Vintage Paperbacks

Hilaire Belloc - Selected Cautionary Verses - PB -1953

Paperback, published by Puffin, 1953, a 'Puffin Story Book, 67' Illustrated throughout. 

J.P Donleavy - A Fairytale of New York - Penguin PB 1978

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in...

J.T Edson - The Devil Gun - Vintage 1967 PB

Paperback, 1967 reprint, Sabre Books UK , first publsihed in the USA in 1966.  Slight spine lean, Dublin bookshop sticker on front cover.  The story revolves around a deadly threat to Texas during...

J.P Donleavy - A Singular Man - Vintage Penguin PB 1966

What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money;...

Eoin Neeson - The Second Book of Irish Myths and Legends - Vintage Mercier PB

Paperback, published by Mercier Paperbacks, fifth impresssion, originally published 1966.  Light edgewear to back cover.  Includes the Children of Lir, Diarmuid and Graine, and the Sickbed of...

J.T Edson - The Man From Texas - (Vintage Brown Watson PB) 1966

J.T Edson - You're in Command Now, Mr Fog - (Vintage Corgi PB) 1973

Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a 17-year-old Dusty Fog serving as a freshly promoted first lieutenant in the Confederate Army. When his company's commanding officer is suddenly...

Harry Harrison - Winter in Eden (Eden Trilogy - Book 2 ) 1987

This is the third printing Granada PB paperback edition, originally published in 1986. In excellent condition The book in the picture is the copy of the book you will recieve.  Harry Harrison broke...

George & Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody - PB

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine...

James N Healy - The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads - Volume 3 : The People at Play - PB -1969

Paperback, published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1969.  A standalone selection of political and historical themed street ballads and songs, volume 3 of a projected 7 book series. Songs on weddings,...

Sean O'Casey - Rose and Crown (Autobiography : Book 5 - 1926-1934)

Pan paperback reprint edition, the fifth chronological book of the writer's autobiography, originally published in 1952, here in a Pan PB 1973 EDITION.  Usual age tanning.     

James Stephens - The Crock of Gold : Vintage 1981 Pan PB ed - Irish Fantasy Classic

Part fable, part fairy tale, partly a telling take on Irish and Celtic myth, this is the 1981 Pan PB edition of The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens (1882-1950) . When a crock of gold belonging to...

Nora Chadwick - The Celts - HB Slipcased Folio Edition - 2001

The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation...

Brendan Kennelly (Editor) - The Penguin Book of Irish Verse - PB 1974 (Originally 1970)

    Originally published 1970, this is a Penguin PB reprint 1974, edited and selected by Brendan Kennelly.  IRISH POETRY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, ( poems in the original Old and Middle Irish are...

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...

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - The Princess of the Chalet School- PB - 1982

When Madge Bettany decides to start a school in the Austrian Alps, little does she realize how such a small idea will so completely change her life. Paperback, this reprint Armada Books, 1982. 

C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew ( Chronicles of Narnia - PB - Vintage Puffin Pb 1967) - Pailine Baynes Art

A paperback Puffin reprint, 1967, first published 1953, with cover and interior art by Pauline Baynes ( the original artist of the originals.  Puffin code 192 to spine.  Light edgewear to spine,...

John Buchan - The House of the Four Winds - Vintage Penguin PB - 1956 (Originally 1925)

A first Penguin paperback edition, published 1956, vertical triband design with central illustration of a hilltop castle. Light tanning to pages.  Penguin number 1137

Seymour Krim ( Editor) - The Beats - 1960 - PB - Fawcett USA

A PAPERBACK FIRST PRINTING, Fawcett  'Gold Medal; A collection of short stories, loose essays, poetry and what the cover calls ' social criticism' - from writers such as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer,...

James Blish - Star Trek 3 - Vintage PB - (1973 1st UK PB Printing- Corgi)

Published by Corgi UK 1973, first published USA 1972, a 1st UK PB printing Moderate to heavy creasing, ageing and edgewear.  Creasing to back cover, less so to front.  An adaptation by Blish of...

James Blish - (All New) Star Trek 2 - Vintage PB 1968 ( 3rd Printing - Bantam US)

Published by Bantam USA, 1968, A 3rd printing, page block mustard yellow, stamped with 95c on inside front endpage. Moderate creasing, ageing and edgewear. Mark on front cover where an old price...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days...

Josephus - The Jewish War (Penguin Classics PB 1967) - Translation by G.A Williamson

Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus...

Leo Kessler - Death's Head - PB - 1974

A Futura PB  EDITION, 1974.  SS Assault Battalion Wotan, the toughest troops in Europe, are sent on an apparently impossible mission against the elite of the Soviet Army in a vital bid to prepare the...

Helen McCloy - He Never Came Back - (Vintage Penguin Crime PB 1961)

Pubished by Penguin Crime UK, 1961. Originally 1954.  Small ghostmark from an old sticker on front cover, some uneven darkening to spine and adjacent areas.  The tagline is ' a shortsighted girl buys...

Gerald Heard (H.F Heard) - A Taste For Honey - Vintage Penguin Crime - 1961

First published in 1942, this is the first Penguin UK CRIME PAPERBACK EDITION, 1961.  Three horizontal green and white bands, Penguin number 1624, Small areas of edgewear to head and tail of spine...

Cicero - The Nature of the Gods ( De Natura Deorum) (Translated by H.C.P McGregor)

The Nature of the Gods by Cicero Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The...

John Holt - The Underachieving School (Vintage Pelican PB 1972)

Paperback, published by Pelican UK, originally 1971. Examines educational theories and approaches, arguing that for many children and youngpeople schools worked alsmost as a jail, arguing for a...

John Holt - How Children Learn (Vintage Pelican PB 1975 ( Originally 1967)

    A book where educationalist John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.   Pelican paperback, 1975, originally 1967. 

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Vintage PB 1982)

Keep The Aspidistra Flying" is a 1936 novel by George Orwell. The book is a social critique set in 1930s London. The story revolves around the protagonist, Gordon Comstock, who fantasises about...

Magnus Magnusson (Translator) - The Vinland Sagas : The Norse Discovery of America - PB - 1975

Paperback, 1975, Penguin UK.  Originally published 1965, this reprint 1975. Translation of the early medieval texts by Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson.  The tales of Erik the Red and Leif the...

Emmett Grogan - Ringolevio - A Life Played For Keeps - Vintage Panther PB - 1976 (Originally 1972)

Panther UK Paperback, originally published in 1972.  Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan...

Sean O'Faolain - The Heat of the Sun - Vintage Pan PB 1969 ( Seán Ó Faoileáin ) Short Stories

 Includes  a short introduction by the author. In the Bosom of the Country, Dividends, The Heat of the Sun, The Human Thing, One Man, One Boat, One Girl, Charlie's Greek, Billy Billee, Before the...

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man - Vintage Panther PB 1974 (Originally 1972)

Published by Panther UK, 1974. In very good condition, apart from a small section where the pages have been turned down at the coners ) p 339-343)  No marks or inscriptions.  The cult classic that...

J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit - Vintage Ballantine US PB - 1988 (Michael Herring Cover Artist)

Ballantine US mass market paperback, 23rd printing, September 1988.  Cover art (of a rather rotund Bilbo Baggins with Gollum looking very demonic lurking behind him) by Michael Herring.  Yellow page...

Erich von Daniken - The Gold of the Gods - PB - 1978 ( Originally 1973)

A Corgi UK reprint 1978, translated from the original German Aussaat und Kosmos 1972.    Gold of The Gods marks the culmination of an arduous world-wide expedition taking the author 76,000 miles...

Abbé Prévost - Manon Lescaut (Translated by L.W Tancock) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB - 1949

Published in this reprint translation by Penguin UK, there is a small neat 50c overprint label on the front cover.  This translation from the original French by L.W Tancock, numbered L13 .  Darkening...

A.N.W Saunders ( Translator) - Demosthenes and Aeschines (Vintage Penguin Classics PB ) - 1975

Penguin classics paperback ( black spine, this reprint 1975, originally 1974) Light tanning to pages, and general edgewear, internally unmarked.  Demosthenes and Aeschines were the two greatest...

Sophocles - Electra and Other Plays ( Translated by E.F Watling) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB 1965

All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 Bc) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides,...

Erna Wright / The New Childbirth (Vintage Paperback)

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Bernard Wolfe - Limbo '90 - PB - Vintage Penguin PB - 1961

In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation -...

Michael Bond - More About Paddington ( Paddington Bear - Book 2 ) - Vintage PB 1974 (Originally 1959)

A 1974 Armada Lion paperback reprint, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Light tanning to pages, some minor creasing to covers. 

Max Caulfield - The Easter Rebellion : Dublin 1916 - PB 1965

A PB edition of this excellent book on the events of the 1916 Rising, originally published in 1963/4, here in the 1965 reprint  Creases to back cover.  This is a scrupulously researched and superbly...

Mary Lavin - Tales From Bective Bridge - PB - 1978

Originally published in 1943, this is a Poolbeg paperback reprint, 1978.  Light edgewear to the back cover, scratches where the price tag was previously.    First published in 1943, Tales from...

John Boardman - The Greeks Overseas - Vintage Pelican PB - 1964

Paperback, published by Pelican paperbacks UK , 1964 A study of exploration and travel by the ancient Greeks ( primarily between  the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, and the wider dissemination of Greek...

C.S Lewis - Prince Caspian ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 4 ) Vintage Puffin PB 1973 ( Originally 1951)

Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art  and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline...

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...

Watch Tower Bible / Mankind's search for God (Vintage Paperback)

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Fawn M. Brodie / Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (Vintage Paperback)

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Peter Brennan / Sudden Death (Vintage Paperback)

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Vernon Heaton / Wedding Etiquette Properly Explained (Vintage Paperback)

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Boris Ford / The Age of Chaucer (Vintage Paperback)

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