Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

Rudyard Kipling - Twenty One Tales - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, selected by Tim Wilkinson. Contains Pig; In the Rukh (the first appearance of Mowgli) and more. With b&w drawings by Ian Ribbons Scuffing to covers (especially to spine) - otherwise clean and unmarked...

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies - Penguin Classics - PB - 2000

Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life.In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and...

Charlotte Bronte - Villette - HB Folio Society 1967

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of...

Hiroshi Unno - Harry Clarke : An Imaginative Genius in Illustrations and Stained-Glass Arts - PIE ( Hiroshi Unno Art Series )

Harry Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1889, he studied stained-glass at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and created a number of great works throughout his life. In 1913, he moved to London...

J Anthony Gaughan - Newman's University Church - HB 1997

Published by Kingdom Books, 1997. Previous owner's name to blank fronmt endpage.  In 1854, John Henry Newman, one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, was officially installed as the rector of the first Catholic university...

Tony Farmar - Ordinary Lives : Three Generations of Irish Middle Class Experience - HB -1991

Taking snapshots of three years - 1907, 1932 and 1963, Tony Farmar provides an insight in Irish life and attitudes over 50 years of the 20th century.   

Brian O'Connell - John Hunt : The Man, The Medievalist, The Connoisseur - HB - 2013

The book tells for the first time the remarkable life story of John Hunt, one of the world’s greatest medievalists and someone whose legacy to Ireland lives on today with most of the major cultural attractions in the Shannon region including...

Caroline Walsh - The Homes of Irish Writers - HB -1982

Published by Anvil Press Dublin, 1982. Hardcover. Illustrated with b&w photographs .  An illustrated guide to the homes of historic Irish writers , mostly from the 19th and early 20th century . 

Francis Edwards ( Editor) - The Gunpowder Plot : The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond - HB - Folio Society

Heavy age spotting to the external blank slipcase. The internal book is not spotted , but does show scuffing to spine.  The Gunpowder Plot : The narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway / Translated from the Italian of the Stonyhurst manuscript,...

Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail : Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life - HB 1973 ( Folio Society)

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a...

Francoise Henry - Irish High Crosses - PB -1964

70 pages of illustrated text, and at rear a section of 64 full page black and white images. Fold out map at rear.  Published by the Irish government as part of the 'Irish Life and Cuylture Series' 1964.  

George & Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody - HB - Folio Society 5th Impression1977

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book form, with...

Edward Fitzgerald ( Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1970

Illustrations by Virgil Burnett.  A slim beautiful book, beautifully manufactured and illustrated.  Folio Society , London, 1970. Light rubbing and edgewear to teh gilt effect slipcase, the book itself is unmarked and in excellent condition...

J.R O'Flanagan - The River Blackwater in Munster - HB -1975 Facsimile Edition ( Originally 1844)

Originally published in 1844, this is a full facsimile edition , published by Tower Books, cORK, 1975.  Hardcover with illustrations in dustjacket, there is a period plastic cover protecting the jacket. Fold out ( period) facsimile map of the river...

Einhard - Life of Charlemagne ( Vita Karoli Magni) - HB SLIPCASED - Folio

Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three...

Seamus Heaney - Field Work - Faber PB

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to...

Seamus Heaney - Electric Light - Faber PB

 Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a...

Seamus Heaney - Wintering Out - PB - Faber

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation...

Charles Dickens ( Rosalind Vallance - Editor) / Dickens' London - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Compiled chiefly from 'Sketches by Boz' and 'The uncommercial traveller.' In slipcase. Contents; Introduction -- Gone astray -- The streets -- morning -- Greenwich Fair -- Early coaches -- Private theatres -- A Parliamentary sketch -- Gin-shops --...

A.S Pushkin - The Queen of Spades | The Captain's Daughter - HB Slipcased Folio

As complex as they are gripping, Pushkin's stories are some of the greatest and most influential ever written. Foundational to the development of Russian prose, they retain stunning freshness and clarity.These are stories that upend expectations at every...

David Thomson - Woodbrook - HB - Folio Society 2007

Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed...

Henry Murdoch - My Killaloe : A Nostalgic Tour of Heritage Towns Killaloe / Ballina

 Aimed both at visitors to the heritage towns and local residents, the book provides a very personal tour of 100 places of interest in Killaloe and Ballina ( two towns facing each other across the Shannon , one in Clare , one in Tipperary) most with...

E.H Gombrich - The Story of Art - PB 1995 16th Revised edition - Art Classic

The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and backgrounds have found in Professor...

Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year ( Vintage 1962 PB)

Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. With a wealth of detail, "A Journal of the Plague Year" seems almost a firsthand account, taking readers...

Han Kang - The White Book - HB 1st Edition 2017 - Translation by Deborah Smith

WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE  'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a...

Louise O'Brien - Crafts of Ireland - PB -1979

The St Brigid's Cross and the Crios from Aran have long been associated with the crafts of Ireland and, while everyone will acknowledge their position in the traditions of the country, relatively few could set about making them. Louise O'Brien here...

Elizabeth Cullingford - Yeats, Ireland and Fascism - HB -1981

Published by Macmillan Uk, 1980, hardcover. Internally very good, bumping and creasing to edges of dustjacket, esp at top, and upper rear corners.  The fisrt full length study of Yeats's politics , examining his political views, how proto...

George Macdonald Fraser - Flashman ( Vintage HB 1970 ) UK Book Club Edition

A hardcover small format book club edition, published by the Book Club London, 1970, first published 1969.  Purporting to be an actual biography of Harry Flashman, a character from Tom Brown's Schooldays, based on ' papers' found hidden after his...

Dermot Bolger - Invisible Dublin - A Journey Through Dublin's Suburbs - PB -1991

Published by Raven Arts Press, 1991, edited by Dermot Bolger.  Uneven sunfade , to spine and back cover.  Essays on a range of Dublin locatiions and suburbs from  the following - Nell McCafferty, Aidan Murphy, Conleth O'Connor, Michael...

Terence Brown - Ireland's Literature : Selected Essays - PB - 1988

A collection of 17 essays on a wide range of authors and topics from 19th and 20th century Irish Writing - ranging from Thomas Moore and Canon Sheehan through Joyce Yeats Beckett et al to Paul Muldoon and Frank McGuinness.  Paperback, Lilliput...

Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons - HB - 1938 Illustrated ( First Published 1930)

Hardcover, a 1938 reprint from the original publisher ( jonathan Cape Uk) Lacks dustjacket, but internally solid, with all illustrations ( from the author) and colour maps to front and rear pastedown/ endpages.  In green cloth, shows some scuffs and...

Stirling Ross - All But My Life - Face to Face ( with Ken Purdy) - HB 1973 ( 2nd Edition - Originally 1963)

Hardcover in dustjacket, published by William Kimber UK, 1973, the first edition having been published a decade earlier in 1963.  An autobiography of Stirling Moss' life, in which he is noted to have said that he had taken a great deal out of motor...

Hugh L Nelson - Dead Giveaway - Vintage HB Crime - 1951

First UK EDITION, 1951, the first edition was published in the US in 1949. Classic noir era crime fiction A Captain Steve Johnson mystery set in San Francisco. Steve, now a Captain, has the half promise of becoming head of homicide if he stays clear of...

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - HB 1977 1st Edition

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

Hugh Malet - In the Wake of the Gods : On the Waterways of Ireland - HB -1970

Malet embarked on a second cruise through Ireland's waterways, following on from Voyage in a Bowler Hat, his initial trip in Ireland on his converted canal barge.  The Mary Ann was revived from her berth near Waterford, and Malet set out on a second...

Sam Hanna Bell - December Bride ( Paperback) ( Film - t

Sam Hanna Bell's classic novel of County Down, originally published 1951, this reprint 1991, Blackstaff Press.  At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers...

Séamas Ó Catháin & Ríonach Uí Ógain - Béaloideas : Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland 72 ( 2004) - HB

Iris an Chumainn le Bealoideas Éireann The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society issue 72/ 2004 Contents Alt Iubhaile/Jubilee Article Máire MacNeill (1904-1987) Máire MacNeill (1904-1987) (pp. 1-30) Maureen...

John Devoy - Recollections of an Irish Rebel - Facsimile HB - 1969 ( Originally 1929)

Facsimile issue of the first edition published in 1929, in this edition from Irish University Press, Shannon.  At age nineteen John Devoy was sworn into the Fenian movement and later signed the National Petition, a plebiscite for self-determination...

John F Deane - High Sacrifice - PB - 1981 - SIGNED

Published by Dolmen Press, 1981, Signed by poet John F Deane to the title page - To Seamus , with deep sincere regards , John F Deane. ( The Seamus was his namesake, critic and author Seamus Deane, from whose library this copy came) 

John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964

Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964.  In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored...

Richard Butler - The Life and World of George Santayana - PB -1960

Paperback, Gateway Books USA 1960.  Partly biographical, part study of the importance of Santayana as a key thinker and philosopher during his life ( 1863-1952) 

John Broderick - An Apology For Roses - HB 1973 - 1st Edition

'She had been born with a greater capacity for love and pleasure than most people; and her nature had very early on found itself at war with the primitive, property-ridden society in which she was reared.' The story of Marie Fogerty, a young girl caught...

John B Keane - The Voice of an Angel and Other Christmas Stories - HB - 1995 1st Edition

A collection of Christmas stories, including: Christmas Noses, A Christmas Diversion, The Woman Who Hated Christmas, The Best Christmas Dinner and A Last Christmas Gift.  Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1995, hardcover first edition in dustjacket,...

Francis Stuart - A Hole in the Head - HB -1977

First edition, , hardcover published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1977. Sun fade to dudstjacket, especially to spine.     As he undergoes medical and psychiatric treatment, reality and fantasy are stretched for Barnaby Shane. 

Janet Frame - You are now Entering the Human Heart - PB - 1984

First UK Edition, a paperback original, The Women's Press Fiction, 1984 ( originally published in NZ in 1983)  Light tanning and edgewear to the covers.    Janet Frame has been called a visionary and a genius. While she is a novelist of...

Theodore Roosevelt - The Strenous Life : Essays and Addresses- HB

A small format Thomas Nelson hardcover reprint, undated but probable 1910's , embossed decorated blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Frontis of Roosevelt . Previous owners period name  ( Dublin 1912) in faded ink to front endpages. 

Larry Niven - Vintage PB SF - Ringworld | Tales of Known Space | Protector | Ringworld Engineers | A World Out of Time | The Man Kzin Wars ( 6 BOOK LOT)

6 Vintage PB titles from SF author Larry Niven - as follows ( all with page tanning, edgewear to corners etc )  The Man-Kzin Wars  ( with Poul Anderson & Dean Ing) - Baen Books USA 0671720767 a 'Known Space' novel, 1988.  A World Out...

Adrian Oktenberg - The Bosnia Elegies - Poems - PB - SIGNED

Paperback, signed by the author, and also signed and dedicated to the late Irish poet Eavan Boland by the author.  Published by Paris Press, USA, 1997. 

Michael Gleeson, Matt Malone, Jane Quinlan , Connie McLoughlin & Tom Hogan ( Editors) / Annals of Arra : Volume 2 ( 2020) - PB

Paperback, the second issue of teh Annalds of Arra, a local history annual centered on North Tipperary.  Light angled crease to front cover. 156 pages,  ISSN 2565-6635 

Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson - HB ( Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Ju

Hardcover, 1979 reprint gift edition , published by Grosset & Dunlap , NY.  Matching green page block , glassine plastic cover over the boards, no dustjacket as issued. Illustrations throuhout by Lynd Ward.    The Swiss Family Robinson...

Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be...

Mike Cronin, Mark Duncan & Paul Rouse - The GAA - County by County - HB

People and place, sport and identity are at the heart of this book, telling the story of how the GAA has left a unique imprint on every Irish county and Irish communities overseas. Organised county by county, the highs and lows of on-field activity are...