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
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
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
![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
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
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
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
![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
![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
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
[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
![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
