Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Germaine Greer - Shakespeare - HB ( OUP Past Masters Series 1986)

A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life...

Brian Capon - Botany for Gardeners - Revised Edition - PB - 2005

Originally published in 1990, this is the revised updated and expanded 2nd edition, third printing 2005, published ( aptly enough) by Timber Press Brian Capon was professor of Botany for over 30 years at California State University.     

Christopher Logue ( Editor) - Sweet & Sour - An Anthology of Comic Verse - HB - 1983

Published by Batsford UK , 1983, illustrated throughout by John Glashan.   

Charles Sullivan ( Editor) - Ireland in Poetry - HB - Illustrated 1990

A collection of poetry and art which evokes the many facets of Ireland. Ireland's beauty, history, people and hopes for the future are captured in 150 poems and more than 100 works of art - both well-known and unfamiliar and dating from the 9th century...

Brendan Kennelly - The Book of Judas - HB - 1991- Poems

Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page sequence of poems in twelve parts, became a number one bestselling book in Ireland on publication in 1991 . As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award...

Brendan Behan / The Hostage (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

John Hadfield ( Editor) - The Saturday Book - Issue 29 - Boxed HB 1969

The annual 'Saturday Book' was published each year since 1942 , this was issue 29, 1969, publisahed by Heinemann UK  BOXED, Hardcover, attractive cover design, matching the book design.  A selection of essays and articles on art, history , 18th...

Plato - Republic Book II - ( Translated by Paul Shorey ) - Loeb Classical Library - HB 1963

Hardcover, 1963, small format hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gold to spine.  Books ( or perhaps more accurately, Chapters 6-10 of Plato's Republic.  Original Greek with translation to English on facing page, as well as copious notes,...

Nello Ponente - Modigliani ( Dolphin Art Series) - PB - 1969

Published by Thames and Hudson, 1969, a small format paperback, with 80 full colour images from the artist's work.  Light edgewear only. 

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - 6 Volume HB Set - Text and Commentaries - Charles S. Singleton - Bollingen Series

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri , with translation by Charles S. Singleton - Paradiso, Purgatorio, Inferno Texts + Commentaries - a 6 Volume complete set of the Italian classic. Cover: Hardcovers, 6 volume set. In each case the commentay...

A.M Hammacher - Barbara Hepworth - PB

Born in Yorkshire in 1903, of the heroic generation in twentieth-century British Art which included Henry Moore (with whom she studied in Leeds) and Ben Nicholson (whom she married), she explored in her sculpture the forms of life – especially...

Ian Jeffrey - Photography : A Concise History - PB 1989 Reprint ( Originally 1981)

Surveys of photography usually provide little more than a history of the technical developments of the medium. Here is a concise critical history which explains by what criteria we can judge one photograph to be better than another, what is special about...

Dudley Randall - The Black Poets : Anthology -1972

4th printing ( 1972)  of the original 1971 edition , paperback in very good condition, previous owners name inside front cover, neatly.  Published by Bantam USA. 333 pages, including content from early african American songs and so called '...

Marianne Moore - The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore - HB - 1986

Hardcover, Viking USA, 1986 Light edgewear to the dustjacket, internally unmarked, apart from a gift inscription on the blank front endpage.  Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was awarded the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize...

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

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

Ted Hughes - Winter Pollen : Occasional Prose HB 1994 ( Edited by William Scammell )

The Paris Review - Issue 147 - Summer 1998

Russell Banks discusses Kerouac, Hollywood, and the Art of Fiction. An Oulipo Sampler. Stories by Scott Anderson, Rick Bass, and Michael Knight. Poems by Henri Cole, Czeslaw Milosz, and Patty Seyburn. large format paperback  

John Hewitt - Collected Poems 1932-67 - HB 1st Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by MacGibbon & Kee ( London) 1968. The first 'collected poems , ( it was later republished by Blackstaff as a perback edition)  Condition - very good, not ex library, small format hardcover ( brown cloth) in...

Phoebe Pool - Impressionism - PB - 1970

Reprint paperback edition, Thames & Hudson UK , 1970, originally 1967.  with 209 images, 77 of which are in colour. Covers the full history of French Impressionism, one of the most important and influential art movements of the 19th century...

Barbara W Tuchman - A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century - PB 1984 ( Originally 1978)

Penguin PB 1984, reprint, originally 1978.  A classic of history writing. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into...

Walter J Turner - Miss America : Altiora in the Sierra Nevada - HB -1930

A small format hardcover, published by Mandrake Press London, 1930.  Pale lemon yellow/ tan covers, lacks dustjacket ( if it had one originally) , 64 pages.  A poem sequence satirising the culture of the time. 

Patrick Shea - Voices and the Sound of Drums - Vinatge PB - 1981

Voices and the Sound of Drums' by Patrick Shea is human, honest, witty and stylish. Subtitled "An Irish Autobiography", it is a rare insight into Irish social and political history. It is also the remarkrable success story of the son of a native...

Walter de la Mare - Pleasures and Speculations - HB - 1940

Hardcover, 1940, a collection of essays, literary criticism and essays on poetry and writing from the noted short story writer Lacks the origfinal dustjacket, a clean solidn copt in grey cloth covers, , titles in gilt to spine. Light edgewear, with...

Walter Crane & Theo Marzials - Pan Pipes : A Book of Old Songs - Vintage HB

An illustrated hardcover, published by F. Warne & Co, Second Edition, artwork by Walter Crane, songs and music chosen by Theo Marzials . Undated. Words and music for 40 traditional songs with glorious colour illustrations.  Condition - the...

Ernest Hemingway - 8 BOOK LOT - Biography & Literary Criticism

A collection of 8 books on American author Ernest Hemingway ( not by HEMINGWAY, but exploring aspects of his fascinating life as author, traveller, soldier, father etc)  All in excellent condition.  James McLendon - Papa : Hemingway in Key West...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets.  Previous owner's name to front endpage ,...

W.H Auden - Collected Poems - HB -1976 ( Edited by Edward Mendelson)

HardcoverISBN 9780571108336 / 0571108334Publisher: Faber and Faber, London , 1976 The definitive collected poems of Auden, containing (in their final form) all the poems he wished to preserve; edited by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson. ...

Peadar O'Donnell - Adrigoole - HB US 1st Edition 1929

A hardcover US first edition, Putnam, 1929, of the novel by Peadar O'Donnell - Adrigoole. The second work by the writer and prominent Republican activist O'Donnell to be set in Donegal, recounting the misfortunes of a Cork family who all died of...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded...

Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan

Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully...

Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7)

Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.  Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping...

AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (Large Paperback)

      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...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded...

W.H Auden - Some Poems - HB Reprint 1947 ( Originally 1940)

A 1947 reprint of the 1940 collection of poems by the renowned British-American poet, W. H. Auden. With poems from some of his most popular books such as, 'Look, Stranger!' and 'The Dog Beneath the Skin'. W. H. Auden is known for his poems 'Funeral...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the selection and ordering of the poems, as well as revising a...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - PB ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) 2004 Reprint

A PAPERBACK reprint edition 2004 ( originally 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight, not ex library, no school...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE ( Gaeilge & English, facing pages) , published by the...

Harman Murtagh - Irish Midland Studies : Essays in Commemoration of N.W English - HB 1980

Published by the Old Athlone Society, 1980, hardcover internally in excellent condition but in a somewhat edgeworn dustjacket ( which is now in a clear plastic removable cover)  Essays ( on a diverse array of subjects, and also covering counties...

Francois Mauriac - Thérese Desqueyroux - PB ( FRENCH LANGUAGE Edition) PB 1975

Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte qu'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu...

Francis Johnston - Alexandrina : The Agony and the Glory - PB 1979

Story of a heroic, saintly, mystic soul, (1904-1955). Alexandrina da Costa  Suffered the symptoms of the  Passion of Christ in expiation for sins. Crippled in a jump from a window to escape a rapist, she spent 31 years as an invalid. Her...

John L McKenzie - The Two Edged Sword - An Interpretation of the Old Testament - HB 1965 ( Originally 1956)

Presents the religious ideas, values and doctrines of the Old Testament in terms that are highly significant and meaningful to our modern world. Beginning with Genesis and moving through the historical books, the Prophets and the books of Wisdom, the...

Flora Armitage - The Desert and the Stars : A Portrait of T.E Lawrence- HB 1956 -

Hardcover, Faber UK 1956, first edition, tape mark residue on in side front flaps ( but not ex library)  A key biogarphy of the life on T.E Lawrence - ' Lawrence of Arabia' 

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet - Pocket Edition - Hardcover Spirituality Classic - 1979 - HB

The Prophet, first published in 1923 ( 1926 in the UK), is the story of a seer and his wisdom. The book's astonishing success turned it into a mystical and spiritual guide for the modern era and earned its author cult status. In the 1960s, Gibran was...