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 | [PEEL’S IRISH LIBRARY] Bibliotheca Hibernicana or a Descriptive Catalogue of a Select Irish Library collected for the Right Hon. Robert Peel. With an Essay by Norman D. Palmer. Shannon: Irish University Press: 1970. Second edition. Octavo. pp. [iv], 12, vii, 51. Bound at Museum Bookbinders in quarter straight-grained red levant morocco over blue papered boards with title and decorations in gilt on upper cover. Edition limited to 50 copies [No. 50]. All edges gilt. A very good copy… €395.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz: Reaching for the Moon [SIGNED BY BUZZ ALDRIN] First Edition, First Printing in fine condition. This copy is SIGNED by Buzz Aldrin on the title page. Aldrin was one of the first two humans to land on the moon, becoming the second person to walk on the lunar surface. Reaching for the Moon was Adrin’s first collaboration with… €450.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz. Look To The Stars. With illustrations by Wendell Minor. (Signed First Edition) NYC: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009. First edition. pp 40. A fine copy. This book serves as both an educational resource and a source of inspiration, encouraging the next generation to continue exploring and dreaming about the stars. In this work, Aldrin guides readers through the history of space exploration, beginning… €295.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz. Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Signed by Buzz Aldrin) New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 2009. Octavo. pp. 326. Publisher’s black quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards. Dustjacket designed by David Tran. Illustrated with a photographic suite. Signed by the author to the title page. In fine condition. Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon is a 2009 memoir… €375.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz. NASA: The Complete Illustrated History (Signed by Buzz Aldrin) Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2005. Royal Octavo .Printed on archival paper and bound in full black leather with illustration on front board, titled and decorated in gilt; moiré silk endpapers; yellow silk marker. All edges gilt with 22kt gold. All fine copies. Includes signed COA Signed books by Buzz Aldrin… €750.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz. No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon [SIGNED FIRST EDITION] Washington D.C: National Geographic, 2016. 8vo. pp. 223. Quarter black buckram on cloth boards. Title in silver gilt on spine. First edition, first printing. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Signed by Buzz Aldrin on title page. No Dream Is Too High is a motivational book authored by Buzz Aldrin… €475.00 |
 | ALDRIN, Buzz. Return to Earth [First Edition, signed by Buzz Aldrin] New York: Random House Inc., 1973. Octavo. pp 338. Hardcover, blue cloth in very good condition. wear to dust jacked, otherwise a very good copy. Colonel Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, a member of the Apollo 11 crew, tells about his adventures on the moon, and about the aftermath when, as an… €395.00 |
 | ALI, Muhammad: A Thirty-Year Journey. (Signed first edition) With Howard L. Bingham. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition, first printing. Large quarto. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial dust-jacket. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic plates. An exceptionally fine copy. A superb photographic chronicle of the life and career of Muhammad Ali, documented over more… €575.00 |
 | ALI, Muhammad. The Greatest: My Own Story. (Signed first edition by Muhammad Ali) With Richard Durham. New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. .pp. 416. Publisher’s two-tone cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the author’s name stamped in red on the upper cover. A very good copy, the binding firm and bright. Some scattered foxing to the preliminaries and margins of a… €450.00 |
 | ALI, Muhammad. The Greatest. My Own Story (Inscribed by Muhammad Ali and acclaimed actor LeVar Burton) With Richard Durham. New York: Random House, 1975. First edition, first printing. Thick octavo. pp. [10], 416. Publisher’s black boards, upper cover and spine lettered in red, in the original unclipped dust jacket. A landmark sporting autobiography, published when Muhammad Ali stood not merely as the world’s most celebrated heavyweight… €750.00 |
 | APPLE COMPUTER INC. Apple II Serial Interface Card (A2L0008). Installation and Operating Manual. 1979 Cupertino, California: Apple Computer Inc., c.1979. Original printed technical manual issued for the Apple II Serial Interface Card (A2L0008), produced to accompany expansion hardware for the pioneering Apple II. Printed in the United States, the manual bears the imprint “© Apple Computer Inc… Printed in U.S.A. 3/79”, indicating a March… €195.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. A Life on Our Planet. My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Signed first edition by Sir David Attenborourgh) London: Witness Books, 2020. First edition. Octavo. pp. [iv], 266. Original publisher’s pictorial dust jacket over decorated boards, titled in white on spine. Silk marker ribbon. A fine copy, warmly inscribed by Sir David Attenborough on the half-title: “Best wishes, David Attenborough.” The book was published to accompany Attenborough’s landmark… €395.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster (Signed by Sir David Attenborough on the title-page) London: BBC Books, 2009. 8vo. pp. 416. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. Signed by Sir David Attenborough on the title-page. Sir David Attenborough’s celebrated autobiography, first published in 2002 and here extensively revised and updated to include his later… €350.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster (Signed first edition) London: BBC, 2002. pp. 384. Illustrated. Brown cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed on title page by David Attenborough. Signed copies of David Attenborough’s Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster are highly sought-after treasures for fans of the legendary naturalist and collectors of… €450.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. Life on Air. Memoirs of a Broadcaster. (Signed copy) London: BBC Books, 2003. Octavo. pp. xiv, 384. Illustrated wrappers with portrait of the author. Signed by David Attenborough on the titlepage. A fine copy. First published in 2002, this is the first paperback edition of Attenborough’s memoirs, recounting his remarkable career in broadcasting and natural history. From his early… €185.00 |
 | ATTENBOROUGH, David. Life Stories (Signed first edition) London: Published by Collins, 2009. 224. pp. 330. Post Octavo. First Edition. Green boards, title printed in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Life Stories by David Attenborough is a captivating collection of essays that showcases the legendary broadcaster’s deep passion for the natural world. Originally based… €275.00 |
 | BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. By Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1827/1832. First edition. Large post octavo. pp. (1) xxvii, [1], 476, (2) xiii, 4, 474, (3) xxxvi, 436. First and second volumes have “In two volumes”. Later half brown morocco on marbled boards. Flat spine divided into six panels by double gilt… €685.00 |
 | BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland (First edition) Dublin: Irish Press, 1949. First edition. Large post octavo. pp. [xii], 228. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Minor wear to binding. A good copy. Rare First Editions of Tom Barry’s Guerilla Days in Ireland are highly sought after by collectors of Irish history and military literature. First published… €150.00 |
 | BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland (Signed first edition by Tom Barry in rare dust-jacket) Dublin: Irish Press Limited, 1949. First edition. Octavo. pp. 228. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with sixteen photographic plates and two folding maps. A particularly desirable association copy, inscribed by Tom Barry on the front free endpaper: “Cork. 11.9.1954. On the… €875.00 |
 | BARRY, Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland. Trallee: The Kerry Man: Irish Press, 1949. Paperback. pp. 190. A good copy. Tom Barry was born in the west of the ‘Rebel County’ in 1897. During the First World War he served with the British Army in Mesopotamia. On returning to Ireland in 1919 he became a prominent member of… €50.00 |
 | BÉASLAÍ, Piaras: Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses… €95.00 |
 | BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations. Two volumes. Dublin, The Phoenix Publishing Co. Ltd., 1926. Second edition. Coloured frontispieces to both volumes. (1) xv, 458, (2) vii, 484 pp. Bound in original green cloth with medallion portrait of Collins in gilt on each volume. A very good set. [L1 5C] €475.00 |
 | BEASLAI, Piaras. Michael Collins Soldier and Statesman (Inscribed by Richard Mulcahy) With portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. First edition. pp. xii, 430. Green cloth, titled in black. Signed presentation copy from Risteárd Ua Maolchatha to Alice, dated Nodlaig / 1937. A near fine copy. Presentation copy inscribed by General Richard Mulcahy (Risteárd Ua Maolchatha) to Alice… €975.00 |
 | BEHAN, Brendan. Borstal Boy (First Edition) Portrait frontispiece. London: Hutchinson, 1958. First edition. pp. 343. Mauve cloth. A very good copy in dustjackey. Borstal Boy’ records Behan’s experiences from the day of his arrest in Liverpool as a sixteen-year-old volunteer for the I.R.A., his imprisonment, trial, remand to Borstal Institution, and final release. His thoughts, his… €250.00 |
 | BENNETT, Tony. The Good Life. (Signed copy) New York: Pocket Books, 1988. pp. 312. Octavo. Illustrated first edition. Black boards with title in white on spine. Crease to tale of spine, otherwise a good copy. Previous owners signatures on front endpapers. Signed by Tony Bennett on title-page. [WR] €125.00 |
 | BEST, George. Blessed: The Autobiography. (Signed Limited Edition) London: Ebury Press, 2001. First edition, special limited edition, signed by George Best on the half-title. Royal 8vo. pp. 374. Bound in full black morocco leather, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A fine copy, housed in the publisher’s large presentation box, with the original folding illustrated biography and… €675.00 |
 | BEST, George. Scoring at half-time: Adventures on and off the Pitch (SIGNED COPY) Published by Ebury Press, 2003. Illustrated. pp. 329. First edition. Slight mark on title-page as pictured, otherwise a very fine copy. Signed on title-page by George Best. Signed copies of Scoring at Half-Time by George Best hold special appeal for football fans and memorabilia collectors. Published in 2003, this autobiography… €275.00 |
 | BINCHY, Maeve. Maeve’s Diary: From Maeve Binchy’s column in the ‘Irish Times.’ Dublin: Published by Irish Times Ltd, 1979. First edition. Octavo. pp. 118. Pictorial wrappers. Ex libris Dalgan Park with shelf number. A fine copy. Anne Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal… €50.00 |
 | BONO. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story [Signed by Bono] London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022. Illustrated. 8vo. pp. 557. Yellow buckram hardback, fine in fine ductjacket. Signed by Bono on title page. €475.00 |
 | BOURDAIN, Anthony. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook. (Signed by the Author.) New York: Harper Collins, 2010. First edition, first print. Royal Octavo. pp. 218. A very good copy in fine dustjacket. Signed by the author on the title page Anthony Bourdain (without dedication). [WR AL] €575.00 |
 | BOURDAIN, Anthony. The Bourdian Box Set. Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw Signed by Anthony Bourdain. New York: ECCO & Harper Collins, 2010. 8vo. pp. 281 and 310. Both volumes in fine conditrion with fine dustjackets. “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (2000) and “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook” (2010) are two influential books by… €650.00 |
 | Boylan, Seán. Hayes, Liam (Ed.) The Boylan Years. One Man – One Team – Twenty Years (Inscribed Presentation Copy) Lucan: Carr and Hayes (Sports Business and Entertainment Ltd.), 2002. First Edition. pp [vi], 429. Green cloth, gilt title on spine. Pictorial dust jacket showing Seán Boylan in Meath colours; lightly rubbed. A very good, clean copy. Signed and dated by Seán Boylan on the title-page: “Great sporting memories touched… €195.00 |
 | BOYLAN, Seán. The Will to Win (Signed by Sean Boylan) The Autobiography as told to John Quinn. Dublin: The O’Brien Press, [2005]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 269, with photographic plates. Green cloth, titled in yellow on spine. A very good, clean copy; edges lightly toned as usual; in a bright pictorial dust jacket showing minimal handling marks. Signed by Seán… €95.00 |
 | BREEN, Dan. My Fight for Irish Freedom. With an Introduction by Joseph McGarrity (Philadelphia). Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1944 Edition. Small octavo. pp. 320. Contemporary publisher’s green cloth-backed boards, title in black on spine. Some light spotting to endpapers and occasional foxing, boards a little marked and rubbed, but a sound and attractive copy of this… €75.00 |
 | BREEN, Dan. My Fight for Irish Freedom. With an introduction by Joseph McGarrity (Philadelphia). Illustrated. 914 Tralee: Anvil Books, n.d. (c.1964). pp. 192. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. Dan Breen (1894-1969) born near Soloheadbeg County Tipperary, worked as a plasterer and later as a linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Joined the Irish volunteers in 1914, and later Quartermaster Third Tipperary… €45.00 |
 | BROWN, Christy. Down All The Days (First Edition) London: Published by World Books, 1970. First edition. pp. 266. Brown papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. A poignant autobiographical novel that captures the struggles and triumphs of a young boy with cerebral palsy growing up in Dublin. The narrative… €275.00 |
 | BROWN, Christy. My Left Foot. Rare First Edition. With a foreword and epilogue by Dr. Robert Collis. London: Secker and Warburg. 1954. Illustrated. First edition. pp. 192. Maroon cloth, title in silver font on spine. Wear to dust-jacket. Otherwise a very good copy. This inspiring work, on which Jim Sheridan’s recent film is based, shows how the human… €275.00 |
 | BUKOWSKI, Charles & CHERKOVSKI, Neeli. Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski [Proof Copy: Signed by Bukowski and Cherkovski] New York: Random House, 1991. pp. 321. Proof copy with annotations throughout by the author. Seventy-year-old cult figure Charles Bukowski, author of Post Office , Barfly: The Movie and Septuagenarian Stew , is notorious for living the hard-drinking, womanizing, sordid L.A. life depicted in his prose and poetry. In this… €675.00 |
 | BUKOWSKI, Charles; COONEY, Seamus (Editor). Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960–1970 (Signed limited edition) California: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Limited edition. pp. 372. Bound in publisher’s yellow cloth with illustrated paper boards and spine label. Limited edition, number 258 of 600 copies. A Fine copy of Bukowski’s letters from the 1960s, as his writing career took off. Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960–1970… €575.00 |
 | Bunting, Edward. The Ancient Music of Ireland. An edition comprising the three collections by Edward Bunting originally published in 1796, 1809 and 1840. Dublin: Waltons’ Piano and Musical Instrument Galleries (Publications Dept.) Ltd., North Frederick Street, 1969. .pp. approx. 100+. Musical notation throughout. Publisher’s green cloth, title in red to spine, in the original illustrated dust jacket. A good copy in the original dust jacket, the jacket showing wear and small tears to… €295.00 |
 | BURGHCLERE, Lady. The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde 1610-1688. With portraits and illustrations. In two volumes. London: Murray, 1912. pp. (1) xv, 534, (2) vii, 458. Reddish brown cloth, title and arms of the Dukes of Ormond in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Some minor spotting to edges. Top edge gilt. Some spotting to foredge. A very good set… €125.00 |
 | BUSBY, Matt: Soccer at the Top: My life in Football [Signed by Matt Busby] London: Weidenfeld and Nicolas, 1973. pp. First edition. pp. 178. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by Sir Matt Busby on the title page. [WR] €435.00 |
 | BUTLER, Matthew. De Valera. A biographical sketch. Preface by Alan Downey. Waterford: Waterford News, 1932. Crown octavo. pp. 40, 4 (adverts). Pictorial wrappers. Staples a trifle rusty. A very good copy. Extremely rare. No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. Photo of De Valera after Lafayette on upper cover. [L4 10C] €375.00 |
 | BYRNE, Fanny. Ed. by. Memoirs of Miles Byrne Chef de Bataillon in the Service of France (First edition) Three volumes. Paris & New York: Gustave Bossange, 1863. Large post octavo. First edition. pp. (1) 391, 1 (2) 242, 1 (3) 356. Contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth boards, title and volume number in gilt on contrasting red and brown morocco labels in second and third panels of elaborately… €1,450.00 |
 | BYRNE, Gay. The Time of my Life. An Autobiography (Signed and inscribed by Gay Byrne) DublinL : Gill & McMillan ltd, 1989. First edition. Illustrated. Octavo. pp. 255. Black buckram. Title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust-jacket. [L3 6E] €75.00 |
 | CAMPBELL, Rev. W.G. ‘The Apostle of Kerry’ or, The Life of Rev. Charles Graham who had for many years, as his associate on The Irish General Mission the Celebrated Gideon Ouseley. Also Four Appendices containing Mr. Graham’s sermons, an Irish hymn, etc. Dublin: Moffat, 1868. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. xxvii, 324. Modern half purple morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco letterpieces on spine. Original green blind-stamped cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers. All… €385.00 |
 | CARTY, Francis. Legion of the Rearguard. (Signed by the Author) London: J.M. Dent, 1936. Second edition. pp. [vii], 272. Blue cloth, title in black on spine. Signed by the author on front endpaper. A very good copy in rare frayed pictorial dust jacket. Rare. An historical novel set in Ireland during the Civil War that followed the signing of the… €275.00 |
 | CASEMENT, Roger, Casement Slanders Refuted. Áth Cliath: Nuachtáin Teoranta, n.d. (1966). Crown octavo. pp. 44. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Frayed at edges. A very good copy. The contents includes: Cupla Focal, by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin; Casement’s Capture and its Aftermath, by Séamus Ó Cléirigh; Relevant Quotations, by Eoin Ó Máille. [L4 10C] €125.00 |
 | CASEMENT, Roger. I, Roger Casement. 50th Anniversary of the Irish Rebellion 1916-1966. A Dramatic Biography with the voice of Frank O’Dwyer. Long Playing Record. In fine condition in original sleeve with portrait of Casement against the Irish Tricolour. Side One: Casement was born in Sandycove, County Dublin, the son of a British officer. He went to live with his uncle in Ballymena, County Antrim, at an early age and was educated at the… €275.00 |
 | CASH, Johnny. Man in Black (Signed first edition) Illustrated. Michigan: Zondervan, 1975. First edition. Demy octavo. pp. 244. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Signed by Johnny Cash on titlepage. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with mylar cover. With made-made clack solander box. So many facts have come down in exaggerated form or out of context… €950.00 |