney; Normal People

2018 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 237.50
266 Claire Keegan

Small Things like these

2024 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
267 Claire Keegan

Foster

2022 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
268 Nuala O'Faolain

Almost There -- An Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

2003 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
269 Herman Melville

Moby Dick

1930 EUR 130.00 - 160.00 EUR 187.50
270 Aleister CROWLEY, (ed. Jerry Kay)

The Book of the Law

Los Angeles 1970 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 150.00
271 Brian Moore

(Irish Author Ten First Editions, First Prints) Coldhaven

1983 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
272 Mike McCormack

ALL SIGNED. Solar Bones

2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
273 Bulmer Hobson

Ireland Yesterday and Tomorrow

1968 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 43.75
274 Maura Laverty

Never No More

1942 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
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