Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

Willie John McBride - Autobiography ( with Edmund Van Esbeck) - HB -1976

Antrim born Willie John McBride broke every record in internationl rugby in his time - for appearances, Lions tours, and caps for Ireland. Almost an entrant into the game by accident, he came to rugby late , at the age of 16, and before his own first...

Michael Davitt - An Tost ag Scagadh - PB - Filíocht

Cnuasach dánta le Michael Davitt, ceann do mhór fhilí an chéaid seo caite, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , Baile Átha Cliath, 1993, clúdach bog. An ceathrú cnuasach filíochta ón údar...

Keith Lowe - Prisoners of History : What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us - HB - 2020

Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There’s just one problem: when we carve a statue or put up a monument, it can wind up holding us hostage to bad history. In this extraordinary history book,...

John Hutchinson & Anthony D. Smith - Nationalism ( Oxford Readers) - PB - 1994

Achieving prevalence as an ideology in the political and social ferment of late 18th-century Europe and America, nationalism first found expression during the course of such historical upheavals as the American and French Revolutions. Its founders and...

Tom Dunne - Rebellions : Memoir, Memory and 1798 - PB - 2004

Larger format trade paperback, published by Lilliput Press, 2004. Tom Dunne was Emiritus history professor at UCC at time of publication.  Rebellions is an autobiography, an astonishingly clear-sighted and lucid account of a tragic and disputed...

Diarmuid O'Flynn - The Boy Wonder of Hurling : The Story of Jimmy Doyle Told in His Own Words - HB

Tipperary's Jimmy Doyle was "The Boy Wonder" of hurling in the 1950s and 1960s. It was famed broadcaster Michael O'Hehir who first dubbed Jimmy "The Boy Wonder", and the title caught on with the general public and the media alike. And with good reason...

Pat McGinty - I Have Often Wondered - HB - Mayo Biography

Hardcover, published 2012, signed and dedicated by the author to the title page.  Pat McGinty was born in Castelbar in 1938, his mother was in the Tuam Mother and Baby home, and subsequently moved to Scotland without him, leaving him in the casre of...

Martin Steer - Irish Rivers : Biology and Management - PB - RIA

Paperback, published by RIA , 1991, edited by Martin Steer.  This copy is signed by the former FF Tánaiste ,  John P Wilson, and dated 1991. 

J.F.D Shrewsbury - A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles -HB - 1971

A hardcover reprint, Cambridge University Press, 1971, originally published in 1970.  Condition - Very good, solid in grety cloth, in a grey / cream dustjacket that shows age spotting to edges .  England is the focus of the majority of the...

George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

Simon Kelly - Breakfast with Anglo - PB - 2010

Simon Kelly's involvement in property development began when, as a computer-mad child in the 1980s, he started making spreadsheets for his father, the developer Paddy Kelly. By 2008, when the Irish property market crashed, Simon and Paddy owed their...

Geoffrey Parker - Philip II - HB 1979

Hardcover, published by Hutchinson UK, 1979.  Philip II (1527-1598) is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her...

Liam Mac Cóil - The Book of Blackrock -PB - 1981 ( 2nd Edition)

2nd edition, published by Carraig Books Blackrock, 1981, ( the first edition was 1977)  Fold out map inside the back cover, previous woner's gift inscription on inside front cover .  ''a book on the town of Blackrock comprising the history of...

Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics HB 1923 Reprint - Translated by J.E.C Welldon

Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system.  Light edgewear. Ink mark on lower spine. 'One swallow does not...

Anatoly Karpov & Aleksandr Roshal - Chess is My Lif - PB

Paperback, published by Pergamon Press, as part of the Russian Chess Series, 1980.  Both a  description of Karpov's rise to prominence in global chess, and a large selection ofhis games. annotated by himself. 

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters - PB ( Persephone Books Edition) 2007 ( Originally 1943)

C.S Lewis - Prince Caspian ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 4 ) Vintage Puffin PB 1973 ( Originally 1951)

Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art  and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.The Pevensie siblings travel back to Narnia to...

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians - Vintage HB - 1932

 Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General GordonLytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern...

R.G Wade, Raymond Bott & Stanley Morrison - Chess Tactics _ Puzzles For Beginners - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Lutterworth Press UK, 1979 reprint, originally 1970.  ''designed to provide the keen chess player with a series of basic examples of chess tactics and a large number of puzzles which will prove of  great value as...

Raymond Smullyan - The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes : 50 Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection - PB

Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen...

Dell Shannon - The Ace of Spades - HB - 1976 ( Originally 1961)

The Ace of Spades continues the case histories of Mendoza, the Mexican detective of the Los Angeles Police Department. Lt. Mendoza specializes in homicides … he has brains, uncanny flair, wealth, a passion for justice and Abyssinian cats. He has a...

Sara Berkeley - The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1991. A collection of short stories.  A businessman is mesmerized by the woman he follows from a London tube. A Dublin mother raises her children alone. A married woman in San Francisco desperately...

Saint Luke - The Acts of the Apostles (Penguin Classics) Translated by C.H Rieu

Penguin Classics paperback, (L56) 1958, first published in 1957.  In very good unmarked condition.  A full ( and then new) translation of the Acts of the Apostles, with maps, notes etc. 

James Morier - The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan ( Iran) - 2 Vol HB - 1895

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan is a satirical Oriental novel, written in 1824 by James Justinian Morier, a former British envoy who lived in Qajar dynasty Iran (Persia) in 1808–1809 and 1810–1814, amidst the diplomatic difficulties...

Bertolt Brecht - Life Of Galileo ( PB - Translated by John Willett) Methuen PB

This Methuen Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and...

Stanislaus Kennedy - But Where Can I go? - Homless Women in Dublin - PB - 1985

Published by Arlen House, 1985, Stanislaus Kennedy went on to form Focus Ireland, and died in 2026.  But Where Can I Go? is a 1985 book that highlights the plight of homeless women in Dublin. It details their lack of safety, hygiene, and shelter,...

Patrick Murray ( Editor) - The Deer's Cry : A Treasury of Irish Religious Verse - PB - 1986

A collection of '300 great poems by 130 of the greatest Irish poets, both contemporary and classical, spanning more than a thousand years'. Foreword by Brendan Kennelly, paperback,  Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1986. In very good condition, slight...

Ralph Whitlock - In Search of Lost Gods : A Guide to British Folklore - PB -

the sight of people performing actions that seem superficially strange prompts an inquiry into not only what they are doing but why. In the context of folklore the participants often do not know the answer. They are repeating a ritual inherited from...

Ian Finlay - The Trams of Ireland in Old Picture Postcards - HB

Hardcover, published by European Library / Zaltbommel, Netherlands.  A small format hardcover, with an array of photographic postcards ( most from pre WW1) of Belfast, Dublin and Cork, showing streetviews with trams , both electric and horse drawn...

Colleen Hoover - It Starts With Us | It Ends With US - 2 X PB

2 Colleen Hoover paperback copieds of  It Ends With Us ( Originally 2016, reprint)  It Starts With Us - ( Originally 2022, reprint) A prequel to the original , but published after It Ends With Us ( somewhat confusingly)  Light edgewear...

Nathalie Anderson ( Editor) - Open-Eyed, Full-Throated : An Anthology of American /Irish Poets - PB

Paperback, published by Arlen House 2019, there is a bookshop sticker on teh back cover, light edgewear, otherwise internally as new.  Open-Eyed, Full-Throated introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the complexity and nuance of Irish...

Michael Kirby - Skelligs Sunset - PB ( Skelligs Trilogy - Book 3 )

Skelligs Sunset, a posthumous volume of work in English by Michael Kirby, is the final part in his trilogy of memoir, storytelling and poetry begun with Skelligside (1990) and Skelligs Calling (2003). This remarkable writer, farmer-fisherman and painter...

Norman Rich - The Age of Nationalism and Reform 1850-1890 2nd Edition - PB - 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally published 1970, a standalone volume in the wider Norton History of Modern Europe series.  Covers the history of Europe in an era of competing nationalisms, following from the 1848 revolutions, the rise...

Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001

Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999.  The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with...

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Clash of the Princes - The Warrior's Way (Fighting Fantasy) - PB - 1986

Paperback, published by Puffin UK , 1986.  A two player fighting fantasy book  ''Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone present'', but authored by Andrew Chapman  and Martin Allen , illustrations by John Blanche - Fighting Fantasy : The...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy of religious violence that remains relevant. A...

Philip Rooney - Captain Boycott - Vintage PB - Anvil Press ( Orignally 1946)

An undated 1980's Anvil Press reprint  of the original 1946 edition of Captain Boycott by Philip Rooney- subtitled 'The man whose name gave a dreaded word to the English language in the stormy days of the Land League'  Moderate tanning to page...

Michael Foley - Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row - PB -2007

On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again. It had taken Offaly six heartbreaking...

Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1965

Illustrations by Robert Stewart Sheriffs Hardcover in a leatherette effect covers, published in this reprint by Collins UK , 1965. Uneven sunfade to the spine, rubbing and wear to the top and tail of the spine, gilt finish to page block ends...

Margaret Atwood - Selected Poems - PB

Paperback, published by OUP (Canada) - sunfade to spine ( the author name in red is faded completely)  light edgewear to covers. 

S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB 1908

Red Cap TalesStolen From the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North [SCOTT, Sir Walter] / CROCKETT, S.R. A & C Black, 1908 ( The first edition was 1904) . Orange pictorial cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. 16...

Gerry Walsh- How'ya Doc ? - The First Ninety Years of the Belvedere Newsboys' Club 1918-2008 - PB

Paperback, published 2010.   From the author's introduction - The object of compiling this book is chiefly to celebrate the first ninety years since the foundation of the Belvedere Newsboys’ Club and to prepare for its centenary in 2018. It is...

Anthony Trollope - The Warden - HB Everyman's Library - 1949

Small format jacketed hardcover, published as part of the Dent / Everyman Library Editions - published in this edition 1949, originally 1855.  Now in a clear plastic jacket protector. 

John O'Regan ( Editor) - Donald Teskey - Gandon Profile Edition ( SIGNED BY Donald Teskey) - 2005 - PB

Paperback, published by Gandon Editions, 2005.  Signed in black ink by the artist ( Donald Teskey '05) to the title page in black ink, no dedications or other marks, a profusely illustrated artist monograph, with full colour art reproductions,...

Gustavo Gutierrez - A Theology of Liberation - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1971)

Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Día was a Peruvian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. This 1971 book Teologiá de la Liberación A Theology of...

John Flynn & Jerry Kelleher - Cork : Journeys in America - PB - 2003

Paperback, published by HI-TABLE Publishing, Waterford, 2003.  Clsed tear to lower edge of back cover, age spotting and foxing to page block ends.  A biographical directory containing the biographies of 53 individuals who embodied the close...

Andrew Carpenter (Editor) - Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland - PB - 1998

Published by Cork University Press, 1998. An innovative collection of Irish poetry and verse from the 18th century - including  well known writers such as Swift and Goldsmith alongside lesser known ( and lesser anthologised) poets , as well as poems...

Mike Dixon-Kennedy - Celtic Myth and Legend : An A-Z of People and Places - HB - 1996

Hardcover, published by Blandford UK, 1996.  Internally very good, uneven sun fade to spine. A gazetter of names, places and evnets from all of Celtic mythology - Ireland, Scotland Wales, Brittany, and those myths from wider Britain itself that had...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 4 - Theological Dramatic Theory - Volume 4 : The Action - HB 1990

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1994, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends . Originally published in German in 1980.  Ignatius Press, USA.    Building on the...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 2 - Dramatis Personae : Man in God - HB 1990

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1990, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends . Originally published in German in 1976.  Ignatius Press, USA.    As the title...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 1 - Prologomena

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1988, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends .  Ignatius Press, USA.    Whereas The Glory of the Lord approached revelation in...

D.G Boyce - Englishmen and Irish Troubles : British Public Opinion & The Making of Irish Policy 1918-22 - HB

Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1972.  A detailed examination of UK media and public opinion in relation to Ireland from the 1918 election until the outbreak of the Civil War.