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  • RARE BOOK AND COLLECTORS SALE NOW ON VIEW IN CASTLECOMER

    First editions of His Dark Materials, the trilogy by Philip Pullman  UPDATE: THIS MADE 600

    Fonsie Mealy’s timed online rare book and collectors sale, which continues until March 1 at 10 am is brimful of interest.  The first English edition of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, one of only 750 copies published by The Egoist in 1916, leads the auction.  It is estimated at €1,500-€2,000.  The sale ranges from a complete set of 18th century Irish Georgian Society Records to signed album sleeves by Jimi Hendrix and Wings, a Brazil jersey signed by Pele, literature from Anthony Trollope to John McGahern to Seamus Heany to sporting and political memorabilia.  The catalogue is online. Viewing takes place in Castlecomer on February 27-28.

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