Vintage Used & Collectible Books - NEWLY ADDED

Maura Laverty - The Milky Way Cookbook - PB - 1954

A small format paperback, 1954, issued by the Condensed Milk Company of Ireland , Lansdowne , Limerick City ( a part of the Cleeves manufacturing organisation) .  The emphasis on this is the use of Condensed milk produced by the company in a variety...

Rona M. Fields - A Society on the Run : A Psychology of Northern Ireland - PB

The US psychologist Rona M. Field's book A Society on the Run (1973) offered a psychological account of the nature and effects of the Northern Irish Troubles at their peak in the early 1970s. The book was withdrawn shortly after publication by...

J.A Bristow & A.A Tait - Economic Policy in Ireland - HB 1968

Published by the IPA, 1968.  One of eth first series studies of Irish macroeconomic policy , as it stood in the decade before EEC entry. Covers topics such as taxation, budgetary policy, monetary policy, employment, public employment and industrial...

Emmet Larkin - James Larkin : Irish Labour Leader 1876-1947 Biography - HB - 1965

A hardcover first edition, 1965, of Emmet Larkin's biography of James ( Jim ) Larkin, the noted Labour leader, organiser, socialist, orator and agitator, and icon of the left.  Larkin was a hugely influential labour leader, involved in socialist...

Barbara W. Tuchman - The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War - 1890-1914 - HB

A US first edition, 1965, from the author of the bestselling Guns of August . '   Examines Western society in the decades leading up to WW1 - looking at societies in France, Britain, Germany and the USA, as well as mass movements such as socialism...

Arnold Haskell - Ballet : A Complete Guide to Appreciation : History, Aesthetics, Ballets , Dancers- Vintage Penguin 1951 HB

First published 1938, this is a reprinted revised edition 1951.  Hardcover, Penguin. Uneven sun coloration to spine. Internally unmarked.  Penguin ( Bound PELICAN ) A122

Frank O'Connor - Guests of the Nation - Vintage PB 1979 ( Originally 1931 ) - Short Stories

This collection of stories centers on the theme of the Irish Revolution. O'Connor is concerned with the way in which war imposes a false and cruel ethic on people, ruthlessly destroying human relationships. The title story has been widely acknowledged as...

John Banville - Kepler ( HB UK First Edition 1981)

Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge’ Observer Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler, by John Banville,...

Bernard Mac Laverty - Cal ( HB 1983 US Edition )

Originally published 1983 in the UK, this is a US third printing of the First Edition.  For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple...He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a...

P.J Taylor - Mam Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1969-1971 - HB - Limerick - SIGNED

  The third book by the author, following on from Between the Three Bridges, and Who's Sorry Now. Covers the period 1969-71, after the death of the author's mother, and his marriage.  Signed by the author to the title page.  Hardback 2013...

Michael Farrell - Northern Ireland : The Orange State - PB 2nd Edition 1980 ( Originally 1976)

Despite being a very inflential title, this book remains hard to come by, in either the first edition or in subsequent reprints This is a 2nd edition 1980 ( the first edition was 1976, and the second edition 1980, both from the original publisher Pluto...

Michael Farrell - Northern Ireland : The Orange State - PB 2nd Edition, 2nd Impression 1982 ( Originally 1976)

Despite being a very inflential title, this book remains hard to come by, in either the first edition or in subsequent reprints This is a 2nd edition 2nd impression 1982 ( the first edition was 1976, and the second edition 1980, both from the original...

Billy Hayes & William Hoffer / Midnight Express ( Film Tie In )

  For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 in a Turkish...

Gladys Davidson - Standard Stories From the Operas - HB - 1947 ( Originally 1944)

Hardcover, published by T Werner Laurie, in this reprint ( combined Edition) 1947. Originally 1944.  Gives the story in text form, in English of 154 major operas and operettas, as well as short biographies of the composers. Illustrated, and arranged...

Limerick Leader Publications - Yesteryears : A Photographic Trip Down Memory Lane - PB

Published by the Limerick Leader mewspaper, 2017, this is a collection of news photographs from the paper's archives, from the 1950's to the 1990's.  162 pages, all photographs in black and white. 

Denis O'Shaughnessy - How's Your Father : Stories of Limerick - Signed PB 2002 - Local History & Photography

A signed dedicated first edition, 2002, of Denis O'Shaughnessy's How's Your Father , one of his sought after books on Limerick city local history , illustrated with a selection of photographs, some unique to the book.  134 pages, in excellent...

Larry Walsh ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 41 - Winter 2005 )

The 2005 edition of the Old Limerick Journal, edited by Larry Walsh, cover image of the then newly installed statue of the Bard of Thomond 44 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors.  Stapled,  large format...

Larry Walsh ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 42 - Winter 2006 )

The 2006 edition of the Old Limerick Journal, edited by Larry Walsh, cover image of proposed 1916 memorial by Albert Power 40 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors.  Stapled,  large format journal format...

Tom Donovan( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 48 - Winter 2014 )

The 2014 edition of the Old Limerick Journal, edited by Tom Donovan, cover image of Major O'Shaughnessy 72 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors.  Stapled,  large format journal format.  For Limerick's...

Tom Donovan( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - ( Number 45 - Winter 2011 )

The 2011 edition of the Old Limerick Journal, edited by Tom Donovan, cover image is that of the Tim Leonard, a Columban priest 60 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors.  Stapled,  large format journal...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 5

Volume 5 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.    LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK, photographs in black and...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 13

Volume 13 (Published 2014)  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.    LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK,...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 3

Volume 3 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.    LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK, photographs in black and...

Edward Whelan - Ranks Mills : The Industrial Heart of Limerick City - HB

Minimal edge wear to boards. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs. The book tells the stories, memories and contributions of former Ranks workers and their families and how a world-class milling operation on the Dock Road became...

T.H White - The Goshawk ( NYRB Edition) - PB 2007 ( Originally 1951)

No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage or gratitude...

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - PB 1979 ( Originally 1977)

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling back into the light. It is a very wide canvas and all...

Judith Hoad - This is Donegal Tweed : The Traditional Techniques, The History The People Behind the Famous Textile - PB 1987

Published by Inver Publications, Donegal, 1987, larger format paperback, illustrated throughout.  Welsh born author Judith Hoad was herself an experienced craftsperson, a and thus had a keen insider's insight into tweed making, spinning dyeing and...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's.   

Charles Hultman - Ireland in World Commerce - Vintage Mercier PB - 1969

A guide to Irish economy in the 1960's , with a look to the ( then future) econoimic growth, written in 1969 just a few years before membership of the EEC was to begin trsnforming Ireland economically.  Hultman was a Fulbright Scholar at UCC Cork in...

Brendan Behan - Borstal Boy - Vintage Corgi PB 1980 ( Originally 1958)

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.'So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life...

John M Feehan - The Magic of the Kerry Coast - PB

The Magic of the Kerry Coast , John M Feehan, Mercier Press , 1979 John Feehan was an accomplished sailor. He began his odyssey in Crookhaven and continues the journey to The Blasket Islands and Dingle. Tipperary born John Feehan was the owner/ editor of...

James N Healy, The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads Volume 2 : History and Politics

Paperback, published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1969 A standalone selection of political and historical themed street ballads and songs, volume 2 of a projected 7 book series. Many ballads in the collection refer to the main events of Irish history from the...

Sean Cronin & Richard Roche - Freedom the Wolfe Tone Way - Vintage PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973, ''brings slap up to date the enduring message of brotherhood which Tone bequeathed us, and relates that message to the problems of Ireland in the 1970's A detailed selection of Ton'es own writings, with an introduction by...

William Carleton - Wildgoose Lodge and Other Stories - Vintage Mercier PB ( Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry - Volume 1)

The Mercier Press Ltd, 1973. Paperback. First Edition, thus.  The Mercier Press Ltd: Dublin, 1973. .  Yellow black and white pictorial covers. Small sticker mark to cover, scuffing to back covers.   Internally clean copy. No...

Standish O'Grady - The Flight of the Eagle ( Mercier Irish Classics PB - 1980)

ISBN-085342618X Published by Mercier Cork, 1980, this edition is ( slightly) abridged by Úna Morrissy.  No imaginative writer could devise a more romantic and thrilling tale than the true story of the kidnapping of young Hugh Roe O'Donnell...

Hans Küng - On Being a Christian - HB -1977

Hardcover, first English language edition, 1977, ( originally 1974) translated by Edward Quinn.  An international bestseller by one of this century's most prominent theologians, On Being a Christian is a work of exhaustive scholarship,...

Bébhinn Ní Mheadhra - Faoi Rún - HB - As Gaeilge

Foilsithe ag An Gúm, clúdach crua.  1993, glan istigh is amuigh.   

Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988

Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic .  Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's .  Previous owner's name on front...

Marijke Reesink & Francoise Trésy - An Banphrionsa a d'imíodh ar fán -HB - As Gaeilge 1980

Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Siobhán Denman. Foilsithe ar dtús mar Het Prinsesje dat Altijd Wegliep , Rotterdam.  Foilsithe ag An Gúm, 1980. 

Clare GAA Yearbook 2014 - Bliainiris an Chláir PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The CLARE GAA Yearbook, 2014 published by Clare County Board, Ennis.  180 pages, large format paperback, very good , apart from bumped crease to lower corners . Full colour photography throughout, and full local and club coverage.  Scuffing to...

Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Fairy Tales - PB 1980 ( Originally 1958)

This edition 1980, originally published by Frederick Muller in 1958, and collated from an earlier edition of 1892 Suitable for all ages , the edition was not necessarily aimed at children , but the text is fine for 8-12 readership upwards to...

Hermann Multhaupt - Die Geheimnisvolle Quelle : Märchen und Legenden aus Irland

Diese irischen Märchen sind etwas ganz besonderes.  Published by Benno , Leipzig, hardcover

Brian Moore - I Am Mary Dunne - PB 1977 ( Originally 1968)

First published in 1968 , I Am Mary Dunne follows one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the...

W.S Merwin - The Shadow of Sirius - HB - 2008

Hardcover, first edition, Copper Cnayon Press USA, 2008.  Publisher AI ( advance info ) pages laid in loosely.  US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured...

Pádraig Ó Siochrú - The Demon King of Munster - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Kildanore Press 1991. Aimed at an 8-10 age readership.  A terrible evil is inflicted upon King Cathal of Munster by his rival for the high Kingship of Ireland, King Feargal of Ulster... A tale of humour and adventure from...

Fergus Kelly - A Guide to Early Irish Law - HB ( D.I.A.S- Early Irish Law Series Volume III) )

Deborah Tall - The Island of the White Cow : Memories of an Irish Island - HB 1986

Published by André Deutsch, 1986. Hardcover, 0233978852, Publisher's slip loosely laid in.  In 1972, Deborah Tall, then a student in her final year at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, went to live on the island of Inishbofin, County...

Jonathan Riley Smith - The Crusades : A Short History - HB 1987

Published by the Athlone Press, London, 1987. Light bumps and edgewear to the upper corners.  In this authoritative work, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides the definitive account of the an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the...

Flame Tree Publishing / Agents and Spies - Short Stories - HB -2017

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber...

A. A. Kelly ( Editor) - Pillars of the House : An Anthology of Verse - PB

Published by Wolfhound, Dublin, 1987.  An anthology of hisrorical verse and poetry written by Irish women, from 1690 onwards - over 140 poems from over 80 writers.  PB  

Francis Devine & Kieran Jack McGinley - Left Lives in Twentieth Century Ireland Volume 2 - PB - SIGNED - 2019

Published by Umiskin Press, Dublin, 2019.  Signed to the the title page by some of the contributors - Des Derwin, Mags 'Brien, and editor Francis Devine. also signed by the subject of one of the essays, Sam Nolan.  Light edgewear to covers ,...

Peter Biskind - Pandora's Box : The Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television - HB - 2023

From The Sopranos to streaming: the scandalous behind-the-screens story of the TV revolution by the author of the cult film classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls . The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things , the shows we watch -...