Vintage Used & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

Eve Grubin - Morning Prayer ( Poems) - PB - Signed and Dedicated - 2005

Published by the Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY, 2005 This copy is signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland.    "In her strong, spare debut, Grubin writes from, and about, her Jewish faith, exploring and...

Nicole Cooley - Milk Dress ( Poems) - PB 2010 - Signed & Dedicated

Published by Alice James Books, Farmington, Maine, 2010.  Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb on the back cover)  In this cool, manifold chronicle of motherhood, Nicole Cooley tackles the...

Maureen Grady - Unpack my Heart With Words - Pb - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2015

From the first poem to the last one, you will find yourself in the thrall of this poet's poet, who conjures from her Irish roots the song of the holy well. Maureen Grady opened my heart and packed it with such beautiful words, that I found myself crying...

Bruce Snider - Paradise, Indiana ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2012

  Signed , dated and dedicated by the poet Bruce Snider to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb for the back cover) ( 2012)   A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish...

Rachel Richardson - Copperhead ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated 2011

These sinewy, sensuous poems lead down dusty Louisiana backroads, where anything might be lurking: family secrets, rusted relics, a viper. In Copperhead, her debut collection, Rachel Richardson pays homage to the folklore and myth of an Old South that is...

J.A Nairn & G.A Nairn - Greek Through Reading - HB 1967 ( Originally 1952)

Hardcover, the 7th impression1967, published by Ginn & Company, London Edgewear to teh covers Intended as a ' practice reader' for students of classic Greek, with notes, vocabulary, and an extensive grammar section. 

Carol Ann Duffy - Mean Time - PB - 1993 ( With Signed Postcard)

Loosely laid in is a signed addressed posted postcard from Carol Ann Duffy to fellow poet Eavan Boland. ( the book itself is unsigned)  In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from...

Robert Southey - A Choice of Southey's Verse - Vintage PB - 1970

Published by Faber 1970, selected by and with an introduction by Geoffrey Grigson 0571090567  

Lucius Shepard - Life During Wartime - PB

In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone...

Brendan Ryan - A Land by the River of God : A History of Ferbane Parish - HB 1994

Hardcover, first edition ( and sole printing), published 1994 by the author and St Mel's Diocesan Trust.   An uncommon title.  Ferbane is a large markey town in Offaly, this book covers th history of the town , it's growth ande development...

Hugh Dorian - The Outer Edge of Ulster : A Memoir of Social lIfe in Nineteenth-Century Donegal - HB - 2000 ( Edited by Breandán Mac Suibhne & David Dickson)

In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled ‘Donegal Sixty Years Ago’. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication,...

Cormac ó Cadhlaigh - Gnás na Gaeilge - HB - 1940 ( Gramadach na Gaeilge)

Foilsithe ag An Gúm / Oifig an tSolatháir 1940, ceann go mhór theidil gramadaí na linne .  Ba leachtóir le Gaeilge ag Ollscoil Mhaigh Nuad é an t-údar Sa sean chló ( Cló Ceilteach...

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God - PB

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN 'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON 'Devilishly funny and academically solid:...

Rose Ausländer - 36 Gerechte : Gedichte - HB - SIGNED - 1967

Hardcover, first edition, published by Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1967 Signed and dedicated 'fur Nina Sorisiu (?) ( surname unclear) mit dank, Rose Auslander, San Francisco 24.7.68' In a ( period) protective jacket cover, the dustkacket shows...

Pat Boran ( Editor) - Flowing Still : Irish Poets on Irish Poetry - PB - 2009

Published by Dedalus Press, Dublin , edited by Pat Boran, there is a loosely laid in signed postcard signed by the editor Pat Boran, no othe rmarks otr damage/ inscriptions Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade...

Nelly Sachs - O The Chimneys : Selected Poems - HB -1967

This is a former (US) Houston public library copy, with a pocket inside back cover, various Discarded' stamps tpo endpages. The cover is in a plastic Brodart jacket protector, which is glued to the inside of the front and rear endpages. There is also an...

Claude Edmonde Magny - Arthur Rimbaud ( Poétes d'aujourd' hui ) - PB - 1949 )

Text entirely in French A selection of poems from the noted French poet, as well as a biography of his life , with photographs .  Paris, 1949. 

John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton

  John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused...

William B Yeats - A Vision - PB ( Originally 1937)

Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published as a small press edition in 1925,...

Homer - The Odyssey ( Penguin Paperback - 1991 Reprint) - Translated by E.V Rieu

'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' Guardian The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 7 ( 2007)

Volume 7 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Condition - Good, internally unmarked, slight dogear to...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 1 ( 2001)

Volume 1 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Gift inscription dated Dec 2001 on the inside fronmt...

Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1968 - Ireland 1915-22 - War of Independence

Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1966   The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not...

Sean O'Faolain - Foreign Affairs and Other Stories - Vintage PB - 1978 ( Originally 1971)

A collection of 8 stories - 'they deal with love and strangeness, from dublin to Brussels to the crumbled remains of ancient Sybaris, delineating with wit and colour the silent spaces between lovers' Light tanning to page block, ghost mark from previous...

Robert Harris- The Second Sleep - SIGNED 1st Edition- HB - 2019

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins,...

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock - PB Brand New - Classic Crime

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE'I read Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwanA...

Alexander Solzenhitsyn- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - HB Everyman Library Edition

Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition...