4581. Mac Piarais, Pádraic / [Pádraig Pearse].

Bodach an Chóta Lachtna [The Carle in the Drab Coat].

Baile Átha Cliath, Connradh na Gaeilge, No year [c. 1926]. 8°. 28 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4582. Mac-Goeghegan [sic], [Abbé Mac-Geoghegan]/ James MacGeoghegan / Mitchel, John.

The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade. With a Continuation from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time by John Mitchel.

First Edition of the John Mitchel-Edition. New York, D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1869. Quarto (23.5 cm x 28 cm). Lithographic Frontispiece, Titlepage with wood-cut-border, XVI pages with Dedication, Biographical Sketch of the author James MacGeoghegan, and 4 pages of detailed Contents plus main text of 640 pages including a thorough Index. Original, very decorative Hardcover with family – crest of Patrick Flannigan on front board. Bespoke binding. Binding a little shaky with the spine loosening but still firm and holding. Endpapers as well as first and last pages a little dusty and with peripheral fraying. Interior clean besides some foxing. Includes a number of stunning portraits and romantic illustrations of Ireland. One illustration (St.Patrick) slightly torn. Name of two pre-owners on titlepage. Important History with decorative borders to each page. Extremely Rare !

4583. MacBride, Seán.

A Message to the Irish People.

Cork, Mercier, 1985. 21 cm. 120 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

4584. MacBride, Seán.

That day’s struggle – A memoir, 1904-1951. Edited by Caitriona Lawlor.

Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Currach Press, 2005. 25 cm. 238 pages with 16 pages of plates / illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including a newspaper-clipping with a review for this book.

4585. [MacBride, Seán] Jordan, Anthony J.

Seán MacBride – A Biography.

Dublin, Blackwater Press, 1993. 22 cm. 199 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including a loosely inserted, lengthy newspaper-clipping (″McBride’s lack of principle”).

4586. MacBride, Seán; Amnesty International. Irish Section; Association of Irish Jurists; Prisoners’ Rights Organization (Ireland):

Crime and punishment. [The Irish Penal System Commission Report / Police Custody: The Barra O Briain Report / Fr.Austin Flannery O.P. on the Death Penalty / Kevin White on the O Briain Report]. Edited by Seán Mac Bride.

Dublin, Ireland, Ward River Press in association with Amnesty International Irish Section, the Association of the Irish Jurists, the Prisoners Rights Organisation, 1982. 18 cm. 184 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper. [Paperfacts ; 2].

4587. [MacCabe Fay, Patrick (Provenance)] Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Passages from The American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Second Edition. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Octavo. 309 pages plus six unnumbered pages of a Catalogue of publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Poor condition with stronger signs of wear. The binding is fragile with the bookblock slightly separating from the binding. Still, the overall condition is still Good+ with foxing throughout (as usual with this publication) and a faded dampstain to rear endpaper and pastedown. From the library of Patrick MacCabe Fay, with his Bookplate / Exlibris to front free endpaper with the Family-Motto: “Toujours Fidele – Aut Vincere Aut Mori” [″Always Faithful – Either Win or Die”](see image). Very Rare publication !

4588. MacCallum Scott, John H.

Eastern Journey.

London, Ebenezer Baylis and Son, Ltd., 1939. 21,5 cm 14,2 cm. XI, 276 pages. With several black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Travel Book Club]

4589. MacCarthaigh, [eds.] Muiris:

The Houses of the Oireachtas – Parliament in Ireland.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2010. 24 cm. XV, 504 pages. Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4590. MacCarthaigh, Muiris.

Accountability in Irish parliamentary politics.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2005. 22 cm. vii, 359 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Copy of a related newspaper-article included.