Purcell Auctioneers: c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. , 121025, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176

Heaney Seamus SIGNED District and Circle

2006 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
177 Heaney Seamus

SIGNED, The Haw Lantern

New York 1987 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
178 Heaney Seamus

District and Circle

2006 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
178A Heaney, Seamus & Hughes, Ted.

The School Bag

London 1997 EUR 250.00 - 450.00 Unknown
179 Seamus Heaney

The Tree Clock

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
180 Seamus Heaney

The Spirit Level

1996 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
181 Heaney (Seamus)

The Cure at Troy

1990 EUR 280.00 - 400.00 Unknown
182 Heaney (Seamus)

The Burial at Thebes

Lond. 2004 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 Unknown
183 Heaney, Seamus

The Spirit Level (Nobel Prize for Literature 1995)

London 1996 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
184 Heaney (Seamus)

Field Day Pamphlets

Derry 1983-88 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 Unknown
185 Heaney, Seamus

THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID

London 2004 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
186 Seamus Heaney

The Haw Lantern

1987 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 Unknown
187 Seamus Heaney

North

1975 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Unknown
188 Seamus Heaney

Open Ground

1998 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
189 Seamus Heaney

Diary of one who vanished

1999 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
190 Seamus Heaney

District and Circle

2006 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
191 Seamus Heaney

Human Chain

2010 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
192 Seamus Heaney

North

1975 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
193 Seamus Heaney

The Last Walk

2013 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Unknown
194 Heaney Seamus

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE: SELECTED PROSE 1978-1987

2006 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
195 Seamus Heaney

An Open Letter

1983 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
196 Seamus Heaney

Beowulf

1999 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
197 Heaney Seamus

Electric Light

2001 EUR 100.00 - 180.00 Unknown
198 John Montague

The Poet's Chair, The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry

2008 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Unknown
199 Michael Longley

20th Century Irish Poems

2002 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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