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Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG631 Vyvyan Holland - Oscar Wilde and his World - HB - 1979 A 1979 reprint ( updated) of the original 1966 edition, issued as part of the Thames & Hudson series of artist and writer biographies. Illustrated throughout, exploreds and examines Wilde in the context of the era in art, society and literature... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED739 Louis MacNeice - The Strings Are False : An Unfinished Autobiography- HB -1965 Edgewear to covers, spotting to back cover ( including small ink stain) First Faber printing, London 1965. Frontis of author. An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published for the first time after MacNeice's death in 1965... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED724 Saros Cowasjee - Sean O'Casey : The Man Behind the Plays - PB - 1963 A 1963 study of the life and work of the dramatist Sean O'Casey. Light edgewear to spine, tanning to pages. 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG631 Vyvyan Holland - Oscar Wilde and his World - HB - 1979 A 1979 reprint ( updated) of the original 1966 edition, issued as part of the Thames & Hudson series of artist and writer biographies. Illustrated throughout, exploreds and examines Wilde in the context of the era in art, society and literature... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED739 Louis MacNeice - The Strings Are False : An Unfinished Autobiography- HB -1965 Edgewear to covers, spotting to back cover ( including small ink stain) First Faber printing, London 1965. Frontis of author. An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published for the first time after MacNeice's death in 1965... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED724 Saros Cowasjee - Sean O'Casey : The Man Behind the Plays - PB - 1963 A 1963 study of the life and work of the dramatist Sean O'Casey. Light edgewear to spine, tanning to pages. 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG631 Vyvyan Holland - Oscar Wilde and his World - HB - 1979 A 1979 reprint ( updated) of the original 1966 edition, issued as part of the Thames & Hudson series of artist and writer biographies. Illustrated throughout, exploreds and examines Wilde in the context of the era in art, society and literature... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED739 Louis MacNeice - The Strings Are False : An Unfinished Autobiography- HB -1965 Edgewear to covers, spotting to back cover ( including small ink stain) First Faber printing, London 1965. Frontis of author. 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Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 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... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG435,BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG631 Vyvyan Holland - Oscar Wilde and his World - HB - 1979 A 1979 reprint ( updated) of the original 1966 edition, issued as part of the Thames & Hudson series of artist and writer biographies. Illustrated throughout, exploreds and examines Wilde in the context of the era in art, society and literature... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view First Editions | sku: MED739 Louis MacNeice - The Strings Are False : An Unfinished Autobiography- HB -1965 Edgewear to covers, spotting to back cover ( including small ink stain) First Faber printing, London 1965. Frontis of author. An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published for the first time after MacNeice's death in 1965... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED724 Saros Cowasjee - Sean O'Casey : The Man Behind the Plays - PB - 1963 A 1963 study of the life and work of the dramatist Sean O'Casey. Light edgewear to spine, tanning to pages. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90214K Andrew Motion / Keats - A Biography (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90192K Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb / O'Neill : Life with Monte Cristo (Hardback) If at first you don't succeed... well, actually, Arthur and Barbara Gelb's 1962 book about Eugene O'Neill was a resounding success by any measure; for years, theirs was the definitive account of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and his work. Far from... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67027K Anthony Trollope / An Autobiography Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1897 Peter Ure / Yeats (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1814 Eileen O'Casey / Sean (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1741 Andrew White / Thomas Mann (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60831K D.T. Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 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... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG435,BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 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... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG435,BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89787K David Gilmour / The Long Recessional : The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Hardback) The Long Recessional The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... 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Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90214K Andrew Motion / Keats - A Biography (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90192K Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb / O'Neill : Life with Monte Cristo (Hardback) If at first you don't succeed... well, actually, Arthur and Barbara Gelb's 1962 book about Eugene O'Neill was a resounding success by any measure; for years, theirs was the definitive account of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and his work. Far from... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67027K Anthony Trollope / An Autobiography Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1897 Peter Ure / Yeats (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1814 Eileen O'Casey / Sean (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1741 Andrew White / Thomas Mann (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60831K D.T. Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 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... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG435,BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X89787K David Gilmour / The Long Recessional : The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Hardback) The Long Recessional The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 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... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG435,BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in teh world of US 20TH century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82828K Diana Athill / Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend (Hardback) Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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Quick view sku: MED750,MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter A hardcover first edition, 1974, of a life of John Millington Synge, edited for publication by Andrew Carpenter. Edward Millington Stephens ( 1888 -1955) was devoted to his uncle, the dramatist J.M Synge ( 1871-1909) , and spent much of his... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED726 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 Educating the uninformed reader in the best ways to approach a study of Yeats' verse, plays and letters."" - British Book News. ""Lucid and incisive, it gives us a convincing picture of Yeats' life in all its complexities"" - A. Norman Jeffares... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED414 Daniel J. Casey - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED1226 Ulick O'Connor - Brendan : A Biography - HB - 1970 ( Brendan Behan) When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. This is the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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