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  • Posts Tagged ‘Gabriel Garcia Marquez’

    SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS BY IRISH, BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS AT FONSIE MEALY

    Sunday, July 10th, 2016

    Irish authors are well represented at the sale of the Dr. Phillip Murray collection of modern first editions by Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin on July 12.   It includes about 2,200 American and British first editions, with about 75% either signed or inscribed. There are plenty of examples of signed first editions by writers like Kevin Barry, John Banville, Aidan Higgins, Neil Jordan, Colm Toibin and Desmond Hogan.  From Jaws to the Ballroom of Romance and A Clockwork Orange to Casino Royale the 580 lot auction promises something for all readers and collectors.

    Scarce First Edition & Limited Edition, Signed Garcia Marquez (Gabriel) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper & Row 1970) inscribed on dedication page "and for Philip / Gabriel" / 89".

    Scarce First Edition & Limited Edition, Signed Garcia Marquez (Gabriel) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper & Row 1970) inscribed on dedication page “and for Philip / Gabriel” / 89″.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

    Ian Fleming - Casino Royale First Edition, 1953.

    Ian Fleming – Casino Royale First Edition, 1953.  UPDATE: THIS WAS WITHDRAWN

    Wonderful Tennessee by Brian Friel

    Wonderful Tennessee by Brian Friel  UPDATE: THIS MADE 560 AT HAMMER

    Peter Benchley's Jaws

    Peter Benchley’s Jaws  UPDATE: THIS MADE 460 AT HAMMER