Literature

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. Quarto. pp. v, 732. Full blue/green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt; moiré-silk endpapers, cream and green endbands, gold silk marker. All edges gilt. A fine copy. In a 1920 letter Joyce gives some idea of what he’s attempting in ‘Ulysses’. It is an epic “of the human body as well as […]

New Jersey: Published by Ecco Press, 1996. pp. 93. Limited edition 149 of 350. It is McCarthy’s first screenplay and his first historical work, predating his historical novel, Blood Meridian, by almost a decade. [WR]  

New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2006. Square octavo. pp. [x], 177. Publisher’s original blue boards titled in silver on upper cover and spine, with wraparound water-motif design. A fine copy. Boldly signed by David Lynch in blue ink on the half-title. This beautifully produced volume presents filmmaker David Lynch’s reflections on creativity, Transcendental […]

Dublin, Fergus O’Connor, circa 1918. Octavo. Single printed sheet folded (pp. 8). A very good unopened copy of this scarce early work by a leading Irish dramatist of the 20th Century. Sean O’Casey (1880-1964), playwright, born in Dublin into a working class family and christened John Casey. His father’s death in 1886 plunged the family […]

London: Faber, New York: Viking, 1939. First edition, first impression. pp. [viii], 628. Original red cloth, lettering to spine in gilt. A touch of foxing to endpapers; a near fine copy in like dust jacket. Top edge yellow. A remarkably attractive bright and fresh copy in price un-clipped near fine dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon […]

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression. Octavo. pp. [8], 254. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, skeletal hand blocked in blind to upper board. In the original Richard Chopping illustrated dust jacket, priced 15s. net to the front flap. A clean and well-preserved copy. Light toning to the page edges, as often […]

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, first impression. Octavo. pp. [8], 252. Original black cloth, silver eye blocked to the upper board, silver lettering to spine. In the original Richard Chopping illustrated dust jacket. The cloth remains clean and bright with the silver eye motif and spine lettering fresh. Internally crisp and clean with only […]

Bantam Books, New York, 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by George R. R. Martin on the title page. A fine copy in the original dust jacket. A Game of Thrones is the landmark debut novel in George R. R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire series, first published in 1996. The […]

Dublin: King Farouk, 1987. Large post octavo. First edition, first impression. pp. [iv], 144. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by Roddy Doyle on half-title. A fine copy. Very scarce. The true first edition published by the author who couldn’t find a publisher. The Heinemann edition appeared a year later. This is the story of The Commitments, a band with […]

Áth Cliath: Ar n-a chur amach do M.H. Gill agus a Mhac, 1911. Crown octavo. pp. [vi], 106. Maroon ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A near fine copy. Scarce. [L3 3C]

4to. pp. [i], 2–14, [30] advertisements (44 pp. in total), illustrated with a photographic portrait of Alfred Perceval Graves, original printed pictorial wrappers designed in the Celtic Revival style by Sághra Mhic Threasa, stapled as issued. Published to commemorate the twenty-first anniversary of the Irish Literary Society of London, founded in 1892 by leading figures […]

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.  4to. pp. xxxi, 272. Profusely illustrated throughout with J.R.R. Tolkien’s own drawings, paintings and maps, including the large folding map at rear. Original quarter green cloth over black cloth boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and upper board, all edges gilt, housed in the publisher’s green cloth slipcase with gilt […]

Original black-and-white photographic portrait (90 v 145mm) of Samuel Beckett, boldly signed in blue ink across the lower white margin. A striking head-and-shoulders image of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, novelist and poet, whose sparse, existential works, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, transformed twentieth-century literature and theatre. Beckett was famously reserved […]

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., [c.1909]. Quarto. pp. [24] printed on rectos only, illustrated throughout in colour. Original publisher’s pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Printed in Holland. Rear board with publisher’s advertisement for Routledge’s One Syllable Series. Light age-toning and occasional marks to boards, a little rubbing to extremities, internally remarkably fresh with […]

Being a Series of Humorous Epistles from Tague O’Flannigan, Ballinamuck, to Mike Collins, Renfrewshire. New and enlarged edition. Glasgow, 1903. pp. 152. Red cloth, titled in gilt and black, illustration inset on upper cover. Wear to top of spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. Loeber O8/3. Comic epistolary fiction set in County Tipperary in the […]

ATTRACTIVE IRISH LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PAIRING New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Octavo. First edition. pp. viii, [2], 166. Publisher’s green cloth, title in brown on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. One coloured frontispiece and a suite of black-and-white drawings by Jack B. Yeats, many full-page, perfectly […]

Dublin and London: Maunsel, 1917. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. 32. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Lloyd George’s attempt to secure a final settlement of the demand for Home Rule brought about The Irish Convention (July 1917 – August 1918). As the discussions progressed, the southern unionists and a section of the nationalists coalesced […]

Second Series. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. First edition. Small quarto. pp. 53. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Scarce. One of the earliest dramatic treatments of the Deirdre legend produced during the Irish Literary Revival, A.E.’s Deirdre reflects the movement’s fascination with the heroic literature of ancient Ireland and its search for a distinctly national […]

Edited by Thomas Brown, The Younger, author of the Twopenny Post-Bag. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. First edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 168. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets and gilt roll, an inner octagonal blind-stamped panel with gilt circles at each corner; board edges and turn-ins […]

Frontispiece. London: Macmillan, 1945. First edition. Octavo. pp. [v], 340. Grey buckram, titled in gilt. Tipped on to front free endpaper is an autograph letter signed from Sean O’Casey to Flann Campbell. Loosely inserted is a fine photograph of O’Casey. A very good copy in price-clipped and frayed dust jacket. Ayling & Durkan A 24. […]

Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 305. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine, blue silk marker ribbon. Presentation copy, signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper: “Seamus Heaney / 6 April 2012. ”A fine copy. A particularly attractive anthology of contemporary Irish poetry in which twenty-two of […]

London: Longmans, 1926. First edition. Quarto. pp. xi, 64, 12 (drawings). Quarter linen on grey papered boards, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 256 numbered copies. Minor wear to extremities. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Rare. JISC with 9 locations only. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), poet, dramatist, suffragist, […]

Tiomargadh ar a logainmneacha agus ar sheanchas a ghabhann leo san mar aon le sloinnte agus ainmneacha daoine / An Seabhac [Pádraig Ó Siochhfhradha] a shaothruigh. Four parts in one volume. Baile Átha Cliath: Béaloideachais, 1938-39. pp. xxiii, [1], 314, [1], xxii,-xxiii. Printed wrappers. Signed presentation inscription from An Seabhac to Ailbhe Ó Monacháin (1889-1967), […]

London: Macmillan, 1946. First edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 163. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription by the author on front free endpaper: “Inscribed to / Patricia & Richard Ahearne / by / Sean O’Casey / With all good wishes. / Devon, 1946.” A very good copy. A scarce presentation copy of O’Casey’s […]