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Giacomo Joyce

by JOYCE, James; Richard Ellmann, introd

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First Edition
Published
1968
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New York: Viking Press, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gilt-titled, cloth-backed paper-covered boards with printed paper label; slipcase; xvi,16pp; illus. A fine copy in a later unprinted acetate jacket, in Near Fine slipcase. Includes eight leaves of plates (two folding), reproducing the original manuscript. First published appearance of an early Joyce poem. As stated in the publisher's colophon,… Read more about this item
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Owen Wister: Advocate of Racial Hatred. An Unpatriotic American Who Seeks to Destroy American Traditions

Owen Wister: Advocate of Racial Hatred. An Unpatriotic American Who Seeks to Destroy American Traditions

by [OWEN WISTER] [IRISH INDEPENDENCE] O'Connell, Daniel T.

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First edition
Published
1920
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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
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Bernard Clare

Bernard Clare

by FARRELL, James T.

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Published
1946
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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
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The Young McDermott

The Young McDermott

by [SOCIAL FICTION] [IRISH-AMERICANS] McSORLEY, Edward

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First Edition
Published
1949
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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
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A Selection of Irish Melodies
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A Selection of Irish Melodies

by MOORE, Thomas [with] STEVENSON, Sir John

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First American Edition
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C [1810]
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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
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Los Colorados del San Patricio

Los Colorados del San Patricio

by CANTÚ, Carlos H.

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First Edition
Published
1997
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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.
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Collected Plays

Collected Plays

by O'CASEY, Sean

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First Edition
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1949-51
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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
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Dream of Fair to Middling Women

by BECKETT, Samuel

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First Edition
Published
1992
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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.
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Company

by BECKETT, Samuel

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First American Edition
Published
1980
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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.
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Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons
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Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons

by EDGEWORTH, Maria

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First Edition
Published
1825
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London: Printed for R. Hunter, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm) in 4 volumes. Contemporary red morocco, with marbled paper over boards, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vol. I: xviii,287pp; vol. II: [ii],340pp; vol. III: [ii],319pp; vol. IV: [ii],336pp. Armorial bookplate of Richard Prime and bookseller's ticket of Symington's, Harrogate, in all… Read more about this item
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The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow. Plays by Iris Murdoch

The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow. Plays by Iris Murdoch

by MURDOCH, Iris

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First Edition
Published
1973
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (20.5cm). Coral cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; 221pp. Tight, clean copy; mild bump to bottom edge of text block at final six leaves, a bit of foxing to upper edge, Very Good Plus. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £2.50), lightly worn at extremities with… Read more about this item
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Eamon de Valera: the Man Who Was Ireland

Eamon de Valera: the Man Who Was Ireland

by COOGAN, Tim Pat

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First American Edition
Published
1993
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New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 772pp; plates. Text clean and unmarked save for a brief pencil note on final index page. Light dusting to text block edges, still a tight, clean Near Fine copy in clean dustwrapper.
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Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman

Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman

by WILDE, Oscar

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First Edition
Published
1893
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London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1893. First Edition. Small quarto (21.75cm.); original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; [14],132,14[ads]pp. Straight and tight, with the boards slightly faded at margins as is typical, and a few spots where cloth has begun to lift. The text is slightly tanned, but foxing is contained to endpapers. In… Read more about this item
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The Drama of Eight Days, June 22nd to June 29th, 1922: How war was waged on Ireland with an economy of English lives as related by General Sir Nevil Macready, Mr. Winston Churchill, and Mr. Lloyd George

The Drama of Eight Days, June 22nd to June 29th, 1922: How war was waged on Ireland with an economy of English lives as related by General Sir Nevil Macready, Mr. Winston Churchill, and Mr. Lloyd George

by [IRELAND] [IRISH CIVIL WAR] MACREADY, Nevil; Winston Churchill; Lloyd George

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First Edition
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1922
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[New York: Irish Republican Headquarters], 1922. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. Light dust-soil and toning, else Near Fine. Small pamphlet issued by the fraternal oath-bound Irish Republican Brotherhood, reprinting excerpts by General Macready in Dublin and Churchill and George from the House of Commons regarding the Irish Civil War, concluding with the tongue-in-cheek "Crowning Triumph: 'In William… Read more about this item
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Northern Ireland Report. Number 18 (June 9, 1994)

Northern Ireland Report. Number 18 (June 9, 1994)

by [NORTHERN IRELAND] O'CONNOR, Tim; Jim Dee, John O'Connor (et al, eds)

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1995
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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. No holdings found in OCLC.
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Northern Ireland Report. Number 19 (Aug 31, 1994)

Northern Ireland Report. Number 19 (Aug 31, 1994)

by [NORTHERN IRELAND] O'CONNOR, Tim; Jim Dee, John O'Connor (et al, eds)

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1995
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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. No holdings found in OCLC.
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Her Majesty the King. A Romance of the Harem. Done into American from the Arabic ..

Her Majesty the King. A Romance of the Harem. Done into American from the Arabic ..

by ROCHE, James Jeffrey

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First Edition
Published
1899
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Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1899. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial cloth boards; 163pp; illus. Covers spotted and lightly soiled; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Good to Very Good reading copy. An oriental romance with some fantasy elements. Roche, a leading Irish-American intellectual, was the long-time editor of the Pilot, Boston's leading Irish Republican newspaper.
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Convict No. 50945: Jim Larkin, Irish Labour Leader

Convict No. 50945: Jim Larkin, Irish Labour Leader

by [NORTHERN IRELAND] CARNEY, Jack et al.

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Reprint
Published
1975
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Cork: Cork Workers' Club, 1975. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 19pp. Light wear, small soil spot to p. [1], else Very Good or better. Reissue of the original 1920 pamphlet. No. 12 in the Cork Workers' Club "Historical Reprints" series.
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Father Tom and the Pope, or A Night in the Vatican

Father Tom and the Pope, or A Night in the Vatican

by ANONYMOUS [Samuel Ferguson, attr.]; Frederic S. Cozzens, "anti-pref.

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First Thus
Published
1868
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New York: Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868. First Thus. Small, slim octavo (ca. 20cm.); publisher's purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt spine; xiv,[5]-63pp.; illus. throughout, text printed on pale brown-wash stock. Light shelf wear, spine toned to tan with spotting to cloth sizing, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Wm. H. Davis accomplished in manuscript to front pastedown, else Very Good,… Read more about this item
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Irish Stories and Plays

Irish Stories and Plays

by CARROLL, Paul Vincent

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First Edition
Published
1958
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New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter white cloth, with black cloth sides, green titles on spine; orange and green dustwrapper; 3-278pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; extremities chipped, with small tears and areas of minor material loss; shelf wear and soiling. Textblock edges foxed, preliminaries toned; publisher's comment card laid-in. Very Good in… Read more about this item
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