Eberhart, Richard.

Collected Poems 1930-1976. Including 43 new poems.

New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. 20.9cm x 13.4cm. XVI, 364 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with minor external wear on the dustjacket.

Pearse, Padraic H. / Ryan, Desmond (Editor).

Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse. The Story of a Success and the Man Called Pearse.

Dublin, Cork, Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., 1924. 21 x 14 cm. xii, 260 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Original dark cloth with title on spine. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Internally age darkened and occasionally mildly foxed.

Pearse, Padraic H.

Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse. The Story of a Success. Edited by Desmond Ryan and the Man called Pearse by Desmond Ryan.

Dublin, The Phoenix Publsihing Co., 1924. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. xii, 260 pages. With a Frontispiece and seven Plates in B&W (complete). Original green cloth. Hard cover. Embossed celtic decoration on front board. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally mildly age darkened / browned. Front hinge weak.

Clifton, Harry.

Comparative Lives.

First Paperback Edition. Dublin, Gallery Books, 1982. 21 x 14 cm. 57 pages. Decorated paperback. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. A clean copy.

Laurentius Heisterus [Heister, Lorenz].

Compendium Anatomicum Totam Rem Anatomicam Brevissime Complectens Editio Quarta Prioribus Longe Auctior At2ve Emendatior.

Two volumes in bound in one. Norimbaergae [Nuremberg], Georg. Christoph. Weberi, 1736. 20 x 12.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece, title page vol.1 with title vignette, (2) [Dedication], xxvi [Prefatio], 205 pages, (2)[blank], title page vol.2, 190 pages, (38) [Index], nine folding plates [Tab I to Tab IX]. Complete. Contemporary calf with gilt decorations and title on spine. Five raised bands. Red speckled edges. Binding very worn with material losses to spine and spine ends. Joints and hinges cracked. Small paper losses to end papers. (see images). Internally in very good condition. Occasional mild browning and small damp stains, otherwise very clean.

Meadows Taylor, Philip.

Confessions of a Thug. Edited with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Drawings by Clarke Hutton.

London, The Folio Society, 1974. 14.5 x 23cm. 372 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover in protective slipcase. Green stained top edges. Endpapers illustrated with maps.

Various Authors. Dobson, Austin (Introduction) / Hugh Thomson (Illustrations).

Coridon’s Song and Other Verses from Various Sources.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1894. 18 x 12 cm. xxxi, 163 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original dark cloth with gilt Titles and Illustrations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Gift inscription dated 1900.

[STAËL, Madame de].

Corinne, Ou L’Italie

Four Volumes. Paris, Chez Dauthereau, 1827. 11 x 7 cm. 212, 205, 193 & 199 pages. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Sopme shelf wear, internally dust dulled, but otherwise clean. Name of previous owner on versos of front free end papers. A nice solid set.

Leadbeater, Mary / Edgeworth, Maria (Notes and Preface).

Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry. With Notes and A Preface by Maria Edgeworth, Author of Castle Rackrent, &c. [‘Glossary and Notes’ from page 269 to 343].

First Edition. London, Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1811. 17 x 10 cm. v, (4) [TOC], 343 pages. Rebacked in 2022 using the original boards. New matching green cloth spine and black spine label. Gilt title. See images provided. Very good condition. New spine and end papers. Rebacked in 2022. Original boards worn, rubbed and bumped. Internally dust dulled. Faint blind stamp (’ Birkbeck College Library’) on first blank and title page. Numbers in pencil on verso of title page. Corner of page 73/74 missing, not affecting text. Small paper losses to page 103/104, not affecting text. A very nice copy of this very scarce publication. WorldCAT lists only one copy of the 1811 First Edition.

Lord Macaulay.

Critical and Historical Essays. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review. Authorized Edition.

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. viii, 850 pages. Black and brown half calf. Gilt vignette of Queen’s University Belfast on front board. Gilt title and decorations on spine. Five raised bands. Blind decorations on spine and boards. All edges speckled. Good condition. Boards, corners and spine rubbed and bumped, mildly stained. Edges age darkened. Front hinge opened. Front free end paper lost two corners. Internally mildly foxed and age darkened. A few annotations in text. Binding sound, but a few pages lose.

Kennelly, Brendan.

Cromwell [Signed]. A Poem by Brendan Kennelly.

First Edition. Scarce Hard Cover. Donnybrook, Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1983. 22 x 14 cm. (6), 146 pages. Original black cloth with gilt title on spine. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the Author on the front free end paper. See images.

O Briain, Liam.

Cuimhni Cinn. Cuid 1: Cuimhni An Eiri Amach.

First Edition. Dublin, Sairseal agus Dill, 1951. 18 x 12 cm. 208 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth. Silver title and decorations. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers age darkened. Name of previous owner on front free end paper.

Fitzpatrick, WM.J.

Curious Family History; or, Ireland before the Union. Including Lord Chief Justice Clonmell’s Unpublished Diary. A Sequel to the Sham Squire and the Informers of 1798.

Fifth Edition, with a mass of New Matter. Dublin, W.B. Kelly, 1869. 18 x 12 cm. xxiv, viii, 268 pages. With a folding frontispiece. New (2020) black cloth. With gilt title on spine. Facsimile copies of the original boards have been pasted onto the new boards (see images). New ened papers. Good condition. Internally age darkened and stained on a few pages. Closed tears to frontispiece and title page (see images). A few small tears.

Séamus Mag Uidhir.

Da Crann na Marbh. Agus Gearr-Scealta Eile.

First Edition. Dublin, Oifig An tSolatair, 1939. 18 x 12 cm. 165 pages. Original green cloth. Hard cover. Inside original unclipped dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Grose, Daniel / Stalley, Roger (Editor).

Daniel Grose (c.1766-1838) The Antiquities of Ireland. A Supplement to Francis Grose.

First Edition. Dublin, The Irish Architectural Archive, 1991. 28 x 25 cm. xxiv, 214 pages. Illustrated throughout. Quarter black morocco over cloth covered boards. Gitlt title and line decorations. Very good condition. Minor rubbing and bumping. Internally clean. A nice copy.

Himmelfarb, Gertrude.

Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution.

First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1959. 21 x 13 cm. ix, 422 pages. With a frontispiece and a fold out map. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Front hinge starting to open, but sound binding. Some edge wear to dust jacket, now in protective plastic jacket.

Downey, Alan / Nioclas Toibin (Translator).

Datad A Haon. (Forty-One. A Story of the second Anglo-Irish War in the Seventeenth Century.)

First Irish Edition. Dublin, 1955. 18 x 12 cm. 344 pages. Original red cloth with black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Head of spine a little frayed. Mild browning to edges and end papers. Paper sticker on title page with names of author and translator (by publisher?). Internally bright and clean.

Gallagher, Frank.

Days of Fear.

Cork, The Mercier Press, 1967. 18 x 11 cm. 117 pages plus publishers list. Original decorated stiff paper covers. Paperback. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Age darkened and mildly foxed throughout.

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus.

De Consolatione Philosophiae. [The Consolations of Philosophy].

Colonia [Cologne], per Henricum Quentell [Heinrich Quentell], anno gratie 1497 pridie kalendas Januarij [31 December 1497]. c. 20 x 14 cm. a6, A1-A6, a1-k6, two unnumbered leaves, l1-z6, ?1-?6, A1-E6, F1-F4. Missing A1 & s3. Title page with large woodcut device depicting a medieval scholastic scene. Extensive early annotations (see images). Flexible covers made from pages of other book of the period (vellum?). See images. The boards and end papers are made of four individual pieces. Three of them appear to be from Anton Koberger’s ‘Ninth German Bible’ (Biblia Germanica 1483). The spine and front cover appear to be a bible commentary of the period. Inside custom made clamshell box with morocco spine label and gilt title. Very good condition. Dust dulled. Binding coming lose. Edges age darkened.

Par M. Necker, [Jacques].

De L’Importance Des Opinions Religieuses

First Edition. A Londres, et se trouve à Lyon, chez G. Regnault, 1788. c, 19 x 12 cm. Title page, 542 pages (2). With a Frontispiece. Contemporary speckled calf. Elaborate gilt decorations to spine. Gilt title. Marbled end papers. Red edges. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A lovely copy. See images.