History Literature & Collectibles

Collection of items relating to the life of 'Gusty' Spence including Union of Post Office Workers membership card, Transport and Genera...

WW1 Soldier's Pay and Service Book of 5522 Driver William Edward Spence Royal Garrison Artillery, father of Gusty Spence. Royal Navy certif...

A collection of photographs taken in Long Kesh and kept by 'Gusty' Spence. A number of which are of the UVF commander himself. Includes...

15 by 15 in. Framed artwork with UVF crest and decorative inscription stating "To the UVF RHC Commanding Officer, Gusty Spence, 1966-1976, ...

14 by 14.5 in. An extremely attractive and decorative piece of prisoner art painted on glass. With the crest of the Royal Irish Rifles flanked by

14.5 by 14.5 in. Another piece of framed prisoner art on glass. With the badge of the Royal Irish Rifles flanked on four sides by the crests of Cy

35 by 50 in. Large flag made surreptitiously in Long Kesh by Spence with other prisoners and used at parades and other events. Designed in order t

4.25 by 6 in. Loyalist Christmas Card produced and printed by 'People's Democracy" with a depiction of Brian Faulkner as a Nazi and...

6.25 by 4 in. Card backed photograph of Spence taken in July 1972 after the wedding of his daughter Elizabeth for which he was granted two days pa

24 by 18 in. Acrylic on board portrait of Spence in uniform painted by self taught and well respected artist George Morrow. Signed lower right &...

4 by 6 in. Maze Prison visitors card issued to Merlyn Rees while serving as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at his address at Stormont all

7 by 5 in. An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir by Muiris Ó Droighneáin, 80pp, 2nd edition. With notation on title page "A....

Two Archdiocese of Armagh Christmas cards sent from Tomás Ó Fiaich to Gusty Spence. One with signed and with a note in the hand of &#...

4.25 by 6 in. Diocese of Armagh Christmas card signed and with manuscript note by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich relating to the fact that he...

12 by 8.5 in. An important piece of historical ephemera. The printed statement read by Spence in October 1994 at Fernhill House announcing the ces

Collection of items relating to the 1994 visit of Spence to the United States of America. Including 1985 British Passport joint passport of Spenc

12 by 8.25 in. Signed letter sent to Spence by John Major on Downing Street headed paper and marked "In confidence". Sent just ten day...

11 by 8.25 in. Signed letter sent by General de Chastelain to Spence, thanking his for a Christmas card and stating "let me wish you and yo...

16.5 by 12 in. Large single page sheet with Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom and "The Belfast Agreement: An Agreement Reached at th...

12 by 9 in. "The Millennium Calendar" designed and produced by Spence for the UVF and Red Hand Commando Old Comrades Association. Comp...

12 by 8.25 in. A unique and important manuscript speech in the hand of 'Gusty' Spence. 2pp written on the back of a letter sent to Spenc...

12 by 8.25 in. Single page letter sent to Gusty Spence and signed by Councillor Tom Hartley whilst Lord Mayor of Belfast. Thanking him for a badge

Three boxes of Irish interest books from the library of Spence. With many examples relating to Northern Ireland, politics, Republican and Unionis

Three boxes of mainly relating to international history and military history in particular. (100+)

A large number of Irish military interest items from the collection of 'Gusty' Spence. Including regimental wooden plaques, framed mili...

16 by 12 in. Two Volumes. Imperial Folio. The Codex bound in full vellum, volume two in quarter vellum boards. The codex contains the text of the

9 by 5.5 in. Full leather original boards, complete in 8 volumes.Printed for James Williams, Skinner Row. All volumes 1776 except volume 1 which i

7 by 4 in. Two volumes, brown half calf marbled boards.J. F. And C. Rivington, London. 17th edition. With many illustrative engravings.

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full blue crushed morocco, 92pp Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Ecologue; with Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. C. And J. Ollier,

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full blue crushed morocco, 222pp Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. C. and J. Ollier, London 1820.

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full calf with gilt titles, 415pp.Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, London 1824. The first book published after Shelley's d...

Half calf, marbled boards, Bradbury and Evans,, London:, 1848 624pp.First edition, early issue with mistakes present on p324 "Capatin"...

8.5 by 5.5 in. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879. Large format edition limited to 750 copies

A complete run of Boy's Own Annuals from 1879 to 1907, the British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys. Comprising of 29 volumes. S...

6.45 by 4 in. Full leather with raised bands on the spine and embossed title, 172pp.Kegan Paul Trench & Co, London 1881. An excellent example

10 by 8 in. Baillie, London 1905, decorated cloth boards, 196pp.Edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham Contains 'Two Songs (I) W...

12 by 10 in. S. Lewis & Co., London, 1837, cloth boards.Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, comprising the several counties, ci...

Including Art of Cookery, Gilbert, Dublin 1791, Ireland's Miseries, the grand cause and cure Mullan, Belfast, 1809, 304pp, Old Irish postag...

11 by 8.5 in. Virtue & Yorston, New York, undated, 2 vols, quarter leather with gilt titled front cover and spine.Picturesque Ireland, Picto...

Talbot Press, Dublin, original boards, 173pp.Irish Life & Landscape by J. Crampton Walker with excellent illustrations by Percy French, Har...

10 by 7 in. Full morocco, gilt titled, three volumes.How and Parsons., London. Vol 1 435pp, Vol 2 468pp and Vol 3 512pp. An extremely interesting

10 by 7 in. Half calf, three volumes.The undated 'new edition' published by Hall, Virtue and Co. London

10 by 8.5 in. Quarter leather, marbled boards, bound in two volumes, 649pp.Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natural

10 by 8.5 in. Quarter leather, marbled boards, 648pp.Another similar copy of Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natur

15 by 10.5 in. Quarter calf, embossed with gilt, marbled boards.First edition in two volumes, published by George Bell and Sons, London. An excell

9 by 7 in. A & C Black, London, 1904, 208pp.Red cloth with red rose design. Illustrated throughout with colour plates

The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, Friar's Bush Press, Belfast, 1992, 232pp. The Arts and Crafts movement in Dublin & Edinburgh, ...

9.5 by 6.5 in. Original boards, Hutchinson, London, 284ppTurning Points in History by The Earl of Birkenhead. Signed and dated by famous Irish por

12 by 9 in. Original boards, 664pp.Scarce with articles by Oscar Wilde (Editor), Constance Wilde and Lady Wilde. (Sperenza) Also with a three page

Collection of Yeats books including Responsibilities and other poems MacMilllan, London 1916, 188pp. Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose

6 by 4.5 in. Single page manuscript, framed.An excellent example of a handwritten letter by William Butler Yeats, sent from London in 1910, to Sir

8 by 6 in. Library of Robert Bosch (with his inkstamp on front free endpapers); McInerney (bookplates on upper pastedown); Araby Books, New York; The

7 by 5 in. New York: Princeton University Press for Crosby Gaige, 1928. Printed on light green paper watermarked 'Alexandra Japan Made in U....

10.25 by 6.5 in. Whyte's, 5 April 2008, lot 146; Whence purchased by the present owner John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A Bibliography of Ja...

11.5 by 7.5 in. Cathach Books, Dublin; Whyte's, 5 April 2008, lot 139; Whence purchased by the present owner John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon...

21 by 14 in. Cathach Books, Dublin; Whyte's, 5 April 2008, lot 126; Whence purchased by the present owner John J. Slocum and Hervert Cahoon, A...

7.5 by 5 in. Faber and Faber, London, 1932. Octavo; original pale green papered boards, original dust jacket.An excellent first edition example co

8.5 by 6.5 in. Bronzed plaster, signed with initials and dated on reverse; also inscribed on reverse "For Mike".On the day of James Jo...

3.25 by 3.25 in. No. 27 from an edition of 100.Memorial art work in the form of a medal. The obverse showing a portrait in relief of James Joyce,

10.75 by 8 in. Vol Number I, nos 1-3 [of 7]. Original printed wrappers, the 3 issues contained in a later cloth box, gilt morocco lettering-piece.

10 by 8 in. Original wrappers bound into half leather, marbled boards.The first six issues of the school magazine of Clongowes Wood College, which

3.25 by 5 in. Includes her own name and address and well as that of the addressee Cyril Corrigan, a classmate of James Joyce at UCD and an endurin

13 by 13 in. A nice selection of James Joyce interest vinyl recordings with some scarce examples. Including Finnegans Wake read by Patrick Bedford

The Magazine of the Students of University College Dublin. Flann O’Brien interest. Vol. I, No. 1 May 1931, to Vol XII, No 3 December 1935. Bound

19 by 14 in. Artist's proof, (no. 1 from an edition of 10)Portrait of the famous Irish novelist, playwright and satirist Brian O'Nolan (...

7.5 by 5.25 in. Printed dust jacket, Methuen London, 1957. 86pp.A good and scarce signed copy of this first edition. Inscribed bilingually in Iris

10 by 7 in. Original cloth boards with dust jacket, 192ppFirst edition of Brendan Behan's Island - An Irish Sketch-book by Brendan Behan wit...

6 by 4.5 in. Original boards, pp61The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1957. With dedication from and in the hand of Brendan Behan "Do Jacquie o Brean...

Oil on canvas laid on board. Portrait on Behan in a Borstal scene. See lot 374 for note on Pilkington.

Nonplus, numbers 1 to 4. Printed by the Dolmen Press Autumn 1959 to Winter 1960. Edited by Patricia Murphy, wife of poet Richard Murphy. With con

4 by 5.5 in. Single page, manuscript, framed.A scarce letter from the Irish author and playwright Samuel Beckett in French. Content states that Be

8 by 5.5 in. Faber and Faber, London, 2004. 56pp.First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. With black boards, gilt-titled spine and o

43 coloured engravings of botanical subjects from ‘Paxton’s Magazine of Botany’ including 8 double sheet examples.

10 by 6.5 in. Quarter leather, marbled boards, Groombridge London, 197pp.A historic work with excellent colour plates of species. A must for anyon

12 by 9 in. Quarter leather over blue cloth boards.Birds Of Great Britain And Ireland Order Passeres Complete In Two Volumes Brumby & Clarke...

Cloth boards with matching flower decorated slip case (no. 15 from an edition of 125)A scarce and sought after publication, beautifully illustrat

Original half morocco, with slip case, de Burca 1995.Introduced by E. Charles Nelson.. Limited edition of 150, this example out of series. Signed

12 by 8 in. Backed cloth boards, gilt spine, original slip case, Lilliput Press, 1993, 247pp.Signed hors commerce edition (no. 21 from an edition

21 by 14 in. Three quarter morocco with gilt and slip case.Ireland's Wild Orchids number 9 of an edition of 700 (subscribers 1 to 50)signed ...

17.25 by 12.45 in. “Grand Reception American Team” Attractively printed on a silk like material with fine embroidered boarder. The Queen's T...

An excellent collection relating to actor, director, and producer Sir John Gielgud one of the few entertainers to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy

A Day by the Sea by N.C. Hunter, English Theatre Guild, London 1954 pp. 77, with signatures of John Gielgud and Irene Worth. Separate Tables by T

An interesting collection of theatre programmes for plays, mostly from the 1950s, including Venice Preserv'd, Separate Tables, Much Ado abo...

Collection of four Dolmen Press designed and printed posters for St. James's Gate Musical Society productions at St. Francis Xavier's H...

An archive of radio Scripts, correspondence, clippings and reel to reel tapes compiled by Pat Billings in the 1970s during his work in RTÉ...

24 by 17 in. Poster for Self Aid held at the RDS in 1986, framed, and 6 programmes for the same event which included U2 and the last performance b

Pair of scarce and early Gaelic Athletic Association Championship Medals awarded in the first and second year of the Association's existenc...

1.25 by 1 in. Hallmarked gold medal awarded to Michael Curran of Young Irelands. Engraved "G.A.A. all Ireland Football Championship Won By ...

1.4 by 1.4 in. Hallmarked 9ct gold by Moore & Co. Grafton Street.An early GAA medal inscribed on the reserve "Football Challenge, 1894,...

1957-8 Leinster Colleges Senior Football Championship medal awarded to St. Joseph's Fairview. Also 1909 Inter Championship medal, 1934 meda...

1.5 by 1.5 in. Hallmarked 9ct gold.Dublin Senior Football Championship medal in the usual form for this period with hallmarks and makers marks to

1.5 by 1.5 in. Hallmarked silver.An attractive medal decorated with shamrocks, harp and football. Engraved and hallmarked on reverse.

Including National League, An t-Oireachtas, 'Tipperary v Rest of Ireland', Railway Cup Croke Park finals, camogie etc. (64 items)

Large selection of photographs by the Irish Press. Including Croke Park finals, Munster Senior Finals, Football League, Railway Cup, Congress etc

An unusual and interesting football medal with celtic motif design. Hallmarked Dublin silver and inscribed on reverse "D. Head I.R.A. Bene...

4.25 by 6.5 in. Collection of Manchester United autographs on a single page within an autograph book with many of the 'Busby Babes' incl...

25 by 17 in. Scarce Spanish colour poster printed in Valencia advertising the qualifying match between Spain and Ireland in December 1966.

Collection of 50 cards, letters and photographs signed by well known Manchester United players. Including Fabien Barthez, David Beckham,, Jesper

Early international green velvet rugby cap decorated with gold braid Shamrock, the year '1895', trim and tassel. A scarce item.

Leinster provincial rugby cap dated 1948-49 and Lansdowne F.C. "1st XV" cap dated 1952-3, both to Patrick Kelly from Wexford. (2 items)