Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

Christopher Evans - Omega ( SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION) PS Publishing ( Copy 325/500)

Omega: an apocalyptic rumour from the Eastern Front. Omega: something that will alter all the strategic calculations of the Earth's great military blocs. Omega: the code name for a weapon that may...

Liam Clarke - Broadening the Battlefield : The H-Blocks and the Rise of Sinn Féin - PB -1987

Published at the point where Sinn Féin was in the process of adapting what they had learned and gained politically on the political friont from the impact of the H-Block and Hunger Strike events, and...

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 - PB

Paperback, published by Oxford University Press, 1982.  Somewhat surprisingly, this 1982 book was the first detailed book on the key role the 'Ulster Question' played in De Valera's career, and De...

Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - PB 1978 - Ireland to North America

Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised...

Arthur Mee - London : The City and Westminster (The King's England - HB 1975 8th Revised Edition)

Part history book, part architecture guide, part ( period) travel guide, this was a standalone volume from the multivolume 'the King;s England series, a guide to the history of how the towns and...

J.T Edson - The Devil Gun - Vintage 1967 PB

Paperback, 1967 reprint, Sabre Books UK , first publsihed in the USA in 1966.  Slight spine lean, Dublin bookshop sticker on front cover.  The story revolves around a deadly threat to Texas during...

Charles J Kickham - Knocknagow or The Homes of Tipperary ( First Published 1879) Mercier PB Edition, 1978 ( ABRIDGED VERSION)

To describe Knocknagow as an Irish publishing phenomenon would be somewhat of an understatement - it was probably among the most read works of Irish fiction published in the last 100 years, going...

Patricia Lynch - The Grey Goose of Kilnevin - PB - 1968 (Originally 1939)

Betsy, the true hero of the book is  a runaway adventurous goose... The grey goose sets of to market to see the world and finds Sheila, a young girl working in one of the inns in Kilnevin. Sheila is...

Capuchin Annual 1949 - PB

1949 Paperback ( published November 1948) . A Very Good copy in a FAIR to good cover - the covers show edgewear, and dus

A & C Black - Black's Guide to Ireland - 1906

A very solid copy in green cloth with titles in embossed gilt to front and spine ( spine cloth faded slightly)  Maps, both integral and foldout throughout as well as period photographs of tourist...

Colm Ó Lochlainn (Editor) - More Irish Street Ballads - 18th & 19th Century Irish Ballads in English -PB 1978 ( Originally 1939)

  'From The Shamrock Shore to Brennan on the Moor - here are songs for the rebel and the ranter, traveller, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor , poor man , rich man'.   Illustrated with woodcuts from a...

J.T Edson - The Man From Texas - (Vintage Brown Watson PB) 1966

J.T Edson - You're in Command Now, Mr Fog - (Vintage Corgi PB) 1973

Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a 17-year-old Dusty Fog serving as a freshly promoted first lieutenant in the Confederate Army. When his company's commanding officer is suddenly...

Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society - Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland - HB 1894

Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland. By Various Writers, with Biographical Notices, Notes, etc. First Series. Cork: published and bound by Guy and Company, 1894. First Edition. Pp 360...

E.F Jacob - The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 ( Oxford History of England - Volume 6 ) 1978 ( Originally 1961)

Hardcover, a standalone volume in the multi volume Oxford History of England, this edition ( Volume 6 ) was first published in 1961, this is a 1978 repRINT.  Previous owner's name to title page...

Maurice Semple - Where the River Corrib Flows - PB - 1988

Larger format paperback, with the three fold out maps intact. Creasing to covers. The story of the history and development of the Corrib navigation, and the history of the canal and millraces etc...

Sportsfile - A Season Of Sundays 2016 - GAA Photography - Yearbook - 2020 HB - Sport

This  hardback coffee table book (300mm x 300mm) is a collection of images of the 2016 Gaelic Games year by the Sportsfile photographers. With text by Alan Milton, it is a record of the season to be...

George Morrison & Tim Pat Coogan - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - HB- 2005

The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the...

Denis O'Shaughnessy -More Tales of Limerick PB 2008 - SIGNED

A signed dedicated first edition, 2008, of Denis O'Shaughnessy's More Tales of Limerick , his 7th book on Limerick city local history , illustrated with a selection of photographs, some unique to the...

Patrick C. Power - History of South Tipperary - HB - SIGNED ( Copy 258 of 750)

Hardcover, copy 258 of the limited signed edition of 750 copies, published by Mercier Press, Cork , 1989. Signed by the author to limitation page, AND also signed by tHE author with a dedication to a...

J.T. Edson - Hell in the Palo Duro - Vintage Corgi PB 1971

Corgi UK pb, 1971, in very good condition, Number 66 in the JT Edson westerns series.

Bradford Scott - Walt Slade Gun Justice - Vintage Pyramid 1st US PB - 1963

A first PB edition, Pyramid Books Usa, 1963, Cover art by Mel Croir. Creasing to covers.

J.T. Edson - Apache Rampage - Corgi PB 1972

Corgi UK PB, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, 1972, originally published 1963. No 55 in the Edson Westerns series

Cordelia Jones - A Cat Called Camouflage - HB - 1970

A cat named Camouflage helps Ruth face her parents' divorce and life in a new town.HB, Andre Deutsch UK, 1970

John Fowles - The Magus (Revised PB Edition - 1981)

John Fowless The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious...

J.R. Harris - An Angler's Entomology (Collins New Naturalist Series) - 2ed Reprint 1977, Originally 1952

Hardcover reprint, 1977, of the second edition, in very good condition, solid in green cloth, Dustjacket very good, but shows ghostmark on inside from having been with an adhesive plastic cover. No...

Gordon Jackson - Hull in the Eighteenth Century : A Study in Economic and Social History (University of Hull Publications)

Hardcover, OUP, 1972. A history of the north of England port town. Excellent condition.

Rae Jeffs - Brendan Behan - Man and Showman - PB 1968

Published in this Corgi PB, 1968, originally in hardcover in 1966, just two years after Behan's untimely death in 1964. Rae Jeffs was a close associate of Behan in the early 1960's

Basil Willey - The Seventeenth-Century Background (Vintage Pelican PB 1972)

Willey writes in great detail about the upsetting of the concept of the ancient and medieval three-story universe, replacing it with a new confidence in nature and a new confidence in religion and...

E. Hobsbawm - Industry and Empire - Pelican Economic History of Britain, Vol.3

In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He...

Michael G. Cronin - Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity Since 1884

This book examines the development of a nationalist agenda within Irish sport and searches for a definition of nationalism in this context. Sport offers a new way of looking at nationalism as it...

John Creasey - The Wings of Peace (Vintage Arrow PB 1964)

Originally 1948, starring Palfrey, a British Spy from Unit Z5,who uncovers a plot to bring civil war to India.

Brian McConnell & Douglas Bence - The Nilsen File : The Inside Story of the Cricklewood Murders- PB 1983

Paperback, Futura UK, 1983. An account of the mass murders carried out in London between 1979 and 1983 by Dennis Nilsen.

Fintan O'Toole - The Lie of the Land : Irish Identities - HB

This collection of essays is drawn from Fintan O'Toole's writings over two decades. Its portraits of people - talk-show hosts, priests, children, pop stars - and its reports of social and political...

Stephen Donaldson - The Illearth War: Book 2 (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) - PB 1980

This story features the further adventures of Thomas Covenant which began in "Lord Foul's Bane". Forty years have passed, and Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the land, has moved to fulfil his prophecy...

Máire Ní Ghráda (Aistritheoir) - Ladybird - Gilín Sneachta (Vintage HB ) As Gaeilge

Undated, a hardcover edition of the Bóin Dé translation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, using teh same artwork as the classic UK Ladybird editions.  Heavy edgewear to the board covers, bumping...

Georgette Heyer - Cotillion - PB - Ace USA 1953

Paperback, a 1953 ACE USA PB  Light edgewear to the covers, (at edges of the cover) otherwise in good condition, previous owner name internally, previous owner name to title page. Spine uncreased...

Georgette Heyer - The Nonesuch - PB - Bantam USA 1969

Paperback, a 1969 Bantam USA PB , original publication by Heinemann UK in 1962.  Light edgewear to the covers, (at edges of the cover) otherwise in good condition, previous owner name internally,...

Bulmer Hobson - Ireland Yesterday ans Tomorrow - HB 1968

Hardcover, published by the Anvil Press, Kerry , 1968, first edition.  Written when the author was in his 80's . and in declining health, it is as he acknowledges a memoir more than a history of the...

Patrick Byrne - Lord Edward Fitzgerald - PB Talbot Press 1955

A 1955 Talbot Press edition ( possibly a paperback original, although Talbot Press were particularly poxy to not note earlier editions or reprints on their titles) of Patrick Byrne's biography of...

Marcus de Búrca - The GAA : A History - HB 2nd Edition - 1999

 The GAA is the largest sports body in Ireland and one of the largest amateur sporting associations in the world. Its contribution to social and civic life in twentieth-century Ireland has been...

Dermot Meleady - John Redmond : The National Leader - PB - SIGNED - 2018

Trade paperback, published by Merrion Press, 2018 in paperback ( originally 2014 in hardcover) , this copy is signed ( with a dedication to the previous owner) by the author.    this majesterial...

John Montague - Poisoned Lands and Other Poems - HB - SIGNED - 1961

Hardcover, published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1961.  A slim grey cloth hardcover in a plain black and red lettered dustjacket. Signed by the poet, in delicate ink, and dated sept '61. On the same...

Anton Chehov - Three Plays ( The Cherry Orchard| Three Sisters | Ivanov ) Translated by Elisaveta Fen - Penguin Classics PB 1956

Paperback, 1956 reprint of the 1951 original. Penguin code L19excellent condition, light tanning only

John Lyons - Chomsky (Fontana Modern Masters)

Paperback, published by Fontana UK 1974, originally 1970. light tanning to pages.

E.J. Hobsbawm - Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto)

Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the...

Hugh Oram - The Little Book of Merrion and Booterstown

Merrion and Booterstown is a noted residential area on Dublin’s south side, close to Dublin Bay. Its leafy streets cover a multitude of historical connections. A reliable reference book, this can be...

Colin Coulter - The End of Irish History? - Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. The purpose of this book is to systematically scrutinize the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the...

Brendan Bradshaw & Daire Keogh (Editors) - Christianity in Ireland : Revisiting the Story - HB

23 essays on the history of Christianity in Ireland, from earliest times to the present, published by The Columba Press, 2002. Hardcover, light edgewear to the upper spine edge of the dustjacket.

R.K. Carty - Electoral Politics in Ireland: Party and Parish Pump - pb - 1983

This short and densely argued 1983book tackles many of the central issues of Irish politics in the style of contemporary political science. Its distinctive achievement is the mounting of a sustained...

Frank Barlow - The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216 (History of English)

This highly-regarded text was fully revised and rewritten, after much important work has been done on the period, not least by Frank Barlow himself -- with a major study of the English Church between...

Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.Thias edition...