Irish History

NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. 120pp, bound in decorative green cloth, bright gilt lettering, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS. Small corner check mark on verso of ffp, small damp mark along portions of lower edge of pages (not interfering with the text). Occasional illustrated celtic designed tail-pieces. IRISH TALES.

Paris: A. And W. Galignani, 1833. 12mo. 403pp., bound in 3/4 polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands ruled in gilt, green morocco spine label gilt, scattered foxing throughout, chipping to spine ends, upper joint with split but binding firm.

Galway, Ireland: Kenny's Bookshop & Art Gallery, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth With Gilt Stamped Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Light Bumping To The Top And The Bottom Back Corners. Slight Slant. Irish Poem Of Mother's Love Written On The Front Pastedown. No Ownership Information Present. And The Text Appears To Be Clean And Without Marks. The Jacket Is Worn And Has A Few Small Chips And Tears. Not Price Clipped.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1892 First edition in hardcover. 462 pp. Some spotting and bubbling to cloth on boards, spine is age toned and dulled with some very faint call numbers near bottom. There are no stamps or any other indication this comes from a public library (probably a private library). Hinges are lightly cracked. A Good copy.

Chicago: Clark & Edwards, Publishers., 1882 First edition in hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and gilt device on front board. 240 pp. Explanatory footnotes. Spine has minor lean and very light sunning. Clean and unmarked. Very Good.

Dublin: Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1748., 1748. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 12mo. Volume 4 only (of 4). Full calf, spine titled in gilt. Engraved folding frontispiece. Name penned on title, some rubbing to joints, a clean very good copy generally..

Dublin, Four Courts Press/Irish Academic Press, 1980, hardcover, 112 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, very slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The personal memoirs of an Irish Republican soldier from his swearing in at the age of fifteen in 1911, through his rise in the ranks to Chief of Staff of the Irish Army, to the truce and treaty of 1921. Mapped endpapers. Index appended. ISBN 9780906127261

Pasons, WV: McClain Printing, 1996. 320pp.. Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA: Dormer Agency Publishers, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize oblong green cloth hardcover with gilt to spine and front; no jacket; 409 pages; b&w photos. Very good condition: spine tips slightly pushed in; gift inscription, oversize bookplate, and ownership stamp to endpapers. A heavy book that might cost extra for shipping..

Dublin Ireland: Cuala Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Endpapers are wrinkled where they meet the gutter. Dark speck on front cover. Light, 1/2" long impression at the head edge of the front cover and a similar, very faint impression to the head edge of the back cover. Lower corners of the boards are bumped at the fore edge. Lacks the ephemeral tissue wrapper.; This compelling memoir recounts the author's childhood views of living in Dublin Ireland during seven consecutive winters, her summers being spent in County Cork. The memories are detailed and evoke both the chilled, gray days and the beauty of Dublin. Founded and operated by women, entirely, the Cuala Press was focused on new works in the emerging Irish Literary Revival. One of only two titles published by the press in 1942, as the entire press operation was moved to a different location in that year. This is copy 448 of an edition of 450 "finished in… Read More

Books are in very good condition. Slight wear on Vol II. bottom of spine.

Book is in good condition. Foxing around edges of pages. Dust jacket has some small tears on top edges. Dust jacket has been wrapped in Mylar for book's protection.

First Edition of this Tony Award winning play

Red calf spine with black title plate, raised gilt binding and title. Red marbled boards.

Tan leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine.
A good read. Strictures on the ecclesiastical and literary history of Ireland: from the most ancient times . Also, an historical sketch of the constitution and to the year 1783. Thomas Campbell (1733–1795) was an Irish Protestant clergyman, best known as a travel writer and for his accounts of the circle of Samuel Johnson. Campbell was born at Glack in County Tyrone on 4 May 1733. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1756, M.A. 1761), and took orders in 1761. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. He was a preacher. He died on 20 June 1795 in London. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It is supposed to record the tour of an Englishman in… Read More