Vintage, USED & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

Gillies Macbain - The Last Footman (Large Paperback)

 In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of...

John Dennehy - In a Time of War : Tipperary 1914-1918 - HB

In this vivid and captivating new history, Clonmel native John Dennehy explores the profound political, economic, military and social impact of the Great War on one Irish county: Tipperary. Little has been written on the impact of the war on everyday...

Trio Poetry 3 - Johnston Kirkpatrick | Peter McDonald | Trevor McMahon - 1982

IRISH POETRY: NORTHERN IRELAND. Johnston Kirkpatrick, Peter McDonald and Trevor McMahon. Octavo, glossy blue printed wrappers. "Trio Poetry 3" represents the first publication, in book form, of these three Belfast poets. A review slip from the publisher...

Henry Adams - Two Novels : Democracy / Esther ( Vintage PB 1961 )

A 1961 Doubleday Anchor PB edition of two novels (omnibus edition) by 19th century US author Henry Adams.  

DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection - Trinity - HB

DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection TrinityContents: Trinity #1-3 ( ORIGINALLY 2003) and World's Finest #71 ( Originally 1954)  Standalone, but issued as patrt of an Eaglemoss Partwork collection - ISSN-2054-3735 77205487340922, Volume 22 in that...

Ernest Hemingway - By-Line : 75 Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades - PB

A collection of essays and reportage ( from 1920 to 1956) by Hemingway .  Penguin PB , 1970  

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little Town on the Prairie (Vintage Paperback)

Previous owners name in red ink on inside front endpapers.  This Puffin edition 1978, originally published 1941. 

Maeve Mulryan Moloney - Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the archdiocese of Tuam - PB - 2001

This book explores a century of memorable cultural and educational controversies in the diocese of Tuam. It also chronicles the impetus to education achieved during the first decade of the Irish Teachers Organisation (founded 1868). It is a pioneering...

Stephen Phillips - Poems - HB -1897

A hardcover slim cloth edition, untrimmed page ends, published by John Lane/ The Bodley Head 1897 ( this being the 5th printing)  Stephen Phillips ( 1864 –  1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity...

Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn ( A Pallisers Novel) Vintage Paperback - 1973

A 1973 PB edition, issued as a BBC TV tie in edition. Originally published in 1869. Heavy age tanning to pages, but binding tight, no marks or inscriptions.  The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a...

John Ashbery - April Galleons -Poems - HB - 1988

In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, "The New York Times")--offers some of his most intimate and direct poems. With breathtaking freshness, he writes of...

( Editor) - Poetry Ireland Review - Issue 94 ( July 2008)

Edited by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Includes poems by John Montague, Aifric Mac Aodha, Colette Byce, David Wheatley and Moya Cannon, alongside translations of Hans-Christian Oeser, and interview with Hans-Christian Oeser, and reviews of...

Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB

Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area)  contains Wainwright's original...

Michael Warren - Places - PB - 1993

Although clearly concerned with formal Modernist qualities such as texture, surface, weight equilibrium and balance, at the core of Michael Warren's art lies something far less tangible - an examination of what it means for human beings to be in the...

Simon Armitage - Book of Matches - PB - 1993

Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of...

Joe Sheerin - A Crack in the Ice - PB Dolmen Press - 1985

Dolmen Press paperback, a review slip is laid in loosely.  Light edgewear to covers, otherwise unmarked. 

Wakter Hoyt French & Charles Brockway Hale ( Editors) - Middle English Metrical Romances ( Volume 2) - hb 1964

Volume 2 of a set ( but standalone in it's own accord Contents - Sir Perceval of Galles. The avowing of Arthur -- Composites: Ipomadon (selections). Eger and Grime. The squire of low degree -- The matter of the Orient: The seven sages of Rome...

Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961

A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated.  Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books...

Bleisce - Doon Parish Journal ( Issue 20) - December 2011

The annual Doon Journal , 2011. Doon is a town and associated surrounds not far from the Limerick Tipperary border in East Limerick.  With parish news, sport, history, photographs etc.  272 pages

Jackie Collins - Hollywood Husbands ( Vintage PB 1987)

They lunch at Ma Maison on salads and hot gossip. They cruise Rodeo Drive, turning shopping at Giorgio and Gucci into an art form. These are Hollywood wives and they hold the keys to the kingdom. But when your ticket to ride is a famous husband, there...

Frederick Rolfe - Hadrian the Seventh - PB 1982 ( Originally 1904)

Hadrian VII by Frederick William Rolfe  (Baron Corvo) This text is a novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish-fulfillment. When a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose from despised obscurity to the throne of St Peter, in...

Daphne du Maurier - Vanishing Cornwall - HB 1967

Daphne du Maurier made Cornwall her home for most of her life and has shown her love and knowledge of all things Cornish in some of her greatest successes, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn and many of her other much-loved books.In this 1967 book...

Robert Graves - The Crowning Privilege - Vintage PB 1959

Originally published 1955, this reprint 1959.  Subtitled ' A selection of lectures and essays concerned with professional standards in poetry'

Nelson Publishing - Thrilling Stories For Girls - HB 1920'S

THRILLING STORIES FOR GIRLS" published by Thomas Nelson UK , undated but 1925 ( the cover illustration is dated 1924) Stories by Yelva Burnett, Harold Avery, May Wynne, Ethel Talbot, Alice Sophia Jackson, Phillippa Francklyn & Violet M...

Frank Jacobs - Strange Maps : An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities

Spanning many centuries, all continents and the realms of outer space and the imagination, this collection of 138 unique graphics combines beautiful full-colour illustrations with quirky statistics and smart social commentary. The result is a distinctive...

Jacob Smallwood - The Face of Newfoundland - HB - 1977

A photographic guide to the Canadian province of Newfoundland, published 1977, covering townas, people, industry, landscape and much more.  Large format hardcover, illustrations and photography in colour. 

Rio Ferdinand - My Decade as a Red - HB 1ST Edition Manchester United 2013

  Publisher by Bonnier UK, 2013 - it covers Ferdinand's ten years at Utd from 2002-2012, ( some of the most successful years for the club) as well as his time at West Ham,  Leeds, and as an England international. Illustrated throughout in full...

Tolka Journal - Tolka Magazine - Issue 8 ( 2024) - PB

Issue Eight of Tolka - It includes:   Issue Eight, published in November 2024, is available to order. It includes: Megan Nolan – And No Animal Is Without Enemy Noreen Masud – Quietly the World Shifts Hanne Ørstavik translated by...

Tolka Journal - Tolka Magazine - Issue 6 ( 2023) - PB

Issue Six of Tolka - It includes:   Sara Baume – The Lake Home E.M. Cioran, translated by Patrick James Errington – A Man in Fragments Hilary A White – An Interview with Sinéad Gleeson Shannan Mann – Soft Ground Conor...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

Hannah Green ( Joanne Greenberg) - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor...

Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990

Sebastian Faulks - A Week in December

A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARDSeven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a...

Gordon L Rottman - Guam 1941 & 1944 - Loss and Reconquest - HB ( Battles of World War II)

Hardcover, published by Osprey UK, 2009, originally 2004. Osprey are probably the preeminent publisher of battle histories, with detailed account sof forces, military commanders, how battles progessed , with maps, period photographs etc. 

Cyril Christo - The Dream of the Earth - PB

Publisher: Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990 Signed by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland, March 1991. 

Derek Mahon - The Hunt by Night - PB - 1982

Paperback, pubished by OUP, 1982. Creasing and bumps to covers, partial price sticker from Dundrum Bookshop on the back cover.  0192119532. 

Peter Fallon & Sean Golden ( Editors) - Soft Day : A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing - PB - 1980

An anthology of 36 Irish writers published by Notre Dame Press, 1980. Poetry is most prominent, but also short stories, prose, drama and translations. ncluding: Liam O'Flaherty, Samuel Beckett, Mary Lavin, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, and more...

John Cowper Powys - Three Fantasies - HB Carcanet UK 1985

Three fantasy stories make use of surrealism to tell the stories of two armchairs, the strange people of the Go Peninsula, and Yok Pok and his younger sister.  Hardcover, Carcanet Press UK, 1985. Afterword by Glen Cavaliero. 

Rudyard Kipling - The Five Nations - HB 1st Edition - 1903 ( Boer War )

Published by Methuen , London 1903. A collection of Kipling's poems, many from his experiences in South Africa in the Boer War era ( including 'Boots') as well as White Man's Burden and Recessional. Kipling was a noted poet of high imperialist England...

Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979

The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its  beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’...

Claim Publishing - The Student's English-Chichewa Dictionary - PB

Chewa is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is often called Chichewa or Chinyanja. Published by Claim Publishing, Malawi.

Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking - A Textbook of Creativity - PB - 1978

HE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a...

Tom Wolfe - From Bauhaus to Our House - PB

Originally publisehd as a series of articles in Harper's Magazine, this is Tom Wolfe's tongue in cheek account of of modern architecture in the USA.  Pocket Books 1981. 

Joseph Mary Plunket - Poems - HB - Talbot Press Edition

An undated Talbot Press edition ( but post 1916 Rising) of the ( collected) poems of Joseph Plunkett. With an introduction by Geraldine Plunkett.  Hardcover in green cloth, title embossed to spine in faded gilt, ' The New Era Librray embossed to...

Brian J. Ford - Allied Secret Weapons : The War of Science - PB

Explores the scientific and technical advances made by Allied scientists during WW2, from advances in photography and spycraft to bouncing bombs , rocketry and much more.  Paperback, 2nd printing 1977, originally 1971. 

P.G Wodehouse - Company for Henry - PB 1983 ( Originally 1967)

The titular Henry is Henry Paradenen whom after a career treading the boards has unexpectedly inherited Ashby Hall and the families associated financial obligations. American multi-millionaire relative J. Wendell Stickney and has arrived and Henry is...

Lois Gould - Such Good Friends - PB

We were at least as happily married as anybody else, which maybe was't very, but it was all anybody could reasonably expect. All I ever could, anyway . . . But now Julie Messinger, age thirty-one, mother of two, is going through the kind of hell that may...

Lucy Graham-Toler ( Countess of Norbury) - Summers of yesterday : or, memoirs and Wanderings in Northern Lands - 1934 - HB Scandinavia Travel

Published byCassell UK 1934. 160pp. 10 plates (4 in colour). 8vo. First edition. Light blue cloth binding, the front cover with dark blue title and author, the spine with the same plus publisher. Dust jacket is foxed, protected by a clear transparent...

W Carter Platts - The Young Angler ( Young Sportsman's Library) - HB 1966 ( Originally 1940)

A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience...

Nevil Shute - Ruined City | An Old Captivity ( 2 Book Lot - Vintage Pan )

Ruined City - When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the...

André Maurois - The Art of Writing - PB 1962 ( Originally 1957)

A collection of essays, examining the techniques and literary output of a number of notable European writers - Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.  Dutton USA 1962. Originally published in...

P.G Wodehouse - Summer Moonshine - PB 1983

Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an American heiress, Princess Dwornitzchek. But the sale is complicated by the Princess's engagement to Adrian Peake, who is...