Rare, Vintage, OP & Collectable

Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - HB - Folio Society Ed- 1974 - Illustrated

  This is a hardcover clothbound copy, published by Folio Society, London, 1974, with  illustrations by Lynton Lamb. It reproduces the original Faber text in full.  In a plain green original...

Rosalind C. Kalb - Multiple Sclerosis : A Guide for Families - 3rd Edition - 2006

Paperback, published by Demos Medical Publishing, 2006.  Because most people who are diagnosed with MS are between the ages of 15-55 years, the disease has a significant impact, not only on the...

Brian Mercer Walker - Shadows on Glass : A Portfolio of Early Ulster - PB - 1977

Paperback, reprintpublished by Appletree Press, 1977 A collection of early vintage photographs of Northern Ireland ( taking the province of Ulster as the focus, so also inclding counties such as...

David Walsh - Oileáin - A Guide to the Irish Islands - PB 2004

Paperback, published by Pesda Press, Wales, 2004. A guide to all of Ireland's offshore islands, aimed at the kayaker or small boat owner, with details of landing points, camping, drinking water etc...

Theresé Martin ( Saint Thérése of Lisieux) - The Little Flower - Autobiography & Letters - HB 1926

Published by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, London 1927.    Two and a half years before her death in 1897 at the age of 24, as Thérèse Martin began writing down her childhood memories at the request of...

Thomas Á Kempis - The Imitation of Christ - HB (Translation by George F. Maine) 1990

Hardback, published in this edition by Collins UK.   Translation by George F. Maine, originally in this tranbslation 1957, here in a hardcover reprint 1990. After the Christian bible, probably the...

Heinemann Publishing - Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - HB - (Illusrated by Arthur Rackham ) - 1958

Hardcover, publsihed by Heinemann UK, this single volume edition 1958, the illustrated Arthur Rackham edition was first published in 1913.  Hardcover in white dustjacket which is chipped and frayed...

Tom McCaughren - Rainbows of the Moon - HB 1991 - SIGNED

Tanning to page block, signed to a previous owner( named) by the author on the title page Two teenagers are thrown together in violent circumstances in a desolate and dangerous part of the Irish...

Dunkerrin Parish History Society - Under Crimblin Hill - Volume I 2018 - PB

The 2018 edition of the local history journal - the area covered is centered on the Moneygall area on the immediate Offaly / Tipperary border, and includes content from both counties ( as the county...

Keith Prowse Music Publishing - Songs of Percy French - Volume One - PB - Vintage Sheet Music Songbook

A 1950's ( undated internally- priced at 5/-) of a vintage issue of Songs of Percy French - Volume 1 - 8 songs are included , - The Mountains O'Morne, The Emigrant's Letter, Slattery's Mounted Fut,...

Winston Churchill - The Second World War - HB 6 Volume Set - 1953 ( Reprint Society Edition)

The Full 6 volme set of Winston Churchill's history of the Second World War - originally published in 1948-54 , these are later ( uniform) reprint editions from the aptly named Reprint Society in...

Sean McMahon - A Book of Irish Quotations - PB -1984

A comprehensive collection of memorable phrases, in prose, verse and song - by Irish people through the ages , from earliest times to the present day. Arranged alphabetically - politicians,...

Henry Gray - Gray's Anatomy - 15th Ed Illustrated Hardcover Classic 2010 Reprint

Written in the 1850s by a young doctor, Henry Gray, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible anatomy of its time. This large and detailed volume contains the historic text of the 15th...

Mark Arnold-Forster - The World At War - HB- 1973

Hardcover , third printing in the year of publication, 1973, the tie-in edition to the Thames TV series of the same name, memorably narrated by Laurence Olivier. Many of those who took part in WW2...

Frances Parkinson Keyes - The Royal Box - Vintage HB -1954

A hardcover Eyre and Spottiswoode edition of Frances Parkinson Keyes's 1953 novel -  now in clear plastic removable Herma jacket protector.  Previous owner's name to endpage.    Set in London just...

Tim Carey - Hanged for Ireland - The Forgotten Ten : Executed 1920-21 - HB 2002

Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Blackwater Press, 2002. Light wear to the jacket (which is slightly 'loose' on the book)  otherwise unmarked.    The Forgotten Ten is about the ten republicans,...

Richard Barber ( Editor) - Legends of King Arthur - 3 volume Slipcased HB Set (The Holy Grail | Arthur | Tristan)

Hardcover, three uniform dark green cloth and board covered editions, titles in gilt to spine, with identical artwork on each cover.  Condition - internally very good, there are some minor scratches...

G.A.A. - Our Games - Ár gCluichí Féin - PB - 1965 ( Official GAA Annual)

Illustrated paperback, 128 pages, edited by Paddy Downey. It covers the 1964 year, with contributions from a wide range of authors. 

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2014 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2014 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2013) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  216 pages, large format paperback, creases to lower front cover corner. Full colour...

Tipperary GAA County Board - Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2013 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The Tipperary GAA Yearbook, 2013 ( Blianiris Thiobraid Árann, 2013) published by Tipperary County Board, Thurles.  272 pages, large format paperback, creases to lower front cover corner. Full colour...

Mrs Beeton - Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery - HB 1952

A hardcover 1950's revised (and modernised for the era from the Victorian original) of Mrs Beeton's cookery classic. (the recipes stay the same the only modernisation is the use of gas and electric...

Barry O'Brien - Macroom G.A.A Club History 1886-1987 - PB

Paperback, published simultaneously with the hardcover, Barry O'brien was both a player for the club and a schooltecaher in the area.  A detailed club history, as we all as broadly, being a history...

Desmond Hogan - The Leaves on Grey - HB 1980

Hardcover, first edition, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1980 Light tanning to page block, otherwise unmarked, a small format hardcover in a very good dustjacket.  The author's third published book. 

J.R.R Tolkien - Farmer Giles of Ham & The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - PB 1979 ( Originally 1949)

Farmer Giles of Ham did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life.Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck...

Edward Wilson - Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904 - HB 1966

A hardcover first edition, Blandford UK 1966, edited and collected by Ann Savours from original manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge UK.  A key feature of the book is the use...

Christopher Evans - Omega ( SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION) PS Publishing ( Copy 325/500)

Omega: an apocalyptic rumour from the Eastern Front. Omega: something that will alter all the strategic calculations of the Earth's great military blocs. Omega: the code name for a weapon that may...

Liam Clarke - Broadening the Battlefield : The H-Blocks and the Rise of Sinn Féin - PB -1987

Published at the point where Sinn Féin was in the process of adapting what they had learned and gained politically on the political friont from the impact of the H-Block and Hunger Strike events, and...

John Bowman - De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917-1973 - PB

Paperback, published by Oxford University Press, 1982.  Somewhat surprisingly, this 1982 book was the first detailed book on the key role the 'Ulster Question' played in De Valera's career, and De...

Arthur Mee - London : The City and Westminster (The King's England - HB 1975 8th Revised Edition)

Part history book, part architecture guide, part ( period) travel guide, this was a standalone volume from the multivolume 'the King;s England series, a guide to the history of how the towns and...

J.T Edson - The Devil Gun - Vintage 1967 PB

Paperback, 1967 reprint, Sabre Books UK , first publsihed in the USA in 1966.  Slight spine lean, Dublin bookshop sticker on front cover.  The story revolves around a deadly threat to Texas during...

Capuchin Annual 1949 - PB

1949 Paperback ( published November 1948) . A Very Good copy in a FAIR to good cover - the covers show edgewear, and dus

Thomas O'Neill & Francis Pakenham ( Earl Of Longford) - Eamon De Valera : A Biography - HB 1971 - SIGNED BY DE VALERA

SIGNED BY ALL THREE - by Éamon de Valera, Thomas P. O'Neill, and Frank Pakenham (as Frank Longford)  TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRFELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE All three signatures are on the blank...

A & C Black - Black's Guide to Ireland - 1906

A very solid copy in green cloth with titles in embossed gilt to front and spine ( spine cloth faded slightly)  Maps, both integral and foldout throughout as well as period photographs of tourist...

Colm Ó Lochlainn (Editor) - More Irish Street Ballads - 18th & 19th Century Irish Ballads in English -PB 1978 ( Originally 1939)

  'From The Shamrock Shore to Brennan on the Moor - here are songs for the rebel and the ranter, traveller, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor , poor man , rich man'.   Illustrated with woodcuts from a...

J.T Edson - The Man From Texas - (Vintage Brown Watson PB) 1966

J.T Edson - You're in Command Now, Mr Fog - (Vintage Corgi PB) 1973

Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a 17-year-old Dusty Fog serving as a freshly promoted first lieutenant in the Confederate Army. When his company's commanding officer is suddenly...

Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society - Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland - HB 1894

Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland. By Various Writers, with Biographical Notices, Notes, etc. First Series. Cork: published and bound by Guy and Company, 1894. First Edition. Pp 360...

E.F Jacob - The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 ( Oxford History of England - Volume 6 ) 1978 ( Originally 1961)

Hardcover, a standalone volume in the multi volume Oxford History of England, this edition ( Volume 6 ) was first published in 1961, this is a 1978 repRINT.  Previous owner's name to title page...

Maurice Semple - Where the River Corrib Flows - PB - 1988

Larger format paperback, with the three fold out maps intact. Creasing to covers. The story of the history and development of the Corrib navigation, and the history of the canal and millraces etc...

George Morrison & Tim Pat Coogan - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - HB- 2005

The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the...

Denis O'Shaughnessy -More Tales of Limerick PB 2008 - SIGNED

A signed dedicated first edition, 2008, of Denis O'Shaughnessy's More Tales of Limerick , his 7th book on Limerick city local history , illustrated with a selection of photographs, some unique to the...

J.T. Edson - Hell in the Palo Duro - Vintage Corgi PB 1971

Corgi UK pb, 1971, in very good condition, Number 66 in the JT Edson westerns series.

Bradford Scott - Walt Slade Gun Justice - Vintage Pyramid 1st US PB - 1963

A first PB edition, Pyramid Books Usa, 1963, Cover art by Mel Croir. Creasing to covers.

J.T. Edson - Apache Rampage - Corgi PB 1972

Corgi UK PB, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, 1972, originally published 1963. No 55 in the Edson Westerns series

Cordelia Jones - A Cat Called Camouflage - HB - 1970

A cat named Camouflage helps Ruth face her parents' divorce and life in a new town.HB, Andre Deutsch UK, 1970

John Fowles - The Magus (Revised PB Edition - 1981)

John Fowless The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious...

J.R. Harris - An Angler's Entomology (Collins New Naturalist Series) - 2ed Reprint 1977, Originally 1952

Hardcover reprint, 1977, of the second edition, in very good condition, solid in green cloth, Dustjacket very good, but shows ghostmark on inside from having been with an adhesive plastic cover. No...

Gordon Jackson - Hull in the Eighteenth Century : A Study in Economic and Social History (University of Hull Publications)

Hardcover, OUP, 1972. A history of the north of England port town. Excellent condition.

Rae Jeffs - Brendan Behan - Man and Showman - PB 1968

Published in this Corgi PB, 1968, originally in hardcover in 1966, just two years after Behan's untimely death in 1964. Rae Jeffs was a close associate of Behan in the early 1960's

Basil Willey - The Seventeenth-Century Background (Vintage Pelican PB 1972)

Willey writes in great detail about the upsetting of the concept of the ancient and medieval three-story universe, replacing it with a new confidence in nature and a new confidence in religion and...

E. Hobsbawm - Industry and Empire - Pelican Economic History of Britain, Vol.3

In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He...

Michael G. Cronin - Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity Since 1884

This book examines the development of a nationalist agenda within Irish sport and searches for a definition of nationalism in this context. Sport offers a new way of looking at nationalism as it...