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John O'Regan - James Scanlon : Sneem - Gandon Editions - Works 1 - Irish Artist

This book documents a single project by the stained-glass artist and sculptor, James Scanlon. Sited in Sneem, Co Kerry, the project was created on a piece of derelict ground along the river. The artist employed local men to build the dry-stone-wall huts,...

Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker - US 1st Ed Ballantine SF 1967

A first edition, USA 1967 , of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker - the first book in a hugely succesful and influential series. This is a collection of previously published stories ( from magazines in the main) arranged and collected as a linked anthology . No...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne Hotel and It's People - HB - Dublin 1999

  Published by Blackwater Press, 1999, this is a history of Dublin's most notable hotel - The Shelbourne on Stephen's Green - this was issued on it's 175th anniversary , its now nearly at 200 years ( in 2024, the anniversary of its opening by Martin...

Jill Fullerton-Smith - The Truth About Food - PB - Diet and Nutrition 2007

Is red wine good or bad for you? Can certain foods stop you needing glasses? Is it worth drinking eight glasses of water a day? Which foods are aphrodisiacs, and which are just passion killers? Why do some people appear to eat as they like, yet never put...

Osbert Sitwell - Sing High ! Sing Low! HB 1st Edition 1944 - Essays Travel

A hardcover first edition, Macmillan UK, of Osbert Ditwell's collection of essays, Sing High, Sing Low, 1944 light edgewear to the covers, but internally very good. Fade to spine, slight soiling to extremities. 

Nic Pháidín , Caoilfhinn ( Eagarthóir) - Nua-Aois Uimhir 8 - Cumann Literatha UCD 1981

Iris Literatha, Nua-Aois , Uimhir a h-Ocht,  foilsithe 1981, eagraithe ag Caoilfhinn Nic Pháidín  agus Máirín Nic Eoin, UCD.  Cnuasach do ghearrscéata, dánta, ailt agus aistí , ailt le...

Ó Floinn, Criostóir ( Criostoir O'Flynn ) Banana - SIGNED HB Poetry 1st ed 1979 Signed to Damien ó Muirí

A signed copy, FNT 1979, of Limerick born author Criostóir ó Floinn *( Criostor o'Flynn's Banana - signed and dedicated by the author to the author and critic Damien Ó Muirí, and dated 1990, ( The book itself is the first...

Jarlath Waldron - Maamtrasna : The Murders and the Mystery - PB Galway Crime - 1993 PB Edition - 1882 Galway

With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De...

Jack Fennell - A Brilliant Void : A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction - PB Anthology - Tramp Press

These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland’s direction. Science and technology would transform everything:...

Sturgeon, Theodore - More Than Human - Corgi SF Collectors Library - Pb 1973 - Vintage

Issued as part of the Corgi SF Collectors Library, 1973, with a vinyl effect finish to the covers. Slight fade to the spine. Creases to the spine, but otherwise unmarked. First published in the USA in 1954.  In this genre-bending novel--among the...

Martin Page - Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major - Songs of WW2 - Spike Milligan PB

Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major, the Songs and ballads of World War II, with and introduction by Spike Milligan. Publisher: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, London 1973 A Very Good+ copy, the only flaw being some light sunning to the  spine, Nice...

Bucknall, J.B - Heyday of the Bus - Midlands Ian Allan HB 1986 Vintage Buses

A hardcover first edition, 1996, of the volume in the Ian Allan Heyday Series, on UK Midlands city and urban buses - single and double decker, trolleybus, coaches, from the 1940's onwards.  All illustrated in colour throughout - and with buses from...

Landon, Margaret - Anna and the King of Siam - Vintage Panther - PB Ed Film Tie in

The screenplay for the renowned musical The King and I was based on this title -  Anna and the King of Siam, written in 1944 by Margaret Landon. ... The book took inspiration from the memoirs of a lady...

Clinch, Phyllis & Mollan, R Charles ( Editors) A Profit and Loss Account of Science in Ireland - HB RDS 1983

A collection of essays on industrial and resource development in Ireland, published by the RDS , 1983, with cover design by Brian ó Nualláin , heavy sun fade to spine, some closed tears to dustjacket edges.  Large format hardcover,...

Ross, Tony - Puss in Boots - PB - Illustrated Children's 1982

A first edition of one of Tony Ross's classic illustrated books - his version of Puss in Boots, illustrated in colour , published by Andersen Press.  A re-imagining of the classic tale. Condition - very good - light edgewear , no marks or...

Dick Francis - Banker - HB Horse Racing Thriller 1st Ed 1982

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Physics teacher (and crack shot) Jonathan Derry is given some tapes to look after by a friend. They're not your usual tapes: they hold a computer programme which functions as...

Wallace, Edgar - The Square Emerald - Vintage Pan PB 1966 Ed

A body on Barnes Common, clutching in its lifeless fingers a Square Emerald, A young man just out of prison After serving a sentence for forgery.. add a smart woman detective and you have one of the most intriguing taes to come from the pen of a master...

Shaw, George Bernard - Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell - Vintage Penguin PB - 1946 ( Originally 1898)

A vintage Penguin paperbacks ( Horizontal band editions) of plays by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw - as follows - Plays Pleasant - comprising Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny & You Never Can Tell - Heavy age spotting and...

Michael Forde - Company Law in Ireland - 1st Ed revised 1987

The first edition of the now standard work on Irish company law, this is currently up to the fifth edition ( 2017) - this is the first edition, 1985, here revised and reprinted from 1987.  Commercial law had long been based on the 1963 Companies...

Joseph Lee - The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918 - PB - ( Gill History of Ireland - Volume 10 ) 1983 ( originally 1973)

In surveying the period from the Famine in 1848 to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, Joe Lee argues that Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world during that time.   Lee contends that...

Saint Therese de l'Enfant-Jesus - Histoire D'une Ame - PB In French En francais

Histoire d'une âme est un livre combinant les récits autobiographiques de sainte Therese de Lisieux. Publié en 1898, juste après la mort de l'auteur, l'ouvrage a immédiatement connu un très grand...

Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948

A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher.  Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good...

Ó Floinn, Críostóir - Lá Dá Bhfaca Thú - HB 1st ed 1955 As Gaeilge - ÚRSCÉAL

Clo Morainn, Dublin, 1955. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition in a faded lightly chipped dustjacket, 272 pages. The story of a young man Ruairí Ó Daill who has given up his teaching position in Dublin to...

Edmund Van Esbeck - Irish Rugby Scrapbook - Illustrated 1982

Cork born Van Esbeck was the rugby correspondent for the Irish Times since the 1960's, and also wrote the official centenary history of the IRFU .  This is a pictorial history of the highlights in Irish rugby history, centered in particular on the...

A.T.Q Stewart - Edward Carson : A Biography - ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) PB 1981 - Unionism

A 1981 first edition , Gill & Macmillan, Ireland, of the historical biography forming part of the (updated) Gill's Irish Lives series - a biography of Edward Carson, 1854-1935 , the Dublin born barrister and politician, whose name became synonymous...

Church, Richard - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP

One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst...

Wright, Finbar - Private Friends - HB Poetry Limited Edition 2001 - SIGNED & Dedicated

Finbar Wright has been a member of the Irish Tenors from 2000 to present. Private Friends is a collection of some of Wright's poetry published in 2001 and dedicated to his brother, Robert, who, at age 47, had died suddenly the same year...

Taafe, Frank - Athy Golf Club Centenary History 1906-2006 - Hardcover Co. Kildare

A handsome and well produced club history of Athy Golf Club, County Kildare, published on the occasion of the club centenary in 2006. Hardcover, with photographs in both colour and black and white, and with a full history of past members, captains,...

Gibson, W.H.G & McDonald, Joseph - A Century of Golf at Carlow : From Gotham to Deerpark 1899-1999 HB

A history of golf in Carlow, covering the centenary of Carlow Golf club, from the early origins in 1899, illustrated throughout, with coverage of tHe initial course at Gotham, and the move to the modern current location at Deerpark.  illustrated...

Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day : The D-Day Story HB Gollancz 1st Edition 1959

A reprint, Gollancz UK, 1971, of the classic ( and standard account ) of the D-day landings in Normandy - The Longest Day , by Cornelius Ryan ( originally 1960)  .    For the forces of the Allies, this would be their ultimate day of truth,...

Ó Suilleabháin, Diarmaid - Muintir - Hb As Gaeilge Gearrscéalta 1971

Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1971, cnuasach gearrscéalta leis un údar Diarmuid ó Suilleabháin.  As Gaeilge in iomlán atá na scéalta Ba as Béarra i gcontae Chorcaigh an...

Hall, Pauline - Grounds - Hb 1st Ed Brandon 1983 Dublin 1950's 1950's

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International Football Book No 2 - Souvenir Press 1960 - Illustrated Vintage Football

With features on the European Cup, article by Matt Busby, and contributions by Alfredo di Stefano, Danny Blanchflower, Tom Finney Brian Glanville and many more.  With black and white photography throughout. Lacks the original dustjacket, but...

Beresford, Elizabeth - Travelling Magic - PB 1975 Vintage Target Edition

A child arrives in London without a parent, met by a woman  who takes her home to her guesthouse in South London, a slightly gothic looking house with leaky guttering, whose back garden meets three others, to form a 'triangle' of unclaimed,...

Maeve Binchy - The Lilac Bus & Dublin 4 - Omnibus HB Edition - Irish Life Classics Collection - Best of Maeve Binchy

A hardcover copy , an omnibus edition ( including two books previously published separately) - The Lilac Bus and Dublin 4 - here issued by The Irish Life Classic Collection, 1991.  Dublin 4 comprises 4 short stories originally published in the...

Paddy Devlin- The Fall of the N.I Executive 1974 - PB 1st Ed Northern Ireland

Published by Anvil Press /Kerryman, this is Paddy Devlin's collection of essays and commentary on the circumstances that led to the fall of the first Northern Ireland Executive in 1974. Paddy Devlin, formerly a union organiser,  was one of the...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

Terry Wogan - 2 Book Lot : The Day Job & Chat Show Host Extraordinary - PB Biography

A lot of two books on the late Limerick born TV presenter , Terry Wogan, as follows : A paperback  copy of a biography of Terry Wogan by Gus Smith, an associate of his from the early years at RTE and  who spoke to a huge number of his...

David Storey - This Sporting Life - Vintage Penguin PB Film Tie In Ed 1963 Richard Harris

Originally published in 1960, this is the award winning debut novel from David Storey, This Sporting Life, in this film tie in edition from Penguin UK, 1963, with an image from the film of Richard Harris on the cover. Light tanning to the page block,...

D H Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover & The Trial of Lady Chatterley 1961 Vintage Penguin

Two vintage Penguin paperbacks, as follows -  (a) A 1973 reprint of  Lady Chatterley's Lover, originally published in 1928, and in this edition by Penguin in 1960. this edition has an introduction by Richard Hoggart, in very good condition ,...

Ross, Ian Campbell - Public Virtue, Public Love - The Rotunda : The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital - HB 1986

Still in use as a hospital, albeit in much expanded form, the Rotunda is one of Dublin's most historic hospitals. The buildings, located at the top of O'Connell Street on Parnell Square, have over the years worked as a hospital, a centre of...

Akdikmen, Resuhi - Langenscheidt Standard English Turkish Dictionary HB İngilizce–Türkçe - İngilizce

Uzun ve titiz bir calismanini urunu olan bu yeni cep sozlugu, 80000'i askin kelime haznesiyle, ogrencilerin, ogretmenlerin, cevirmenlerin, kisacasi Ingilizce ile iliskili herkesin gereksinimlerini buyuk olcude karsilayacak bicimde hazirlanmistir...

Joe Broderick - Fall From Grace : the Life of Bishop Eamonn Casey - PB 1st ed 1992

Examines the story of Eamonn Casey from his childhood in rural north Kerry to his sudden resignation as bishop of Galway in May 1992. The author traces the evolution of Casey's life , describing his work for the homeless in Britain in the 1960's, his...

Patterson, Austin M - German English Dictionary for Chemists 3rd ED HB 1963

A hardcover third edition, 1963, of the German to English Dictionary for Chemists ( does not include English to German)  Published by Wiley USA, the first edition had been 1917, and was revised and added to greatly in the two later editions...

King , Rufus - A Variety of Weapons - Vintage PB Pulp USA 1943

Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week, she found herself in a brooding atmosphere of great wealth, guarded...

Sean Diffley- The Men in Green - HB Irish Rugby - 1973 - Sport History Centenary

A hardcover first edition, 1973, of Sean Diffley's The Men in Green , published by Pelham Books UK.  In good condition, no marks damage or inscriptions internally, light bumping and edgewear to the covers.  Comprehensive history of Irish rugby...

Savile, Steven & Kontis, Alethea ( Eds) - Elemental - Science Fiction Stories - Tsunami Relief Anthology

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Carolyn Swift - Robbers in the Theatre - Vintage Irish HB - Children's 1984

A small format HARDCOVER published by the Children;s Press, Dublin, 1984 of Carolyn Swift's Robbers in the Theatre, the fourth ( but standalone) book in her Robbers In ..series. Cover art  by Terry Meyler.  Stoicker residue on back cover. 

O'Hara, John - The Ewings HB UK 1st Ed 1972 - Family Saga

Published posthumously in 1972, after the author's death in 1970, this is a family saga set in the US midwest on the eve  of WW1.  A rather dark family saga of heart-and-soulless women in warmer bodies; and the double-breasted suited men who go...

Desmond O'Malley- Conduct Unbecoming - AUTOBIOGRAPHY Signed HB 2014

Desmond O’Malley’s career coincided with one of the most intense periods in Irish political life. In this landmark political memoir he offers fresh insights into the events that have shaped Ireland’s past and present – the Arms...

Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed

An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author...

Mac Dhonnagáin, Tadhg - Uinseann Donn - Illustrated - Picture book - As Gaeilge Irisz Agócs

picture book, as gaeilge, by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, illustrated by Irisz Agócs. The story of a very grumpy brown bear.  Uinseann Donn is a grumpy bear. He hates twittering birds and fluttering butterflies. He looks forward...