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Quick view sku: MED3400 Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959) Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... 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The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3634 Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3633 Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955) Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. 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MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... 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MSRP: Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5241 Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback ) At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942) She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull.Married at 17 to one of the most colorful and ruthless of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934) Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3632 Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 ) Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and... 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Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6481 Joseph Conrad - Nostromo ( Vintage Penguin Modern Classics Ed- 1971 ( Originally 1904) Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3736 Erika Cheetham ( Editor) - The Prophecies of Nostradamus - PB -1980 Provides the predictions of the medieval French physican and astrolger edited and interpreted for the modern reader. The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED6481 Joseph Conrad - Nostromo ( Vintage Penguin Modern Classics Ed- 1971 ( Originally 1904) Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3736 Erika Cheetham ( Editor) - The Prophecies of Nostradamus - PB -1980 Provides the predictions of the medieval French physican and astrolger edited and interpreted for the modern reader. The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3736 Erika Cheetham ( Editor) - The Prophecies of Nostradamus - PB -1980 Provides the predictions of the medieval French physican and astrolger edited and interpreted for the modern reader. The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED1143 Charles Berlitz- The Bermuda Triangle - Vintage 1975 PB Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and spoke to numerous people who have escaped the... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history. from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4530 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie,- Vintage Penguin PB - 1982 Cider With Rosie- A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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