Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction of Irish & World Interest Books Which includes a Collection of Signed John B Keane Titles and Ephemera, Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions etc., 52125, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2025 - May 21, 2025
Page Size: 579 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
299 Jennifer Johnston

Shadows on our Skin

1977 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
300 Kevin Barry

There are little kingdoms,

2007 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
301 Henning Mankell,

basis for Wallander series; The White Lioness,

2003 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
302 Haruki Murakami -

1Q84. Books One, Two and Three. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.

EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
303 Kazuo Ishiguro

My Twentieth Century Evening and other small Breakthroughs, The Nobel Lecture,

2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
304 by Liz Nugent,

Female Authors: Our Little Cruelties

2020 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
305 J.K. Rowling -

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

London 1997 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
306 John O'Donohue --

Anam Cara Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World

1997 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
307 Tarry Flynn.

Kavanagh Patrick.:

London 1948 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 50.00
308 Richard Doyle.

Jack The Giant Killer.

1888 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
309 Walter Macken --

Two UK Editions in original jackets, Quench the Moon

1948 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 25.00
310

Old Ways Old Secrets-Pagan Ireland by Jo Kerrigan; Hidden City-Adventures and explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney; Derry Beyond the Walls, 1825-1850 by John Hume

EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 37.50
311 [ Shaw, George Bernard

Man And Superman. A Comedy And A Philosophy

Westminster 1903 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
312 by Anna Bunston

Mabel W McConnell's copy of MINGLED WINE

1909 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
313 Daniel Corkery -

THE HOUNDS OF BANBA.

1920 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 118.75
314 J.R.R. Tolkien -

The Hobbit or There and Back Again

1966 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 400.00
315 Victor Hugo.

Les Miserables.

Paris. 1862 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
316 J Milner,

An Inquiry into certain vulgar opinions concerning the Catholic inhabitants and antiquities of Ireland,

1808 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
317 Bishop Fleetwood,

Chronicon Preciosum or an account of English Gold and Silver Money, The Price of Corn and other commodities and of stipends, ...

1715 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 118.75
318 Homer

The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, illustrated by John Flaxman.

EUR 120.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
319 Brian O'Higgins -

SONGS of GLEN NA MONA,

Dublin 1929 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 112.50
320 P.G. Wodehouse -

Mulliner Nights

London 1933 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 200.00
321 Padric Gregory -

ULSTER SONGS AND BALLADS.

1920 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 68.75
322

World Interest Booklets/Pamphlets from early to mid 1900's

early to mid 1900's EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
323

Booklets/Pamphlets: The Labour Woman 10 issues from 1946/47;

1946/47 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
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    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
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