Vintage, Used & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

Benedict Kiely - A Cow in the House and Other Stories - HB 1978 - First Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by Victor Gollancz UK, 1978, attractive small format hardcover with tan and green colour cover design.  Externally, creasing to dustjacket. Internally excellent, almost  'as new, despite age. 

John B Keane - The Year of the Hiker - Vintage Mercier PB 1963 - 1st PB edition

First published in 1963, this is one of Keane's best known plays, here in the Mercier Press edition, 1963 ( printed in the Netherlands) unlike most other Merciers of this era, this series has photographic covers.  (The Hiker is the much hated father...

John Healy - Nineteen Acres - Mayo - 1987 Edition - Biography Classic - Family History

John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the...

Liam O'Flaherty - The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty - PB - Vintage Four Square 1966

Originally published in the UK in hardcover in 1938 ( by Jonathan Cape)  this is the first UK PB edition from 1966, published by Four Square, an imprint of New English Library ( NEL) .  Somewhat odd image on the front cover ( of a men and...

Patrick O'Donnell - The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century - PB Anvil Press 1975

Published by Anvil Press, 1975, this is an important (and somewhat hard to find) copy of Patrick O'Donnell's history of Irish Faction fights in the early and mid 19th century - examining the effects and history of affairs on a county by county basis...