1. Ashton, Robert / Michelburne, John.

Two Historical Plays: The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth / Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry.

Dublin, C.M. Warren, No date [c.1880] 9 cm x 14 cm. 144 pages. Softcover / Original, titled brochure. Good condition with signs of external wear. Damage to corners of front page. Spotting on page edges, front and rear page and several pages within. Otherwise clean inside and intact.

2. Bhaldraithe, Tomas de / Corkery, Daniel / and many others.

Collection of over eighty (80) publications on the Gaelic Language (Gaeilge), the History of the Gaelic Language, Gaelic Grammar, gaelic exercise books (new and old), publications on gaelic conversation etc. etc. including a Dictionary by Tomas de Bhaldraithe, a publication by Daniel Corkery on “The Fortunes of the Irish Language”, etc. etc.

Dublin and others, c.1950 – c.1990. Octavo. More than 1500 pages. Original Hardcover and Softcover Volumes. Some of the publications in poor condition but the majority in very good condition (see images).

3. Binchy, Maeve.

Firefly Summer. [SIGNED / Inscribed by Maeve Binchy].

First Edition. London, Century Hutchinson Ltd, 1987. 16 cm x 24 cm. 572 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

4. Boland, Bridget.

At My Mother’s Knee.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1978. 22.3cm x 14.3cm. 137 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Boland, Bridget.

The Wild Geese. A Novel.

London / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1938. 19.5cm x 13cm. 264 pages, including a map showing A Part of the Baronies of Iveragh, Dunkerron & Glanerought in the County of Kerry. Original Hardcover (green cloth) without dustjacket. The binding with some darkening and slightly stained. Else in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Bridget Boland: “Going away present (alas) for the Goughs [British Actor Michael Gough] – from Bridget B.”

6. [Brown, Christy] Jordan, Anthony J.

Christy Brown’s Women – A Biography Drawing on His Letters. Includes the Founding of Cerebral Palsy Ireland by Robert Collis.

Dublin, Westport Books, 1998. 20.8cm x 14.7cm. 178 pages. With illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne].

The Power of the Dog.

No.103 of a Limited Edition of only 516 copies. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no year [1929]. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispiece, 473 pages. Hardcover / Original quarter vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription on endpaper from 1929: “Eva M. Clarke from O.W.L. – Christmas 1929”. Donn Byrne was owner of Coolmain Castle (near Kilbrittain) until his death in a car accident in 1929.

8. Cahalan, James M.

Great Hatred, Little Room. The Irish Historical Novel [with a chapter: The Realistic Visions of Seán Ó Faoláin and Francis MacManus].

Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1983. 16 x 24 cm. 240 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

9. Cary, Joyce.

Cock Jarvis. Edited by A.G. Bishop.

London, Joseph, 1974. 21 cm. xvii, 267 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

10. Connolly, Claire.

Irtish Literature in Transition (1780 – 1830).

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Octavo. XIV, (2), 439 pages (including a thorough Index). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed by Claire Connolly on the titlepage.

11. Conyers, Dorothea.

Old Andy. Author of “Sandy Married”.

Fourth Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1916. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 253 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Pages tanned. Some foxing throughout. Smudging to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner’s names endpapers. Bar code sticker on rear endpaper.

12. Costello, Mary.

Academy Street.

Edinburg / London, Canongate, 2014. 14 cm x 22cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Craig, Maurice.

Poems – Selected and Edited by Andrew Carpenter. With an Introductory Essay by Lucy Collins.

Signed / Limited Edition No.4/50. Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011. Octavo. 73 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and a small paper-fault to endpaper/pastedown.

14. [Croker, John Wilson].

Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. – On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions.

Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). XXX, 178 pages plus Errata-leaf. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. Tear in Errata-leaf professionally repaired. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

15. [Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Extremely, sbsolutely scarce publication and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

16. Davis, Seamus.

Seamus Davis. Poems and Ballads.

Skibbereen, Bridgetown Publishing, 2003. 20.8cm x 14.6cm. 128 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. [Davis, Thomas].

Thomas Davis: Essays and Poems with a Centenary Memoir 1845-1945. Foreword by An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera.

Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1945. Octavo. Frontispiece, 240 pages. Original Hardcover. Some markings within the etxt. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and address of preowner on endpaper.

18. [de Vere, Aubrey] Cronin, Patrick J.

Aubrey de Vere, The Bard of Curragh Chase. A Portrait of His Life and Writings.

Askeaton, Askeaton Civic Trust, 1997. 15 cm x 21 cm. 232 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

19. Deane, Seamus.

Reading in the Dark. A Novel.

First American Editon. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 8°. 246 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine condition. Signed by the author on the title page.

20. [Defoe, Daniel] Ó Murchadha, Tadhg (″Seandún”)

Eachtra Robinson Crúsó. Tadhg Ó Murchadha (″Seandún”) do chuir i nGaedhilg as an Saxbhéarla bunaidh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1915. Small Octavo. 288 pages (5 pages of the Notes/ English Glossary at the end of the book are missing). Recent, modern Hardcover binding with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Annotations throughout. New endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

21. Doan, James E.

The Romance of Cearbhall and Fearbhlaidh. A Medieval Irish Tale here the first time translated from the Irish (Gaeilge) into english by James E. Doan.

Mountrath, Ireland, Dolmen Press, 1985. 23 cm. 80 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Dolmen Texts ; 7].

22. Donleavy, J.P.

A Singular Country.

Peterborough, Ryan Publishing, 1989. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 198 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing and smudging to endpapers.

23. Donleavy, J.P.

Schultz.

London, Allen Lane, 1980. 14 cm x 2237 cm. 375 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. First Edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

24. Donleavy, J.P.

The History of the Ginger Man. An Autobiography.

First American Edition. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Large Octavo. 517, (1) pages. With numerous photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

25. Dunne, Sean [ed.].

The Cork Antology.

First edition. Cork, Cork University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. XIII, 434 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear.

26. Durcan, Paul.

A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems.

London, Harvill, 1993. 13 cm x 21 cm. XIII, 272 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

27. Fitzgerald, Barbara.

We Are Besieged.

Second Impression. Bantry, Somerville Press, 2011. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 364 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

28. Flanagan, Thomas.

The Year of the French.

London, Macmillan London Limited, 1979. 16 cm x 24 cm. 516 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small paper defect. Out of print.

29. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition in Hardcover, which we offer here, is the much better version.

30. Gallivan, G.P.

Decision at Easter. A Play in Three Acts. [With the printed dedication: To the Men of Easter Week]. With a foreword by Ignatius Johns.

Dublin, Progress House, 1960. 8°. 74 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Popular Plays Series].

31. Gogarty, Oliver St. John.

Tumbling in the Hay.

First Edition. London, Constable and Company Ltd, 1939. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 325 Pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

32. [Gogarty, Oliver St. John] Ussher, Arland.

The Face and Mind of Ireland.

Third Impression. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Modern Hardcover binding (grey cloth with black lettering on spine andnew endpapers). Excellent condition. This book comes from the library of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty and was signed and inscribed to him by Arland Ussher on the halftitle in May 1950. A very nice association copy.

33. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

34. Griffin, Gerald.

The Collegians or The Colleen Bawn – A Tale of Garryowen.

London and Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no year (c.1890). Octavo. Frontispiece, VII, 369 pages. Original publisher’s cloth / Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Late 19th century edition of this irish classic. [The Evergreen Library]

35. Gwynn, Stephen.

Memories of Enjoyment.

Tralee, The Kerryman Limited, 1946. Octavo. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of fraying and some external wear to the jacket.

36. Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.

Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language. A Short History.

London, Thomas Nelson, 1936. 21 cm. IX, 240 pages. Original hardcover. Poor condition but with signs of external wear. There is noticeable rubbing to and fading of the spine, and foxing on inside and selective pages. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

37. Haining, Peter / Bradbury, Ray.

Irish Tales of Terror – Twenty-two Bewitching Stories of Irish Magic and Mystery by James Joyce, Ray Bradbury, H.P.Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, W.B.Yeats, Oscar Wilde and others. Introduction by Ray Bradbury / Edited by Peter Haining.

New York / Avenel (New Jersey), Wings Books, 1970. Octavo. 317 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

38. Hassett, Declan.

Make ‘em laugh ! A golden year of theatre.

Cork, Collins Press and Everyman Palace Theatre, 2008. 22 cm. xv, 288 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

39. Haugaard, Myrna / Lalor, Brian.

Voices From Stones.

Dublin, The Academy Press, 1983. 17.3 cm x 24 cm. 68 pages. Many black and white illustrations by artist and author, Brian Lalor. Original Softcover with protective sleeve. As new condition with only very minor foxing to front and rear endpapers and half-title page. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik C. Haugaard.

40. Healy, John.

Nineteen Acres.

Galway, Kenny’s Bookshop, 1988. 20.1cm x 14cm. viii, 141 pages. Frontispiece photograph: Mary O’Donnell. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

41. Heaney, Seamus.

Seeing Things [Signed by Seamus Heaney and with a Beautiful, lengthy Inscription]. With the printed Dedication “For Derek Mahon”.

Second Edition. London, faber and faber, 1991. Octavo. 113 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and beautifully inscribed: “To Christian Tischhauser – with admiration for your commitment to The West Cork Music Festival – Seamus Heaney – 26 June 1996”.

42. [Heaney, Seamus / Flanagan, T.P.] Kennedy, S. B.

T.P. Flanagan, RHA, PPRUA. [Signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan] Foreword by Seamus Heaney / Catalogue by Martyn Anglesea / An appreciation by John Belmore with notes on selected pictures by T.P. Flanagan and J.K. Jamison. A special edition of this book is limited to one hundred signed copies of which seventy-five are offered for sale. This is one of the 25 copies which were not for sale. It is signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan on the front free endpaper and its provenance is an eminent irish art collection.

Dublin, Four Courts Press in association with the Ulster Museum, 1995. Folio (24 cm x 28 cm). 96 pages with many illustrations in colour and photographs. Softcover. Some staining to endpaper and edge, leading into the outer margins of some pages. Text and illustrations not affected. While the staining is not pretty, this is one of the rare occasions to acquire one of the scarcer signed items from Seamus Heaney (1 of 25 copies from an edition of only 100 signed copies).

43. Henty, G.A.

In the Irish Brigade – A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain. With Twelve Illustrations by Charles M. Sheldon.

London, Blackie & Son, 1901. Octavo. Frontispiece, 384 pages plus an illustrated catalogue of “Blackie & Son’s Illustrated Story Books” with several illustrations bound to the rear of the Volume. Original Hardcover with artwork to cover. / Special Gift-Binding with gilt emblemata of “Tiffins endowed School in Kingston on Thames” on cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Gift-Bookplate from Tiffins School to Arthur John Clifford on pastedown.

44. Irish Book Bureau.

The Tri-Colour Song Book. [Including two pages with “Great 1916 Picture – showing the last stand of the heroes of Easter Week in the GPO just before evacuation with Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke and Joseph Plunkett].

Dublin, Irish Book Bureau, no year [c.1930]. Small Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Fragile with some minor damages only. Overall in good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

45. Irish Republican Association.

The Irish in South Africa 1920-1921.

First Edition. Cape Town, Die Nasionale Pers Beperk, [1921]. Octavo. 183 pages. Original Hardcover (green publisher’s cloth with dark lettering and ornament). Upper and lower spine slightly damaged. Binding slightly stained only. Rare !

46. [John Minihan Collection] – [Heaney, Seamus] Minihan, John.

First Day Cover of the commemorative stamp for Seamus Heaney. Signed by irish photographer John Minihan, whose portrait of Heaney was used for the stamp. The first day cover is illustrated with a quote from Heaney’s “Bogland”: “We have no prairies – To slice a big sun at evening – Everywhere the eye concedes to – Encroaching horizon…”

Dublin, Anpost, 2014. 19 cm x 13 cm. 1 page. Original Softcover. Excellent condition. Signed and dated by John Minihan on August 28th, 2014.

47. [John Minihan Collection] – Hogan, Desmond.

The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea and Other Stories.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Internal pages fine. Manuscript letter from the author Desmond Hogan to irish photographer John Minihan loosely inserted.

48. [John Minihan Collection] – Hogan, Desmond.

The Leaves on Grey.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. 13 cm x 20 cm. 119 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Manuscript Postcard from author Desmond Hogan to irish photographer John Minihan loosely inserted.

49. [John Minihan Collection] – [Rosset, Barney / Minihan, John]

Remembering Samuel Beckett (Essay by Barney Rosset, juxtaposed to a printed photograph of Beckett by John Minihan, hugging Rosset in Paris on Beckett’s 80th birthday) – The page of this contribution inscribed and signed by Barney Rosset to irish photographer John Minihan: “To John Minihan – For the Pleasure of being with you for your photog. and your friendship – Barney Rosset 12/16/09”. In: Conjunctions: 53 – Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories, Bi- Annual Volumes of New Writing.

New York, Bard College, 2009. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 346 pages. Some black and white photographs and advertisements throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by Barney Rosset to John Minihan (Excellent association).

50. [Jordan, John] McFadden, Hugh.

John Jordan – Collected Stories. Edited by Hugh McFadden. With an Introduction by Benedict Kiely.

Dublin, Poolbeg, 1991. Octavo. VII, 377 pages. Original Softcover. Some signs of foxing / Binding a little worn. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A Rare Book !!