Search Results: Titles starting with C from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1987. First Edition. Coisceim, 1987. 21.6cm x 14.4cm. 83 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for Example: Derry O'Sullivan, poet from Bantry in County Cork/ Degree from University College Cork/ He lived in Paris from 1969/ Has two children with his wife Jean/ He is a lecturer in English in Sorbonne University, and completed his doctorate on Yeats.

1942. 11 volumes. London, The Cyclists' Touring Club, 1942 - 1974. 16.3 cm x 22.7 cm - 18.5 cm x 25 cm. Circa 3,500 pages. 10 volumes of the C.T.C Gazette total circa 3,300 pages and 244 pages for the single volume of the Cycletouring Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on either spine or front boards. Some minor staining to a few pages in the volume for 1944. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interiors lightly tanned and clean throughout. All bindings firm and square. Includes, for example, the following regular features: Editorial Opinions / Country Lore for Cyclists / Our Readers in Council / A Roadfarer's Log-Book / Notes from a Nomad / Official Notices, News, Bulletins, Reports etc / Candidates for Membership etc. Selected non-repeating articles include: E.J Fasham, 'Claerwen Valley,' (Vol.65, No.3, 1946) / Norman Teasdale, 'Black Mountain Magic,' (Vol.65, No.6, 1946) / Nevull Whall, 'In Switzerland Once More,'… Read More

2012. Dublin, CA Design, 2012. 32,5 x 28 cm. Unpaginated. Approximately 100 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. A love of furniture design and a combined background in interiors, business and marketing gave us the confidence to launch CA Design in 2012. We realised that there was a niche in the market for affordable, design focused furniture, with a particular emphasis on pieces inspired by 20th Century design classics. After extensive traveling and research, we feel that we have come up with a carefully edited collection of stylish, sophisticated furniture. In the 2 years since the idea for CA Design was hatched, we have seen our product base broaden to include home accessories and modern original furniture designs. We are excited to tell you we have just opened our first flagship store on exclusive Dunville avenue, Ranelagh. We are open Tuesday-Friday 9.30am-5.30pm and Saturdays from 10am-5pm. While we have been both encouraged and amazed by the… Read More

1970. Munchen, Jugend und Volk Verlagsgesellschaft, 1970. 21 cm x 22 cm. 104 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Ara Kleinkunst 1931 - 38 / Kabarett Im Hitlerreich / Caberet Zwischen Stabilisierung und Protest etc.

1974. Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1974. 22 cm. 98 pages with illustrations. Softcover. Cover in poor condition. Interior very good with some markings in red ballpen. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper.

1851. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 33.7 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. (Wikipedia) The most important project John Tallis undertook, was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here, was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are… Read More

1974. Unveränderter Nachdruck der 3.Auflage von 1922. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1974. 21.3cm x 14.2cm. XIV, 632 Seiten. Original Hardcover. Sehr guter Zustand. Namenszug des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Absolut textsauber. KEINE Anstreichungen. Enthält u.a. die folgenden Aufsätze: Das Principat des Pompejus - Emporkommen und Persönlichkeit des Pompejus / Caesars Conculat / Ciceros Verbannung / Die Konferenz von Luca und ihre Folgen / Pompejus und die Anarchie / Der Bruch zwischen Pompejus und Caesar / Eröffnung und Verlauf des Bürgerkriegs / Caesars Monarchie / Caesar bei den neueren Historikern / Persönlichkeit und Ziele Caesars / Caesars Machtmittel und Anhänger / Caesar und die Parteien / Sallusts zweite Schrift an Caesar / Caesars Gesetzgebung im Jahre 46 / Rom während des spanischen Kriegs - Caesar und Cicero - Die Schriften über Cato - Caesars Rückkehr aus Spanien - Ehrungen und Attentatspläne. Cicero und Brutus / Caesars Ziele - Die absolute Monarchie /… Read More

2010. London, Abacus, 2010. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 213 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Why I Never Visited Moscow / The Pillbox Effect / Who's Afraid of Tito's Wife? etc.

1982. Paris, Sorbonne, 1982. 8°. 144 pages. Softcover / Broché. Tres bon état.

1976. Corcaigh agus Baile Átha Cliath, Cló Mercier, 1976. Octavo. 160 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1939. First gaelic edition of "Castle Conquer". Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig an tSoláthair, 1939. (8º). 435 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare ! Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival. Colum was born Patrick Columb in a County Longford workhouse, where his father worked. He was the first of eight children born to Patrick and Susan Columb. When the father lost his job in 1889, he moved to the United States to participate in the Colorado gold rush. Padraic and his mother and siblings remained in Ireland. When the father returned in 1892, the family moved to Glasthule, near Dublin, where his father was employed as… Read More

1869. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1869. Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). CII, 604 pages. Hardcover / Original, contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Binding slightly rubbed. Overall firm, strong and in very good condition. Name of G.B.O'Connor on titlepage in ink. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted. Fantastic original source with lengthy Introduction over 100 pages in which a summary of events are given about the situation in Munster and the general State of Ireand at "Mary's accession": "On the death of Edward VI. in 1553, Sir Thomas Cusack, chancellor, and Gerald Aylmer, were appointed Lord Justices in Ireland, and continued to hold office until the arrival in Dalkey of the new Deputy, Sir Anthony Saintlegger, who succeeded Sir James Croft on the 19th of November 1553. Of the State of Ireland at Mary's accession, the report of Cusack, noticed in the preface of the last Volume, gives the most trustworthy and… Read More

1735. Nürnberg, Homann, [c.1735]. Original hand-coloured engraving, with the Cartographer showing California as an Island. Plate Size: 57 cm x 48.5 cm. Sheet Size: 60.5 cm x 51.7 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Some faint trace of browning to upper corners of sheet. Very minor tears to edges at centre-fold. A breath-taking illustration of a geographical clock by Zacharias Landteck, who manufactured it in Nuremberg in the early 18th Century. Landteck's remarkable clock demonstrated the use of time to determine longitude, a recurring problem for navigators and cartographers in the 18th and earlier centuries that was ultimately solved by John Harrison's marine clocks in the 1730s. Astronomical clock showing the northern hemisphere in day and night during the course of sun and earth for 24 hours. The German text to the left and right of clock explains the astronomical connections. It is surrounded by the Zodiac symbols and their corresponding calendar months. At the… Read More

1992. First English language edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. 23 cm. 248 pages. Illustrations in black and white, including photograph of author on back of dustjacket. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition first english langauge edition with only very minor signs of external wear. 'Gdansk 1989. A polish woman, a guilding specialist, meets a German man, a professor in art history. A walk together in a graveyard gives rise to an ambition to establish a Cemetery of Reconciliation as a mark of the times and their spirit of unity... The satire is sharp, the analysis precise, and Grass is still expert in drawing out the painful comedy of human behaviour and the pitfalls that await good intentions'. ([-The New Yorker] Amazon).

1981. Cork, Cork County Library Committee, 1981. Octavo. 22 pages. Original Softcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. James Joseph Callanan, Irish poet, was born in Cork city in 1795, died 19 September 1829 at the Hospital of São José, Lisbon, Portugal. He studied at Maynooth for the priesthood but left in 1816 after determining he had no vocation. He returned to Cork to become a tutor, though he subsequently entered Trinity College, Dublin, on an aborted idea of legal studies. With his financial resources exhausted, he enlisted in the 18th Royal Irish but was bought out by some friends. In 1823 he was for a few months an assistant as the school of a Doctor Maginn in the city. Maginn introduced him to Blackwood's Magazine to which Callanan became a contributor, as well as to other magazines. According to the 1878 Compendium of Irish Biography. "During six years, and up to 1829, he spent most of his time in rambling through the country, collecting old… Read More

1815. London, E.Williams, 1815. Octavo. VIII, 3536, (1) pages with 10 illustrations of which 9 are handcoloured. Original Hardcover / Vintage 19th century Bayntun Binding (Bayntun-Riviere,Bath). In full red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Boards a little shaky. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes the Translation of Higden's Description of Wales / Of Welsh Customs / Of Druidism [ in Wales ] / Of the Great Druidical Temple in Britany / Of Druidic Circles / Of Stone Pillars / Of Merlin, the supposed Magician / Of King Arthur / Festival of Shrove-Tuesday / Lent / April-day / May-day / Easter / Whitsuntide / Wakes / Hallow-eve / Christmas / Of Welsh Music / Marriage Ceremonies / Of the Corpse-candle / Of Burials / Nature, Manners , Dress, Boldness / Agility / Courage of the Welsh from Giraldus [Gerald of Wales] / Superstitions of the Welsh from Giraldus / Staff of St. Curig / Sacred Bell called Bangu / Sacrilege punished / Of Fairies / The… Read More

1994. Cambridge, F.T. Unwin, 1994. 21cm. 180 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. Includes for example the following chapters: 'Vice Squad'; 'Death at Strawberry Fair'; 'Once, A Jolly Swagman'; 'Old Jim Wooders'; 'Mystery at the Drill Hall'; 'Blazing Headlines' etc.

2002. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 15 x 23 cm. XXXVII, 321 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Joseph Bristow is a professor of English literature at UCLA; he specializes in Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century British Literature, and sexuality studies. He is most known for his books on the history of sexuality, Victorian poetry, and his work as a critic and editor of late Victorian literary texts. (Wikipedia)

2008. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 15 x 23 cm. XVI, 200 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the… Read More

1948. London / New York, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1948. 11 cm x 18 cm. V, 312 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Everyman's Library No. 974]. Includes for example the following essays: On the Lineage of English Literature / On Jargon / Macbeth / The Poetry of Thomas Hardy etc.