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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 186

COUGHLIN (JACK)
Thirteen Irish Writers. Portraits... on Ireland. Selections by Robin Skelton, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, Secker & Warburg, 1989 (2)

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COUGHLIN (JACK)

Thirteen Irish Writers. Portraits... on Ireland. Selections by Robin Skelton, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, 14 etched portraits (including Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, J.M. Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, Flann O'Brien and Brendan Behan), all numbered, signed and titled in pencil, loose as issued with text in individual wrappers for each writer, together with title and introduction in original morocco-backed solander box, 4to, Brookline, Massachusetts, David R. Godine, [1972]--WYLIE (DONOVAN) 32 Counties. Photographs of Ireland... with New Writing by Thirty-two Irish Writers, NUMBER IV OF 50 COPIES, from an edition limited to 150, signed by all the contributors (including Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, Brian Moore, Neil Jordan, John Banville and Eugene McCabe) and with an original unpublished photograph signed by Wylie in pocket at front, illustrations, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase, 4to, Secker & Warburg, 1989 (2)

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