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Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy - Limerick Boycott 1904 - Anti-Semitism In Ireland

Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2005, a detailed study of what became known as the Limerick Boycott , that started when incendiary speeches by a Redemptorist priest, Fr John Creagh, stirred up a wave of anti-Semitic feeling and violence, and which...

Dexter, Gary - Why not Catch-21 HB - Books on books 1st Ed 2007

Most book titles simply describe the contents of the book they are attached to. Crime and Punishment is about crime and punishment, and Brideshead Revisited is about revisiting Brideshead. But a small number of book titles have a rather odd, separate...

Brian Aldiss ( Editor) - More Penguin Science Fiction - Vintage PB 1ed 1963

A first edition , 1963, of More Penguin Science Fiction, a collection of short stories selected and introduced by Aldiss, himself a noted short story writer and novelist.  Penguin number 1963 , an original Penguin collection.  Short fiction by...

Goldstone, Herbert - in Search of Community : The Achievement of Seán O'Casey PB Mercier

Published by Mercier, cork 1972, a critical study and commentray of the dramas of Seán O'Casey, including detailed analaysis of his three great early worsk, The Plough and teh Stars, Juno and the Paycock, and Shadow of a Gunman. 

Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage - Vintage Airmont Classic Novel - US Civil War

A 1962 Airmont classics edition, complete and unabridged , a slim 160pp paperback, and a classic of US, and war literature.  Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are...

Prisma - Duits Nederlands Woordenboek ( German- Dutch Dictionary) PB 1980

A paperback German to Dutch  Dictionary, published by Prisma Woorddenboeken , 1980 , and edited by J.A.H Van Gemert - It is German to Dutch only, not vice versa, or with any content in English. German and Dutch are closer linguistically than , say...

Saint Francis - The Little Flowers of Saint Francis - Translated by L Sherley-Price Vintage Penguin PB

First printed in 1476, this collection of stories, or "little flowers," chronicles Saint Francis of Assisi's journeys, activities, and miracles. Told in brief anecdotes of charming simplicity, the stories include Saint Francis' sermon to the birds, his...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - HB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old...Paddy Doyle's...

Arthur M Schlesinger - Robert Kennedy : His Life and Times , Vol 1 ( to 1962) - HB US Edition , 1978

Schlesinger has mounted a massive attack on the Robert Kennedy conundrum (shy/aggressive, compassionate/ruthless) and, no less, on the Kennedy brothers' detractors. The themes, the interpretations, the stories are not new; but never have they been so...

Sheila Grant Duff - Europe And The Czechs - Vintage Penguin Special - PB 1938

A Penguin Special ( Specials were issued on particular topics of current affairs and had a seperate numbering system to the general Penguin list) of Sheila Grant Duff's Europe and the Czechs, a detailed discussion of the Sudeten Crisis of that year , and...

Robert Lloyd Praeger - The Way That I Went - Ireland Geography & Topography Classic - PB - 1980

Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist and first published in 1937, this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5,000 miles across hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns,...

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 ,...

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...

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...

Capuchin Annual - 1961 - 28th Year of Publication- Ireland History Culture Religion

Very Good. 1961. Paperback. 512 pp. A Very Good copy in a Good cover - the covers show edgewear ( as is always the case with Capuchin Annuals, as teh covers were printed larger than the block of text) )  , and dustmarking.  The Capuchin Annual...

Capuchin Annual - 1977 - 44th Year of Publication

The final published issue - a wide range of articles, many by leading historians - including Dermot Keogh on the 1913 Lockout, , Breandán ó Cathaoir on John O'Mahony , and an essay on the artist Sarah Purser.  416 pages, internally...

Capuchin Annual - 1964 - 31st Year of Publication Kennedy in Ireland

1964. Paperback. 512pp. A solid copy in a good cover - the covers show edgewear , and dustmarking. Includes a photographic feature on Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June of that year, as well as an article by Brinsley MacNamara, article by Mainchín...

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-...

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...

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...

Seosamh Mac Grianna - An Druma Mór - HB Novel As Gaeilge Donegal

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...

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,...

Stephen Collins - The Cosgrave Legacy - HB 1st Ed Irish Political Dynasty

Hardcover 1st edtion of Stephen Collins's noted study on the Cosgrave family - that gave Ireland two Taoisigh -W.T Cosgrave, and his son Liam Cosgrave. Published by Blackwater Press, 1996, some light age spotting / foxing to the top of the page block,...

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...

Brinsley MacNamara - The Clanking of Chains ( A story of Sinn Féin) - Anvil Press Vintage PB 1965

A paperback first edition, Anvil Press, 1965, of Brinsley Macnamara's The Clanking of Chains, first published in 1919- 20 by Maunsel. Originally titled as The Clanking of Chains - A Story of Sinn Féin. John Weldon, who used the penname Brinsley...

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...

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 -...

Maurice Walsh - Blackcock's Feather - HB

This book tells the story of David Gordon, born of an Irish mother and a Scottish father. It starts with him setting sail from Bristol for Ireland in the early days of the Nine Years' War, soon after the Battle of Clontibret in 1595. The story takes...

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...

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...

Paul Bew - C.S Parnell : A Biography - Gill's Irish Lives Series -1980 History

A paperback first edition, 1980, Gill and Macmillan, of historian Paul Bew's biography of Charles Stewart Parnell, issued in the uniform Gill's Irish Lives. This series was issued as a series of succinct biographies of famous Irish historical...

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