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(CUALA PRESS). MACDONAGH, DONAGH. Veterans and other Poems. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$48.04 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited to 270 numbered copies. Partial removal of small label from the front pastedown endpaper else a very good copy in cloth-backed paper boards, with spine title label.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
MacDonagh, Donagh. Veterans and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1941. MacDonagh (1912-1968) was an Irish barrister and judge whose father was executed by the British for his part in the Easter Uprising of 1916. This is a Near Fine copy of his second published book which was LIMITED to 270 copies. Blue paper-covered boards and a linen spine with a paper label. Clean text; 33 pages, with some unopened. There is possible evidence of a small label removal in the upper corner of the FFEP; else a Fine copy. Lacking the glassine dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
MacDonagh, Donagh.:. Veterans And Other Poems.. The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941., 1941.
Price: US$179.32 + shipping
Description: viii + 35pp. Pages unopened. Limited to 270 copies. Cloth backed boards with paper label on spine. Corner of lower edge very slightly scuffed. Frayed glassine d/w with number neatly penned to front. 21x15cms.
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$241.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages, 35. LIMITED EDITION number 107 of 270 copies. Set in Caslon type, and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill on paper maed in Ireland and published by the Cuala Press, 133 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Finished in the second week of April, nineteen hundred and forty one.SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. The inscription on title page reads: "Inscribed for Jack Hanlon Donagh MacDonagh May 1941". Presented by the author to the artist Father Jack Hanlon. Partially uncut at top edge of endpapers and title page. Rare. Donagh MacDonagh (1912-1968) was an Irish writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright. He was born in Dublin. He was still a young child when his father Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish nationalist and poet, was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother died of a heart attack a year afterwards while swimming at Skerries to Lambay, County Dublin in July 1917. The two children were then taken care of by their maternal aunts, in particular Catherine Wilson. His parents' families then engaged in a series of custody lawsuits, as the MacDonaghs were Roman Catholic and the Giffords were Protestant; in the climate of Ne Temere, the MacDonaghs were successful. He and his sister Barbara (who later married actor Liam Redmond) lived briefly with their paternal aunt Eleanor Bingham, County Clare before being put into the custody of strangers until their late teens, when they were taken in by Jack MacDonagh. He was married twice, to Maura Smyth and, following her death after she drowned in a bath whilst having an epileptic seizure, to her sister, Nuala Smyth. He had four children, Iseult & Breifne by Maura and Niall & Barbara by Nuala. He died on 1 January 1968 and is buried at Deans Grange Cemetery. MacDonagh was educated at Belvedere College and University College Dublin (UCD) with contemporaries Cyril Cusack, Denis Devlin, Charlie Donnelly, Brian O'Nolan, Niall Sheridan and Mervyn Wall. In 1935 he was called to the Bar and practised on the Western Circuit. In 1941 he was appointed a District Justice in County Mayo. He was Justice for the Dublin Metropolitan Courts at the time of his death He published three volumes of poetry: "Veterans and Other Poems" (1941), The Hungry Grass (1947) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968). He also edited the Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1958) with Lennox Robinson. He also wrote poetic dramas and ballad operas. One play, Happy As Larry, was translated into a number of languages. He had three other plays produced: God's Gentry (1951, a ballad opera about the tinkers), Lady Spider (1959, about Deirdre of the Sorrows and the Three sons of Ussna and by far his best writing) and Step in the Hollow a piece of situation comedy nonsense. He also wrote short stories; published Twenty Poems with Niall Sheridan; staged the first Irish production of ‘’Murder in the Cathedral’’ with Liam Redmond, later his brother-in-law; and was a popular broadcaster on Radio Éireann.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Price: US$268.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages, 35. LIMITED EDITION number No.6 of 270 copies. Set in Caslon type, and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill on paper maed in Ireland and published by the Cuala Press, 133 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Author's inscription at top left hand corner of front free endpaper in his own hand reads: Author's copy April 1941. The Book was published by the Cuala Press in Dublin and finished in the second week of April 1941. An attractive Association copy. Donagh MacDonagh (1912-1968) was an Irish writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright. He was born in Dublin. He was still a young child when his father Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish nationalist and poet, was executed in 1916. Tragedy struck again when his mother died of a heart attack a year afterwards while swimming at Skerries to Lambay, County Dublin in July 1917. The two children were then taken care of by their maternal aunts, in particular Catherine Wilson. His parents' families then engaged in a series of custody lawsuits, as the MacDonaghs were Roman Catholic and the Giffords were Protestant; in the climate of Ne Temere, the MacDonaghs were successful. He and his sister Barbara (who later married actor Liam Redmond) lived briefly with their paternal aunt Eleanor Bingham, County Clare before being put into the custody of strangers until their late teens, when they were taken in by Jack MacDonagh. He was married twice, to Maura Smyth and, following her death after she drowned in a bath whilst having an epileptic seizure, to her sister, Nuala Smyth. He had four children, Iseult & Breifne by Maura and Niall & Barbara by Nuala. He died on 1 January 1968 and is buried at Deans Grange Cemetery. MacDonagh was educated at Belvedere College and University College Dublin (UCD) with contemporaries Cyril Cusack, Denis Devlin, Charlie Donnelly, Brian O'Nolan, Niall Sheridan and Mervyn Wall. In 1935 he was called to the Bar and practised on the Western Circuit. In 1941 he was appointed a District Justice in County Mayo. He was Justice for the Dublin Metropolitan Courts at the time of his death He published three volumes of poetry: "Veterans and Other Poems" (1941), The Hungry Grass (1947) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968). He also edited the Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1958) with Lennox Robinson. He also wrote poetic dramas and ballad operas. One play, Happy As Larry, was translated into a number of languages. He had three other plays produced: God's Gentry (1951, a ballad opera about the tinkers), Lady Spider (1959, about Deirdre of the Sorrows and the Three sons of Ussna and by far his best writing) and Step in the Hollow a piece of situation comedy nonsense. He also wrote short stories; published Twenty Poems with Niall Sheridan; staged the first Irish production of ‘’Murder in the Cathedral’’ with Liam Redmond, later his brother-in-law; and was a popular broadcaster on Radio Éireann.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
MacDonagh, Donagh. Veterans and other Poems. Cuala Press, Dublin, 1941.
Price: US$274.06 + shipping
Description: Quarter linen over blue boards, printed paper label. Scarce unopened copy
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
MacDONAGH, Donagh. Veterans and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1941.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. Quarter cloth with publisher's printed paper spine label and blue paper-covered boards. A fine, unopened copy in near fine publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket, with limitation number in publisher's ink holograph on front panel, with a few short tears, with a half-inch chip at crown of spine. Limited to 270 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MacDonagh, Donagh. Veterans and Other Poems. Cuala Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1941.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. (vi), 33, (2). One of 270 copies, this out of series. As is wonderfully usual for the press, a beautiful example of Irish printing of Irish poetry. Bound in quarter buckram with blue paper over boards, titled in black to upper cover and with paper label to spine. Slight soiling to covers, minimal warp to boards, else very good.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.