Swift the Tory Propagandist
The Examiner. Or, Remarks Upon Papers and Occurrences
[Dublin: C. Carter], 14 August 1710-15 August 1711. Dublin reprint edition. Swift the Tory Propagandist. The complete first... Read More
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Creatures.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. First editon, Deluxe Issue, Number 202 of 300 copies, signed by the author and artist. Read More
Price: $250
A "Delightful Burlesque" Gothic Triple-Decker
The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader.
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square; and sold by George Goldie, Edinburgh, and John, 1813. First edition. A "Delightful Burlesque" Gothic Triple-Decker. A Gothic parody much appreciated by the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY (1818), who wrote in a letter of March 2, 1814: "I finished The Heroine... Read More
Price: $3,000
Presentation copy
En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes.
[Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [1986]. Presentation copy. A lovely association copy to a significant Beckett collaborator in the last years of his life. The presentation reads: "For Rick with love from Sam Sept 88". Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett's lasting fame. No matter that he'd been... Read More
Price: $3,000
Author's presentation copy & fine association
Krapp's Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces.
New York: Grove Press, 1960. Evergreen edition. Author's presentation copy & fine association. Beckett's inscription reads: "for Teresita with love from Sam London, 1.3.84". A one act play, with nothing but the title character and a tape recorder on stage, Krapp's Last Tape was written for the Irish actor Patrick Magee... Read More
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Irish Strategies. Two stories ... adapted into English by Anthony Kerrigan and into Irish by Diarmaid o Suilleabhain ... Eight...
Dublin: Dolmen Press. Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, 1975. First edition Number 291 of 350 copies signed by translators Anthony Kerrigan & Diarmaid O Suilleabhain and illustrator Bernard Childs; REVIEW COPY, with slip affixed to flyleaf. Includes “Theme of Traitor and Hero” and “The Form of the... Read More
Price: $350
An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports... Read More
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At Night all Cats are Gray and other stories.
[London]: Macgibbon & Kee [9 Grape Street WC2], [1966]. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
The Earth Breath and Other Poems by A.E.
New York & London: Published by John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, (August, 1897). First edition. Printed for John Lane by Will Bradley, Springfield, Mass. Read More
Price: $250
IRISH SHENANIGANS
Broadside: Academy of Music. J.B. Booth of Boston Theatre. Monday Night, Dec. 21st, 1868, The Great Irish Drama, "Arrah Na...
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, 1868. IRISH SHENANIGANS. Read More
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Byrne on Ireland
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Donn Byrne") of his essay:[IRELAND], THE ROCK WHENCE I WAS HEWN.
St. Brieuc, Bretagne: August 1, 1926. Byrne on Ireland. Eventually published posthumously by Sampson Low Marston in 1929, as IRELAND, THE ROCK WHENCE I WAS HEWN (the manuscript itself does not include "Ireland" in the title) it is one of the most important and personal works by the Irish-American Byrne... Read More
Price: $3,000
Donn Byrne Manuscript
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Donn Byrne") of his second novel, THE FOOLISH MATRONS.
Published New York: Harper's, 1920; ms dated at end of "New York, June 18, 1920." Donn Byrne Manuscript. Second novel by the Irish-American Byrne, who died tragically in 1928. Byrne, although born in Brooklyn of Irish parents, grew up in Ireland and identified himself strongly with his mother country, even... Read More
Price: $3,500
Illustrated by Phiz
Valentine M'Clutchy [McClutchy], The Irish Agent; or, The Chronicles of Castle Cumber.
Dublin: James Duffy, 1848. Illustrated edition (first published in three volumes in 184, dated 1845; with illustrations by Phiz in 1847). Illustrated by Phiz. Valentine M’Clutchy is “a massive, rambling phantasmagoria of a novel … throughly Dickensian in many ways” — Robert Lee Wolff. Read More
Price: $150
Large Paper in Signed Mullen Binding
The Earl of Castlehaven's Review; Or, His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars. with Lord Anglesey's...
Dublin: Printed for George Mullens, Temple-Bar, 1815. Large Paper Copy. "The present very limited impression of Lord Castlehaven's Memoirs-is taken from the edition of 1684." Large Paper in Signed Mullen Binding. Read More
Price: $4,500
The Vengeance of Fionn.
Dublin: Maunsel and Co, 1917. First edition of the author's first book. Hugh Martin's copy. Read More
Price: $200
Joesph Conrad. An Appreciation.
London: R. Lahr, 68 Red Lion Street, (1930). First edition. Blue Moon Booklets No. 1. Printed by D. White. Read More
Price: $75
Salathiel. A Story of the Past, The Present, and the Future.
Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1842. Later (third?) American edition (first published in 1828 in London and New York). Frequently reprinted novel by this Irish-born cleric (1780-1860). "An impressive example of Gothic romance, on the old theme of the Wandering Jew, embellished with oriental scenery and oriental grandiloquence." (Baker). Read More
Price: $150
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A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series].
Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present... Read More
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With an ALS from Elizabeth Yeats
Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An Extract from a Record Made by His Pupils: And a Play in...
Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1931. First edition, one of 450 copies. With an ALS from Elizabeth Yeats. With an Autograph Letter, signed (“E. Yeats”), by Elizabeth Yeats to civil rights activist and lawyer Arthur B. Spingarn. 2 pp. pen and ink on Cuala Industries stationery, original envelope. Dublin: 19... Read More
Price: $950
Irish Protestant Letters. etc., etc...also, An Address on Ireland the Cradle of Europeon Literature. By Rev. J.B. Finlay...to which are...
New York: De Witt & Davenport, Publisher, 1855. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Presentation inscription
A Journey.
London: MacDonald & Co, [1944]. First Edition, no. 90 of 250 copies on handmade paper, numbered initialled by the Author (“D”). Presentation inscription. Verse narrative of travels through Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, during which Lord and Lady Dunsany were forced to flee Greece ahead of the invading Nazis. Gracefully... Read More
Price: $175
Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale. In Three Volumes.
London: Printed for R. Hunter ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-row, 1817. First edition. Read More
Price: $750
Beautifully bound
Tales of Fashionable Life, by Miss Edgeworth ... in Three Volumes.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1809. First edition. Beautifully bound. Fine set of these important early nineteenth-century novels by the Irish counterpart of Jane Austen. They include: (1) Ennui; (2) Almeria, Madame de Fleury, and The Dun; (3) Manoeuvring. "Ennui had a considerable influence on Walter Scott and later Turgenev. Read More
Price: $900