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: 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: 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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[New York]: Joyce Memorial Fund Committee, 1941. First, Limited Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers; [8]pp; portrait frontispiece. One of 700 copies in the regular (unsigned) edition. Just Good, with old erosion into lower margin of rear wrapper and text; no losses to printed area but still an aesthetically-challenged copy. Two brief..... More