Vintage, USED & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. 

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. 

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...

Martyn Turner - A Fistful of Dáilers - Political Cartoons 1983-1987 - PB

A Fistful of Dáilers' Political Cartoons 1983-1987 by Martyn Turner, noted Irish Times cartoonist.  1987. tanning to pages, some corners dogeared. Larger format paperback, all cartoons in B&W

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback, heavy tanning to covers.   

Robert Burns - The Poems of Robert Burns - HB ( Oxford Standard Authors Edition) - 1963

Gift inscription to previous owner on the front endpages, price clipped on inside front flap.  Although heavily dustdarkened on the top edges of the page block, otherwise unmarked, a solid, small format copy, this edition 1963, having been first...