Vintage, USED & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

T.S Lindsay - The Church's Song - A Companion to the Irish Church Hymnal - HB 1908

A guide to chuch hymns, their history and origins, published 1908.   

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...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Minister of State - Vintage Mercier PB

First published in 1978 by Mercier Press, the original publisher. Light tanning to page block, there is a clipped out part of the front title page ( possibly where it was signed by someone)  A sequel to Letters of a Successful T.D, detailing the...

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...

Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads - PB -2019

 A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardRevised and updated editionThe New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being...

Mary O'Rourke - Letters of My Life (Hardback- SIGNED ) 2016

Hardcover, first edition, 2015, published by Gill Books.  Signed by Mary O'Rourke to the title page in blue biro, not dedicated.Original RRP was €19.99.  As she turns 80, Mary O’Rourke writes a letter to 20 people, past and present,...

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...

Francis MacManus - Candle For the Proud - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1936 )

The second book in the loose historical trilogy centered on the life of the 18th century Irish poet Donncha Ruadh Mac Conmara. 

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...

John B. Keane - Letters of a Successful T.D - Vintage Mercier PB 1968 ( Blue Variant)

First published in 1967, this is a 1968 reprint by Mercier Press, the original publisher. Light tanning to page block,  It is the 1960s and Tull MacAloo is a Kerry TD who stands for “the party” – an organization that could be...

Francis MacManus - Watergate - Poolbeg PB 1980 ( Originally 1942)

A reprint Poolbeg edition, 1980, first published in 1942.  A story about an American woman coming back to the family house/farm in Ireland and upsetting the status quo. Alice Lennon had left Ireland for a bad marriage and lived an unsatisfactory...

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...

John B Keane - The Man From Clare - Vintage 2nd Printing 1965 - Mercier

Deals with the personal tragedy of an aging athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as the captain of the team or his reputation as the 'best footballer in Clare'.    The cover art ( a photograph) is by...

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...

Mary Brigid Pearse - The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse - Vintage Mercier PB

Originally published in 1934, and here in a Mercier Press reprint from 1979 ( issued for the centenary of Pearse's birth in 1879) this is The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse , by Brigid Pearse, his sister.  This book was originally serialised in...

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...