William Cowan Bookseller Irish First Editions Catalogue Sixty Three *** William Cowan, Bookseller *** Ards Cottage, Telephone: 01631 710 500 Connel, Mobile: 07977259288 Argyll, [email protected] Pa37 1pt, (or) [email protected] Scotland Conditions of sale: Payment is due on receipt. New customers will receive a pro-forma invoice. Galleries and libraries may arrange for deferred billing. Overseas customers are requested to remit in Sterling, if possible. Where payment in an overseas currency is unavoidable £20.00 will be added to the invoice to cover conversion charges. We also accept payment through PayPal. Any item may be returned should it not conform to the conditions described under each entry and a refund will be issued. Please phone first to arrange this. Please make cheques payable to ‘William Cowan’. Winter 2018/2019 1. [Anthology]. 20th – Century Irish Poems. London: Faber and Faber 2002. Selected by Michael Longley. Signed on the title page by the selector, Michael Longley. Also signed at their contributions by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Bernard O’Donoghue and Paul Muldoon. Fine in dj. £50.00 2. BANVILLE, John. Book of Evidence. Secker and Warburg 1989. Fine in price-clipped dj. £30.00 3. BANVILLE, John. Ghosts. London: Secker and Warburg 1993. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £60.00 4. BANVILLE, John. Athena. London: Secker and Warburg 1995. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £40.00 5. BANVILLE, John. Eclipse. London: The Bridgewater Press 2000. One of 100 numbered copies printed on Archival Parchment paper and bound in full maroon Ratchford Atlantic cloth, from a total edition of 138 copies signed by the author. Fine copy, as issued. £125.00 6. BANVILLE, John. God’s Gift. Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press 2000. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £75.00 7. BANVILLE, John. Shroud. Oxford: Joe McCann 2002. One of 65 copies bound in full cloth, from a total edition of 80 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in full cloth, with author and title printed on a paper label on spine and inlaid on the front board. Fine copy, as issued. £130.00 8. BANVILLE, John. Love in the Wars. Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press 2005. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £35.00 9. BANVILLE, John. Beckett’s Last Words. Oxford: Joe McCann 2006. One of 21 copies printed on Barcham Green Chester paper and numbered 13-33, copies 32 and 33 reserved for the author, from a total edition of 54 copies signed by the author of which 48 were for sale (There were also 12 copies bound in quarter goatskin, lettered in gilt and numbered I-XII, numbers IX and X being reserved for the author and 21 copies printed on Hahnemuhle Old Antique paper and numbered 34-54, copies 53 and 54 reserved for the author). Bound in full cloth. Fine in glassine dj, as issued. £475.00 10. BANVILLE, John. First Light. London: The Bridgewater Press 2006. One of 100 numbered copies bound in Ratchford Atlantic cloth, from a total edition of 138 copies signed by the author. Fine copy, as issued. £75.00 Note: Described as "the first chapter of a novel in progress" in the year after Banville won the Booker Prize with "The Sea", it emerged in 2009 as the first chapter of "The Infinities" 11. BANVILLE, John. Conversation in the Mountains. Oldcastle, County Meath 2008. One of a limited edition of 400 numbered copies signed by the author, 350 of which were for sale. Bound in linen covered boards. Fine in tissue dj, as issued. £130.00 12. BANVILLE, John. The Infinities. London: Picador 2009. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £25.00 13. BANVILLE, John. Thieving: An Apologia. Oxford & Forkhill: Four Candles Press 2015. One of a limited edition of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, and 10 Roman numeral copies reserved for the author and publisher. Laid in by the publisher, is an erratum headed “An Additional Apologia” elegantly stating: “The publisher is culpable of erroneously recording the entire edition, so the 26 now have Roman numerals, while the 10 are lettered”. Set in Van Dijck type, printed on Magnani paper and sewn into black plain wrappers. Designed and printed letterpress by John Grice at the Evergreen Press, Stroud. Fine in red printed card dj, with title set in Saxon Black. £275.00 Note: An extract from Banville's novel, The Blue Guitar. Published in advance of the novel. Although not stated Banville has also dated the colophon page below his signature. 14. BARRY, Kevin. There Are Little Kingdoms. Dublin: The Stinging Fly 2007. Author’s first novel. One of only 100 hardback copies issued, each numbered and signed by the author. Fine in dj. £425.00 Note: Winner of the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. 15. BARRY, Sebastian. The Water-Colourist. Mountrath, Portlaoise: The Dolmen Press 1983. Signed by the author. Paperback edition (a limited edition hardback was also published). Fine in integral dj. £60.00 16. BARRY, Sebastian. The Rhetorical Town. Mountrath, Portlaoise: The Dolmen Press 1985.Signed by the author. Paperback edition (a limited edition hardback was also published). Fine copy. £50.00 17. BARRY, Sebastian. Our Lady of Sligo. London: Methuen 1998. Paperback original. Fine copy. £20.00 18. BARRY, Sebastian. Annie Dunne. London: Faber and Faber 2002. Signed by the author. Paperback original. Fine in dj. £25.00 19. BARRY, Sebastian. The Pinkening Boy. Oxford: Joe McCann 2004. One of 20 copies numbered 1-XX bound in quarter soft pink goatskin with brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, from a total edition of 85 copies signed by the author. Fine in glassine dj. £175.00 20. BARRY, Sebastian. The Pinkening Boy. Oxford: Joe McCann 2004. One of 65 copies numbered 1-65, bound in full brown cloth, with printed label on spine and indented into upper board, from a total edition of 85 copies signed by the author. Fine in glassine dj. £95.00 21. BARRY, Sebastian. A Long Long Way. London: Faber and Faber 2005. Signed by the author. Paperback original. Fine in dj. £25.00 22. BARRY, Sebastian. Tales of Ballycumber. Oxford: Four Candles Press 2009. One of 40 copies bound in full cloth and numbered 1–40, from a total edition of 52 copies signed by the author. Endpapers printed letterpress by John Grice at the Evergreen Press, Stroud and reproduce the author’s original sketch for a stage set for the play. Printed on 150gsm archival paper from sustainable sources by Norrhend Creative Print Solutions. Hand-sewn and bound by the Fine Book Bindery. Bound in full cloth. Fine in glassine dj. £75.00 23. BARRY, Sebastian. A Tale with Two Joes in It. London: Bridgewater Press 2010. One of 26 copies lettered A– Z printed on Five Seasons paper and bound in quarter Ratchford Atlantic cloth and marbled paper boards, from a total edition of 138 copies. Bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, with author, title and publisher in gilt lettering on spine. Fine copy, as issued. £130.00 24. BARRY, Sebastian. A Tale with Two Joes in it. London: Bridgewater Press 2010. One of 100 copies numbered 1 – 100 printed on Five Seasons paper and bound in full Ratchford Atlantic cloth, from a total edition of 138 copies. Bound in full cloth, with author, title and publisher in gilt lettering on spine. Fine copy, as issued. £50.00 25. BARRY, Sebastian. The Temporary Gentleman. London: Enitharmon 2013. With an introduction by the author. One of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies numbered 1 to 100, with a further 25 copies hors commerce copies numbered i to xxv, Signed by the author. Typeset in Cycle and printed on 120gsm Munken Pure, cream paper. Designed by Libanus Press, Marlborough, and printed by CPI Anthony Rowe, Chippenham. Bound in red cloth boards with a photograph of Barry inlaid in the front board, and author, title and publisher lettered in gilt on spine; in a blue cloth slipcase with author, title and publisher printed on a paper label which has been inlaid on one side; both book and slipcase by The Fine Bindery, Northamptonshire. Fine in slipcase. £80.00 26. BARRY, Sebastian. Days Without End. London: Faber and Faber 2016. Signed by the author. Fine in dj. £50.00 27. BECKETT, Samuel (translator) APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. Zone. Dublin: The Dolmen Press/ London: Calder & Boyars 1972. Apollinaire's French text appears parallel with Beckett's translation. Fine in dj. £80.00 28. BECKETT, Samuel. Worstward Ho. London: John Calder 1983. Fine in dj. £95.00 29. BECKETT, Samuel. Hommage à Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Locus Solus 1988. First separate printing. Text in French. One of a total edition of 54 unnumbered copies. Original printed wrappers. Fine copy, as issued. £225.00 Note: A rare Beckett item. Eleven copies held on WORLDCAT: six in USA; five in UK and Ireland. First published in les Lettres nouvelles, 2. année, Avril 1954, no. 14. 30. BECKETT, Samuel. Selected Poems. London: John Calder 1999. This volume in the ‘Beckett Shorts’ series contains two late poems ‘Go where never before’ and ‘Brief Dreams’ not previously collected. Paperback original. Fine copy. £15.00 31. BOLGER, Dermot. Internal Exiles. Mountrath, Portlaoise: The Dolmen Press 1986. Signed by the author. Paperback edition (a limited edition hardback was also published). Fine copy. £25.00 32. BOLGER, Dermot. The Dublin Bloom. Galway: Kennys Bookshop 1995. An Original Free Adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. One of a total edition of 250 copies specially bound in cloth for customers of Kennys Bookshop and signed by Dermot Bolger [so stated on the front flap of dust jacket].