Backwards Days.
New York, Penguin Poets, 2007. 22.8cm x 15.2cm. XIII, 63 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.
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An Autograph Collection and the making of it.
First Edition. London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. 21 x 14 cm. 292 pages. With several full page illustrations. Original half cloth over decorated cloth boards. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Mild rubbing and bumping to binding. Edges dust dulled. Some pencil annotations inside. A newspaper review of the book is glued to the rear end paper.
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The Island of Sorrow. An Historical Novel 1797 – 1808.
First Edition. London, John Long, 1903. 18 x 12 cm. 383 pages. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Corners, spine and boards rubbed, bumped and faded. Edges dust dulled. Short inscription on half title. Occasional mild foxing inside.
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Bran Pie. A Book of Light Verse.
First Edition. Harrow, The Harrow School Book Shop, 1929. 17 x 11 cm. 52 pages. Original small dark blue cloth hard cover. Gilt titles to front board. Fore edge deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occasional mild foxing. Internally clean.
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Ruffino &c.
Popular Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1912. 18 x 12 cm. 309 pages plus 32 pages publishers list incl. a colour plate showing the poet Maud Muller. Original decorated red cloth. Hard cover. Black title to front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges dust dulled and slightly foxed. Occasional foxing within, otherwise internally clean.
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Friday’s Well.
First Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1943. 18 x 12 cm. 286 pages. Original cardboard hard cover with black title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Gift insription to front free end paper, otherwise a clean copy.
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The Grass of Oblivion. Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Robert Daglish.
London and others, Macmillan, 1969. 20.9cm x 13.4cm. vi, 222 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Endpaper signed by preowner (pencil).
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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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A Step In The River.
First British edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1961. 13 x 20cm. 291 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some wear to dustjacket, including sunned and slightly torn spine. Tape residue on endpapers. Boards and text in very good condition.
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Antoine Bloyé. Translated by Edmund Stevens. Introduction by Richard Elman.
New York / London, Monthly Review Press, 1973. 14 x 21cm. 250 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor signs of wear to dustjacket, including small tear to rear flap. Excellent condition otherwise.
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Miss America. Altiora in the Sierra Nevada.
First Edition. London, Mandrake Press Ltd., 1930. 16 x 13 cm. (4), 63 pages, (4) Original beige cloth hard cover with original illustrated dust jacket. Foreedge deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Endpapers and edges browned and foxed. Internally clean. Dust jacket a little worn and age darkened. Some small closed tears. Now in protective jacket.
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The King’s High Way. Some more helpful Verse.
First Edition. London, Methuen, 1916. 15 x 9 cm. 94 pages. Leather covered paper boards. Soft cover. Gilt titles on spine and front board. Blind line decoration. Very good condition. Slightly dust dulled, otherwise as new. Still in original glassine jacket inside card board box with a gift card reading: ‘With grannies love Xmas 1916’.
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From Ulster’s Hill. A Book of Verse.
[First Edition]. Belfast, M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr, The Linenhall Press, 1913. 18 x 12 cm. 111 pages. Original cloth hard cover with gilt title and decorations on front board. Very good condition. Rubbed bumped and age darkened binding. A list of names and numbers is neatly written on front free end papers. Minor foxing to a few pages. Dust dulled but internally clean.
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The Men in Possession. A Farce in three acts by J. Bernard MacCarthy.
Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1922. 18 x 12 cm. 87 pages. Original blue paper covers. Stapled paperback. Good condition only. Staples severely corroded. Title page and covers loose. Edges thumbed and edge worn. Age darkened. Internally clean.
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Romantische Lieder und eine Leiche. Ein Buecher Krimi.
First Edition. Erstausgabe. Mironde Verlag, 2015. 21 x 12 cm. 159 pages. Original cloth inside original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on title page. Gift inscription opposite title page (not by the author!).
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O’Dea-Laughs. A Selection of Sketches written by Harry O’Donovan and Played by Jimmy O’Dea. In the various O’D Production Revues which have appeared in Dublin Theaters.
Dublin, P.J. Bourke, [1953]. 21 x 14 cm. 32 pages. Original paper wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Some shelfwear and age darkened.
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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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Masques and Phases.
First Edition. London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 19 x 13 cm. xv, 229 pages. Original red cloth with paper label on spine. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges age darkened. Spine label darkened. Large Exlibris to front pastedown. Internally dust dulled and occasionally mildly foxed. A few closed tears. Otherwise internally clean.
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The Collected Poems of Andrew Young. Arranged with a bibliographical Note by Leonard Clark. Wood-Engravings by Joan Hassall.
First Edition. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. 21 x 14 cm. 219 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. In original unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition in good dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping to book. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket a little worn with some short tears and minor paper losses to corners and spine. Some notes written on the dust jacket inner flap. Internally a bright and clean copy.
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White People.
Proof Copy. London, Faber and Faber, [1991]. 23 x 15 cm. 252 pages, (2). Decorated paperback showing title and author with probable publication date and probable price information. In oversized dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally clean. Dust jacket too big for book, creased. Now in protective archival jacket.
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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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