Vintage, USED & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

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...

Mary Cole - Dirtroads : Footloose in Africa - HB 1977

This is the remarkable chronicle of a young Irish teacher who decided to abandon the conventional opportunities open to her at home and take the less predictable ones offered by East Africa, Kenya in particular.  Originally 1975 by Gill Publishing,...

Slavenka Drakulić / Café Europa : Life After Communism

Drakulic (How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed) notes that Eastern and central Europeans were so anxious to become like their Western counterparts in the immediate years after the fall of communism that every city & town had a Cafe Europa...

George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Don Juan - Vintage HB Modern Library Edition1949

Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where...

Paul Keres & Alexander Kolov - The Art of the Middle Game - PB 1975

Originally published in Swedish in 1962, translation by H Golombek, this Penguin PB edition reprint 1975.  Two chess grandmasters analyse middle game in chess playing, with copious examples from historic game play.  Very good condition, white...

Pamela Lyon ( Editor) - Penguin Parallel Text : French Short Stories / Nouvelles Francaises - PB

 Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.Arranged in approximate order of...

Sean O'Brien - The Indoor Park - PB - 1983

Published by Bloodaxe Books, UK, 1983, a review slip is loosely laid in.  Aggressive, witty and dramatic, Sean O'Brien's poems convey the texture of imaginative life, not just its recorded highlights. Sean O'Brien's territory is urban pastoral. Its...

John Clare - Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare ( Edited by Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield) - HB 1967

A selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to making available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the...

Robert Silverberg - The Gate of Worlds - HB SF 1978

First published 1967, this is a 1978 Gollancz UK reprint.  Alternate history SF ( aimed at a YA / teen readership) that imagines a world where Europe was devastated by the Black Death far more than in the historical reality, meaning no European...

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls - PB - Classic Spanish Civil War Novel -

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history.High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge.Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the...

Allen Figgis Publishing - 3 Book Poetry Lot - Douglas Hyde | Joseph Campbell | Samuel Ferguson ( An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Authors) 1963

Three uniformly sized small format hardcovers, published 1963 as part of a multi volume series in asociation with the arts council. Allen Figgis, Dublin.  Poems of Samuel Ferguson, with an introduction by Padraic Colum Poems of Joseph Campbell, with...

Michael Walshe - It's a Long Road That Has No Turning - PB - SIGNED

Michael Walshe, a native of the glen of Aherlow, Tipperary spent 13 years in Moorepark and during this time was President of the Irish Grassland Association from 1966-1967. In 1961 he travelled to New Zealand and spent one year as a visiting Scientist at...

Ethna McKiernan - Caravan - PB SIGNED - 1989

A collection of skillfully crafted, imaginative, and moving poetry by an award-winning and widely published poet. "The poems here have an exact and hard-earned lyricism...a difficult music that comes from experience rather than from any rhythmic holiday...

E. Nesbit - Five Children and It - Vintage PB

'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when they...

Brendan Fullam - Giants of the Ash - HB 1992 - Hurling GAA - Wolfhound Press

Outstanding Irish hurlers of the 20th century are profiled here with interviews, photographs, team choices, autographs, & players' own writings, all capturing the memories, nostalgia, fulfilment, great games, & friendships associated with a truly...

Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Vintage Pan PB - 1969 ( Originally 1959)

 From the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal...

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying - Vintage Penguin Modern Classics PB Ed - 1972

A 1970 Penguin edition, of As I lay Dying by William Faulkner, first published in the UK in 1935.  One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The...

James Herriot - Let Sleeping Vets Lie ( All Creatures Great and Small - Book 3 ) Vintage Pan PB

With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of...

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk ( All Creatures Great and Small - Book 1 )

Fresh out of Veterinary College, and shoulder-deep in an uncooperative cow, James Herriot’s first job is not panning out exactly as expected . . .To a Glaswegian like James, 1930s Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a...