The Free Fall of Webster Cummings.
First Edition. New York, Hyperion, 1996. 16cm x 24cm. 366 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.
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Lives of the Engineers. Early Engineering: Vermuyden – Myddelton – Perry – James Brindley / The Locomotive: George and Robert Stephenson / History of Roads: Metcalfe: Telford / Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges: Smeaton and Rennie.
A New and Revised Edition. Four Volumes. London, John Murray, 1874. 18 x 12 cm. xxxiii, 320 pages / xl, 388 pages / ix, 331 pages / ix, 389 pages. Illustrated. All volumes bound uniform in 2019. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. New end papers. Original marbled edges. Very good condition. New bindings. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean with many illustrations in B&W. A nice set.
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![Pike, Ríoghacht na nÉan [The Regality of Birds].](/images/thumbnails/42383AB.jpg)
Ríoghacht na nÉan [The Kingdom of Birds]. [Birdland]. Leabhar le haghaidh an aosa óg .i. Birdland. 48 bpictiúirí de Ghriandealbha a rinne an tÚghdar féin agus é i measg na nÉan.[A book for young people. I.E. Birdland. With 48 pictures taken by the author himself when he was among the birds].
First Edition. Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, No year (c.1935). 8°. XVI, 95 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.
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The Solitary Self – Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity. With a Foreword by Sanford Lakoff.
First Edition. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1997. 23.5cm x 15.3cm. XII, 247 pages. With 16 beautiful illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.
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The Phoenix and the Spider, a Book of Essays about some Russian Writers and Their View of the Self.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. 24x16cm, 238pp. First English language edition of Poggioli’s first book to be translated into English. This work covers nine Russian writers including Tolstoy, Goncharov, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bunin and Babel. A scholar of comparative literature in the European tradition, Poggioli’s areas of expertise encompass literary historiography, the theory of the avant-garde, the notion of modernity, decandence and barbarism, Russian literature, and Dante. His daughter Silvia is European correspondent for National Public Radio. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
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The Colvins and their Friends.
First Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 22 x 15 cm. x, 365 pages. With a frontispiece and 25 other Illustrations. Original red cloth with with paper label on spine. Top edge gilt, others deckle. Very good condition. Binding mildly rubbed and bumped, partially faded. Front hinge opened, but binding holding. Internally some foxing and age darkening, mainly to the end papers and the first and last few pages of the book. Bookblock internally bright and clean.
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The Life of Blessed Julie Billiart. Foundress of the Institute of Sisters of Notre Dame. By a Member of the Same Society.
Edinburgh and London, Sands and Company, 1909. 20 x 13 cm. xxxii, 559 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. With a folding map. Black cloth covered stiff cardboard covers with gilt title on spine. Gilt decorations on front board: Convent of Notre Dame Birkdale. Decorated end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Some material losses to spine (see images). Neat inscription (prize) on verso of half title, dated 1909. Internally age darkened but clean.
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War Memoirs Unity 1942 – 1944. Documents. Signed and inscribed to Field-Marshal Alanbrooke.
First UK Edition. Two Volumes. London, Weidenfels and Nicolson, 1959. 20 x 13 cm. Vol.1: 340 pages / Vol.2: 424 pages. Original green (Vol.1) and blue (Vol.2) cloth with gilt titles on spine. In original unclipped dust jackets. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Minor edge wear to dust jackets. Vol.1 inscribed by Charles De Gaulle to General Sir Alan Brooke. Vol.2 signed and dated by Charles De Gaulle.
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Adventures of A Man of Quality. Translated with an Introduction by Mysie E.I. Robertson.
London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930. 22.5cm x 15cm. 208 pages. Frontispiece of Donna de Pastrino. With illustrations. Original Hardcover (green cloth). Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Broadway Library of Eighteenth-Century French Literature].
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![[Redgrave] Spoto, The Redgraves - A Family Epic.](/images/thumbnails/80997AB.jpg)
![Éilgeach, Naoi nGearr-Chluichí [Nine Short Games].](/images/thumbnails/27979AB.jpg)
Naoi nGearr-Chluichí [Nine Short Games]. Ar n-a dtionntódh ag ‘Fiachra Éilgeach’. [Translated by ‘Fiachra Éilgeach’].
Baile Átha Cliath, Mhuinntir C. S. Ó Fallamhain, Teo. i gcomhar le hOifig an tSoláthair, 1930. 8°. 177 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition, however, one of the plays is heavily annotated.
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The Difficulties of Dr. Deguerre. Illustrated by Arthur Moreland.
First Edition. London, The C.W. Daniel Company, 1926. 20 x 14 cm. 596 pages plus four pages publishers list. Illustrated throughout. Original green cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Large corner of front free end paper cut out. Internally bright and clean.
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The Poems of Thomas Gray.
Eton, The Eton College Press, 1894. 27 x 18 cm, xiv, 164 pages.Frontispiece showing Thomas Gray. Three full page plates and various decorations in text. Half leather on marbled paper. New binding; not contemporary. Binding in excellent, as new, condition. Text block very good condition. Some foxing and minor age darkening. Unguarded frontispiece transferred ‘shadow’ to title page. Small water stain on top fore corner on the first pages. Text block otherwise bright and clean.
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Roosevelt and Hopkins. An intimate History.
First Edition. New York, Harper Brothers, 1948. 21 x 14 cm. xvii, 979 pages. Illustrated. Original black cloth with red and gilt label on spine. In original, price clipped dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. A few pages a little creased. Inscribed on the front free end paper: ‘A footnote to history of which you took such an important and able part’.
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My Idea of Fun. A Cautionary Tale. [Signed]
London, Bloomsbury, 1993. 24cm x 15.5cm. 309 (3) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author on titlepage, quoting a passage from page 203 of the book: “Now things speed up. Time is a battered old accordion abused by a sozzled busker” – 16th September 1993 – Will Self”.
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The Tower of London. A Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
First Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1840. Size. xvi, 439 pages with 40 engraved plates and 58 black and white textual illustrations by George Cruikshank. Original half leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled edges and end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Some corners a little stronger rubbed. Firm binding. Edges dust dulled. Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth added to this edition (not called for). The portrait of Ainsworth is attached to front pastedown. Small part (10 x 30 mm) missing from top right corner of title page. Internally a little dust dulled, but overall in very good condition. A few plates with minor tears. One plate has been repaired. A very nice copy.
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A Book of Old Ballads. Selected and with an Introduction by Beverley Nichols & Illustrated by H.M.Brock, R.I.
London, Hutchinson & Co., 1934. 22 x 28 cm, xxxix, 277 pages. Colour frontispiece and 15 full page colour plates. Some B&W illustrations. Original pale brown cloth with gilt title and decorations on front board and spine. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Now in protective archival jacket. Very good condition. Edges darkened. Some minor shelf wear and signs of use. Some pages unopened. Text block clean and bright, some minor foxing, mainly to first few pages.
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Bernard Shaw.
Erstausgabe. First Edition. Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1910. 19.6cm x 13.2cm. 453 pages. Dark cloth hard cover with gilt title on spine. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Ex Libris of previous owner (‘Maxwell Steinhardt’). See images.
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Ford Madox Ford. Volume I: A Dual Life. The World Before the War. / Volume II: The After – War World.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. 16 x 24 cm. Volume I: VIII, 632 pages / Volume II: XIV, 696 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjackets. Excellent, close to new condition of this rare Hardcover set.
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The Serpent’s Eye. Shaw and the Cinema. With a foreword by Cecil Lewis.
Notre Dame & London, University of Notre Dame Press, 1965. 16 x 24 cm. XX, 209 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Good condition with some tears to the dustjacket. Some markings within the text. Interior in clean condition.
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Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland from the Arrival of the English. Also, A Particular Detail of that which broke out the XXIID of May, MDCCXCVIII, with the History of the Conspiracy which preceded it.
The Third Edition. Two Volumes. Dublin, Printed for Robert Marchbank, 1802. 20 x 12 cm. Vol.1: xviii, 583 pages. With eight fold-out maps. / Vol.2: vii, 552 pages plus 15 pages Index. With one map and a view, both foldout. New (2018) dark green half calf over decorated boards. Gilt decorations. Gilt titles on red label on spine. Pale blue end papers. Very good condition. Binding new. Edges age darkened. Occasional mild browning / foxing, mainly to first and last pages. A few minor closed tears. Map X: ‘Movement of Marquis Cornwallis’ missing from volume 2. Otherwise a very nice copy from the library of publisher Edmund Downey (not inscribed).
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Here and There Memories.
First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 22.3cm x 15cm. XI, 411 pages. Original ‘tri-colour’ cloth with gilt title and decorations. Good condition only. Seriously rubbed and bumped. Age darkened and stained. Remains of a paper sticker (ex library?) on front board. Front hinge open and end paper nearly detached. Edges and end papers age darkened. Occasional mild foxing, but internally clean.
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Narration. Four lectures by Gertrude Stein. With an introduction by Thornton Wilder.
Collector’s Edition. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1969. 8°. VII, 62 pages. Original Hardcover in original slipcase with only minro signs of wear to the slipcase. Overall in excellent condition.
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The Principles of Practical Perspective; or, Scenographic Projection: Containing Universal Rules for Deliniating Designs on Various Surfaces, and taking Views from Nature, by the Most Simple and Expeditious Methods. To which is added, Rules for Shadowing, and the Elements of Painting. The whole treated in a Manner calculated to render the Science of Perspective and Art of Drawing Easy of Attainment to every Capacity.
First Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-One Plates. London, Printed for Samuel Leigh, in the Strand, 1815. 30 x 23.5 cm. xviii, 96 text pages and 51 Plates, as listed. Including one colour Plate (XXXIX) which is at times used as a Frontispiece, but is bound here in the correct position between pages 56 and 57. Dark green half calf over marbled boards. Dark red spine label with gilt title. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Binding severely rubbed and bumped. Corners worn with some material losses (see images), Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and mildly foxed. Small bookseller sticker on front pastedown.Name of previous owner in ink on verso of front free end paper.
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Hogarth Illustrated.
Third Edition. Three Volumes – complete. London, J.N. Boydell and Co., G. and W. Nicol, 1806 / 1812. 23 x 14 cm. Vol.1: (8), cxxii, 237 pages / Vol.2: (2), 379 pages / Vol.3: xxiv, 370 pages. All volumes illustrated. New (2019) uniform brown cloth with gilt titles and volume numbers on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New bindings. Text block seriously age darkened / browned and foxed. Some dark water stains. A good, complete study copy.
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The Viceregal Speeches and Addresses Lectures and Poems of the Late Earl of Carlisle, KG. Collected and Edited by J.J.Gaskin.
First Edition. Dublin, McGlashan & Gill, 1865 / 1866. 16 x 22 cm, cxxxv, 483 pages including 24 pages List of Subscribers. Frontispiece showing Carlisle. Signature (‘yours very faithfully Carlisle’) assumed to be printed. Small illustration of Castle Howard on first title page. Second title page text only. First title page dated 1865, second title page dated 1866. Original green cloth with gilt title on spine. Fine gilt crest of carlisle on front board. Blindstamp decoration on front and rear boards. Very good condition. Front hinge starting to open. Gift inscription on front pastedown. Some shelf wear. Corners, boards and spine a little bumped and rubbed. Age darkening, some browning the foxing, mainly to end papers and first few pages. Text block bright and clean. A very nice copy.
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Brother Thomas Kane – Assistant Superior-General De La Salle Brothers; Former Principal De La Salle Training College Waterford.
Leix, Lasallian Publications, 1951. 19.3cm x 13cm. X, 155 pages. With 8 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket. Small section of the dustjacket torn.
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Triple Play. A Jake Hines Mystery.
New York, Walker & Company, 1997. 14 x 21 cm. 183 Pages. Black card boards with red lettering on the spine (hard cover). Excellent condition. Like New. No text markings. Pages clean, tight and fresh. Dustjacket in very fine condition. Inscribed and signed by author on the title page.
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The Shakespeare Wars. Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascos, Palace Coups.
First Edition. New York, Random House, 2006. 23 x 16 cm. xvii, 601 pages, (4). Original black paper boards. Hard Cover with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket. Foreedge deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Close to new condition.
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The Commonwealth Saga – Complete in 5 Volumes Part one – Pandora’s Star / Part two – Judas Unchained / Prequel 2 – The Dreaming Void / Prequel 3 – The Temporal Void / Prequel 4 – The Evolutionary Void.
5 Volumes. London, Macmillan, 2004 – 2010. 8°. Pagination: Part I: VI, 881 pages / Part II: VIII, 948 pages / Prequel II: 624 pages / Prequel III: 713 pages / 694 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket.All dust jackets inside archival plastic jackets. Excellent, close to new condition.
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Atticus.
First Edition. New York, HarperCollins, 1996. 14 x 21 cm. 247 Pages. Hardcover. Original yellow boards with black cloth on spine (Hardback). Very good condition. Dustjacket slightly worn at edges from shelfwear. Black felt pen mark to bottom edge. Inside extremely clean and fresh. Signed by the author.
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Joseph Holloway’s Abbey Theatre. A Selection from his unpublished journal Impressions of a Dublin Playgoer.
london and Amsterdam, Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. 21 x 13 cm. 296 Pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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A History of Japan. During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse (1542 – 1651).
First Edition. Kobe, Japan, Published at the Office of the “Chronicle”, 1903. 24 x 15 cm. viii, 743 pages (4). With nine coloured and folding maps. Original dark green cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Binding weak with hinges and joints cracked. Some pages loose. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally mildly foxed, but clean.
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Nothing But Net. Just Give Me The Ball and Get Out of The Way. With Gene Wojciechowski. Foreword by Coach John Wooden.
First Edition. New York, Hyperion, 1994. 24cm x 16cm. (12) 257 pages. With photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpaper signed by Bill Walton.
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Florilege Poetique De Tristan Klingsor.
Limited Edition. Number 345 / 500. Signed by Author. Blainville-Sur-Mer (Manche), L’Amitie Par Le Livre, 1955. 18 x 14 cm. 79 pages. With small illustrations in text. Quarter leather over paper covered boards. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Ex Library with a few library stamps and numbers. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Minor shelf wear. Text block bright and clean.
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‘England’s Michelangelo’ – A Biography of George Frederic Watts, O.M., R.A.
First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 16cm x 24cm. XIX, 258 pages with 8 colour and 24 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed by the author.
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education / New Thoughts Concerning Education. [Rare Dublin Printing].
The Tenth Edition. Dublin, Printed by R. Reilly on Cork Hill; for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, Booksellers in Dame’s Street., 1738 / 1737. 17 x 10 cm. 237 pages, (2)[TOC] (Locke) / x, 84 pages (Rollin). Frontispiece. Contemporary full calf. Red spine label with gilt title. Raised bands. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened. Front hinge started to crack (c. 4 cm). Sound binding. Small ink notes on verso of ffep. Name of previous owner inked out on title page (see images). Internally age darkened, but clean. Two books in one.
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Lyricists of the Restoration. From Sir Edward Sherburne to William Congreve. Selected and Edited by John and Constance Masefield.
[First Edition]. London, E. Grant Richards, 1905. 12.5 x 8 cm. xxiv, 282 pages. Original velum covered paper boards with inserted leather strips (see images for better understanding). Black title and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Occasional very mild foxing / staining. Overall a very nice copy in an unusual binding.
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