Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1967]. First Thus. Thick octavo (23cm.); original cloth in blue and white decorative dust jacket, black topstain; xii,404pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light wear to top edge of jacket with a couple short closed tears and mild creasing, else Very Good and sound. Diary of the Victorian..... More
New York: Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868. First Thus. Attributed to the Irish poet and barrister Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886). Though unnamed in this edition, the "anti-preface" by American novelist Frederic S. Cozzens quotes from a letter from the unnamed author: "[Father Tom and the Pope] was written by me in..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in tan decorative dust jacket, blue top stain; x,[2],269pp. Some minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Price cancel mounted to upper jacket flap. More
![The Heat of the Day [Limited Edition, Signed]. Elizabeth BOWEN](/pictures/medium/21184.jpg?v=1529353300)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket; [10],372,[2]pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by the author on limitation page. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in black and magenta dust jacket, magenta topstain; xiv,[2],233pp. General light edge wear to jacket extremities, spine toned, topstain almost entirely faded; still, Very Good and sound overall. Collection of twelve short stories by the Irish..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow decorative price-clipped dust jacket by Warren Chappell; [8],306,[2]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in attractive dustjacket with few small shallow chips at edges and crown. More
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter white cloth, with black cloth sides, green titles on spine; orange and green dustwrapper; 3-278pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; extremities chipped, with small tears and areas of minor material loss; shelf wear and soiling. Textblock edges foxed..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 243pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 plates. Jacket spine and rear panel extremities toned, else Near Fine. The poet's childhood memoirs in Ireland and London. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Third Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in green and black; vi,[2],329pp. Jacket uniformly dust-soiled, extremities a bit rubbed and worn, spine darkened, ownership rubberstamp of an Albert E. King to bottom textblock edge, else Near Fine in..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., [1934]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original buckram, paper spine label lettered in green, pictorial dust jacket ; vii,[3],303pp.; jacket illustration repeated on title page. A few chips and short closed to jacket extremities, discrete tape repair to jacket verso, else a Fine copy in..... More
[London: Poetry Book Society, 1971]. First Edition. 12mo. Original printed, staple-bound self-wrappers; [20pp]. Mild external dusting, else Near Fine. Includes two poems by Seamus Heaney ("Tollund Man" and "Maighdean Mara"); also works by Douglas Dunn, John Silkin, Ted Walker, others. More
Dublin: Stationery Office, [1937?]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); original blue cloth tape-backed printed wrappers; [8],279pp. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, the whole rather worn, cloth splitting and frayed along folds and at ends; contemporary original photographic postcard of the National Library of Ireland mounted to p. [iv]. Good only..... More
London: Pluto Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; x, 241pp. Mild toning to textblock, some external wear to wrappers. Front spine hinge creased, else a clean, unmarked copy. Very Good. More
![The Soul of Man Under Socialism [Thaddeus Burr Wakeman's Copy]. FREETHOUGHT, Oscar WILDE,...](/pictures/medium/46479.jpg?v=1591672812)
St. Louis: Hermann Schwarz, 1906. First Thus. Provenance: Copy of rationalist Thaddeus Burr Wakeman (1834-1913), given to him on August 24, 1911, on board the S.S. Pennsylvania by a Rachel Lillian Andrews "as a 'good bye,' + my problem to be solved by my visit to the first Monist Congress..... More
![Waterford: An Irish Art [Inscribed and Signed]. Ida GREHAN](/pictures/medium/47286.jpg?v=1580166339)
Huntington, NY: Robert Campbell Rowe Book / Portfolio Press, [1981]. First Edition. Folio (35cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 256pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities quite chipped and rubbed with a few tiny losses and short closed tears, brief tape repair to verso, a hint of soil to..... More
Philadelphia: J. & J.L. Gihon, n.d., ca. 1850s. Irish novelist's most famous work, based on the 1819 murder of fifteen-year-old Irish Catholic Ellen Scanlan (née Hanley) at the hands of an assassin hired by her husband, Protestant Irishman John Scanlan. Both men were subsequently tried and executed, the case covered..... More
![Great Days [Review Copy]. Frank HARRIS](/pictures/medium/40613.jpg?v=1529353994)
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue decorative blind-ruled cloth stamped in gilt; [8],338,[4],24pp. Cloth a bit rubbed at corners, spine slightly cocked and toned, some light internal foxing, else Near Very Good. Review copy with pressure stamp to title page. Adventure novel by..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1926. First American edition. English translation of Hemon's "Collin-Maillard," first written in 1908 but not published until 1925, some twelve years after the author's death at a Montreal rail crossing. Hemon, a French-born Canadian, is best remembered for his popular romance "Maria Chapdelaine." The present work is..... More
![Broadside] Re-Arm the I.R.A. & Restore the Republic! IRELAND, CLAN NA GAEL, I R. A. Veterans of...](/pictures/medium/46466.jpg?v=1591196405)
New York: 1956. First Edition. Flyer announcing the 40th Anniversary Easter Week Commemoration Concert in memory of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, which left several hundred dead and the fourteen organizers executed. The concert, held at the Pythian on West 70th St., included contributions by several Irish-American aritsts, among them the..... More
![Days of Fear [Two Editions] [WITH] Autograph Note Signed. IRELAND, Frank GALLAGHER](/pictures/medium/47629.jpg?v=1595908024)
V.p. v.d. First Edition. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger..... More
![Sinn Féin, No. 209, Vol. 5 [New Series], April 11th, 1914. IRELAND, SINN FEIN COMPANY](/pictures/medium/43765.jpg?v=1554246120)
Dublin: Sinn Fein Printing and Publishing Co., 1914. First Edition. Issue entirely devoted to the proposed partition, the upper cover adorned with a map first issued by the London "Graphic" depicting the "territory proposed to cut away from the remainder of Ireland under the Government's compromise proposals on the Home..... More
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1975. First Edition. Collection of memories of hundreds of residents in Northern Ireland - moderate, radical, Catholic, and Protestant - taken by Van Voris after the explosive period in Ulster since 1968. "There are statements by those who make the bombs and those injured by..... More
[New York: Irish Republican Headquarters], 1922. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. Light dust-soil and toning, else Near Fine. Small pamphlet issued by the fraternal oath-bound Irish Republican Brotherhood, reprinting excerpts by General Macready in Dublin and Churchill and George from the House of Commons regarding the Irish Civil..... More
![Éire: The Irish Nation - Vol.2, Nos.1-41 (January 19-October 25, 1924) [Together With] Sinn...](/pictures/medium/47768.jpg?v=1594440151)
Dublin & Manchester: The Irish Nation Committee / The Equity Press and The Wood Printing Works, 1924. First Editions. Full final year of Éire, the official publishing organ of the Irish Republican Party, which ran from January 20, 1923 - October 25, 1924, continuing with its successor publication, Sinn Féin..... More
Boston: Published for the trade, 1856. First Edition. Small slim octavo (19cm.); original green pictorial saddle-stitched wrappers (upper cover a bit soiled); 48pp.; illus. Chips and tears along wrapper edges not affecting text, loss to lower wrapper bottom edge, spine ends perished; still, a Very Good copy in original, still-vibrant..... More
