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Click here to subscribeA large collection of early twentieth century and later stamps, in albums and loose, to include the Postage Stamp Album: Victoria Edition with stamps from around the world including India, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, several empty albums, and loose stamps, including from the USA, together with various First Day Covers, including those from the Isle of Man.
Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?, 1974, Hamish Hamilton, first edition, first printing, hardback in in dust jacket, in excellent condition. The Essential Jennifer Johnston – The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man, Fool’s Sanctuary, with an introduction by Sebastian Barry, 1999, Review, first edition, first printing, hardback in in dust jacket, as new condition. Jennifer Johnston, Truth or Fiction, 2009, Headline Review, first edition, first printing, hardback in in dust jacket, as new condition. Edna O’Brien, The Light of Evening, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, first edition, first printing softcover, in very good condition. (4)
Following the Horses, Finbarr Slattery, 1996, Kerry Man, Tralee, First Edition, First Printing, 2018, with Dust Jacket, inscribed by the author to Frank Feely (Former Dublin City Manager) Born on the Wrong Side, Cec Thompson, 1995, The Pentland Press, First Edition, First Printing, with Dust Jacket, inscribed by the author. My Olympic Dream, Katie Taylor, 2012, Simon & Shuster, First Edition, First Printing, with Dust Jacket, signed by Katie Taylor. Ashes to Ashes, Andrew Flintoff, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009, First Edition, First Printing, with Dust Jacket, signed by Andrew Flintoff. (4)
Brian Bourke - Five Decades. 1960s - 2000s, published by The Lilliput press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing In original bright green boards, with artist picture to centre of front board. Signed to the title page by Brian Bourke. John Minihan - An Unweaving of Rainbows: Images of Irish Writers, published. 1998. Signed and Inscribed by John Minihan to the title page. Vanishing Ireland - James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury, published 2006. Signed by Turtle Bunbury to the title page. All three first editions. (3)
In Search of Fame and Fortune – The Leahy Family of Engineers 1780-1888, Brendan O’Donoghue, 2006, Geography Publications, signed by author, first edition, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. “A meticulous reconstruction of the careers of an Irish Catholic professional family who worked as cartographers, builders, engineers and valuators in Ireland between 1800 and 1847, and afterwards in South Africa, Turkey, Trinidad and Jamaica. Patrick Leahy, the family patriarch, progressed from a position on the estate of Sir Vere Hunt in Tipperary in the early nineteenth century to national surveys with the Bogs Commissioners and participation in projected road, railway and canal schemes.” The Winding Up of Companies in Ireland, Stewart Blacker Quin and Herbert Quin, 1920, John Falconer, first edition, hardback, in excellent condition. (2)
Victor Gollancz, In Darkest Germany – The Record of a Visit with 144 photographs, first published in January 1947, this edition published in February 1947, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent. This is an interesting book which shows the condition of Germany and its people just after the Second World War.
Bernard, Nicholas The Life & Death of the Most Reverend and Learned Father of our church Dr. James Usher, Late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland. London: 1656, first edition, original boards with old repair, page of related manuscript notes pasted to inside front cover. The first biography of one of the most famous of Irishmen by his chaplain and librarian.
Lawless, Emily A Garden Diary, 1901, first edition. Lawless (1845-1913), novelist & historian, was the daughter of Lord Cloncurry and a Kirwan of Castle Hacket, Co. Galway. She was steeped in the life & lore of the West. This is a book of thoughts and reflections stimulated by her garden and not a description of cultivation.
Irish Poetry. The Gallery Press – Poems, Patrick MacDonagh, edited by Derek Mahon, Hardcover First Edition, Signed by Derek Mahon to the title page. Raw Material & An Autumn Wind – by Derek Mahon., Two Hardcover First Editions. Hawkes and Doves & Somebody Somewhere – by Alan Gillis, Two Hardcover First Editions. The Sphere of Birds – by Ciaran Berry, First Edition signed by the author. (6)
Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins, 1990, signed by author, hardback in dust jacket, very good condition. Morgan Llywelyn, 1916 – A Novel of the Irish Rebellion, 1998, signed by author, Tom Doherty Associates, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, very good condition. James Connolly, Labour in Irish History, 1973, New Books Publications, softcover, in good condition. Sean O’Callaghan, James Connolly – My Search for the Man, the Myth and his Legacy, 2015, Century, first edition, first printing, softcover, in excellent condition. Seamus O Riain, Maurice Davin (1842-1927) First President of the GAA, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new condition. (5)
Cecilia Ahern, The Gift, 2008, Harper Collins, signed by author, first edition, first printing, hardback, as new. Cecilia Ahern, Flawed, 2016, Feiwel and Friends, signed by author, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new. Anne Enright, The gathering, 2007, Jonathan Cape, signed by the author, hardback in dust jacket, in unread condition. Anne Enright, The Green Road, 2015, Jonathan Cape, first edition, second printing, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green, 1967, The Reprint Society, first edition, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. (5)
The Inn, Poems by Lucius McClean, O.F.M., 1956, Assisi Press, signed by author, first edition, hardback in dust Jacket, in excellent condition. Folk, Poems by Tony Curtis, 2011, Arc Publications, signed by author, first edition, hardback in dust Jacket, as new condition. Revenant, Poems by Gerald Dawe and images by John Behan, 2022, Ashfield Press, signed by both the author and artist, first edition, hardback in dust Jacket, as new condition. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, with 25 in a deluxe edition signed by both poet and artist. The Discovery of Kingdom Water, Michelle Keane, 2020, Walsh Print Ireland, signed by author, hardback in dust Jacket, as new condition. (4)
Drawing in a printing machine, David Hockney, 2009, First Edition, Hardback, Fine Condition. An Irish Portrait, Paul Henry, The Autobiography, 1988, Batsford, London, 2 nd Edition, (1 st ED – 1951) with Dust Jacket. Irish Tales & Sagas, Ulick O’Connor, Illustrated by Pauline Bewick, Granada Publishing 1981, with Dust Jacket. (3)
Lady Gregory: The Kiltartan Wonder Book Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory Published by Maunsel & Co, Dublin, 1910. First edition. A lovely copy of the scarce first edition of Lady Gregory's children's work about her home town, the civil parish of Kiltartan in County Galway. Illustrated with eight colour plates by Margaret Gregory, the widowed daughter-in-law of Lady Gregory; On The Racecourse , 1926 1st Ed. Front board detached, Ex libris (2)
John Banville, The Sea, 2005, Picador, signed by author, hardback in dustjacket, very good condition. John McGahern, Creatures of the Earth, 1992, Faber & Faber, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new condition. John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun, 2002, Faber & Faber, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new condition. John McGahern, Memoir, 2005, Faber & Faber, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. (4)
Colm Toibin, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Exclusive Signed first edition, 2018, Viking, hardback in dust jacket, as new condition. Colm Toibin, House of Names,2017, Signed first edition, first printing, Scribner, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. Colm Toibin, The Story of the Night,1996, first edition, first printing, Henry Holt & Co, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. (3)
Moore, Thomas Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. London: 1825. First edition, quarto, portrait plate, quarter black leather, fresh and handsome copy. Standard life of a great Irishman by another; Watkins, J. Memoirs of the Public & Private Life of … Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with an Account of his Family & Friends. 1817. First edition (vol. 1 of 2), portrait, very good. [2 items]
Mary Robinson – A Voice for Human Rights, First Edition, 2006. Signed to the title page on personal bookplate “to Eamon best regards Mary Robinson” The Spirit of Mayo – With a message from Mary Robinson, Programme for the National Concert Celebration in 1993, signed by Bill Whelan, Paul Durcan, Seamus Caulfield, Davy Spillane. Up with The Times – Conor Brady, published 2005. Signed by Conor Brady to the title page. (3)
The Four Green Fields, George O’Brien, 1936, Talbot Press, first edition, hardback in dust jacket in very good condition. The Four Glorious Years, David Hogan, 1953, Irish Press Ltd., first edition, hardback in excellent condition. Hogan was the pseudonym of Frank Gallagher a Cork-born journalist and Intelligence Officer with the Dublin Brigade of the IRA during the War of Independence. Close to De Valera and active in Fianna Fail, he was Editor of The Irish Press, 1931-1935. Fighting for the Cause, Tim Horgan, 2018, Mercier Press, first edition, softcover, in excellent condition. The First Dail, Maire Comerford, 1969, Joe Clarke, first edition, softcover in excellent condition. Wolfe Tone Annual 1947 John Mitchel First Felon for Ireland, edited and published by Brian O’Higgins, softcover in excellent condition, Ireland: The Union and its Aftermath, Oliver MacDonagh, 1977, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., softcover in excellent condition. Oidhreacht 1916-1966, The Stationery Office, softcover in excellent condition. (7)
Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, for January to Dec 1743; in original half leather spine intact but lacking covers, intact text. 706 pps plus index. volume thirteen. Contains description of Greenland; Irish Cattle; America; news from Sweden; register of books; Samuel Johnson's 'Debates in the Senate of Lilliput' and poems by Samuel Boyse and William Dunkin; Spanish Ships captured. and much more in its 706 pages; missing covers but spine and text intact. Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle: 1755 January to December (including Index and Supplement), [4], 595 pages, [25], 23 engraved plates with titles (including frontispiece, 5 folding plates, Map of British and French Settlements in North America, Map of the World on Mercators Projection, Plan of the Intended New Road from Padington to Islington), folding page of shells, colour page of coach whipsnake, and much more; title page with central illustration (including engraving in text to first page of each monthly edition, tables and illustrations in text throughout), variety of subject matter (including Music, Meteorlogical Diary, Price of Corn, Poetry, Sketches, Country News, Obituaries, Taxes), covers missing but spine and text intact. Two rare issues full of interest. (2)
Lady Gregory – five publications. Coats, The Full Moon, The Bogie Men, Mirandolina, The Workhouse Ward & The Rising of the Moon. First edition’s, first Prints. Coats, The Full Moon and The Bogie Men are first printings, Mirandolina is a second impression, The Workhouse Ward is undated & The Rising of the Moon is the French's Acting Edition renewed 1931 (5)
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, published 1998. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, published 1998. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, published 1999. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, published 2003. First UK Edition, First Print. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, published 2005. First UK Edition, First Print. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, published 2005. First UK Edition, First Print. Six books in Hardcover. (6)
Nuala O’Faolain, My Dream of You, 2001, Michael Joseph, signed by author, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. Colm Toibin, Nora Webster, 2014, Exclusive signed edition, Viking, first edition, first printing, softcover, in excellent condition. Patricia Scanlon, The Liberation of Brigid Dunne, 2020, Simon & Schuster, signed by author, first edition, first printing, softcover, in excellent condition. Joseph O’Connor, Shadowplay, 2019, Hsarvill Secker, signed by author, first edition, first printing, softcover, in excellent condition. (4)
On Another Man's Wound. O Malley, Ernie. First edition-1936- subject of court action by Mr J Doherty (later Carlow County Manager). As Doherty won court case first edition had to be withdrawn. This copy was used as Court Exhibit; See page 113 and inside of back cover for court stamps and notations. Unique. Ex libris
John Irving, Until I find You, 2005, Bloomsbury, signed by author, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new condition. Graham Greene, The Quiet American, 1955, Heinemann, first edition, hardback no dust jacket, in very good condition. Graham Greene, The Comedians, 1966, The Bodley Head, first edition, hardback in dust jacket, in very good condition. John Le Carre, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover, 1971, Alfred A Knopf, First US edition, hardback in very good condition. (4)
An Open Letter, Seamus Heaney, A Field Day Pamphlet, 1983, Fine condition. Beowulf, Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, First Edition, First Printing, 1999, with Dust Jacket. Lifelines, New and Collected letters from famous people about their favourite poems, Foreword by Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan & Eavan Boland, Townhouse Dublin 2006, First Edition, First Printing with Dust Jacket. Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes, Faber & Faber, 1998, First Edition, First Printing with Dust Jacket. (4)
Dillon, Myles The Cycles of the Kings. Oxford University P.: 1946. first edition, fine in dust jacket. Major study of the least known of the four cycles of Irish sagas, the Historical Cycle “more properly the Cycles of the Kings … [these] sagas rise sometimes to a level of emotion and expression rarely excelled in stories of the other cycles” [preface]. Rare in this condition.
Irish Landscape, R Lloyd Praeger, 1961, at the sign of the three candles, first edition, softcover in very good condition with fold out map at rear. Census Catalogue of the Flora of Ireland, M J P Scannell and D M Synnott, 1972, The Stationery Office, first edition, softcover, in excellent condition with fold out coloured map of Ireland showing Forty Botanical Divisions. A List of the Birds of Ireland, Rev. P G Kennedy, 1961, National Museum of Ireland, softcover, in good condition, softcover in very good condition. The Place-Names of Co Wicklow – V -The Barony of Rathdown, Liam Price, 1957, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Red Letter Days, M J Farrell and Snaffles, 1933, Collins, first edition, hardback with title in gilt on spine, very good condition, with numerous illustrations. (5)
Dermot Bolger, Finbar’s Hotel and Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel, in Slipcase, both first editions, first printings, hardbacks in dust jackets, as new. Dermot Bolger, From These Green Heights, 2005, New Island, signed by author, first edition, first printing, softcover, in excellent condition Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home, 1990, Viking, first edition, first printing, hardbacks in dust jacket, in excellent condition. Dermot Bolger, A Second Life, 1994, Viking, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, in excellent condition. (4)
Memories of my Father - Sir Henry F. Dickens (Charles Dickens), published 1928. London. First UK Edition, First Printing. With a letter from Maud Dickens and Inscribed by Henry Dickens and his wife, dated Christmas 1928, to a young relative on front endpaper by Henry Dickens and his wife, as 'Mumsey' and 'Pupsey,'. Laid in is a signed and Inscribed photo of Henry F. Dickens, it is signed as follows " ...affectionately The Common Sergeant alias Pupsey". Also includes page 3 of a handwritten letter signed by Maud D. which is presumed to be Maud Dickens, the niece of Charles Dickens. Photo of Henry F. Dickens attached to the front-end page. A unique copy including Dickens family related ephemera.
The Abbey Rebels Of 1916 – A Lost Revolution, Fearghal Mc Garry, 2015, Gill & Macmillan, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new. Four Irish Rebel Plays edited by James Moran, 2007, Irish Academic Press, first edition, first printing, hardback in dust jacket, as new. This collection brings together for the first time, plays written by the well known Irish nationalists Thomas MacDonagh, Padraig Pearse, James Connolly and Terence MacSwiney as they attempted to gain support for the nationalist cause in the run up to the 1916 Rising. Gaiety Theatre Dublin, November1871 – November 1941, 70th Anniversary, hardback, in very good condition. (3)
Ken Bruen – THE GUARDS, published 2001. The Killing of the Tinkers published 2002. The Dramatist, published, 2004. All True First editions, published by Brandon publishers, Kerry and all signed by the author. The Magdalen Martyrs, published 2003, First Edition published by Barndon Publishers, Kerry. (4)
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