New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh - The Dial Press, 1932. First Edition. Attractive copy of Williams's scholarly volume documenting the history of Black Jamaicans who claim Irish ancestry. "Visitors to Jamaica in the British West Indies frequently remark a seeming anomaly. In even the remotest sections of the 'bush' and... More about Whence the "Black Irish" of Jamaica?
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 about William Allingham's Diary
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 about Collected Impressions
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original boards in purple decorative dust jacket; 320pp. Jacket extremities rather scuffed, clean splits to bottom of jacket flap folds; About Fine in About Very Good dust jacket. More about A Day in the Dark and Other Stories
![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 about The Heat of the Day [Limited Edition, Signed
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 about Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories
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 about The Little Girls
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket by George Salter; [8],244,[2]pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, else Fine in Very Good jacket. More about A World of Love
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1936. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],416pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed, especially spine ends, a few closed tears, the longest to rear flap affecting author photograph without loss; top fore-edge corner of rear free endpaper... More about The African Witch
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. Reprint. 12mo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 278pp. First printing of the Mariner's Library edition. Mild soil, else straight and Very Good in the pictorial dustwrapper which is price-clipped and a bit tatty, with a ca. 3/4" loss at base of front panel - just VG. More about The Riddle of the Sands
![The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubador [Inscribed]. Liam CLANCY](/pictures/medium/33240.jpg?v=1529353718)
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. Memoir of the frontman for the legendary Irish group The Clancy Brothers. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and dark green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and Celtic knotwork embossed to front cover; dustjacket; x,294pp; illus. Inscribed on the title page... More about The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubador [Inscribed
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 about The Buried Day
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 about Ward Eight
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 about Jorkens Remembers Africa
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1937]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in off-white pictorial dust jacket; vi,320pp. Jacket spine darkened. Fine in Near Fine jacket. One of Dunsany's "Irish" novels in which the author explores the theme of the differences (or lack thereof) between humans and animals... More about Rory and Bran
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 about Catalogue of Engraved Irish Portraits Mainly in the Joly Collection and of Original Drawings
[Dublin]: Editorial Board of "Review" ca. 1947. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 21pp. Lightly toned, else About Fine. More about The Challenge of Socialism
![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 about Great Days [Review Copy
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 about Blind Man's Buff. Translated from the French by Arthur Richmond
New York: Irish Industries Depot, N.d. [ca 1928]. First American Edition. A collection of short stories of the Irish War for Independence, written under a pseudonym by Frank Gallagher, a key figure in the rebel movement. Gallagher spent much of the Twenties in prison for his IRA activities and was... More about The Challenge of the Sentry and Other Stories of the Irish War
Philadelphia: Office for the Sale of the Leighton Publications at the Depository of the Protestant Episcopal Book Society, 1863. First American Edition. Three volumes; large octavo (24cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled pebble cloth, gilt-lettered spines; engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. 1. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed with some brief exposure, joints... More about The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, D.D., Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry
![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 about Sinn Féin, No. 209, Vol. 5 [New Series], April 11th, 1914
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 about The Battle of Ventry Harbor; which Took Place in the Fourth Century, and Continued without...
![The Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston [Deluxe Edition]. Denis JOHNSTON](/pictures/medium/40742.jpg?v=1534803525)
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1979. First, Limited Edition. Set no. 20 of twenty-five sets, each volume numbered and signed in ink on limitation leaf. Three octavo volumes (23cm), bound in green, blue and red half-morocco over gilt-decorated vellum boards by Newman & Son of Dublin; 405+395+515pp. Top edges gilt; marbled... More about The Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston [Deluxe Edition
![Passages from Finnegans Wake [...] A Free Adaptation for the Theater. James JOYCE, adaptation...](/pictures/medium/24125.jpg?v=1529353418)
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in dark grey pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],75pp. General light shelf wear to top dust jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better overall. More about Passages from Finnegans Wake [...] A Free Adaptation for the Theater
