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Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - The Limerick Compendium - Paperback 1997

A sequel to Jim Kemmy's earlier Limerick Anthology, containing travellers' accounts of the city and county, sections on history, sport, the labour movement and the theatre. There is poetry and verse, and a selection of material from Limerick's heritage...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - PB ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) 2004 Reprint

A PAPERBACK reprint edition 2004 ( originally 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight, not ex library, no school...

Kurt Baumann & Jean Claviere - An Prionsa & an Liúit - HB - As Gaeilge - 1980 ( Aistrithe ag Gabriel Rosenstock)

Leagan Gaeilge don leabhar a foisíodh ar dtús sa nGearmáin i 1979 - ba as an Eilbhéis an t-údar Kurt Baumann. Pictiúir ( atá ar fheabhas) le Jean Claverie.  Cé gur leabhar í a...

Harman Murtagh - Irish Midland Studies : Essays in Commemoration of N.W English - HB 1980

Published by the Old Athlone Society, 1980, hardcover internally in excellent condition but in a somewhat edgeworn dustjacket ( which is now in a clear plastic removable cover)  Essays ( on a diverse array of subjects, and also covering counties...

Jerusalem Bible - NEW TESTAMENT ( Reader's Edition - HB 1967

Published by Darton Longman & Todd, Uk 1967, this is a hardcover edition.  Greem cloth covers, the external dustjacket is edgeworn at the base and head of the spine.  NB - New Testament only, with footnotes, etc. 

Jean Stubbs - The Painted Face : An Edwardian Mystery- Vintage Penguin PB

Every family has its secrets…Wealthy painter and man-about-town Nicholas Carradine is haunted by his past. His family fell apart when his adored half-sister Odette was killed in a train accident. Distraught and unable to cope, his...

Francois Mauriac - Thérese Desqueyroux - PB ( FRENCH LANGUAGE Edition) PB 1975

Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte qu'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu...

Francis Johnston - Alexandrina : The Agony and the Glory - PB 1979

Story of a heroic, saintly, mystic soul, (1904-1955). Alexandrina da Costa  Suffered the symptoms of the  Passion of Christ in expiation for sins. Crippled in a jump from a window to escape a rapist, she spent 31 years as an invalid. Her...

Tatay Sándor - Puskák És Galambok - PB 1975 ( Originally 1960) ( Hungary)

Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz. A Dunántúl egyik romantikus kisvárosában vagyunk, 1919 őszén. Meleg vízű, kristálytiszta patakok csörgedeznek a dombok...

Stendhal - La Chartreuse de Parme - PB - Folio ( IN FRENCH)

Un livre unique, une somme romanesque, un livre dicté en moins de deux mois et qui est le sommet de l'improvisation, un récit sur Bonaparte, Waterloo, l'Italie, un grand ouvrage politique, que dire encore en faveur de ce qu'Italo Calvino...

John L McKenzie - The Two Edged Sword - An Interpretation of the Old Testament - HB 1965 ( Originally 1956)

Presents the religious ideas, values and doctrines of the Old Testament in terms that are highly significant and meaningful to our modern world. Beginning with Genesis and moving through the historical books, the Prophets and the books of Wisdom, the...

Derek Marlowe - A Dandy in Aspic - Vintage PB 1974 ( Originally 1966)

Eberlin, a Cold WAR British intelligence operative, has a problem. His superiors have ordered him to find and assassinate a KGB agent named Krasnevin, believed to be responsible for the recent murders of British agents. Summoned to a meeting at a...

Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory ( Vintage Penguin PB 1967, Originaslly 1940) )

Condition - previous owners name to inside front endpage,light creasing to corners Orange spine. Penguin Number1791.  During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing...

Francois Mauriac - Le Mystère Frontenac - PB - 1966

Pour Blanche Frontenac, restée veuve avec cinq enfants, le bonheur personnel n'existe pas. La seule chose essentielle est d'agir en vue du bien commun et dans l'intérêt de la famille. Quand le moment sera venu, Jean-Louis, le brillant...

Joseph Kessel - Les Coeurs Purs ( Folio) French Edition

Trois nouvelles composent ce recueil. La première se déroule dans l'Irlande déchirée par la guerre : Mary de Cork arme la main de son fils et l'engage, pour raison politique, à commettre un parricide. La deuxième...

Albert Camus - La Chute - PB - French Edition

Published by Folio , paperback, heavy tanning to pages.  Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a...

Leopold Labedz ( Editor) - Solzhenitsyn : A Documentary Record ( Vintage Penguin PB 1974)

A collection of notable letters, speeches and articles from the Russian writer, dissident and Nobel Prize winner.  Tanning to pages, fade to spine.  1974, Penguin UK

Jean Oliver Héron & Pierre Marchand - La France en Poésie - PB - Folio

A collection of classic poetry in French This reprint 2001 Folio Junior

Flora Armitage - The Desert and the Stars : A Portrait of T.E Lawrence- HB 1956 -

Hardcover, Faber UK 1956, first edition, tape mark residue on in side front flaps ( but not ex library)  A key biogarphy of the life on T.E Lawrence - ' Lawrence of Arabia' 

Daphne du Maurier - I'll Never Be Young Again - Vintage PB 1977 ( Originally 1932)

A Pan UK reprint, 1977, originally 1932. Tanning to pages, internaly unmarked, period price sticker on back cover In a moment of crisis and grasping the rail of a bridge, Richard is saved by a passing stranger named Jake.The two men, both at turning...

Robert Sabbag - Snowblind : A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade - 1979

  When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who...

Leslie Jackman - The Seashore Naturalist's Handbook - HB Hamlyn 1981

Hardcover, sun fade to spine, a small format hatrdcover guide to nature and wildlife on the seashore and in other waterside areas such as estuaries , beaches, dunes and mudflats.  Published 1981, illustrated in colour.  Aimed at both older...

Elisabeth Schnack - Irische Erzahler - HB

Zwanzig Geschichten anglo-irischer Erzähler laden zur literarischen Entdeckung der "Grünen Insel" ein: Sie erzählen von der Lebenskunst, vom Triumph der Phantasie und des Humors über den allzuoft verregneten Alltag. Es sind...

Erich Maria Remarque - A l'Ouest rien de nouveau - PB - ( French Edition)

À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau (titre original allemand : Im Westen nichts Neues - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) est un roman de Erich Maria Remarque paru officiellement en 1929 mais paru pour la 1ère fois en 1928. Le...

Erich Schmid - In Spanien Gek

Männy Alt kämpft im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg gegen den Faschismus und überlebt wie durch ein Wunder. Die Schweiz lohnt es ihm mit Gefängnis (fremder Kriegsdienst). Dann sucht er das Arbeiterparadies in der Sowjetunion, und als er...

J.F Quinn - History of Mayo , Volume 1 - HB 1st Edition 1993

Edited by Brendan Quinn , the son of the original author and Western People journalist , Joe .F Quinn, who first published the material for this book in a long series of weekly articles in the 1930's and 1940's.  Initally intended as a history of...

Dúchas /Niah - Survey of the Architectural Heritage of County MEATH

Published 2002,  paperback, with 2 x (Windows based) cdROM ( with map content) also. (THIS ELEMENT IS UNUSED, BUT IS PROBABLY INACCESSIBLE UNLESS YOU HAVE AN OLD PC )  in external plastic slipcase, opens out gatefold style.  Part of the...

Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne, Richard Kearney & Edna Longley ( Editors ) - The Irish Review Number 1 ( 1986)

The Irish Review is a refereed journal. Since it first appeared in 1986 it has established itself as a journal of record. It provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English and Irish. Its editorial policy is pluralist and...

Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne, Richard Kearney & Edna Longley ( Editors ) - The Irish Review Number 3 ( 1988 )

The Irish Review is a refereed journal. Since it first appeared in 1986 it has established itself as a journal of record. It provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English and Irish. Its editorial policy is pluralist and...

Risteárd Ó Foghludha - Éigse na Máighe : Seán Ó Tuama an Ghrinn & Aindrias Mac Craith- HB 1972 - As Gaeilge

Athchló ó 1970 , foilsithe ar dtús i 1952, sa sean chló  ( cló ceilteach) - bunaithe ar aistí ó 1906 Cur síos ar na filí Seán Ó Tuama ''an Ghrinn'' agus Aindrias Mac Craith ...

Colmán Ó Raghallaigh & Paul Young - An Tóraíocht - PB - Cartoon Saloon - As Gaeilge - Grafach ( Graphic Novel)

Foilsithe ag Cló Mhaigh Eó, leabhar Grafach ( Graphic novel - Comic ) le The Cartoon Saloon, don eipic - An Toraíocht ( Toraíocht Dhiarmuid agus Gráinne)  Tá an grá agus and t-éad fite fuaite...

E. O Plauen - Vater und Sohn - HB - SLIPCASED

Vater und Sohn - e. o PLAUEN  Die 3 bekannten Bände mit je 50 Streichen und Abenteuern gezeichnet von e. o. plauen und eine 36-seitige Biographie. ( Three Slipcased Volumes, in an illustrated box, with a 36 page brief biography. Originally...

Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968)

Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by...

Éamon De Buitléar - Wildlife Book 2 - 1986 - Illustrated

The second published book in Éamon de Buitléar's Wildlife series  published by Country House, Dublin, 1986.  This book was aimed at a younger audience, with tips on back garden bird identification, notes on filming wildlife,...

John Cowell - The Begrudgers - SIGNED - O'Brien Press - HB 1978

Despite his valuable work as a medical doctor, John Cowell ( 1904-1998)  had always wished to be an author. On retirement in 1977 he made it his priority. In 1978 his first novel, The Begrudgers, was published. The Irish society...

Ross, Tony - Puss in Boots - PB - Illustrated Children's 1982

A first edition of one of Tony Ross's classic illustrated books - his version of Puss in Boots, illustrated in colour , published by Andersen Press.  A re-imagining of the classic tale. Condition - very good - light edgewear , no marks or...

Paddy Crosbie - Your Dinner's Poured Out ! : Boyhood in the 20's in a Dublin that has Dissappeared- HB -

A hardback first edition (O'Brien Press, 1981) of Paddy Crosbie's bestseller, 'Your Dinner's Poured Out'Condition - light edgewear and scuffing.  Subtitled ' A boyhood in the twenties in a Dublin that has disappeared', it is full of...

James Herriott - The Best of James Herriott - HB Illustrated 1989

A large format hardcover ( coffee table book format) , light page tanning only .  The Best of James Herriot is a single volume devoted to the work and world of a contemporary writer. It contains unforgettable episodes from the remarkable series...

Georgette Heyer - My Lord John - Pan PB 1977 - Regency Romance

A paperback Pan reprint edition, 1977 of the last book by Georgette Heyer, My Lord John. Originally published in 1975 by Bodley Head, and first by Pan in 1976. Condition - Very good, some uniform age browning to the page block, otherwise fine, no...