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Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - BARRINGTON'S HOSPITAL EDITION ( Number 24 - Winter 1988 )

This 1988 edition covered all aspects of the history of the estyablishmnet and development of Barrington's Hospital and  the wider locality 144 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors General Editor Jim...

Steen Eiler Rasmussen - London : The Unique City - Vintage Pelican PB - 1961 ( Originally 1934)

This study of London and of English social history and manners traces the city's growth from its original walls, emphasizing how the lives of its people shaped the character of the city. Since its first publication in 1934, the book has become a minor...

Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings - Vintage Penguin PB 1982 ( Originally 880)

Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post–Reconstruction era Atlanta, and...

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms - PB - 1977

'A story of life and adventure in the bush and goldfields of Australia', Originally poublished in 1889, this paperback reprint 1977, as part of the Seal Books Australian Classics series.    Writing in the first person, the narrator Dick Marston...

Fred Johnston - Song at the Edge of the World -: Poems -PB ( Salmon Publishing) 1988

Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative in 1974, and founded Galway's annual...

Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995

A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page.   

Piers Anthony - Wielding a Red Sword ( Incarnations of Immortality Series - Book 4 ) - PB -1987

Published by Grafton Paperbacks UK, 1987. Cover art by Steve Crisp.  (Incarnations of Immortality is the name of an eight-book fantasy loosely linked series by Piers Anthony. The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time,...

Kevin Young - Most Way Home - SIgned HB - 1995

Published by Morrow USA, 1995, Signed by the author to the title page.  Condition - Book - very good, first printing, signed undedicated, clean internally throughout Condition - Dustjacket - closed tear on back cover ( about 6cm) diagonal from...

David R Slavitt - Equinox and Other Poems - PB - 1988

Louisiana State University Press, paperback, 1988.  In his 1988 volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various subjects. They are occasional, the that...

Ngaio Marsh - Final Curtain - Vintage Penguin PB 1959 ( Originally 1947)

Final Curtain is a 1947 crime novel by the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh, the fourteenth in her series of mysteries featuring Scotland Yard detective Roderick Alleyn.  Penguin paperback number 1261, creasing and edgewear to covers, binding tight,...

Barbara W Tuchman - A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century - PB 1984 ( Originally 1978)

Penguin PB 1984, reprint, originally 1978.  A classic of history writing. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into...

William Garner - Ennis Architectural Heritage - PB 1981 ( An Foras Forbartha)

Published by An Foras Forbartha 1981 - ( it was later absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency)  A copy book sized paperback, , 80 pages, a guide to the notable buildings and architecture of Ennis Town, County Clare.  Condition - very...

Kevin Donnelly, Michael Hoctor & Dermot Walsh - A Rising Tide - The Story of Limerick Harbour - PB -1994

A large format paperback, published 1994. Although the title is 'Limerick Harbour ' the content covers much of the history of shipping and port facilities in the wider Shannon estuary , including Foynes.  Illustrated throughout, 68 pages. Published...

David Hogan - The Four Glorious Years - HB 1st Edition 1953

The Four Glorious Years, published by the Irish Press , Dublin, 1953, the first edition.  Illustrated with photos, and portrait of the author. With index, previous gift inscription dated Easter 1953 on front endpages.  The story of the most...

Rosa N. Carey - Cousin Mona - HB - 1910

'The story of two girls suddenly bereft of their father- their mother having died during their childhood- and their trials is told in Miss Carey's interesting and inimitable way'  A reprint edition from the ' Religious Tract Society', who had issued...

Walter J Turner - Miss America : Altiora in the Sierra Nevada - HB -1930

A small format hardcover, published by Mandrake Press London, 1930.  Pale lemon yellow/ tan covers, lacks dustjacket ( if it had one originally) , 64 pages.  A poem sequence satirising the culture of the time. 

Rudolf Wittkower - Sculpture : Processes and Principles - HB 1977

A hardcover first edition, , published by Penguin Allen Lane , 1977.  Loosely laid in is a ( very postive) review clipped from the Daily Telegraph newspaper, dated 1/9/77.  in excellent condition, black and white photographs throughout...

Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 2016-2017 - PB ( VOLUME XX1 - PART 1)

Issued every two years , this is the 2016-2017 issue.  Contents -  John Wynn Baker et alii by Myro Kavanagh 7‘Weird and Wonderful Wart-Stones': Some Observations about the Bullaun Stones of County Kildare by Lorcan Harney and Stephen...

Wes Magee - No Man's Land - Poems - PB -1978

Published by Blackstaff Press, 1978, a review slip is loosely laid in. Unevern sunning to the red covers Magee was a teacher who published 4 collections of poetry for adults, and 80 books for young readers. The Very Best of Wes Magee was the...

Walter de la Mare - Pleasures and Speculations - HB - 1940

Hardcover, 1940, a collection of essays, literary criticism and essays on poetry and writing from the noted short story writer Lacks the origfinal dustjacket, a clean solidn copt in grey cloth covers, , titles in gilt to spine. Light edgewear, with...

C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983

Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon , asking for reviews .  0856161616

John Donne - Poetical Works - HB - ( Oxford Standard Authors Edition)

1967 Reprint of H.J.C. Grierson's 1933 edition published under the title: The Poems of John Donne, here as part of the Oxford Standard Authors as Poetical Works .  Hardcover in red dustjacket, there is a gift inscription on the inside front...

Gillian Clarke - Selected Poems - ( Carcanet Signature Series) PB 1985

Selected Poems, originally in Carcanet's Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years after publication.  Gillian Clarke combines traditional skills with a...

Walter Crane & Theo Marzials - Pan Pipes : A Book of Old Songs - Vintage HB

An illustrated hardcover, published by F. Warne & Co, Second Edition, artwork by Walter Crane, songs and music chosen by Theo Marzials . Undated. Words and music for 40 traditional songs with glorious colour illustrations.  Condition - the...

Iris Schweitzer - Twice Beneath the Ornok Tree - HB - Illustrated - 1984

Mrs Picabia has always wanted to leave the dark forest. And one day her wish comes true. She and Mr Picabia and twins Juniper and Rim, with the enigmatic croaki-bird in tow, decide to take to the open road in their renovated van. The search for the...

Richard & Alastair Fitter - The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe ( 3rd Edition) - PB -1978

P Pocketbook sized ( long and thin) - with laminate type covers ( someone added an additional adhesive Contact  covering also for durability)  All illustrations ( mostly from paintings rather than photographs) are in full colour, with guides on...

Walter Korn - Modern Chess Openings 11th Edition ( MCO 11) - HB 1974 ( First Published 1972)

Does exactly what it says on the tin.  A standard work of chess reference , the first edition appearing in the 1920's.  Published by Pitman .  Games are given in tabulated form , with a vast range of variants.  King's Pawn Openings,...

Tadhg Ó Dúshláine - Anois Teacht an Eala : Filí Chorcaí INNTI agus an Reabhlóid Chultúrtha - HB -2012

Foilsithe ag An Sagart, An Daingean, 2008, clúdach crua.  Cur síos ar cheathrar filí bunaithe i gcathair Chorcaigh a bhí bainnte le INNTI - Louis de Paor, Michael Davitt, Liam Uí Mhuirthile & Colm Breathnach...

Helen M. Roe - Monasterboice and its Monuments - PB

Published 2003 by the County Louth Archaeological & History Society, 78 pages, slim ' copybook' format, illustrated throughout.  This is the third edition, 2003, first published in 1981. 

Marguerite Marie Dubois - Saint Columban : A Pioneer of Western Civilization - PB - 1961

Published by Gill Books, paperback with flaps, 1961.  Translated from the original French by James O'Carroll.  ( Variously known as Columbanus, Columban or Columba )  In excellent condition.  Cover shows the statue of the saint at...

Evelyn Waugh - Put Out More Flags- HB - Illustrated -1999

Hardcover, published by Folio Society UK, 1999. Lacks the original slipcase.  Illustrations ( both on the wraparound cover art on the boards and internally) by John Holder. Rubbing ( edgewear) to upper edges of the covers.  Put Out More Flags,...

Evelyn Waugh - Black Mischief - HB - Illustrated -1999

Hardcover, published by Folio Society UK, 1999. Lacks the original slipcase.  Illustrations ( both on the wraparound cover art on the boards and internally) by John Holder. Rubbing ( edgewear) to upper edges of the covers.  Black Mischief was...

Padraic Fallon - A Look in the Mirror and Other Poems - PB -2003

Edited by Brian Fallon, introduction by Eavan Boland.  In excellent condition, Published by Carcanet UK, 2003.  There are poets who make sense in their poems,' writes Eavan Boland in her introduction to this book. 'And then there are poets who...

John Hewitt - Freehold and Other Poems - PB - 1986

Slim paperback, published by Blackstaff Press, 1986.  Light tanning to page block.  Freehold is a long poem from Hewitt, originally published in 1946 - 'exploring allegiances to people, place, politics and art against a vivid Ulster landscape'

C.R Williams - The History of Flintshire - From Earliest Times to the Act of Union - HB - 1961

Hardcover, published by Gee & Son, Denbigh, 1961. Illustrated throughout.  Larger format hardcover, in cream coloured dustjacket. Internally in very good condition.  Flintshire ( Sir y Fflint) is an historic county in North East Wales, just...

Alexandra Teague - The Wise and Foolish Builders - Poems - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated

Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland.  Published by Persea Books, USA, 2015.  A chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences, featuring Sarah Winchester (the rifle heiress) and her unsettling Mysterious...

Bill Berkson & Joe LeSueur - Homage to Frank o'Hara - PB

ISBN - 0916870294 , published by Creative Arts Book Company.  Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (1926 – 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art...

Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB

Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint.  I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem-from "Today's...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review...

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of...

Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985

Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985.  Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one...

Christopher Kemp - Late in the Empire of Men - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated

Signed and dedicated by Kempf to the late poet Eavan Boland.  Late in the Empire of Men, Kempf’s powerful debut collection, reads the author’s coming-of-age in Ohio and California against the westward trajectory of American history, a...

Robert Lowell - ( 3 BOOK LOT ) - Near the Ocean ( Faber HB 1967) & Interviews and Memoirs ( HB 1988) & Collected Prose - HB ( FSG, 1987)

Three titles on and from US poet Robert Lowell - (a) Interviews and Memoirs - HB University of Michigan Press, 1988, published after his death and with a host of reminiscences from other poets, academics , friends and colleagues. Edited by Jeffrey...

Mary Gordon - Seeing Through Places : Reflections on Geography and Identity - HB

The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City. Loosely laid in is a card from Scribner US editor Nan Graham...

Mark Doty - My Alexandria - PB -1995

My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic...

George Byron ( Lord Byron) - Selected Poetry - HB US Modern Library Edition 1954

Hardcover with green cloth covers, titles in gilt in black front and spine panels. Lacks the original dustjacket.  With index of titles, snall format hardcover, 645 pages. Edited with an introduction by Leslie Marchand.  Edgewear to the covers...

Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium - HB ( Review Copy) 1996

In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets.  Previous owner's name to front endpage ,...

Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959

Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives. The nameless...

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED PB -1995

Only a poet cradled in the idiom and experience of a place and period could write a book as authentic and compassionate as Turane.  Adroit service is rendered to nature, community and the imagination, by these compelling poems. Paperback,...

Christine Murray - Bind : A waking book - PB -Turas Press -2018

Published by Turas Press, signed and dedicated by the poet Christine Murray to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided the back cover blurb) , dated 2018.  Paperback "These elegant, impressionistic poems work with a fractured landscape, one that...