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Ranns & Ballads
by O'Kelly, Seumas
Dublin,London: The candle Press, 1918. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print, P.p. 47. True First a limited edition of 450 this being (440) Jack B. Yeats frontis "The Bard on the Bodach". In good original grey boards, quarter linen spine. Stain to lower front corner and wear to top front corners, pages clean, last two uncut, light toning. Complete with the original publisher's errata page..
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£104.11
Culu Ide: The Retreat of Ita Cagney
by Hartnett, Michael
Curragh, Co Kildare, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press, 1975. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Stiff wrappers. Fine unmarked and unread text in a very good plus dust wrapper which has rubbing to front, rear and corners. A Superior copy as normally found in poor condition..
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£78.08
The poets and poetry of Munster: a selection of Irish songs by the poets of the last century
by Mangan (James Clarence)
7 Bedord Row, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1849. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. True first with title page dated 1849, pp. xii, 269 plus 2 page advert. Original green blind stamped cloth. Harp decoration to middle of front board, replicated to the rear board but in green, pale yellow end pages, heavily darkened, bookplate to verso of front board, clean pages and solidly bound, wear and dulling to the spine. Contemporary name to title page. Uncommon..
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£238.59
The Rhetorical Town
by Barry, Sebastian
Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition. Original test printing pages for authors second collection of poems. Near fine copy in stiff uncut pages contained in a contemporary green box which has some wear to cover. Although both a paperback and limited edition were planned only the paperback was eventually produced. Making this possibly a unique copy, certainly no more that a handful would have been produced. SIGNED by...
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£650.70
The Poem-Book of the Gael
by Hull, Eleanor
London, United Kingdom: Chatto, 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Frontis, tissue guard. Octavo. Pp. 370. A true first UK edition in original blue boards decorated in gilt to front cover, gilt to top of text block, deckled edge pages. Dulling and fade to the spine, light wear to edges. Contemporary name and date to front end page. Tight binding, Internally toning and a scattering of spotting to the pages. Uncommon and especially in original binding. .
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£195.21
Portobello Sonnets
by Clifton, Harry
London, Uk: Tuskar Rock Press, 2014. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. In original wrappers no hardcover edition printed. Limited Edition one of 100 copies signed by Harry Clifton to title-page, and dated. [Harry Clifton, 1 March 2014] This is #67..
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£34.70
The Fields of Heaven
by O'Mahony, Nora Tynan
London, United Kingdom: Erskine Macdonald, 1915. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 52 pp. 2 pp Adverts. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no reprint statement to the copyright page, a paperback original. Original yellow decorated wraps, light wear, clean pages, very light spotting, tight binding..
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£30.37
HIGH AND LOW
by Betjeman, John
London, United Kingdom: John Murray, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. 8vo. pp 83. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) limited to 100 copies signed by the author, this is # 28, original white buckram, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Original clear plastic dustwrapper present. .
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£299.32
ON BEN EDAR
by REV. T,J O' Mahony
Dublin, Waterford: M.H. Gill & Son Ltd, 1917. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) Octavo, pp. 72. T,J O'Mahony D.D. D.C.L. Professor of Philosophy to the foreign missionary, College of All Hallows, Dromcondra. Original quarter bound leather, raised bands. marbled end pages. Light spotting in places, tight binding. This collection inspired by HOWTH, Dublin, was Dedicated to his students of 1915 -...
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£151.83
Heritages
by Dawe, Gerald
Isle of Skye, Scotland: aquila, The Wayzgoose Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, First impression (True First) pp [20] a very good copy with fade to the spine, slim chapbook. Signed by the author Gerald Dawe to the title page, also there is a signature of Pat Feeley to the title page. Scarce.
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£43.38
The Voice of Many Waters. A Selection from the Compositions, in Prose and Verse, of the Late Emma Maria De Burgh
by Edited by Her Sister [i.e. Caroline Hunt]
London, United Kingdom: John Farquhar Shaw, 1858. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. First Printing, Pp. vi. 90. Bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with title to front in gilt. Slight dulling to the covers, rubbing to extremities, still tightly bound. Original end pages, light marks to a handful pages and text, gilt to all edges. Extremely uncommon posthumous volume edited by her sister Caroline Hunt and printed privately in London in 1858.
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£342.70
Breathing Spaces
by Brendan Kennelly
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First Edition. First Impression. Octavo. Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle upon Tyne), 1992. 160 pages. Condition: Very Good-. A handful of light dings to edges of cards and minor bumping to corners. The beginnings of a 1cm crease to foot of front card. Spine uncreased.
Collects many of Kennelly's lesser-known early works that were thought unsuitable for his previous selected poems collection A Time for Voices (Bloodaxe, 1990). Several sections... Read more about this item
First Edition. First Impression. Octavo. Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Bloodaxe Books (Newcastle upon Tyne), 1992. 160 pages. Condition: Very Good-. A handful of light dings to edges of cards and minor bumping to corners. The beginnings of a 1cm crease to foot of front card. Spine uncreased.
Collects many of Kennelly's lesser-known early works that were thought unsuitable for his previous selected poems collection A Time for Voices (Bloodaxe, 1990). Several sections... Read more about this item
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£8.68
THE SPHERE OF BIRDS
by Berry, Ciaran
Oldcastle,Co Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books/Press, 2008. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. First and only printing new in a pristine Dust Jacket. Signed by Ciaran Berry to the title page. [All the best, Ciaran Berry].
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£26.03
Thumb’s Width
by John Redmond
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First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo, 216 x 135 x 6. Carcanet Books, 2001. 96 pp. Condition: Near Fine.
First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo, 216 x 135 x 6. Carcanet Books, 2001. 96 pp. Condition: Near Fine.
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£8.68
CALLING CARDS
by Fallon, Peter (Paul Muldoon and Doireann Ni Ghriofa)
Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co Meath: The Gallery Press, 2018. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, First Print. First hardcover edition , a fine as new copy in a fine s new jacket..
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£34.70
Choice Rogha
by Egan, Desmond [ Michael Hartnett ]
Co Kildare, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published as a Limited Edition of 50 copies. Signed and slipcased edition of Michael Hartnett's translations into Irish of his choice of the poems of Desmond Egan. With photographic frontis of Desmond Egan and Michael Hartnett, 6 page memoir preceding the main text which is in Irish and English. Signed and numbered by Desmond Egan to the limitation page..
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£169.18
Forty North Fifty West
by MILNE, Ewart
Dublin,Ireland: The Gayfield Press, 1938. Book. Illus. by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 54. Stiff white wrappers in pictorial dust jacket. Issued in an edition of 250 copies numbered copies of which the first fifty were numbered and signed by the author and artist. This is a presentation copy signed by the illustrator Cecil Ffrench Salkeld to Leslie Owen Baxter who was an Irish illustrator also associated with the Gayfiekd Press....
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£255.94
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
by Betjeman, John
London, United Kingdom: John Murray, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. 8vo. pp 81. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) limited to 100 copies signed by the author, this is # 92, original red buckram, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, complete with the original marbled slipcase A collectors copy..
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£255.94
Selected Poems
by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
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First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo. Hardcover. Pp 119. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Very slight fading to spine of dust jacket.
Contains work from Acts and Moments, Site of Ambush, The Rose-Geranium, The Magdalene Sermon, and The Girl who Married the Reindeer.
First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo. Hardcover. Pp 119. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Very slight fading to spine of dust jacket.
Contains work from Acts and Moments, Site of Ambush, The Rose-Geranium, The Magdalene Sermon, and The Girl who Married the Reindeer.
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£24.29
Names and Addresses
by Muldoon, Paul
Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. Pp 16. Near fine, unread copy in original glossy wrappers. SIGNED by Paul Muldoon to the title page..
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£78.08
Era 1: Spring 1974 First Issue
by Desmond Egan (editor) Michael Hartnett, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Desmond O'Grady
Dublin, Ireland: Goldsmith Press, 1974. Book. Illus. by Piroska Szanto, Brian Bourke. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. First issue published in 1974 containing illustrations by Brian Bourke and poetry from Michael Hartnett, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Desmond O'Grady, Desmond Egan and others. A fine copy..
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£26.03
The Last Star (Poems)
by O'Donnell, J. R
Dublin, Ireland: Ballinree Press, 2018. Book. New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition published in a limited run or 200 signed copies. xii, 39 Pp. Original pictorial card covers enclosed in a pictorial wrap around dust jacket. (A collection of 36 poems on a wide range of topics including: Seán Ó Riada at the Gaiety Theatre, a kestrel mobbed by rooks, and a meditation on the social position of the clergy in mid-twentieth...
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£13.01
The Nowhere Birds
by O'Reilly, Caitriona
Northumberland, United Kingdom: Bloodaxe Books, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. A near Fine unread copy in stiff wrapper covers, a paperback original no hardcover edition was published. Signed by Catriona O'Reilly to the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip attached to front end page. Uncommon first collection.
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£43.38
Emily Hickey. Poet, Essayist - Pilgrim. A Memoir
by Enid Dinnis [ Emily Hickey ]
London, Uk: Harding and More Ltd, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. pp. 127. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) limited to 500 copies this is number 7. The book is very good with rubbing and fade at the spine to the original boards, marks to boards, clean text and tight binding. .
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£34.70
THE COLLECTED POEMS AND VERSES of MAURICE WALSH
by Walsh, Maurice (Eward Judje)
Listowel, Kerry: North Kerry Literary Trust, 2003. Book. Illus. by Manus Walsh. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) a paperback original. Illustrated by Manus Walsh..
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£34.70
