Vintage Paperbacks

Randall Jarrell - Pictures From an Institution - Vintage Penguin PB 1959

Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between...

John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback)

A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane.  Mercier Press 1996     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago ( Vintage PB 1974)

Published by Fontana UK, 1974, first published in translation in English in 1973. Translation by Thomas P. Whitney.  This is Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago - 'Book 1 & 2  ''The Prison Industry''...

Charles Berlitz - The Roswell Incident - PB - 1982

From the author of The Bermuda Triangle  A UFO crashed to Earth and witnesses saw the humanoid occupants scattered on the desert floor They even kept pieces of th wreckage , then the cover up began...

Eithne Strong - Patterns - PB ( Vintage Poolbeg 1981)

A collection of short stories, Poolbeg 1981, heavy age foxing and spotting to the preliminary pages. 

Colm Keane ( Editor) / The Jobs Crisis ( 1993) ( Thomas Davis Lecture Series )

Michael Bond - Here Comes Thursday ( Vintage Puffin PB ) 1982 ( Originally 1966 )

Thursday the Mouse fell from a balloon having just escaped from the Home for Waif-Mice and Stray-Mice. The Pecks adopt him into their family of church mice and they name him Thursday because the day...

Patrick Skene Catling - Freddy Hill : The Story of a Modern Man of Pleasure - Vintage PB - 1970

A 1970'S satire of the erotic classic , Fanny Hill, this switches the gender to Freddy Hill, a young lothario. Probably seen as ' rac at the time of publication', (  and for the time it was) now it...

David Kossoff - A Small Town is a World - The Rabbi Mark Stories - Vintage PB

Pan paperback, a mix of wry religion, human nature in stories form an ( imaginary) small town - Klanestetl - in Poland. 

Alexander Fullerton / The Blooding of the Guns (Vintage Paperback)

At 2.28pm on the last day of May 1916, in the grey windswept North Sea off the coast of Jutland, the fire-gongs ring...THE BLOODING OF THE GUNS is the first of the Nicholas Everard novels, the series...

Margaret Powell - Below Stairs ( Vintage Pan PB 1970 ( Originally 1968_

Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin. As a kitchen maid - the lowest of the low - she entered an entirely new world; one of...

Herbert G. Grubel / The International Monetary System - 3rd Edition (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Kimmel Smith / Jane's House (Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Powell - Venusberg ( Vintage PB 1961, Originally 1932)

An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately...

Anthony Powell - The Military Philosophers - Vintage PB 1968 ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 9 )

Mackie, as ever, presents well-balanced arguments and produces his own views with a degree of clarity and style which makes him stand out amongst the writers of philosophy. His Ethics is no...

Thelma Rowell - Social Behaviour of Monkeys - Vintage Penguin PB -1972

Published by Penguin as part of it's Science of Behaviour Series, 1972.  Stdies based on the author's own observations in the mountians of east Africa ( primarily with baboons) - comparing and...

Christopher Hudson - The Killing Fields ( Vintage Pan Paperback)

An account of war and friendship in Cambodia ( Kampuchea) during the heinous regeime changeover by the Khmer Rouge.  Paperback, this is a film tie in edition. 

Sean O'Casey - Three More Plays - The Silver Tassie / Purple Dust / Red Roses For Me - PB -1980

Paperback, Macmillan UK reprint, 1980. Full and unabridged text of three plays.   The original dates of publication were - Silver Tassie 1928, Purple Dust 1940, Red Roses For Me -1942. Introduction...

William Trevor - The Old Boys - PB 1980 ( Originally 1964)

The Old Boys by William Trevor - a novel of power, revenge, love and the failure of love from one of the world's best writersA group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of...

Frank O'Connor - My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories - Vintage Penguin PB 1963

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's...

Archie Macdonell - England, Their England - Vintage Pan PB -1978 ( Originally 1933)

Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have...

Patrick Augustine Sheehan ( Canon Sheehan) - The Loneliness of Winter ( Under the Cedars and the Stars) - 1973

( Originally issued as part a longer sequence called Under the Cedars and the Stars) - this section ( and the others, divided into 4 titles)    A hugely successful novelist , Sheehan ( 1852-1913) was...

Paul Theroux / Sinning with Annie

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Compton Miller / Who's Really Who : Britain in the 1980's

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Martin Boyd / Nuns in Jeopardy

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Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960

One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition.  Light edgewear to covers, binding...

Ulick O'Connor - Travels With Ulick - Vintage Mercier PB -1967

An account with the keen eye of an outsider, of a long multi city trip in the USA in spring 1965, in a period where cultural change and civil Rights issues were asserting themselves into the US...

Langley, Noel - There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1936 )

This story concerns two young innocents, Robin & Diana, and their efforts to succeed and to retain their innocence in the sink of iniquity, den of thieves, hotbed of perversions etc, which is the...

Linklater, Eric - Ripeness is All ( Vintage Penguin PB 1962 ) ( Originally 1935)

When the celibate Major Gander sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the...

Herbert, A.P - Holy Deadlock ( Vintage Penguin PB 1955 ) ( Originally 1934 )

Holy Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author and MP A.P Herbert which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary English divorce law.  The book...

Galsworthy, John / The Man of Property ( The Forsythe Chronicles - Book 1 ) ( Vintage Penguin)

London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are...

C.P Snow - The Conscience of the Rich ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961 ) ( Originally 1958) ( Strangers and Brothers Series - Book 7 )

Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of...

Wren, P.C - Beau Sabreur ( Vintage Penguin PB 1946 ) ( Originally 1926 )

Major de Beaujolais, courageous and gallant, is detailed for a dangerous secret missing among hostile Arabs. With two white women, snatched from the hands of fanatics, he ventures into the desert...

Walpole, Hugh - Mr Perrin and Mr Traill ( Vintage Penguin PB 1939 ) ( Originally 1911)

Almost everyone likes the new, fresh-faced teacher at school, Mr. Traill, a hit with the students and teachers alike. One exception, however, is fellow teacher Vincent Perrin . An acknowledged...

Ercole Patti - A Love Affair in Rome ( Vintage Penguin PB 1961) ( Originally 1958 )

The empty bourgeois, worldly, intellectual society of the capital is the backdrop to the scabrous love story, all entrusted to the senses - yet lightly narrated - between Marcello, journalist and...

Aubrey Menen - The Fig Tree ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953) - ( Originally 1959)

Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He...

A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934)

One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less...

Rupert Furneaux - Courtroom U.S.A 2 - Vintage Penguin PB

An account of a number of notable mid 20th century USA court cases - Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb. Harry Hoffman Published by Penguin Crime ( True Crime ) 1963, first thus

Holly Roth - The Sleeper - Vintage Penguin Crime 1959 ( Originally 1955)

Ostensibly a Cold War spy story, but actually a parable about trust. A writer is asked to record the story of a man convicted of treason. The traitor kills himself, which seems unlikely given the...

John Updike - Bech : A Book ( Vintage Penguin PB ) 1973

The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech--procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline--made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike's "The...

Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room - Vintage Penguin PB 1965 ( Originally 1960)

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a...

Richard Power - The Hungry Grass ( Vintage Paperback )

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.Father Tom Conroy - a spiky,...

Louis Bromfield - Mrs Parkington ( Vintage Penguin PB -1959) ( Originally 1942)

She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, wordly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure -- stormy, glittering, tragic, but never dull...

Collier, John - Defy the Foul Fiend - Vintage Penguin PB 1948 ( Originally 1934)

  Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an...

Elliott Paul - The Mysterious Mickey Finn ( Vintage Penguin PB 1953 ) ( Originally 1939 )

Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his...

David Dodge - Bullets For the Bridegroom ( Vintage Penguin PB - 1955 ) ( Originally 1948)

The third in the series of "Whit" Whitney novels is both a crime thriller and a World War II espionage. And David Dodge this time has Whit involved with a set of German spies sending out valuable...

Ernest William Hornung - Raffles ( Vintage Penguin Crime) 1952 ( Originally 1936 )

Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in...

Bruce Dexter / I'll Sing you the Death of Bill Brown (Vintage Paperback)

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Roger Vailland - The Sovereigns - Vintage PB 1964 ( Originally 1960 )

Translated from the French by Peter Wiles. In this surprising, witty, and shockingly cynical novel, the author of the international success, The Law, treats the reader to a game of love as only the...

Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966)

A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist.  It was a notable work at the time of...

David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe)

  The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social...

Ernie O'Malley - Raids and Rallies - PB - Vintage Anvil Press 1982

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk...