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M.P Hederman & P. Kearney - The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies 1977-1981 - HB 1st Edition 1982

This volume brings together the first ten issues of the Irish literary and arts magazine, The Crane Bag (1977-1981). The issues covered Art and Politics, A Sense of Nation, Mythology (with several articles on James Joyce), The Idea of Tradition,...

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...

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...

Denis McKenna ( Editor) - A Social and Natural History of Sandymount, Irishtown & Ringsend - PB 1993 Dublin Local History

This anthology of essays and images proposes to do exactly what the title says: within its pages are 32 essays on the history and environment of the historic Dublin 4 neighbourhoods named in the title. A collaborative project, published in 1993, A...

Mary Brigid Pearse - The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse - Vintage Mercier PB

Originally published in 1934, and here in a Mercier Press reprint from 1979 ( issued for the centenary of Pearse's birth in 1879) this is The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse , by Brigid Pearse, his sister.  This book was originally serialised in...

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...

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...

Richard Church - 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...

Frank McDonald - The Construction of Dublin- HB 1st Ed 2000 Architecture Planning & Development

In this book, Frank McDonald . documents the scale of the challenge, drawing extensively on what is happening right now as a guide to the future pattern of Dublin's development. The debate about high-rise buildings is fully ventilated, as well as the...

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,...

Seosamh Mac Grianna, - An Druma Mór - PB Donegal As Gaeilge

An Druma Mor, Seosamh Mac Grianna's famous novel, is set in a small Donegal village and explores the clash of local pride with nationalist politics, through the story of the demise of the local pipe and drum band, whose most prized possession is a drum...

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...

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...

Séamus Mac Grianna - Cith is Dealán - PB Mercier 1976 As Gaeilge

A Mercier press, 1985 (reprint) edition of Cith is Dealán by Donegal author Séamus Mac Grianna ( aka '' Máire''), with an afterword by Peadar Ó Donnell.  Text entirely in Irish - as gaeilge san iomlán...

Pauline Hall - Grounds - HB - 1st Edition - Brandon 1983 Dublin 1950's 1950's

Pauline Hall was born in Dublin, Ireland. She spent periods of time in France, Italy, Spain and the United States before returning home to live in Ireland permanently. Having originally worked in the Irish public service, she now writes full-time, both...

Shelagh Jones - The Derrynalushca Dragon - PB Children's Press 1991 - Illustrated - Clare

A very tall tale indeed, and a delightful one involving shrinking powder which really works on people, as well as on a flame-throwing dragon afraid of tiny humans. It all begins during a Christmas vacation in the romantic tower-house in County Clare...

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...

Elizabeth Beresford - 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...

Eric Cross - The Tailor and Ansty - Kerry - Vintage PB - Frank O'Connor Introduction

This is a Mercier Press reprint edition, 1992, the 12Th reprint of this hugely popular title , which, as bizarre as it now seems, was banned by the absurd Censorship Laws in Ireland on initial publication in 1942. This edition has an introduction by...

Legion of Mary - Handbook 1969 - Legio Mariae - Irish Catholicism

From a modern perspective, it's difficult to now see the huge impact that popular Catholic devotional organizations like the Legion of Mary had on Irish society in the 20th century.  This is the handbook of the Organisation, issued to each member,...

Agatha Christie - 4 Book Lot : Hercule Poirot's Christmas, They Came to Baghdad, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Curtain : Poirot's Last Case- Vintage Fontana PB's

A lot of 4 VINTAGE USED Agatha Christie books (all complete and unabridged) as follows - all with moderate to heavy edgewear , esp to spines, tanning to pages.  Hercule Poirot's Christmas 'There is, at Christmas, a spirit of goodwill. People who do...

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

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 colleagues and fellow...

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 ,...

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms - Vintage Granada PB

A vintage 1981 Granada paperback of Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to Arms, his classic novel of the first World War.  In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of...

Resuhi Akdikmen - 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...

Tom McCaughren - Run With the Wind - HB Children's Nature Classic - 1990 Reprint Ed ( Book 1 of the Series)

The multi-award-winning `Run With the Wind' series established the name of Tom McCaughren as a bestselling author. There are now 7 books in the series, this is the first book in the series , in hardcover, originally  published by Wolfhound , Dublin...

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...

Pat Lynch - Clane's Golden Era : Gaelic Games 1985 - 2000 HB Kildare GAA

A hardback 1st edition history of Clane GAA, 1985-2000, by Pat Lynch - covering the County Kildare club. No ISBN, unpriced, hardcover with pictorial covers with titles in white to spine and front. Published by Clane GAA in 2007, illustrated in colour...

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...

Joseph Lee & Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh - The Age of deValera - PB 1982 History TV Tie

A TV tie in edition with RTE, 1982 , of the book version of The Age of de Valera, published by Ward River Press, illustrated throughout with a number of unique and not previously printed photographs, some taken from vintage newsreel film.  Lee and...

Paula Daly - McDonnells Fourth Good Food Cookbook - ( Book 4 ) PB 1987 Vintage Cookbook Ireland

An excellent copy of the 4th McDonnells Good Food Cook Book, published by McDonnells foods, and written by Paula Daly, 1987.  160 pages, illustrated throughout, a practical and domestic centered cookbook, with baking at its core, as well as family...

Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence

Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA,  and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their...

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...

Eamon Kelly - Rub of a Relic - PB 1st Ed Mercier 1978 - Kerry Seanchaí

An uncommon first edition paperback, Mercier Press, 1978. Kerry native Eamon Kelly was a noted actor, performer, storyteller and seanchaí.  Cover art and illustrations by Kevin Scally Internally unmarked, small format paperback. - 96...

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...

Easton Ellis, Bret - Lunar Park - HB - Slipcased UK 1st Edition

He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage. If...

Science Research Associates Ltd - Better Living Booklets ( for parents and teachers- Boxed set of 10 Vintage

A collection of 10 uniformly sized vintage booklets, presented in a custom cardboard box, covering various aspects of childcare and education, including many that deal with issues for children. First issued in the 1950's,  these are later updated...

Raymond McClean - The Road to Bloody Sunday - PB 1st Ed 1983 - Northern Ireland Derry 1972

A paperback copy, Ward River Press, 1983, fade to spine but internally unmarked. Doctor McClean witnessed the events on Bloody Sunday in January 1972, and the book is,  in his own words - 'not a political tract, rather it offers a heartfelt...