 | BEHAN, Brendan: Brendan Behan’s Island An Irish Sketch-book. With drawings by Paul Hogarth (Signed by Behan and Hogarth) Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1962. First edition. pp. 192. Green and brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and illustrator on title page. First published in 1962, Brendan Behan’s Island is a vivid, humorous, and affectionate portrait of Ireland and its people, captured through […] €650.00 |
 | 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 associations, his reading, and his […] €250.00 |
 | BEHAN, Brendan. The Hostage [First Edition] London: Methuen, 1958. Crown octavo. First edition. pp. vi, 92. Black cloth, titled in green. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. In 1958, Behan’s play in the Irish language ‘An Giall’ had its debut at Dublin’s Damer Theatre. Later, ‘The Hostage,’ Behan’s English-language adaptation of ‘An Giall’, met with great success internationally. [L3 […] €150.00 |
 | BEHAN, Brendan. The Quare Fellow (With signed Abbey Theatre programme tipped-in) London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956. pp. 86. Octavo. Original publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in the original pictorial dust-jacket (as issued). A highly desirable association copy of Behan’s first major theatrical success, with an original clipped Abbey Theatre programme, Dublin, temporarily playing at The Queen’s Theatre, advertising The Plough and the Stars […] €575.00 |
 | Who Killed Brendan Behan? By “Feicreanach.” [Place of publication or publisher not identified]. Reprinted from the “Irish Democrat,” May 1964. pp. 12. Stapled wrappers. Portrait of Behan on upper cover. A very good copy. [File B] €85.00 |
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