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

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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
550 McDonnell and Healy

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century

 1987 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
551 M S Dudley Westropp

Irish Glass

 c 1920 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
552 Myrtle Allen, (Introduction by Len Deighton)

The Ballymaloe Cookbook

 Dublin 1977 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
553

Memoirs of Charley Crofts Containing Numerous Highly Entertaining Anecdotes

 1829 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
554

Ireland, Secret Societies: The Mysteries of Ireland, giving a graphic and faithful account of Irish Secret Societies and their Plots, from the Rebellion of 1798 to the year 1883

 [about 1883] EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 118.75
555 Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

 New York, USA 1900 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
556

The Modern Irish Drama: The Irish Literary Theatre 1899-1901

 1975-1984 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 100.00
557 James Stephens

Irish Fairy Tales

 London 1920 EUR 1,750.00 - 2,250.00 Not Sold
558 Shane Leslie

The Skull of Swift an Extempore Exhumation

 1928 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
559

(Wexford Intertest) Family Prayers for Every Morning and Evening, during a month

 London circa 1840 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
560 Ronan Bennett

Irish Interest:The Catastrophist

 1998 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
561 Frank Delaney

Irish Authors: Ireland- A Novel

 2004 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
562 edited by Richard J Finneran

Irish Interest: Letters of james Stephens

 1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
563 Noel P Wilkins

(Clare Interest) Humble Works for Humble People: A History of the Fishery Piers of County Galway and North Clare, 1800 -- 1922

 2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
564 Robert Hogan

Irish Interest: After The Irish Renaissance - a critical history of the Irish drama since " The Plough and the Stars"

 1968 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
565 Neal Garnham

Irish Interest: The Courts, Crime and the Criminal Law in Ireland, 1692-1760

 1996 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
566 Richard Dawkins

(Four Richard Dawkins First UK Editions, First Prints signed by the author via bookplates]

 1996 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
567 Robert Brennan

Allrgiance

 1950 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
568 Anne Enright

(Irish Writers Signed First Editions) The Wren The Wren

 2023 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
569 Muarice Bourgeois

Irish Interest: John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

 1913 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
570

Irish Interest: Programme and Menu for Garden Party at Aras an Uachtarain on June 2011

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
571 Dennis Gray

(Mountaineering Interest) Rope Boy

 1970 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
572 J Mitchell Morse

James Joyce Interest: The Sympathetic Alien- James Joyce and Catholicism

 1959 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
573 Marcus Bourke

Irish Interest: John O'Leary A Study in Irish Separatism

 1967 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
574 Mary Lavin

(Vintage Children's) The Second-Best Children in the world

 1972 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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