Ireland from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's heavy grain sand coloured cloth titled and decorated in black and orange to spine and front board. 312pp. Lacking dustjacket. Light sunning to spine, a little bumping and scuffing to extremities, a very good, strong copy. Internally clean, scribbled out ownership to front flyleaf. Edges untrimmed,top edge stained orange,… Read more about this item

Dublin: Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, 1891. Second Edition. Second printing. Octavo (18cm). In original green cloth, titled in gold on front and spine; black coated endpapers; x, 148pp.; with one page of publisher's ads facing title page. Straight and clean, rubbed at corners and spine, with multiple short tears to outer margin of pp.93-94, else Very Good. … Read more about this item

Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlets, 1989. First Edition. First Impression. Signed by the author on a bookplate loosely laid-in. Octavo (21.5cm); maroon wrappers; 18pp.; Fine copy in Fine wrappers, (priced £4.50 net) at rear. "This is the first ever publication of Edna O'Brien's poetry" (from the rear cover).

Washington DC: Friends of Irish Freedom National Bureau of Information, 1920. First edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed self-wraps; 12pp. Light soil; hand-stamp of the Montgomery Count (PA) Historical Society to front cover and first text leaf; Very Good. Vigorous attack, by an Irish nationalist, on Wister's anglophilic and anti-Irish tract, The Straight Deal, or the Ancient Grudge (1920). … Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. First printing. First issue, without the tipped-in disclaimer at dedication page. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],367pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.75 at base of front flap); c hips and a few closed tears along jacket extremities, spine and flap edges… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 293pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); Very Good or better. Contemporary ink ownership inscription inside front cover. The Rhode Island author's second novel. Like his first, the best-selling Our Own Kind (1946), the present work… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 364pp. Tight, clean copy, slightly rubbed at spine ends and with mild evidence of use; Very Good Plus. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $23.00 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities, creased at crown of spine panel; Very Good. A clean, presentable copy of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: G.E. Blake's Musical Library and Circulating Library, C [1810]. First American Edition. Folio [35cm x 26cm].10 parts bound into one volume; the 9 parts of the Irish Melodies,comprising 6 "volumes", with title pages, and one volume of Moore's Sacred Songs bound in at the rear. A rather nice, heavily gilded old sheep half binding over marbled boards, rubbed… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1964. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; turquoise cloth hardcover; dustjacket; x,[1]-340pp. Tight, and clean, about Fine in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with some of the usual rubbing to front and rear panels; Very Good. Late collection of O'Connor's short-stories, most originally published in The New Yorker. This was O'Connor's final story collection published in… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1981. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (21cm). Blue cloth (hardcover); 80pp. Board edges very mildly sunned, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped jacket (priced $12.95 on front flap), faintly toned at extremities.

N.p.: Consejo Para la Cultura de Nueva León, 1997. First Edition. First printing of 1000 copies. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial thick card wrappers with french flaps; 529,(2)pp. Fine. Text entirely in Spanish. Historical novel, set within a batallion of Irish expatriate soldiers in the Mexican Revolution.

London: Macmillan, 1949-51. First Edition. 12mo (20.5cm). 4 volumes in red cloth, titled in gilt, with grey and white dust jackets; I: [vi],314pp; II: [vi],354pp; III: [vi],274pp; [vi],294pp. Bookplate of James Withrow Ewing in each volume. Straight copies pushed at heads and tails, ownership marks to front free endpapers effaced: Very Good. Jackets of vols. I-II price-clipped, vols III-IV… Read more about this item

Lowell, MA: Northern Ireland Report, 1995. Folded self-wrappers; 11" x 8-1/2", 12pp. Fine. Bimonthly political newsletter, described on its masthead as "an independent publication not affiliated with any political party, group or organization in Northern Ireland or the United States," though content tends to favor left politics and Republicanism. Rear cover of this issue comprises "A Message of Freedom… Read more about this item

New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1958. Revised Edition. First Printing. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid-in. Octavo (21cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; red topstain; dustjacket by Alfred Manso; 327pp.; mild sunning to the edges of endpapers; topstain slightly faded near spine; spine ends gently nudged; about Near Fine. The red dustjacket is… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1935. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Turquoise cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 198pp. Upper board edges just a shade sunned, else Near Fine in the original printed dustwrapper, corners clipped by publisher with $2.00 price overprinted at base of front flap; darkened but legible on spine panel; Very… Read more about this item

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; xii,130pp; 6 color plates, black and white plates throughout. Bookplate of James Mead. Gently bumped at corners, else fresh and clean: Near Fine.

Dublin: Black Cat Press, 1992. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm); dustjacket; 241pp. Upper board corner bumped, else a Fine copy in Fine dustwrapper. Beckett's first novel, written in 1932 but never published until this posthumous edition.

New York: Grove Press, 1980. First American Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 63pp. Fine in a crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $8.95 on front flap), slightly toned and soiled on lighter portions; Near Fine, with no remainder mark to text block.

New York: Grove Press, 1984. First American Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 59pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $12.95 on front flap). One of those late, unaccountably scarce Beckett titles, especially hard in this condition.

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (21cm); dustjacket; 316pp. With the unavoidable age-toning to the text, else a Fine copy in Fine dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £7.50 at base of front flap).