Vintage, Used & Collectible Books - March 2026

Isaac Asimov - Space Ranger ( Space Ranger Series - Book 1) - PB 1973 ( Originally 1952)

Paperback, published by NEL paperbacks, 1973, first published in 1952, the first book in the David Starr, Space Ranger series. Previous owner's signature to top of title page  

Arthur C Clarke - Imperial Earth (Vintage Pan PB) 1977

   The year is 2276. On the world of Titan, an outer planet of Saturn, Duncan Mackenzie and many other colonists are about to leave their homeland for bicentennial celebrations on Earth. But for Duncan, the journey is also a delicate mission...

Pat McGinty - I Have Often Wondered - HB - Mayo Biography

Hardcover, published 2012, signed and dedicated by the author to the title page.  Pat McGinty was born in Castelbar in 1938, his mother was in the Tuam Mother and Baby home, and subsequently moved to Scotland without him, leaving him in the casre of...

Danny Sugerman - Wonderland Avenue ( Ubersetzt von Denis Scheck) - GERMAN EDITION

Paperback, published by Heyne Germany , 1991.  Danny Sugerman ist dreizehn Jahre alt, als er bei einem Konzert Jim Morrison kennenlernt, den legendären Sänger der Doors. Die Begegnung verändert Dannys Leben für immer. Bislang hat...

Elisabeth Batt - The Moncks and Charleville House : A Wicklow Family in the Nineteenth Century - HB - 1979

Hardcover, published by Blackwater Press ( an imprint of Folens) , 1979. Moderate to heavy edgewear to the dustjacket, esp at corners. Internally very good.    The Monck family of County Wicklow, Ireland between the early 1600s and the early...

Martin Steer - Irish Rivers : Biology and Management - PB - RIA

Paperback, published by RIA , 1991, edited by Martin Steer.  This copy is signed by the former FF Tánaiste ,  John P Wilson, and dated 1991. 

National Library of Ireland - The James Joyce Paul Léon Papers - A Catalogue ( Compiled by Catherien Fahy)

An index to the letters from the collection held by the National Library of Ireland, with brief  notes and notes on content on each letter.  This copy bears the signature of former FF Tánaiste John P Wilson, from his library, dated ...

Nioclás Breathnach - Cleasaithe - PB - 1993

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, 1993, i gcomhar le Coláiste na Rinne. 

J.F.D Shrewsbury - A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles -HB - 1971

A hardcover reprint, Cambridge University Press, 1971, originally published in 1970.  Condition - Very good, solid in grety cloth, in a grey / cream dustjacket that shows age spotting to edges .  England is the focus of the majority of the...

George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

Simon Kelly - Breakfast with Anglo - PB - 2010

Simon Kelly's involvement in property development began when, as a computer-mad child in the 1980s, he started making spreadsheets for his father, the developer Paddy Kelly. By 2008, when the Irish property market crashed, Simon and Paddy owed their...

Geoffrey Parker - Philip II - HB 1979

Hardcover, published by Hutchinson UK, 1979.  Philip II (1527-1598) is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her...

Liam Mac Cóil - The Book of Blackrock -PB - 1981 ( 2nd Edition)

2nd edition, published by Carraig Books Blackrock, 1981, ( the first edition was 1977)  Fold out map inside the back cover, previous woner's gift inscription on inside front cover .  ''a book on the town of Blackrock comprising the history of...

Grania R. O'Brien - These My Friends and Forebears : The O'Briens of Dromoland - HB - 1991

Hardcover, published by Ballinakella Press, 1991. A family history of the O'Briens of Dromoland ( and the three houses bore that name over 8 generations) .  Grania O'Brien ( born 1928) known as the last member of the O'Brien family to reside in...

Saint Augustine - Confessions - HB - Translated by E.B Pusey - 1970 Reprint

Saint Augustine's Confessions - ( Augustine of Hippo), published in this reprint edition as part of the Everyman Library series, 1970, small format hardcover .  This is a former school library reference copy, with school \ library stamps to inside...

Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics HB 1923 Reprint - Translated by J.E.C Welldon

Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system.  Light edgewear. Ink mark on lower spine. 'One swallow does not...

Anatoly Karpov & Aleksandr Roshal - Chess is My Lif - PB

Paperback, published by Pergamon Press, as part of the Russian Chess Series, 1980.  Both a  description of Karpov's rise to prominence in global chess, and a large selection ofhis games. annotated by himself. 

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters - PB ( Persephone Books Edition) 2007 ( Originally 1943)

J Fleetwood Berry - The Story of Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church Galway - PB

Paperback, a modern reprint ( facsimile edition) republished 1989, originally 1912.  Price sticker residue from a tag on front cover. PB Illustrated.  St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in Galway, founded around 1320, is the largest medieval...

Kathleen Moloughney - Roscrea, My Heart's Home - PB

1992, paperback, published by the Roscrea People newspaper.  Local history and family genealogy from and about Roscrea town. 

C.S Lewis - Prince Caspian ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 4 ) Vintage Puffin PB 1973 ( Originally 1951)

Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art  and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.The Pevensie siblings travel back to Narnia to...

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians - Vintage HB - 1932

 Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General GordonLytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern...

R.G Wade, Raymond Bott & Stanley Morrison - Chess Tactics _ Puzzles For Beginners - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Lutterworth Press UK, 1979 reprint, originally 1970.  ''designed to provide the keen chess player with a series of basic examples of chess tactics and a large number of puzzles which will prove of  great value as...

Rex Warner - Men and Gods - HB ( 1967) Origianally 1950 ( Greek Mythology)

A hardcover 1967 New Windmill Series reprint, originally 1950. Hardcpover, illustrated boards.  The classic greek myths retold by Warner, using the classical texts ( particularly Ovid) as basis.  Presents modern retellings of classic myths and...

Raymond Smullyan - The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes : 50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection - PB

Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen...

Dell Shannon - The Ace of Spades - HB - 1976 ( Originally 1961)

The Ace of Spades continues the case histories of Mendoza, the Mexican detective of the Los Angeles Police Department. Lt. Mendoza specializes in homicides … he has brains, uncanny flair, wealth, a passion for justice and Abyssinian cats. He has a...

Belinda Probert - Beyond Orange & Green : The Northern Ireland Crisis in a New Perspective - PB - 1978

Published by The Academy Press, Dublin in 1978. Paperback, slight wear to page edges and corners of dust jacket.   Beyond Orange and Green is a new in-depth study of Irish history and politics aimed at discovering where the real interests of the...

Sara Berkeley - The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1991. A collection of short stories.  A businessman is mesmerized by the woman he follows from a London tube. A Dublin mother raises her children alone. A married woman in San Francisco desperately...

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations - HB US Modern Library Edition 1937

The full title is ' An Inqiury into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' edited and with an introduction by Edwin Cannan. Lacks original dustjacket, edgewear to covers.  It is symbolic that Adam Smith's masterpiece of economic analysis,...

J.M.G Le Clézio - Ritournelle de la Faim - Gallimard PB 2008

Paperback, published by Gallimard, Paris , 2008.  Ritournelle de la faim (The Same Old Story of Hunger, or The Refrain of Hunger) is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it deals...

Denis Cotter - What the Doctor Ordered : A Third Bantry Anthology - PB -2002

Paperback, 2002, published by the nicely named Pooky Paw Press. The third collection of local history of Bantry in Cork, illustrated throughout.  Previous owner's name to blank endpage. 

Arthur C. Clarke - the Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955 (

Paperback, Sphere SF UK, this edition 1976, originally 1973. Tanning to pages.  9 • 1933: A Science-Fiction Odyssey • (1973) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke15 • Travel by Wire! • (1937) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke21...

Gollancz SF / Let's Go to Golgotha ( Sunday Times Best SF Stories) - Panther PB 1979

Paperback, originally published in 1975 in hardcover, with an introduction and partly selcted by Brian Aldiss. 8 short stories and novellas.  Sunfade to spine.    7 • Introduction (Gollancz—Sunday Times Best SF Stories)? •...

Saint Luke - The Acts of the Apostles (Penguin Classics) Translated by C.H Rieu

Penguin Classics paperback, (L56) 1958, first published in 1957.  In very good unmarked condition.  A full ( and then new) translation of the Acts of the Apostles, with maps, notes etc. 

Andrew O'Gorman - A Handbook for the Licenced Trade - SIGNED - PB 1994

Originally from Tipperary, Newport and Emly native Andrew o'Gorman was the author of many excellent books on the licensed trade, an honorary life member of the Irish Guild of Sommeliers, and former Head of Department at DIT running licensed trade courses...

James Morier - The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan ( Iran) - 2 Vol HB - 1895

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan is a satirical Oriental novel, written in 1824 by James Justinian Morier, a former British envoy who lived in Qajar dynasty Iran (Persia) in 1808–1809 and 1810–1814, amidst the diplomatic difficulties...

Denis Browne - Westport House and the Brownes - HB - 1981

Originally published 1981, this is the account by Denis Browne, 10th Marquess , and resident of Westport house - covering the long history of the house, the estate, the family and the county and town around it.  In very good condition, illustrated...

Maurice Walsh - Danger under the Moon - HB 1980

Hardcover reprint, Chambers UK, 1980. 

Bertolt Brecht - Life Of Galileo ( PB - Translated by John Willett) Methuen PB

This Methuen Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and...

León Ó Broin - Parnell : Beathaisnéis - HB Athchló 1955

Beathaisnéis (an dara cló, 1956) faoi shaol J.S Parnell, foilsithe ar dtús i 1937, clúdach crua.  Dustdarkeing to page block, scuffing to covers, lacks dustjacket. 

Brendan Fullam - Legends of the Ash : HB 1998 - Hurling

A tribute to the game of hurling. This book covers the entire span of the GAA. It includes those who are still playing, camogie players, some who have retired, and many of hurling's famous figures. The third title in a trilogy which includes Giants of...

Enid Blyton - 8 Famous Five Books - Five go off to Camp, Five Get Into Trouble, Five Have Plenty of Fun, Five Go to Smuggler's Top, Five Run Away Together, Five Fal Into Adventure, Five on Kirrin Island Again, Five Are Togetehr Again

7 vintage used paperbacks from the bestselling Favous Five series, in uniform 1972/3 editions from Knight ( Green Knight - Brockhampton Press)  ALL WITH HEAVY AGE TANNING TO PAGES, EDGEWEAR TO COVERS (see photos for condition guide) Pastel spines...

W P Burke - Irish Priests in the Penal Times - HB - 1969

Hardcover, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, 1969 ( copyright date 1968, with an introduction by Patrick Corish, a facsimile of the original 1914 edition, published in Waterford by N Harvey & Co.  Internally very good, the cream...

Patrick Murray ( Editor) - The Deer's Cry : A Treasury of Irish Religious Verse - PB - 1986

A collection of '300 great poems by 130 of the greatest Irish poets, both contemporary and classical, spanning more than a thousand years'. Foreword by Brendan Kennelly, paperback,  Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1986. In very good condition, slight...

Ralph Whitlock - In Search of Lost Gods : A Guide to British Folklore - PB -

the sight of people performing actions that seem superficially strange prompts an inquiry into not only what they are doing but why. In the context of folklore the participants often do not know the answer. They are repeating a ritual inherited from...

Ian Finlay - The Trams of Ireland in Old Picture Postcards - HB

Hardcover, published by European Library / Zaltbommel, Netherlands.  A small format hardcover, with an array of photographic postcards ( most from pre WW1) of Belfast, Dublin and Cork, showing streetviews with trams , both electric and horse drawn...

Curriculum Development Unit ( Edited by Paul O'Sullivan) - A World of Stone - The Aran Islands - PB 1977

Inishmore, Inishmeáin, Inisheer: wild, isolated, starkly beautiful and of great historical importance.Lying in the Atlantic Ocean off Galway Bay, the Aran Islands are a place apart. Here island life has preserved many aspects of Irish culture -...

Colleen Hoover - It Starts With Us | It Ends With US - 2 X PB

2 Colleen Hoover paperback copieds of  It Ends With Us ( Originally 2016, reprint)  It Starts With Us - ( Originally 2022, reprint) A prequel to the original , but published after It Ends With Us ( somewhat confusingly)  Light edgewear...

Nathalie Anderson ( Editor) - Open-Eyed, Full-Throated : An Anthology of American /Irish Poets - PB

Paperback, published by Arlen House 2019, there is a bookshop sticker on teh back cover, light edgewear, otherwise internally as new.  Open-Eyed, Full-Throated introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the complexity and nuance of Irish...

Charles Breunig - The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789-1850 ( 2nd Edition) - PB 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally 1970, a standalone volume in teh wider Norton History of Modern Europe series

Michael Kirby - Skelligs Sunset - PB ( Skelligs Trilogy - Book 3 )

Skelligs Sunset, a posthumous volume of work in English by Michael Kirby, is the final part in his trilogy of memoir, storytelling and poetry begun with Skelligside (1990) and Skelligs Calling (2003). This remarkable writer, farmer-fisherman and painter...

Jerome Quinn - Ulster Gaelic Games Annual 1994 - PB

Paperback, published in association with Bass Brewing, 1994. The early 1990's were somewhat of a golden era for Ulster Football, with a succession of teams winning the All Ireland.  Illustrated.