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Disney Comics - 5 HB 1980's ComicBook Lot

Published as part of the multi Volume Walt Disney Best Comics Series,  US editions, 1980, Published by Abbeville Press , New York All comic content in colour. Ecah are 32 page uniformly sized hardcovers.  Mickey Mouse joins the Foreign Legion-...

J.M Barrie - Courage : The Rectorial Address Delivered at St Andrews University May 3rd 1922

The boudn text of an essay given by Barrie in St Andrews University, 1922, the previous Gret War is alluded to in teh context of courage, which is the title and theme.  This looks to have been rebound  in dark blue covers with titles in gilt to...

James Day - Vaughan Williams ( The Master Musicians Series) 1964 ( Originally 1961)

Hardcover in dustjacket, a volume in the Master Musicians series of biographies of classical musicians.  1966, a revision of the 1964 original. Both a biography and a study of the British composer - ( 1872-1958), his life and his work . 

Philip Pullman - Grimm Tales - Fairy Tales Retold - PB

In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. From the quests and...

Walter Macken - The Silent People - HB 1st Edition - ( Irish Trilogy - Book 2 ) 1962

In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords ground down the tenant famers; tithe wars and injustice were rife. But Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and...

Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003

An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor.  The book is bound in...

Charles Dickens - The Life of Our Lord - HB 1st Edition 1934

First Edition, London 1934 Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens...

Clémence & Didier Krzentowski ( Editors) - The Complete Designers' Lights ( 1950-1990) - HB

Published by JRP|Ringier, Zurich. The Complete Designers’ Lights 1950-1990 Edited by Clémence & Didier Krzentowski. Text by Alex Coles, Pierre Doze, Didier Krzentowski, Constance Rubini. Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, the...

Marco Romanelli & Sandra Severi - Gino Sarfatti - Opere Scelte 1938-1973 Selected Works - ITALIAN LIGHTING DESIGN

A detailed guide to the life and design work of noted Italian designer Gino Sarfatti (1912–1985). After abandoning his studies in aeronautical engineering for financial reasons, Sarfatti founded the internationally renowned interior design firm...

Patrick Gallagher ( Pat the Cope) - My Story : A True Life Story in the Rosses - 1949 - DONEGAL - HB

Undated, a revised edition ( FIRST PUBLISHED 1948-9) of Patrick Gallagher's autobiography. published by Templecrone Co-Operatiev Society, Dungloe, County Donegal.    ‘This is a new kind of book to come out of Ireland, and it is written by...

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (Trade Paperback) 2005

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare...

Ewan Gibson & Áine Jackson (Editors) - Lifelines 2 : Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poem (Large Paperback)

Anthology of selected poems ( and reasons for choosing them ) by notable authors, TV personalities and many more. The choices are wide, many classic poems, and many lesser known .  Introduction by Paul Durcan .  Published by Town House, Dublin,...

Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné )

Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006.  A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) .  1st (and sole)  Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large...

Henry Edward Dennehy & James Coleman - History of Queenstown Co Cork - 1923 - HB

The 1923 second impression ( the first edition, also from 1923 , was a subscription edition) - based on lectures from 1872 ( which is perhaps why the older name of Queenstown is used, rather than Cobh) .  Paint splatter marks to front cover,...

Paul Durcan - Crazy About Women - PB

Published by the National Gallery of ireland, 1991.  Paul Durcan chose a selection of works from the Gallery's artworks, and wrote a selection of poems - some short, some long, in response to the artworks.  Paperback, full colour reproductions...

Jonathan Benington - Roderic O'Conor - HB -1992 ( A Biography with an Illustrated Catalogue of his Work)

Published by Irish Academic Press in 1992, a large format hardcover, with many full colour reproductions of O'Conor's work.  Previous owner's name on inside front cover, no other marks noted, clean and  in very good condition. 

Mark Smith & Jamie Thomson - Duel Master : Challenge of the Magi ( Book 1 & 2) - Vintage Fantasy Gamebook

Published by Armada UK, 1986. Both books are heavily creased, especially the front cover of Book 1.  Similar in some regards to the Ace of Aces book series, Duel Master takes 2 players, each with their own book, into competition with one another...

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone ( Fighting Fantasy - 6 Vintage PB)

During the 1980's , the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were consitent global bestsellers , and the 'Stve Jackson & Ian Livingstone Present ' series, published by Puffin, ran to over 50 books.  This set includes the following - with the usual proviso...

Irish Agriculture - Potato Varieties of Historical Interest in Ireland ( HB) & The Oak Park Potato Varieties ( PB) - 2 Book Lot

2 illustrated guide to historic potato varieties from Ireland - many of which are no longer cultivated comercially , but which are preserved for historic and genetic diversity / seedbank reasons.     

William Trevor - The Old Boys - PB 1984 ( Originally 1964) ( King Penguin)

The Old Boys by William Trevor - a novel of power, revenge, love and the failure of love from one of the world's best writersA group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of the President of the Old Boys Association. Jaraby...

Peter Murray - The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance - PB -1998 ( Revised 3rd Edition)

For the layperson who is interested in the evolution of Italian renaissance architecture, this is an excellent detailed introduction. It is easy to read without swamping the reader with architectual jargon, while remaining informative. The abundance of...

Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood : A Play For Voices - HB - Folio Society 1972

An illustrated edition of Welsh author Dylan Thomas's masterwork - Under Milk Wood.  Edited with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, illustrations ( which are lithographs) by Ceri Richards.  London, 1972, full text.  Lacks the original...

Robert Upstone - William Orpen : Politics Sex and Death - PB - 2005

This book, which accompanied a retrospective exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in January 2005, reappraises an artist who, at the time of his death in 1931, was probably the best-known painter in Britain. The book reveals the full variety of...

Feargal Quinn - Crowning the Customer : How to become Customer- Driven

How to become Customer Driven Customer service is the competitive business battleground of the twenty-first century. This book, by an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, is a hands-on guide for people who run businesses or work in them, written in...

Rudyard Kipling - Twenty One Tales - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, selected by Tim Wilkinson. Contains Pig; In the Rukh (the first appearance of Mowgli) and more. With b&w drawings by Ian Ribbons Scuffing to covers (especially to spine) - otherwise clean and unmarked...

Charlotte Bronte - Villette - HB Folio Society 1967

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of...

Hiroshi Unno - Harry Clarke : An Imaginative Genius in Illustrations and Stained-Glass Arts - PIE ( Hiroshi Unno Art Series )

Harry Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1889, he studied stained-glass at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and created a number of great works throughout his life. In 1913, he moved to London...

J Anthony Gaughan - Newman's University Church - HB 1997

Published by Kingdom Books, 1997. Previous owner's name to blank fronmt endpage.  In 1854, John Henry Newman, one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, was officially installed as the rector of the first Catholic university...

David Walsh - Looking Back : My Life in Four Parts - HB - SIGNED

HARDCOVER, SIGNED by the author  David Walsh who was in his 90's when this was published) was born in Cobh in 1928, left Ireland during WW2, becoming a mechanical engineer in the motor industry.  After returning to Ireland , he was instrumental...

Paula Rego - Jane Eyre - HB ( Illustrations) - 2004

Portuguese artistPaula Rego has long had a fascination with Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and Jean Rhys' "The Wide Sargasso Sea". In 2002 this culminated in the production of twenty-five lithographs, reproduced here in a large-format artist's book,...

Caroline Walsh - The Homes of Irish Writers - HB -1982

Published by Anvil Press Dublin, 1982. Hardcover. Illustrated with b&w photographs .  An illustrated guide to the homes of historic Irish writers , mostly from the 19th and early 20th century . 

Mark Laird & Alicia Weisberg-Roberts - Mrs Delany & her Circle - HB - 2009 ( Yale U.P )

Mary Delany (1700–1788), a prominent and accomplished woman whose friends included Queen Charlotte and George III, combined science and craft in her many creative endeavors. Smart, inquisitive, industrious, sociable, and twice widowed, Delany...

Francis Edwards ( Editor) - The Gunpowder Plot : The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond - HB - Folio Society

Heavy age spotting to the external blank slipcase. The internal book is not spotted , but does show scuffing to spine.  The Gunpowder Plot : The narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway / Translated from the Italian of the Stonyhurst manuscript,...

Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail : Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life - HB 1973 ( Folio Society)

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a...

Herbert Read & Nikos Stangos - The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists - PB

This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers historical styles and movements in the arts, and contains...

Standish O'Grady - The Story of Ireland - HB 1st Edition - 1894

  First Edition, published by Methuen , London 1894. An uncommon title. Green cloth binding (slighly faded, unevenly)  with titles in silver on the spine and front cover (which ihas a silver harp and four shamrocks as part of the design)...

Des Lavelle - The Skellig Story : Ancient Monastic Outpost - PB -2010

This compact book is an essential guide to the mystical Skellig islands. These islands, appearing like two jagged pyramids rising out of the ocean, lie seven miles off the west coast of Ireland. Both entirely uninhabited, the larger, Skellig Michael,...

George & Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody - HB - Folio Society 5th Impression1977

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book form, with...

Edward Fitzgerald ( Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1970

Illustrations by Virgil Burnett.  A slim beautiful book, beautifully manufactured and illustrated.  Folio Society , London, 1970. Light rubbing and edgewear to teh gilt effect slipcase, the book itself is unmarked and in excellent condition...

J.R O'Flanagan - The River Blackwater in Munster - HB -1975 Facsimile Edition ( Originally 1844)

Originally published in 1844, this is a full facsimile edition , published by Tower Books, cORK, 1975.  Hardcover with illustrations in dustjacket, there is a period plastic cover protecting the jacket. Fold out ( period) facsimile map of the river...

Garret FitzGerald - Ireland in the World : Further Reflections - HB

A collection of essays, many of which had not previously appeared in print, on Irish history and politics, contemporary Irish society and world affairs by twice former Taoiseach and respected columnist Garret Fitzgerald.  Dr. Garret FitzGerald was...

Einhard - Life of Charlemagne ( Vita Karoli Magni) - HB SLIPCASED - Folio

Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three...

Seamus Heaney - Field Work - Faber PB

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to...

Seamus Heaney - Electric Light - Faber PB

 Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a...

Seamus Heaney - The Haw Lantern - Faber PB

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation...

Seamus Heaney - Wintering Out - PB - Faber

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation...

Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark - PB - Faber

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the...

Pat Dargan - Exploring Georgian Limerick - PB - 2012

This guide provides an overview of Georgian Limerick, its beginnings and emergence, its Baroque planning, its open spaces and classically inspired architecture. The individuals responsible for the developments are introduced, together with the forces...

Graham Greene - Travels with my Aunt ( Vintage Penguin PB) 1971

A novel which follows a man who embarks on a journey around the world with his elderly yet adventurous aunt, visiting locations such as Paris and Paraguay, mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA Agents. This vintage Penguin PB reprint, 1971 Usual...

Charles Dickens ( Rosalind Vallance - Editor) / Dickens' London - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Compiled chiefly from 'Sketches by Boz' and 'The uncommercial traveller.' In slipcase. Contents; Introduction -- Gone astray -- The streets -- morning -- Greenwich Fair -- Early coaches -- Private theatres -- A Parliamentary sketch -- Gin-shops --...

A.S Pushkin - The Queen of Spades | The Captain's Daughter - HB Slipcased Folio

As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity.These are stories that upend expectations at every...

Robert Hughes - The Shock of the New : Art and the Century of Change ( Updated Edition 1991) - PB

Robert Hughes (1938 - 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written...