Vintage & Collectable Books - Newly Added

John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929 - Pelican PB

The classic account of the Great Crash in US ( and subsequent global) stock markets in 1929, an event which precipitated the Great Depression. Originally published in 1954, this is a 1963 Pelican PB...

John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929 - HB

The classic account of the Great Crash in US ( and subsequent global) stock markets in 1929, an event which precipitated the Great Depression. Originally published in 1954, this is a 2007 reprint...

Norman Rich - The Age of Nationalism and Reform 1850-1890 2nd Edition - PB - 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally published 1970, a standalone volume in the wider Norton History of Modern Europe series.  Covers the history of Europe in an era of competing...

Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001

Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999.  The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic,...

Edward Rutherfurd - The Rebels of Ireland ( The Dublin Saga - Book 2) - HB - 2006

The sequel to The Princes of Ireland follows the lives and destinies of several Dublin families, both Catholic and Protestant, from all strata of society, from the sixteenth-century colonization of...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy...

Edward Daly - A Troubled See : Memoirs of a Derry Bishop (Large Paperback)

 A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly's bestselling Mister, Are You a Priest? (2000), which focused on his years as a curate in the Bogside - a...

Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1965

Illustrations by Robert Stewart Sheriffs Hardcover in a leatherette effect covers, published in this reprint by Collins UK , 1965. Uneven sunfade to the spine, rubbing and wear to the top and tail of...

S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB 1908

Red Cap TalesStolen From the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North [SCOTT, Sir Walter] / CROCKETT, S.R. A & C Black, 1908 ( The first edition was 1904) . Orange pictorial cloth with gilt...

Gerry Walsh- How'ya Doc ? - The First Ninety Years of the Belvedere Newsboys' Club 1918-2008 - PB

Paperback, published 2010.   From the author's introduction - The object of compiling this book is chiefly to celebrate the first ninety years since the foundation of the Belvedere Newsboys’ Club and...

E.K Chambers ( Editor) - The Oxford Book of English Verse : 1250-1918 - HB New Edition 1953 ( Originally 1900)

First published in 1932 (this is a 1950 reprint, hardcover without the original plain dustjacket.    Internally unmarked but light uneven sunning/ faded to external blue cloth covers.   

S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB - Illustrated - 1908

C.D.M Ketelbey - A History of Modern Times - HB - ( 4th Revised Edition) 1969

Hardcover, publsihed in this reprint 4th revised and expanded edition 1969, first edition was 1929 ( in a much different version) , updating the text to 1968.  Solid copy, but age foxing and spotting...

Antoni Pitxot & Montse Aguer - The Dali Museum in Figueres - PB

Paperback, a detailed guide to both the building and the art in the Salvador Dali Museum. illustrated in colour throughout . 

John O'Regan ( Editor) - Donald Teskey - Gandon Profile Edition ( SIGNED BY Donald Teskey) - 2005 - PB

Paperback, published by Gandon Editions, 2005.  Signed in black ink by the artist ( Donald Teskey '05) to the title page in black ink, no dedications or other marks, a profusely illustrated artist...

W.N Osborough - An Island's Law : A Bibliographical Guide to Ireland's Legal Past - HB - 2013

Hardcover, published by Four Courts Press, 2013, in association with the Irish Legal History Society. The last 40 pages comprise a detailed author a-z index of publications and books on Irish legal...

Frank Corr - Parknasilla : The Centenary Book 1895-1995 - HB Kerry

A centenary history of the Great Southern Hotel , Parknasilla, Kerry, published 1995. ( Author Frank Corr had published the standard history of irish Hotles in 1987, and in this book he explores the...

Andrew Carpenter (Editor) - Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland - PB - 1998

Published by Cork University Press, 1998. An innovative collection of Irish poetry and verse from the 18th century - including  well known writers such as Swift and Goldsmith alongside lesser known (...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - Theo-Drama Theological Dramatic Theory · Volume 1 - Prologomena

Translated by Graham Harrison.  Hardcover, 1988, brown foxing and age spotting to the edges of the dustjacket, some age spotting to page block ends .  Ignatius Press, USA.    Whereas The Glory of the...

D.G Boyce - Englishmen and Irish Troubles : British Public Opinion & The Making of Irish Policy 1918-22 - HB

Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1972.  A detailed examination of UK media and public opinion in relation to Ireland from the 1918 election until the outbreak of the Civil War. 

Glen Baxter - His Life - The Years of Struggle - HB - 1983

The sly, eccentric wit of author/illustrator Glen Baxter is on full display in this volume of episodes from his life. Fully illustrated in b/w, with several images in beautiful color. Hardboard liner...

L.L Robson - The Convict Settlers of Australia - PB - 1976

Paperback, published by Melbourne University Press.  Sticker residue on front cover corner( justr under the word 'settlers', internally unmarked, apart from a ( previous name?) which has been clipped...

Leo Kessler - 5 PB - SS Panzer Battalion, The Sand Panthers, Hammer of the Gods, Slaughter Ground, Counter-Attack - Vintage Futura PB Wotan Novels

A collection of 5 of the books in Leo Kessler's Wotan series -, all vintage Futura paperback editions, all with tanning to pages, previous owner's name on inside front endpages. Part of a longer...

Jean Baudrillard - The Evil Demon of Images - PB - 1987

Jean Baudrillard 1929 –  2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically...

Jurgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity - Twelve Lectures - HB ( Translated by Frederick Lawrence )

Hardcover, second printing, 1987, published by MIT Press Cambridge . Translated from the German by Frederick Lawrence .  This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a...

Edgar Wallace - Again the Three - Vintage Pan PB

A vintage Pan paperback, published in this edition 1968, originally published in 1928. Previous bookshop stamp to the front endpage, prebvious owners name also on same page, covers clean, light...

Michael O'Sullivan & Bernardine O'Neill - The Shelbourne and its People - HB - 2011

Published by the Blackwater Press, this is the 4th reprint 2011. Hardcover.  Both a history of the famous Dublin hotel and a history of the role it played in Dublin society since its foundation, as...

Niall Ó Dónaill - Gearrfhoclóir Gaeilge-Béarla - HB ( Irish to English Dictionary) 1981

Leagan níos giorra don Fhoclóir Gaeilge Béarla foilsithe sa leagan seo, clúdach crua, 1981.  Foilsithe ag An Gúm, tá ainm iar-úineara ar an mbilleog tosaigh istigh, ach glan agus gan aon mharcanna na...

Davis Coakley - Irish Masters of Medicine - HB

Hardcover, published by Town House Dublin, 1992.  A history of the medical professionals and doctors who have made an impact on medical research and practices, most from the 19th century. 

Séamas Ó Céileachair ( Editor ) - Nuafhilí 2 (1953-1963) - HB Poetry Gaeilge Filíocht

An chéad chló,1968 , don chnuasach tábhachtach seo , Nuafhilí 2, foilsithe ag Oifíg an tSolatháir. Eagraithe ag Séamas Ó Céileachair. Fóilsíobh an chéad leabhar sa tsraith ( Nuafhilí 1) i 1956. Tá an...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - The Glory of the Lord A Theological Aesthetics. Theology : The New Covenant · Volume 7

The Glory of the LordA Theological Aesthetics. Theology : the new covenant · Volume 7 In this final volume of his great work, von Balthasar reflects on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of...

Hans Urs Von Balthasar - Theo-Drama ( Theological Dramatic Theory ) - Vol V - The Last Act - HB

This is the final volume of this series on "theological dramatic theory" by the great 20th century theologian Balthasar. This series is the second part of Balthasar's trilogy on the good, the...

Jacques Derrida - Writing and Difference - PB ( Translated by Alan Bass)

Paperback, published by University of Chicago Press, 1978.  In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read...

Daniel O'Connell - A Memoir on Ireland Native and Saxon - HB 1979 ( Originally 1843)

A facsimile edition, published by Kennikat , USA 1979.  An account by O'Connell of what he saw as many centuries of British perfidy, abuse of and indifference to Irish situation, as well as being an...

Patricia Kilroy - The Story of Connemara - PB - 1989 - SIGNED

Paperback, published by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1989.  Signed by the author ( dedicated to previous owners) on title page. Light craesing to spine.  A wideranging popular history of Conamara, from...

Ruth Delany - By Shannon Shores : An Exploration of the River - HB - 1987 - HB

Uneven sun fade to the dustjacket - area of fade to front cover.  A descriptive journey down the Shannon from the source at the Shannon Pot above Lough Allen, all the way downriver to Killaloe and...

Edmund Burke - Selected Works - HB ( Thoughts on the Present Discontents & The Two Speeches on America) - HB

Hardcover, published by Oxford Clarendon Press 1904, a standalone volume 1 of a multi volume set.  With the full text of Thoughts on the ( cause of) Present Discontents - Originally 1770.  Edmund...

William J Fitzpatrick - History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries - HB - 1900

A hardcover first printing, 1900, of a key history of the growth, establishmnet and organisation of Dublin's Catholic Cemeteries, notably Glasnevin ( Prospect) Cemetery , as close to a National...

Merck Veterinary Manual ( MVM) - 10th Edition 2010 - HB - Thumbindexed

The Merck Veterinary Manual is the most comprehensive, reliable reference for veterinary professionals. Trusted for more than 50 years, this reference now features hundreds of full-color images,...

A.J.P Taylor - English History 1914-1945 - HB ( Oxford History of England ) 1986 ( Originally 1965)

Hardcover, a standalone volume as part of the wider 15 volme series of teh Oxford History of England , this edition initially 1966, here in a reprint ( with revisions and expanded bibliography)  AJP...

William J Hayes - Holycross : The Awakening of the Abbey - PB - 2011

Paperback, profusely illustrated throughout. A detailed guide to the restoration of the Holycross Abbey in the town of Holycross, by the Suir in North Tipperary, covering the history of the abbey and...

Christopher Paolini - Eragon : Inheritance Book 1 - HB 2004

A new adventure hatches in the first book of the Inheritance Cycle. This New York Times bestselling series sold over 35 million copies and went on to be international fantasy sensation.When...

Francis Turner Palgrave - The Golden Treasury - Presentation Library - HB

The Palgrave Golden Treasury was first published in 1861, and almost immediately became a poetry classic, reprinted many times and never out of print since.  The older sections of the book include...

Gus Smith - John McCormack - A Voice to Remember - Jubilee Edition 1945-1995 - PB

Very heavy uneven sunfade to spine , from red to pale pink/ white .  A biography celebrating the then 50th anniversary of the death of the famous 20th century Irish tenor, who was possibly one of the...

James Dunphy - The Emigrant - PB - 2020

Paperback, published by e-print.ie, 2020.  The third book from the Kill, Waterford native, a mix of short stories, local Waterford and Ballyduff history and poetry.  Bumps and edgewear to covers. 

Pat Walsh - Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown : Images of Ireland - PB

Paperback, published by The History Press, 2005, here from 2010 ( with new cover design)  Dun Laoghaire Rathdown sweeps from the Dublin Mountains down to the sea and this collection of over 200...

Colm Lennon - That Field of Glory : The Story of Clontarf , from Battleground to Garden Suburb - HB - 2014

Hardcover, published by Wordwell Books, 2014.  That field of glory: the story of Clontarf, from battleground to garden suburb   That field of glory tells the story of Clontarf, beginning with the...

Kevin C. Kearns - Ireland's Arctic Siege : The Big Freeze of 1947 (Hardback)

On 19 January 1947 Ireland was invaded by a "freakish" anticyclonic weather phenomenon that lasted for two months. The arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of -14 Degrees Centigrade (7...

Richard Doherty - Irish Volunteers in the Second World War - HB - 2002

This book looks at the contributions of a range of Irish men and women to the Allied cause between 1939 and 1945. Many Irish soldiers served in armoured regiments from the desert to Germany itself...

Brian Moore - I Am Mary Dunne - PB 1977 ( Originally 1968)

First published in 1968 , I Am Mary Dunne follows one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright...

PJ Cunningham - GAA Grassroots : Stories From the Heart of the GAA Volume 1 - HB -2021

This collection dips into that vast reservoir of memories, tales and incidents of members from every county in the country and from across the great Gaelic diaspora. Grassroots : Stories From The...

Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958)

History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and...