‘Now, 90 per cent of our business is online’: Rare books to satisfy the mind

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Dublin booksellers have works by Jack B Yeats, JRR Tolkien and Thomas Kinsella for sale. Meanwhile in New York, a Warhol/Basquiat showstopper is expected to sell for $18m (€17m)

Dublin booksellers have works by Jack B Yeats, JRR Tolkien and Thomas Kinsella for sale. Meanwhile in New York, a Warhol/Basquiat showstopper expects to sell for $18mpandemic brought much suffering to people across the world, but the enforced isolation during lockdowns also inspired some people to take up new hobbies.

“Before Covid, our business was mainly mail order. We used to print over 1,000 catalogues and post them worldwide. Now, 90 per cent of our business is online,” explains Will de Búrca.Olivia Rodrigo in Dublin review: Watch out Taylor Swift.

He says the original set of Broadsides will remain the only source for this collection of Jack B Yeats graphic art, and suggests that changes in print technology wouldn’t do justice to these plates if they were reproduced. A Catalogue Raisonné, of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle are also among the items in the Jack B Yeats collection for sale. Pyle is the world’s leading authority on the art of Jack B Yeats.

New arrivals in Ulysses Rare Books include a first edition set of The Two Towers – the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien , and the first UK edition from 1894 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain . A limited signed edition of Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy , is also a recent arrival, as is Thomas Kinsella’s The Táin , with illustrations by Louis de Brocquy .

“Andy would start one and put something very recognisable on it or a product logo, and I would sort of deface it,” explained Basquiat at one point.

 

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