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Sleeping Beauty & a Bear to Boot

•  Title woodcut vignette of a girl holding a bird in a cage out of reach of a cat, & a tail-piece. A version of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant". The story is followed by "The Moral" in verse and by the story of "Paddy and the Bear", pp. 21-24. Very scarce edition. We were unable to locate another copy. No. "52" at foot of title.

•  Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17581)

“Bravo, Old Cupid!” . . . I Think I'll Be a
Stockbroker, Myself.”

•  Gossamer, Bonus, Mortimer, and Delville attempt to hoax each other in various romantic schemes.

•  Fair; disbound from a nonce volume. Title-page stamped with shelving number; inked ownership inscription at top of dramatis personae listing with additional annotations reflecting cast changes. One leaf torn in half without loss; others with edge chips or tears.  (1832)

Dun Emer for theBusted Bibliophile

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•  Limited to 200 copies. Printed chielfly in black, but colophon, prelude, and Dun Emer Press device in red. 10 poems had appeared previously.

•  Miller 9. Publisher's quarter off-white linen with blue-green paper sides in the Kelmscott style. Ex-library with call number tag on front cover, library name blind-stamped into covers, perforation stamp of library in blank area of title-page and in blank area of lower margin of last leaf. Dust soiled binding; corners bumped; top of spine pulled . (2682)
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Hawkey's Sallust

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•  Uncommon first edition: Classical scholar John Hawkey's production of the Roman historian's accounts of the Catiline conspiracy and of the Jugurthine War, as well as fragments of his history of Rome from 78 to 67 b.c., and two brief pieces addressed to Caesar. The Hawkey classics — uniform, accurate, attractive renditions of Virgil, Horace, Terence, Juvenal and Persius, and Sallust — were a major project undertaken by Trinity College, a series which “far surpasses any similar [previous] conception in the city” (McDonnell & Healy, p. 29). Lowndes calls this “a neat and correct edition.” The title-page bears an engraved vignette; woodcut headpieces are present throughout.

OCLC and ESTC locate only six U.S. institutional holdings.

Binding:  Contemporary treed calf with covers framed in gilt single fillet, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label. The sunburst tool with floral center used on the spine resembles that used by the Hallhead and McKenzie binderies on Dublin College books, lacking the border. Marbled endpapers; green silk placemarker present.

Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of “M. M'Causland” (possibly Marcus McCausland [1787–1862]).

•  ESTC T132869; Schweiger, II, 822; McDonnell & Healy, Gold-Tooled Bindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin, 27–30 & 295–99; Lowndes 1607; Graesse, VI, 241; Dibdin, II, 109; Brunet, V, 87.   Binding as above, board edges lightly rubbed, leather lost at head of spine, small abrasion to front cover, some spine gilt chipped; still, quite nice. Inscription as above; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pp. 197/98 incorrectly paginated as 167/68.  (25949)

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1921. 8vo.
$50.00

•  The first English edition; preceded by the New York edition, which Shaw condemned for its numerous misprints.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges. Residue of sticky substance on back cover.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1922. 8vo.
$18.00

•  The second English edition, containing a considerable number of alterations.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. The doctor's dilemma, Getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. London: Constable, 1924. 8vo.
$15.00

•  First published in German in 1908, and in English in 1911. This claims to be the "Seventh Impression."

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A108 (for first edition in English). Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

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The Irish Bar — “The Catholic Question”

•  Early (and very uncommon) printing of these anecdotes of legal and political life in Ireland, written by an experienced lawyer and moderately successful playwright. The stories originally ran in The New Monthly magazine, and were first printed in book form in New York in 1854; they do not seem to have ever been printed collectively in Ireland. The Rt. Hon. Sheil, a prominent supporter of the Catholic emancipation movement, includes a great deal of information on political events connected to contemporary religious dissent.

Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with blind-stamped decorative devices between raised bands and with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges marbled.

•  Bound as above; fore-edges of the two inside, touching boards as the volumes stand on the shelf, bumped hard at centers (one can’t quite imagine how); otherwise, only very minor wear. Front free endpaper with inked inscription dated 1865. Nice on shelf and in hand.

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