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Albert Camus - The Fall ( Vintage Penguin PB 1972 ) Translated Justin O'Brien

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Justin O'Brien, in this Penguin reprint edition 1972. Jean-Baptiste...

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...

Andrew Boyd - The Rise of the Irish Trade Unions 1729- 1970 - Vintage Anvil Press Edition

Published by Anvil Press, 1976 reprint - originally 1972 , this is a standard work on Irish Trade Union history, by journalist and lecturer Brian Boyd, of Queens University Belfast.  Condition - mark from a peeled label on back cover, fade to spine,...

Paddy Devlin- The Fall of the N.I Executive 1974 - PB 1st Ed Northern Ireland

Published by Anvil Press /Kerryman, this is Paddy Devlin's collection of essays and commentary on the circumstances that led to the fall of the first Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Paddy Devlin, formerly a union organiser,  was one of the...

Patrick C Power - A Literary History of Ireland - Vintage Mercier Press PB 1969

 A paperback first edition, Mercier Press, Cork,  1969, of Patrick Power's study of Irish literature and writing ( mostly concentrating ON Irish writing as Gaeilge, from circa 900 to the 1950'S . Also includes an outline study of Irish writing...

John Creasey - Kill The Toff - Panther Books - 1963 - 1st Pb Edition Vintage Crime

Judith Lorne is distraught; her fiance, James Mellor, has disappeared. He's accused of murder - something she finds impossible to believe. But the man Clarissa Arden also knows as James Mellor is quite capable of committing murder. James, meanwhile, is...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1969 ED

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press.Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to bring a maverick priest, James Phelan, back into...