Duffey, Felix D.

Testing The Spirit.

St. Louis / London, B. Herder Books, 1957. 14cm x 21cm. 174 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Slight wear to dustjacket, otherwise excellent condition. Pre-owner’s stamp on endpaper.

Ó Móráin, Padraig.

Annála Beaga Pharáiste Bhuiréis Umhaill. A short Account of the History of Burrishoole Parish.

First Edition. Westport, Berrys, 1957. 18 x 12 cm. 160 pages. With B&W Plates and a folding map in the back of the book. Quarter black morroco over cloth covered boards. Spine label with gilt title. Raised bands and gilt decorations. Very good condition. Some mild wear to boards (see images). Edges dust dulled. A very nice copy, complete with the large folding map in a nice solid binding.

Ó Móráin, Padraig / O Moghrain, Padraig.

Annála Beaga Pharáiste Bhuiréis Umhaill. A short Account of the History of Burrishoole Parish.

Proof Copy with the Authors Revision Marks. Westport, Berrys, 1957. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. HT, TP, (4), 160 pages – text only. Without the Plates and folding Map of the Final Edition. Stiff paper wrappers with paper labels on front board and spine, now iside a clear plastic wrapper. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. A few ‘corrections’ in pencil, most likely by the Author himself. See images.

Brown, John Mason.

Book-Of-The-Month Club News – May 1957. With a special report on Arthur Bryant’s ‘The Turn of the Tide’. With a letter to Alanbrooke by the Editor in Chief (Doubleday & Company) Ken McCormick.

Book of the Month Club, Inc. 1957. 26 x 17 cm. 18 pages plus loosely inserted folded leaflet. Pamphlet with decorated paper covers. Stapled. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping, dust dulled.

Brown, John Mason.

The Turn of the Tide – A Report. Reprinted from the Book-Of-The-Month Club News.

New York, Book-Of-The-Month Club, Inc., [1957], 18 x 13 cm. Folded Paper Leaflet. Very good condition.

Seamus N. Mac Giolla Easpaig.

Tomas Ruiseil.

First Edition. Dublin, Clo Morainn, 1957. 18 x 12 cm. 263 pages. Illustrated. Original stiff paper wrappers. Soft covers. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner on front free end paper.

Bryant, Arthur.

Kriegswende (1939 – 1943). Aus den Kriegstagebuechern des Feldmarschalls Lord Alanbrooke, Chef des Empire-Generalstabs.

Second Edition (Zweite Auflage). Duesseldorf, Droste Verlag, 1957. 22 x 14 cm. 717 pages, with B&W photographs. Original green cloth hard cover. Gilt title on front board and spine. In original dust jacket, glassine wrapper and a small paper band around dust jacket. Now in protective archival jacket. Good condition. Binding damp stained and discoloured. Edges and end papers dust dulled and partly browned. With a gift inscription: ‘To Brookie with Love from [Buster?] 1960. This may complete your collection – it is perhaps fitting that its the German edition.’ Dust jacket age darkened and rubbed. Small paper losses to glassine wrapper. Internally clean.

Bryant, Arthur.

The Turn of the Tide. Advance Exerpts published by Doubleday. With a letter by Doubleday’s Editor-in-Chief, Ken McCormick to Viscount Alanbrooke, dated April 4, 1957.

New York, Doubleday & Company, 1957. 28 x 21 cm. Fifty one-sided mimeographed pages . Soft cover. Decorated paper boards. Stapled pamphlet. Good condition. Cover detached and worn. Some paper losses. Age darkened and dust dulled. Staples corroded.

MacManus, Emily E.P. [Elvira Primrose] / Strong, L.A.G. (foreword).

Matron of Guy’s [Signed].

New Edition. London, Jarrolds Publishers, 1958. Octavo. xii, 228 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Original black cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. Signed by the Author on the title page.

Sheed, F.J.

Theology and Sanity.

London / New York, Sheed and Ward, 1958. 14.5cm x 22cm. X, 345 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor signs of wear to dustjacket, mild foxing to edges, otherwise very good condition.