Sale Description:
A Book Auction Comprising of the Library Rosaleen (Roz) Cowman, an Award-Winning Poet, Critic, and Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Cork.
Rosaleen Cowman has received numerous accolades and bursaries, including the prestigious Patrick Kavanagh Award and multiple Arts Council bursaries. As an esteemed critic and reviewer, she has contributed extensively to various literary periodicals. In her role as an educator, she has led numerous courses on creative writing, literature, and critical analysis for institutions ranging from UCC to Cork Prison.
Her library embodies her diverse, progressive, and pioneering interests, spanning feminism, gender theory, critical theory, and comparative literature. It also includes specific interest areas such as the Cavalier era, nature, psychology, and Hungarian literature (the latter reflecting her work as a translator of Hungarian poetry). The collection boasts hundreds of poetry books, including many signed editions, with a particular focus on Irish poets from the 1980s and 1990s.
Sale Dates:
23rd November 2024 from
11am GMT
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(Lots 1 to 400)
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Free Registration
28.29% inc VAT*
Flat Fee Registration
24.60% inc VAT*
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1. All lots are sold as seen, viewing times are provided prior to the sale to inspect each lot to ensure that the buyer is fully satisfied with the condition of the lot and the making of the bid for a lot. Bidders are encouraged to request a condition report. The Auctioneer accepts no responsibility for a lot that is damaged and/or repaired, Lots are sold with all imperfections and/or damages.
2. Each item is sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description in the lots of the catalogue or as these may be divided or conjoined at the sale. The Auctioneer not being responsible for the correct description, genuineness or authenticity of, or any fault or defect in any lot, and making no warranty whatever: the buyers being held to have satisfied themselves as to the condition, quality and description of the lots before bidding.
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7. The highest bidder to be the purchaser, and if any dispute arises between two or more bidders, the lot in dispute to be immediately put up again and re-sold as the Auctioneer may decide. The Auctioneer will regulate the bidding.
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12. All Measurements are approximations.
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