Vintage & Collectable Books - Newly Added

John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929 - HB

The classic account of the Great Crash in US ( and subsequent global) stock markets in 1929, an event which precipitated the Great Depression. Originally published in 1954, this is a 2007 reprint.  Age spotting on the page block. 

Norman Rich - The Age of Nationalism and Reform 1850-1890 2nd Edition - PB - 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally published 1970, a standalone volume in the wider Norton History of Modern Europe series.  Covers the history of Europe in an era of competing nationalisms, following from the 1848 revolutions, the rise...

Gerry Adams - Free Ireland: Towards a Lasting Peace = PB

Paperback, published by Brandon , 1995, originally published in 1986 - this second edition was greatly expandedf and amended from the original ( so much so to nearly be a new book rather than a second edition)  Gerry Adams'personal statement on the...

Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001

Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999.  The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with...

Edward Rutherfurd - The Rebels of Ireland ( The Dublin Saga - Book 2) - HB - 2006

The sequel to The Princes of Ireland follows the lives and destinies of several Dublin families, both Catholic and Protestant, from all strata of society, from the sixteenth-century colonization of Ireland by the English under Elizabeth I to the founding...

Paul Mc Ginley - Salthill - A History ( Timelines- Tales - Themes ) - HB - 2018

Salthill - A History (Part 1) . The profusely illustrated result of a extraordinary amount of research. The headings in the book include Salthill’s townlands and burial grounds, villages and demesnes, the fishing tradition, na...

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Clash of the Princes - The Warrior's Way (Fighting Fantasy) - PB - 1986

Paperback, published by Puffin UK , 1986.  A two player fighting fantasy book  ''Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone present'', but authored by Andrew Chapman  and Martin Allen , illustrations by John Blanche - Fighting Fantasy : The...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy of religious violence that remains relevant. A...

Edward Daly - A Troubled See : Memoirs of a Derry Bishop (Large Paperback)

 A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly's bestselling Mister, Are You a Priest? (2000), which focused on his years as a curate in the Bogside - a neighborhood outside the city walls of Derry, Northern...

Philip Rooney - Captain Boycott - Vintage PB - Anvil Press ( Orignally 1946)

An undated 1980's Anvil Press reprint  of the original 1946 edition of Captain Boycott by Philip Rooney- subtitled 'The man whose name gave a dreaded word to the English language in the stormy days of the Land League'  Moderate tanning to page...

Ferdia Mac Anna ( Editor) - An Anthology of Irish Comic Writing (Hardback)

This anthology contains comic extracts, stories and prose by over 70 Irish authors, arranged in chronological order to give an insight into the progress of Irish comic writing over the years. Beginning with Anglo-Irish essayist, satirist and novelist...

Michael Foley - Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row - PB -2007

On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again. It had taken Offaly six heartbreaking...

Stephen Walker - John Hume : The Persuader - HB

Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the...

Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1965

Illustrations by Robert Stewart Sheriffs Hardcover in a leatherette effect covers, published in this reprint by Collins UK , 1965. Uneven sunfade to the spine, rubbing and wear to the top and tail of the spine, gilt finish to page block ends...

Margaret Atwood - Selected Poems - PB

Paperback, published by OUP (Canada) - sunfade to spine ( the author name in red is faded completely)  light edgewear to covers. 

S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB 1908

Red Cap TalesStolen From the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North [SCOTT, Sir Walter] / CROCKETT, S.R. A & C Black, 1908 ( The first edition was 1904) . Orange pictorial cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. 16...

Gerry Walsh- How'ya Doc ? - The First Ninety Years of the Belvedere Newsboys' Club 1918-2008 - PB

Paperback, published 2010.   From the author's introduction - The object of compiling this book is chiefly to celebrate the first ninety years since the foundation of the Belvedere Newsboys’ Club and to prepare for its centenary in 2018. It is...

E.K Chambers ( Editor) - The Oxford Book of English Verse : 1250-1918 - HB New Edition 1953 ( Originally 1900)

First published in 1932 (this is a 1950 reprint, hardcover without the original plain dustjacket.    Internally unmarked but light uneven sunning/ faded to external blue cloth covers.   

S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB - Illustrated - 1908

C.D.M Ketelbey - A History of Modern Times - HB - ( 4th Revised Edition) 1969

Hardcover, publsihed in this reprint 4th revised and expanded edition 1969, first edition was 1929 ( in a much different version) , updating the text to 1968.  Solid copy, but age foxing and spotting to front cover and edges of page block. 

Gunter Grass - Letzte Tanze/ Last Dances / Damhsaí Deireanacha - Poems - PB

Paperback - a three language edition ( German, English and Irish) of Gunter Grass Poetry, published by Coiscéim, 2009. 

Antoni Pitxot & Montse Aguer - The Dali Museum in Figueres - PB

Paperback, a detailed guide to both the building and the art in the Salvador Dali Museum. illustrated in colour throughout . 

Brian Ó Conchubhair ( Editor) - Rebel Cork's Fighting Story - PB Reprint , 2009

thew design of the cover is a reproduction of the original 1st Edition published by the Kerryman ( and subsequently the linked Anvil Press) in 1947, and is deliberatley made to look 'aged' or distressed.  Paperback, heavy age tanning to the top fore...

Anthony Trollope - The Warden - HB Everyman's Library - 1949

Small format jacketed hardcover, published as part of the Dent / Everyman Library Editions - published in this edition 1949, originally 1855.  Now in a clear plastic jacket protector. 

John O'Regan ( Editor) - Donald Teskey - Gandon Profile Edition ( SIGNED BY Donald Teskey) - 2005 - PB

Paperback, published by Gandon Editions, 2005.  Signed in black ink by the artist ( Donald Teskey '05) to the title page in black ink, no dedications or other marks, a profusely illustrated artist monograph, with full colour art reproductions,...

W.N Osborough - An Island's Law : A Bibliographical Guide to Ireland's Legal Past - HB - 2013

Hardcover, published by Four Courts Press, 2013, in association with the Irish Legal History Society. The last 40 pages comprise a detailed author a-z index of publications and books on Irish legal listory - from eariest times .  in excellent...

Frank Corr - Parknasilla : The Centenary Book 1895-1995 - HB Kerry

A centenary history of the Great Southern Hotel , Parknasilla, Kerry, published 1995. ( Author Frank Corr had published the standard history of irish Hotles in 1987, and in this book he explores the storied history of the Parknasilla  , locaed...

Gustavo Gutierrez - A Theology of Liberation - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1971)

Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Día was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. This 1971 book Teologiá de la Liberación A Theology of...

John Flynn & Jerry Kelleher - Cork : Journeys in America - PB - 2003

Paperback, published by HI-TABLE Publishing, Waterford, 2003.  Clsed tear to lower edge of back cover, age spotting and foxing to page block ends.  A biographical directory containing the biographies of 53 individuals who embodied the close...

Andrew Carpenter (Editor) - Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland - PB - 1998

Published by Cork University Press, 1998. An innovative collection of Irish poetry and verse from the 18th century - including  well known writers such as Swift and Goldsmith alongside lesser known ( and lesser anthologised) poets , as well as poems...

Mike Dixon-Kennedy - Celtic Myth and Legend : An A-Z of People and Places - HB - 1996

Hardcover, published by Blandford UK, 1996.  Internally very good, uneven sun fade to spine. A gazetter of names, places and evnets from all of Celtic mythology - Ireland, Scotland Wales, Brittany, and those myths from wider Britain itself that had...

Averil Swinfen - The Irish Donkey - PB

Paperback, published by Lilliput Press Ireland, 2004, first published in 1975;.  Light tanning to pages, otherwise good.    The donkey is an integral part of the Irish landscape and tradition. This new, enlarged edition of a book...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 4 - Theological Dramatic Theory - Volume 4 : The Action - HB 1990

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1994, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends . Originally published in German in 1980.  Ignatius Press, USA.    Building on the...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 2 - Dramatis Personae : Man in God - HB 1990

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1990, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends . Originally published in German in 1976.  Ignatius Press, USA.    As the title...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 1 - Prologomena

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1988, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends .  Ignatius Press, USA.    Whereas The Glory of the Lord approached revelation in...

D.G Boyce - Englishmen and Irish Troubles : British Public Opinion & The Making of Irish Policy 1918-22 - HB

Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1972.  A detailed examination of UK media and public opinion in relation to Ireland from the 1918 election until the outbreak of the Civil War. 

Glen Baxter - His Life - The Years of Struggle - HB - 1983

The sly, eccentric wit of author/illustrator Glen Baxter is on full display in this volume of episodes from his life. Fully illustrated in b/w, with several images in beautiful color. Hardboard liner papers designed by the artist.

L.L Robson - The Convict Settlers of Australia - PB - 1976

Paperback, published by Melbourne University Press.  Sticker residue on front cover corner( justr under the word 'settlers', internally unmarked, apart from a ( previous name?) which has been clipped out by scissors ( neatly) from the title page ...

Leo Kessler - 5 PB - SS Panzer Battalion, The Sand Panthers, Hammer of the Gods, Slaughter Ground, Counter-Attack - Vintage Futura PB Wotan Novels

A collection of 5 of the books in Leo Kessler's Wotan series -, all vintage Futura paperback editions, all with tanning to pages, previous owner's name on inside front endpages. Part of a longer series, but all can be read as standalone books...

Ron Palenski - Graham Mourie Captain - HB - 1983 - All Blacks

Hardcover, published in this UK edition 1983, first published in New Zealand in 1982.  A biography of All Blacks rugby captain Graham Mourie.  Graham Neil Kenneth Mourie MBE is a former New Zealand  rugby union player and coach. A flanker,...

Lord Killannin ( Michael Morris) - My Olympic Years : President of the IOC 1972-80 - HB - 1983

Hardcover , published by Secker & Warburg UK, 1983.  Killanin took over the IOC just after the fatal 1972 Munich Olympics, and was in charge for the turbulent 1970;s with the 1976 Montreal Games and the 1980 Moscow Games ( with the subsequent...

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment - PB 1989 Reprint, Originally 1944

Paperback reprint, published by Verso UK , 1989, reprint, originally published in 1944 , and in German as Dialektik der Aufklarung.  Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical...

Jean Baudrillard - The Evil Demon of Images - PB - 1987

Jean Baudrillard 1929 –  2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. The essay delivered as...

Jurgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity - Twelve Lectures - HB ( Translated by Frederick Lawrence )

Hardcover, second printing, 1987, published by MIT Press Cambridge . Translated from the German by Frederick Lawrence .  This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and...

Edgar Wallace - Again the Three - Vintage Pan PB

A vintage Pan paperback, published in this edition 1968, originally published in 1928. Previous bookshop stamp to the front endpage, prebvious owners name also on same page, covers clean, light tanning to page, very light creasing to covers.  Pan...

Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves - Vintage Panther PB - 1973

A Panther UK pb, Cover art by Chris Foss.  Tanning to pages, creasing to edges and to cover, indented scuffs ( as if scribbled on by a blank pen) on cover. Previous owner's name to title page.  Winner of the SF Nebula award. 

H.G. Wells - The Food of the Gods ( Airmont Classics PB - 1965

Published in 1904, this Wells classic is sci-fi and dystopia at its best, written by one of the creators and master of the genre.Following extensive research in the field of "growth," Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood light upon a new mysterious...

A.R Hart - A History of the King's Serjeants at Law in Ireland - HB

Published by Four Courts Press , 2000, hardcover. Light edgewear to covers only, otherwise in very good condition. One of a number of volumes on Irish legal history , policing and law copublished with the Irish Legal History Society.  The King's...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne and its People - HB - 2011

Published by the Blackwater Press, this is the 4th reprint 2011. Hardcover.  Both a history of the famous Dublin hotel and a history of the role it played in Dublin society since its foundation, as well as a history of it's notable guests and staff...

Aaron Scharf - Art and Photography - PB

Paperback, published by Penguin, 1986, originally 1968.  Analyzes the relationship between art and photography in Europe - centered on England and France from mid-nineteenth century to the mid 20th century. Edgewear to cover. 

Paul Gannon - The Way it Was - PB - Galway History

Larger format trade paperback, published by the authors, 1999. An account of life in northwest Conamara in the early to mid 20th century  A compendium of jottings, interviews, folklore poems and articles from and about west Connemara and...

Davis Coakley - Irish Masters of Medicine - HB

Hardcover, published by Town House Dublin, 1992.  A history of the medical professionals and doctors who have made an impact on medical research and practices, most from the 19th century.