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Ernest Hemingway - 8 BOOK LOT - Biography & Literary Criticism

A collection of 8 books on American author Ernest Hemingway ( not by HEMINGWAY, but exploring aspects of his fascinating life as author, traveller, soldier, father etc)  All in excellent condition.  James McLendon - Papa : Hemingway in Key West...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English poets.  Previous owner's name to front endpage ,...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1985 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded...

Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems - HB Edition - 1972( Originally 1964 ) - Monaghan

Monaghan born Patrick Kavanagh was one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully...

Tom McCaughren - Legend of the Corrib King ( PB - Acorns Books - 7)

Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.  Wings that whistle, Legs that fly…So begins the mysterious invitation that Tasper, Cowlick and his sisters Rachel and Roisin get from Uncle Pakie, asking them to come to the Corrib at dapping...

AA Essential : Ireland 1994 (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, - either the numbering was missed ( the number had...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded...

Tomás De Bhaldraithe - English Irish Dictionary - PB ( Foclóir Béarla go Gaeilge) 2004 Reprint

A PAPERBACK reprint edition 2004 ( originally 1959 ) of the standard English Irish dictionary used in Ireland - Béarla go Gaeilge ( not vice versa) and published by Oifig an tSolatháir, Dublin. Binding is tight, not ex library, no school...

Acts of the Oireachtas 1957 - HB - Dáil Éireann - Bound

Bound in red cloth, titles to spine, the full legislation of the Houses of the Oireachtas for 1957 ' Consisting of The Public general Acts and A rivate Act, with Tables and index - DUAL LANGUAGE ( Gaeilge & English, facing pages) , published by the...

Harman Murtagh - Irish Midland Studies : Essays in Commemoration of N.W English - HB 1980

Published by the Old Athlone Society, 1980, hardcover internally in excellent condition but in a somewhat edgeworn dustjacket ( which is now in a clear plastic removable cover)  Essays ( on a diverse array of subjects, and also covering counties...

Francois Mauriac - Thérese Desqueyroux - PB ( FRENCH LANGUAGE Edition) PB 1975

Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte qu'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu...

John L McKenzie - The Two Edged Sword - An Interpretation of the Old Testament - HB 1965 ( Originally 1956)

Presents the religious ideas, values and doctrines of the Old Testament in terms that are highly significant and meaningful to our modern world. Beginning with Genesis and moving through the historical books, the Prophets and the books of Wisdom, the...

Flora Armitage - The Desert and the Stars : A Portrait of T.E Lawrence- HB 1956 -

Hardcover, Faber UK 1956, first edition, tape mark residue on in side front flaps ( but not ex library)  A key biogarphy of the life on T.E Lawrence - ' Lawrence of Arabia' 

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet - Pocket Edition - Hardcover Spirituality Classic - 1979 - HB

The Prophet, first published in 1923 ( 1926 in the UK), is the story of a seer and his wisdom. The book's astonishing success turned it into a mystical and spiritual guide for the modern era and earned its author cult status. In the 1960s, Gibran was...

Ian R. Macleod - Breathmoss and Other Exhalations - HB - SHORT STORIES ( Golden Gryphon USA -2004)

This collection of literary short fiction combines fantasy, science fiction, and horror in vivid settings, peopled with ordinary humans with normal relationships, and the interaction of the mundane with the fantastic. In "Breathmoss," a young girl must...

Ian R Macleod - SONG OF TIME - HB ( PS Publishing UK - 2008)

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one remarkable old womanRoushana Maitland has known great fame and...

Pat Barr - The Memsahibs : The Women of Victorian India - PB 1983 ( Originally 1976)

Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2014 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2014 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages.  Stapled booklet format. unmarked internally...

An Caisleán - The Castleconnell Ahane & Montpelier Journal 2017 - Parish Annual Limerick

The 2017 local parish annual for Castleconnell/ Ahane, with information on local clubs, schools, history  societies, aas well as essays on local history and photographs, 128 pages.  Stapled booklet format. unmarked internally...

S.M.W Dunnit - Irish Lore and Legends - HB -1993

A collection of Irish legends and lore including A Legend of Knockmany, Diarmid Bawn, The Piper, The Haunted Cellar, The Cattle Raid of Quelgny, The Voyage of Maeldun and many more. The stories are based on the work of T.W. Rolleston, A.P. Graves, W.B...

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy - Jane's Adventures in a Balloon - HB 1975

Hardcover, Gollancz UK  Although this is a sequel to the earlier books in the series ( Jane's Adventures In and Out of the Book and Jane's Adventures on the Island of Peeg, thsi works as a standalone novel .Jane sets off on another adventure in her...

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster - HB ( Harrap Library edition)

Undated , but preface added to this edition dated 1912. Originally published in 1864-5.  D'arcy Thompson was professor of Classics at UCG ( then Queen's College Galway) during the 19th century ( one of the lecture theatres is named after him) ...

Jack Lambie - Designing and Building Composite Remote Control Model Aircraft - PB 1987

Published by Motorbooks International , Osceola Wisconsin, 1987. illustrated throughout A ( detailed) how to guide to building model aircraft from scratch - using foam, kevlat fdibreglass , as well as detailing aerodynamic design, mold making, repairs,...

Classic Little Golden Book Library (4 Book Box Set)

Classic Little Golden Book Library (4 Book Box Set) REPRINT EDITIONS Contains:   Scruffy the Tugboat Home for a Bunny The saggy baggy Elephant The poky little Puppy 

Arch Books - Quality Religious Books for Children (7 Book Collection) 1965-1971

Published by Arch Concordia ( a US publishing house) Quality Religious Books for Children (7 Book Collection) bible storie sin illustrated form  Contains:   The Good Samaritan The Little Boat that Almost Sank The Man Caught by a Fish The...

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland /.Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection)

Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland: Years including 1940 - 1956 (15 Book Collection) Contains: october 1956 october 1949 october 1951 october 1940 october 1946 october 1951 july 1951 april 1950 april 1944 april 1943 january...

Catherine Cookson - Katie Mulholland - A Novel- HB 1st Edition - 1967

Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland. At fifteen, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosiers, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money...

Dick Francis - High Stakes - HB 1975

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Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1983 - ED

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press.Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to bring a maverick priest, James Phelan, back into...

D.H. Lawrence / The White Peacock (Vintage Paperback)

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Nina Holm / I, A Prostitute (Vintage Paperback)

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Glyn Frewer / The Raid (Vintage Paperback)

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Denise Robins / The Noble One (Vintage Paperback)

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John Powell / Will The Real Me Please Stand Up (Vintage Paperback)

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Henry Williamson / Salar the Salmon (Vintage Paperback)

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Jessica Stirling / Beloved Sinner (Vintage Paperback)

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Percy Thrower / Garden Notebook (Vintage Paperback)

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Larry McMurtry / All My Friends are Going to be Strangers (Vintage Paperback)

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Gerald Seymour / Kingfisher (Vintage Paperback)

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Leslie Thomas / Onward Virgin Soldiers (Vintage Paperback)

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Clay Blair / Survive! (Vintage Paperback)

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Paul Scott / Johnnie Sahib (Vintage Paperback)

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Marcel Pagnol / Fanny (Vintage Paperback)

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Joseph Bayly / The Last Thing We Talk About (Vintage Paperback)

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Rita Snowden / When Sorrow Comes (Vintage Paperback)

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The Guinness Book of Olympic Records (Vintage Paperback)

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Sue Moorhouse / Zigzag to Zenaris (Vintage Paperback)

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Alistair MacLean / Partisans (Vintage Paperback)

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Elizabeth Byrd / The Famished Land (Vintage Paperback)

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James Comberton / Drugs and Young People (Vintage Paperback)

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Pamela Kettle / The Day of the Women (Vintage Paperback)

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