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Princeton . 2006. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691127194. 320 pages. hardcover. keywords: Ireland History Jewish. FROM THE PUBLISHER - James Joyce's Leopold Bloom - the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother - may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city's bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pronounced. In Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce, a leading economic historian tells the real story of how Jewish Ireland - and Dublin's Little Jerusalem in particular - made ends meet from the 1870s, when the first Lithuanian Jewish immigrants landed in Dublin, to the late 1940s, just before the community began its dramatic decline. In 1866--the year Bloom was born - Dublin's Jewish population hardly existed, and on the eve of… Read More

London. 1978. Routledge Kegan Paul. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0710000308. 148 pages. hardcover. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This translation of O hEithir's award-winning Irish novel, Lig Sinn i gCathu will introduce English readers to a writer who is currently being hailed as one of the most original talents to have appeared on the Irish literary scene for many years. The action of the novel takes place during the weekend of Easter 1949, when the Republic of Ireland was officially brought into being. The central character, Martin Melody, a university student, has his own personal problems: his father is dying, his state scholarship is being withheld because of non-attendance at lectures, his mother and his brother (a priest) are putting pressure on him to return to the family business and his girlfriend is pestering him because of his attitude to religion and the low company he keeps. Through Martin and his totally… Read More

Lincoln. 2017. September 2017. University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780803285774. Discover the Great Plains. 150 pages. paperback. keywords: History Great Plains. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O'Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and decades of personal experience, he details not only the natural history of the bison but also its prominent symbolism in Native American culture and its rise as an icon of the Great Plains. Great Plains Bison is a tribute to the bison's essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its… Read More

New York. 1996. May 1996. Scribner. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684803682. 255 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by John Fontana. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In BRENDAN PRAIRIE, O'Brien writes with grace and eloquence of fractured lives and endangered lands. He tells the story of Bill Malone, widower, father, lover and hot-tempered man, whose world is unraveling around him. Malone's young wife died mysteriously years ago, and something also died within him. Once a great falconer and environmentalist Malone has entered middle age a broken man, devoid of the passion and promise of his youth. His aching regret is the disappearance of his old world and he is infuriated that Brendan Prairie, his beloved retreat, is threatened by developers who want to build condominiums on the land. When the developer Andy Arnold dies in a suspicious accident and Malone's long-ago love, Margaret Adamson, becomes involved in the investigation, old emotions are stirred and… Read More

London. 1983. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st British Edition. Fine in Hardcover.No Dustjacket. 0340338962. Illustrated by Peter Stevenson. 44 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Peter Stevenson. keywords: Children's Books. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In her third children's book, Edna O'Brien has returned again to the delightful world of Tim, the little boy whose friendship with Mattie, the mouse the magic ‘dazzle', leads him into fantastic adventures. This time it is Mattie himself who is in mortal danger, and even with the help of a new friends, Minerva, Tim fears that all is lost. inventory #2523 ISBN: 0340338962.

Berkeley . 2007. April 2007. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520250192. New California Poetry, 20. 102 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Geoffrey G. O'Brien's second collection documents the ‘remorse of the senses' that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice and distraction secure every sensual event. Attempting to reestablish experience as something other than complicity, these poems insist on ‘desiring that which is as if it were not,' making poetry out of neighborhood flyers, the Patriot Act, and the poverty of presidential speech. Given this mandate to stay within limited resources, Green and Gray makes a virtue of refusing to abandon them, often relying on an emphatic recirculation of words and phrases to generate its own system complexities. These are poems whose materials remember their former use: the gray of the city and the… Read More

Berkeley. 2011. February 2011. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520268876. New California Poetry, 33. The neW CALIFORnIA POeTRy SeRIeS presents works by emerging and established poets that reflect UC Press’s commitment to innovative and aesthetically wide-ranging literary traditions. 102 pages. paperback. Cover photo: Bohemian Grove, c. 1924, James D. Phelan Phtograph Albums, 1902-1929. keywords: Poetry America Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Geoffrey G. O'Brien's third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O'Brien's poems measure the 'vague cadence' of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. The long title poem, written in a strict iambic prose, charts the disappearance of the poetic into the prosaic, of meter into the mundane, while reactivating the very… Read More

New York. 1993. November 1993. Mysterious Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0892965460. 402 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Barry Marcus. keywords: Mystery New England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The scene is the decaying New England factory town of Quinsigamond, a place fixed permanently on the American literary map by Jack O'Connell's acclaimed first novel, 'Box Nine.' Now, in 'Wireless,' events spin ever further into chaos. The action starts when an activist priest meets a grisly death within his own cathedral. The crime has all the earmarks of a gang killing from Bangkok Park, congregating point for prostitutes and pimps, musclemen, drug sellers, and crack dealers. In fact, the perp is a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer, who has arrived in Quinsigamond in search of the 'jammers' who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their singular brand of subversive diatribes. Succeeding to the overseership of Bangkok Park is Detective Hannah Shaw. She… Read More

London. 1961. Catholic Book Club. 1st of this Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 121 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography Religion Children Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Stories of pious children,' writes Flannery O'Connor in her introduction to this book, ‘tend to be false.' She goes on to tell how warily she approached a request from the Dominican nuns who run a free cancer home in Atlanta, Georgia, to help them in telling the story of a little girl who had lived and died in their care. Mary Ann was three when she was admitted with an incurable cancer and the doctors doubted that she had more than six months to live. She lived until she was twelve. This is the story of her nine years in the home and of her death. inventory #12778

New York. 2001. June 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Faded Dustjacket . 0375412972. The authors: Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O'Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O'Neill, Donal O'Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, & Frank McCourt. 259 pages. hardcover. Cover: Chip Kidd. keywords: Literature Ireland Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'I think he was dead before I shot him.' With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce, and features a stellar cast--including a sadistic sergeant with the unlikely name of Andy Andrews and the unforgettable mob boss Mrs. Bloom, a woman 'who had tried everything but drew the line at… Read More

New York. 1999. Picador. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312199988. 393 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This 'gripping and moving' novel, as The Guardian has noted, offers 'a taut, expertly crafted plot' while it likewise 'captures brilliantly changes of mood and unexpected quirks of behavior.' As The Salesman opens, it is the hottest summer in Dublin's history, and Billy Sweeney has more than the weather on his mind. His daughter lies in a coma in the hospital, the result of a mysterious attack at the petrol station where she worked. Devastated by the unfolding consequences of that terrible night, frustrated by officialdom, and failed by the system, Billy finally tires of seeking legal justice. He decides to take the law into his own hands, but when his plans go spectacularly wrong, the results are terrifying, often hilarious, and in the end, unforgettable. inventory #26343 ISBN: 0312199988.

New York. 1993. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679415084. 323 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Drenttel Doyle Partners. keywords: Literature America Military. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle. In that hell, Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. Elwood is contemplating cleaning up his act, although doing so will require one last, epic heroin deal. But of course it's then that his life will careen totally out of control. With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, Buffalo Soldiers give us a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World… Read More

New York. 1960. World. 1 of 975 Copies For Distribution To Friends of The Publisher. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 194 pages. hardcover. keywords: Shakespeare Literary Criticism . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Not as a professional critic, but from the special angle of the prompt-corner and the auditorium, Frank O'Connor has composed a lively and provocative study of William Shakespeare. He disagrees for the most part with the best of modern scholars- but he has read them- arguing against those who claim that Shakespeare cannot be adequately produced on the modern stage; that he is primarily a poet and not a dramatist; and that not Marlowe but Shakespeare- wrote Edward III, among other controversial points. The charm of O'Connor's book is its originality and liveliness- and it may stimulate many Shakespearean devotees into rereading his plays and reshaping their opinions. It raises questions which should interest all, but which only the more serious scholar can hope to answer with a definite yes or no.… Read More

New York. 1954. January 1954. Pennant Books. 1st Pennant Books Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers. 135 pages. paperback. P35. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - He clawed his way to the top - murder by murder. Too late, he realized he had walked into a trap. He drew his gun, aimed and fired. Then he was out the door, running blind, clawing, scrambling his way to the top. At last he made it up on the catwalk. He'd made it. The bridge was like home. He turned, snarling savage defiance. ‘Come and get me, you bastards! Come on and get me!' inventory #37204

New York. 1961. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451504070. With an afterword by Donagh MacDonagh. 189 pages. paperback. CQ407. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is Liam O'Flaherty's great novel of a troubled Ireland divided by the chaos of Civil War in the 1920's. It is the story of an informer, damned with the curse of his country's unforgivable sin, hunted by the shadowy executioners of an outlawed revolutionary organization. Two characters dominate this tragedy of betrayal and retribution: Gypo Nolan, the hulking oaf of a giant who, under stress of poverty, discloses the whereabouts of the wanted Frankie McPhillip for the paltry twenty - pound reward; and Dan Gallagher, the egotistical commandant of the militant organization that has sworn to hunt down and kill the unknown informer. Through the fogbound Dublin slum streets they re - enact the eternal drama of man pitted against man. A… Read More

New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0151004943. 289 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land… Read More

New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151004943. 289 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the… Read More

New York. 1963. August 1963. Signet/New American Library. 10th Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Previous Owner's Name in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. Afterword By Arthur Mizener. 216 pages. paperback. CP177. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback America Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Handsome, well - born Julian English sits in his Cadillac with only a fifth of Scotch and a pack of cigarettes to keep him company as he waits for death. What path has led him to this tragic rendezvous? Is it a fatal flaw of character that in three short days has brought his life to ruin? Is he the victim of social forces operating as inexorably as the gears in a deadly machine? With a style as finely honed as a scalpel, John O'Hara lays bare the anguish of a desperately driven man and dissects the Pennsylvania town in which he meets his fate. Exposed is a world of banker and bootlegger, country club and pool hall. Exposed are the subtleties that bind humans together, the pressures that separate… Read More

New York. 1997. Broadway Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0767900227. 260 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. keywords: Self Improvement. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this wise and inspiring book, Nancy O'Hara will help you discover what you really want from life and find the courage to pursue your dreams. Adapting Zen principles and practices to modern day life, O'Hara takes you step-by-step through an entire process of meditation and simple exercises to clear your busy mind and make you more a. more »ware and active in living a satisfying life. An insightful guide that will teach you to release negativity, understand and face your fears, reach out to others, and rediscover your true self, Just Listen will take you on an enlightening and empowering journey. inventory #27212 ISBN: 0767900227.

New York. 1992. Stewart Tabori & Chang. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1556702604. Illustrated by Kevin O'Malley. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover illustration by Kevin O'Malley. keywords: Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A retelling of the traditional Appalachian folk song, but with Froggy cast as a gangster and Miss Mousie as the proprietress of a swanky nightclub. inventory #18501 ISBN: 1556702604.