Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

Sally Green - Half Bad - SIGNED 1st Edition - YA 2014

A signed hardcover first edition, Penguin UK, 2014 of the debut novel by Sally Green, - and the first of a trilogy - Half Bad.  The first printing was in a ( very) delicate silver dj - with a foil effect cover, which was very prone to scratching ,...

Niall Toibin ( Editor) - The Irish Reciter - PB 1986 - Ballads, Poems and Recitations for every occasion

Selected and introduced by Niall Toibin, illustrated, this is a guide to some of the most classic irish poems, songs and readings from the long history of Irish music and spoken performance. with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century writings A very good...

Robert Kee - Ourselves Alone - ( The Green Flag , Volume 3 ) PB

Ourselves Alone - Volume Three of the Green Flag  covers the period from the executions of the 1916 rebels to the 1920-21 War of Independence and the eventual Treaty.  The smallest of the three volumes , only light tanning to pages...

Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh - The Boss - Charles J. Haughey in Government PB Irish Politics 1st Ed 1983

A paperback first edition , 1983 of the classic study of Charlie Haughey as Taoiseach in the early 1980's - The Boss, published by Poolbeg Press. Controversial and groundbreaking in it's time, it centers on the dramatic events of 1982 , a year that...

Val Dorgan - Christy Ring : A Personal Portrait - PB 1st Ed 1980 GAA Cork Hurling

A PAPERBACK FIRST EDITION, Ward River Press, 1980 - of journalist and fellow Corkman Val Dorgan's book on the hurling legend Christy Ring. Dorgan was a teammate of Ring at Glen Rovers, as well as being the former GAA Correspondent with the Examiner and...

Tom Forester - The Mircoelectronics Revolution - Vintage 1980 Technology & Predictions

A collection of 1980's essays on the 'silicon chip revolution' - an examination from 1980 on how the industry and technology would alter society and the world of work. A collection of essays from academics, journalists and industry insiders. Some , given...

Eilís Brady - All In! All In! - Dublin Children's traditional street games ( With Rhymes and Music ) HB 1984

HB first Edition, Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann, of All In, All In, by Eilís Brady. A look at the street games, rhymas and traditions involved in children's games with photographs ( of a very different Dublin) , originally published...

Pádraig Puirséal - The GAA in it's Time - A History - PB 1984 Ward River Press

First publised in 1982, this is a 1984 edition ( issued for the GAA centenary) of sports journalist Pádraig Puirséal's The GAA in it's Time.  Puirséal traces the issues and events that went into the making of the movement - its...

Micheál MacGréil - Prejudice and Tolerance in Ireland PB - SIGNED - Sociology 1977

Signed dated (1980) and dedicated to Seamus Deane by the author to the title page, otherwise internally unmarked. Scuffing and edgewear to the corners and edges of the page block, binding tight. Reprint, SECOND IMPRESSION1978,  of the first edition...

Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 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 forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and...

Giraud - Cassell's Vintage French-English & English French Dictionary HB 1968 Thumb Index Hardcover Ed

One of the standard French-English-French  dictionaries, The Cassell Dictionary was first published in 1920, and is here in the 55th revised edition from 1968, revised by Denis Girard. Thumb Index, part 1 is french English, part 2 is English-...

John Gorman - Gory Tales - The Autobiography - SIGNED HB Football, Tottenham , Celtic, Scotland England

A signed hardcover first edition of footballer and coach John Gorman's autobiography Gory Tales, and given who he played for and managed over the years - he knew almost everyone of note in teh English and Scottish game - Jock stein, Kenny Dalglish,...

Boris Ford ( Editor) - The Age of Chaucer - Penguin Pelican Guide To English Literature - Vintage 1959 PB

The first ( standalone)  book in the The Pelican Guide to English Literature, ( and literature in English ) under the general editor Boris Ford. Essays on each period, further reading, individual essays on authors by noted critics.  (1) The...

Guy Savile - Madagaskar Plan & Afrika Reich - Alternate History - 2 BOOK SET

(1) Afrika Reich - Hooder & Stoughton UK , First Edition, 2011 1952. It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the...

Philip Wylie - TRIUMPH - US HB 1ST Edition -1963 Post Apocalyptic Fiction ATOMIC WA

A hardcover US first edition, unstated but presumed of the 1963 [1962] novel by  Philip Wylie, TRIUMPH. Wylie was also the author of the classic SF disaster novel When Worlds Collide.  Condition - Book - Very good + , age darkening...

Thomas Friedman - the World is Flat - A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century HB 2005

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that...

Langland - Piers the Ploughman - Penguin Classics - Medieval

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric known only as Langland, this allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colourful medieval life. Combines comedy, a view of medieval life, as well as prophecy and...

Ó Grádaigh, Eoghan - An Siondacáit - PB Crime Gaeilge Vintage 1969

A short crime novel as gaeilge, published by Sáirséal & Dill, 1969. An Chéad chló.  Light edgewear , and two inner book stamps - from a school library  -i nside both covers.   

Leon-Joseph Suenens - Edel Quinn - PB Legion of Mary 1971 - East Africa Missionaries

A paperback reprint, 1971 , ( originally published in Ireland bu CJ Fallon, 1954 )  of Edel Quinn - Heroine of the Apostolate  - a religious biography.  Edel Quinn, born near Kanturk in 1907, was a lay missionary organiser in east Africa ,...

Jean-Yves Domalain - Panjamon - I was a Headhunter - HB 1973 Borneo Travel

A US first edition, second printing, published by Morrow USA, 1973.  The true account, originally published in French, of the authors travel to Borneo, where, deep in the jungles, and lost, he was unwittingly taken in by two Iban headhunters, and...

Mary McCarthy - The Group - HB UK ED 1964 - Vintage Book Club Ed

A hardcover UK Book Club edition, 1964, following from the 1963 first edition, of the novel by Mary McCarthy - The Group.  Tanning to page block, and edgewear to the folds of the dustjacket, some small ghostmarks from tape internally on front...

Mainchín Seoighe - Portrait of Limerick - 1982 Local County History HB 1st Ed

A hardcover 1985 reprint of Mainchín Seoighe's Portrait of Limerick , originally published by Robert Hale Publishing in 1982.  Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, there's a small nick at the top edge of the spine, no...

Leon Ó Broin - Fenian Fever - An Anglo-American Dilemma - HB 1971

A hardcover first edition, Chatto & Windus , 1971, of historian Leon Ó Broin's study of the translatlantic impact of the Fenian movement in the 1860's. He examines how the movement was influenced for former US civil war soldiers, how it...

Patrick C Power - A Literary History of Ireland - Vintage Mercier Press PB 1969

 A paperback first edition, Mercier Press, Cork,  1969, of Patrick Power's study of Irish literature and writing ( mostly concentrating ON Irish writing as Gaeilge, from circa 900 to the 1950'S . Also includes an outline study of Irish writing...

Lorcán Ó Treasaigh - An Doras Grianlasta HB 1st ED 1983 Gaeilge

A hardcover first edition, 1983 by FNT , of Lorcán Ó Treasaigh 's novel 'An Doras Grianlasta' ( The Sunlit Door) .    Section internally of publishers ads.    Ó Treasaigh was  Dublin based author, musician,...

Frank O'Connor - The Big Fellow : Michael Collins & the Irish Revolution, HB 1965

Originally published in 1937, this is the revised and expanded 1965 edition of Frank O'Connor's biography of Michael Collins - The Big Fellow, published by Clonmore & Reynolds, Dublin.    Condition - Dustjacket - Good - age spotting and...

G.P Taylor - Shadowmancer - HB Special Edition Fantasy 2003

A hardcover special edition, 2003, published by Faber & Faber UK , of the debut novel by G.P Taylor, Shadowmancer. Gold cover dj, dark blue tint to page block ends, and an additional foreword from the author on some of the Yorkshire myths that...

Litwack, B.H - The Last Shiksa - HB 1ST ED 1978 - Putnam USA

A hardcover 1st edition, Putnam US 1978 of The Last Shiksa by B.H Litwack. A Rabelasian sex romp might be the best way to describe this.  Arnie Gaff is a 45-year-old divorced millionaire, address Park Avenue, with a dirty mind like you shouldn't...

Isaac Bashevis Singer - In My Father's Court - HB 1st ED Memoir Poland

A hardcover 1st UK edition , Secker & Warburg,1967, following on from the 1st US edition, 1966, of Polish American author Isaac Bashevis Singer's memoir - In My Father's Court. Singer won the Nobel Prize in 1978, and his work has been filmed a number...

Daniel Farson - With Gilbert & George in Moscow HB Art Bloomsbury Uk 1991

With Gilbert & George In Moscow by Daniel Farson. Hardback first edition published by Bloomsbury UK in 1991. Approximately 10"x8" illustrated with colour and B&W photographs. In the spring of 1990, Daniel...

Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle

A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press,  of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes.  Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was...

Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973

A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Esmond in India - HB UK 1978 - Booker Prize Author

A hardcover 1978 John Murray edition  of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 's Esmond in India. Originally published in 1958, close to the period ( early 1950's) in which the novel is set.    Esmond in India is a novel of maneuver and misunderstanding...

Kathrin Perutz - Reigning Passions - 1978 - Masochism - Hb Uk 1Ed

A hardcover first edition, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1978, of Kathrin Perutz's novel based on the life of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , the man who gave his name to masochism.  Encompassing six decades of history, and a fascinating range of...

Annie M.P Smithson - Paid in Full PB - Mercier Press 1990 Edition

 Anne MP Smithson's 1946 novel,  Paid in Full . Reprint edition by Mercier Press, 1990, in very good condition, SLIGHT DINK TO FRONT COVER .  Anie Mary Patricia Smithson (26 September 1873 21 February 1948) was born into a Protestant...

Nicholas Monsarrat - 3 Book Lot - Richer Than All His Tribe ( 1968) , The Pillow Fight ( 1965) , Master MarinerRunning Proud - HB

Master Mariner - Hardcover UK 1st Edition , second printing Cassell UK, 1979 .  Some light edgewear to the covers. Period price tag from Liam Ruiséal Bookshop in  Cork on inner front cover. Tells the story of the British...

Brown, Ivor - Shakespeare - A Pictorial Biography - HB Vintage - Nelson Books - 1958

A hardcover Nelson edition of drama critic and writer Ivor Brown's study of William Shakespeare, his life and influences.  Aimed at a younger audience - primary school ( 5th 6th class levels in modern usage) Explores Shakesperare's early...

Boielle, James - Cassell's New French English-French Dictionary - HB Vintage 1903

A vintage hardcover French - English / English - French dictionary, 1903 Cassell , London, would be aimed at second level or third level grade, also useful as a comparison dictionary with a modern edition. 616 pages, there are two previous owners...

Richer, William - Despair to Resurrection - First Lisburn Presbyterian Church 1688-1988 HB Antrim

HardcoverPublisher: 1st ed. First Lisburn Presbyterian Church Lisburn, 1988Condition, - Good, some small closed bumps/nicks to the front cover.  66 p. Well illustrated with superb colour illustrations of the stained glass windows -...

McCarthy, Mary - Memories of a Catholic Childhood - Penguin PB Ed 1963 USA

A first Penguin PB Edition, 1963, of the 1957 memoir by Mary McCarthy, Memories of  a Catholic Childhood. This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her...

Witton-Davies, Carlyle - Journey of a Lifetime Hb 1962 Israel & Palestine HB Travel

A hardcover second printing, 1962 of A Journey of a Lifetime, a TV tie in series with ABC ( ITV - UK) , of a journey taken to Israel , Palestine and Jordan, primarily examining biblical locations and modern day sites with religious connections...

George Sava - A Surgeon in California - HB 1st Ed Faber Uk 1962

A hardcover first edition, first printing, Faber & Faber 1962 of Russian born author George Sava's A surgeon in California. Light edge wear to the dj, two small closed tears to the upper edges of the front cover ( no paper loss)  internally...

Benedict Kiely - The Cards of the Gambler - Vintage PB 1973 1ST PB ED

A vintage paperback, Millington, 1973, of Benedict Kiely's novel, The Cards of the Gambler,  first published in hardcover in 1953. Scuff damage to the back cover where an original pricetag was removed at some stage. Internally...

Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography

A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal...

Maurice Walsh - Blackcock's Feather - Vintage PB Schools Edition

Blackcock's Feather, published by Longmans Browne & Nolan Ltd, Dublin a school edition, originally published 1933. An historical swashbuckling romance/ adventure novelINTERNALLY VERY GOOD, UNUSUALLY FOR A SCHOOL TEXT, NO MARKS OR DAMAGEThis book...

A.R Orme - Ireland ( World's Landscapes Series ) PB 1st ED - 1970 - Geography Environment

A paperback first edition, 1970, or Orme's history of Irish landscape and geography from the end of the last glaciation to the twentieth century. Illustrated throughout with maps, b&w photographs ( many from the air ) and line drawings...

Yonge, Charlotte M - The Heir of Redclyffe - HB 1914 Kate Greenaway Illust

Mick McCarthy - Early Days - 1990 - Kerry Autobiography

Light edgewear to the covers, internally there is a gift inscription to the title page in neat blue ink. An account of growing up in rural Kerry ( Listowel and environs) during the first half of the 20th century.  Crease to centre of front...

Hugh Oram - Bygone Limerick - The City & County in days gone by - PB Illustrated Mercier 2010

A paperback first edition, Mercier Press 2010, of Hugh Oram's illustrated guide to historic Limerick county and city - with a host of black and white photographs. In excellent condition, as new ( although 2010)  Has images of many rural...

Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland

A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was...

Hornby, Nick - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Hb 2006 1st Ed - Writing about Reading

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading - about the way that, when reading is going well, one books leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books...

Gerry Adams - Hope and History : Making Peace in Ireland HB - Brandon

A hardcover edition, Brandon, 2003 of IRA and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams's account of the peace process and the Belfast Agreement -  'Hope and History - Making Peace in Ireland' . From the blurb -  Hope and History is a...