Chuilleanain, Eilean Ni.

Acts & Monuments.

First Trade Edition. Dublin, Gallery Books, 1972. 22 x 14 cm. 44 pages. Original decorated paper wrappers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally clean.

Prevost, Abbe.

Adventures of A Man of Quality. Translated with an Introduction by Mysie E.I. Robertson.

London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930. 22.5cm x 15cm. 208 pages. Frontispiece of Donna de Pastrino. With illustrations. Original Hardcover (green cloth). Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Broadway Library of Eighteenth-Century French Literature].

Herbert, Phyl.

After Desire.

First Edition. Dublin, Arlen House, 2015. 21 x 14 cm. 128 pages. Decorated stiff paper covers. Paperback. Very good condition. Clean copy.

Hailey, Arthur.

Airport.

First UK Edition. London, Michael Joseph and Souvenier Press, 1968. 14 x 20 cm, 531 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Carroll, Lewis.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alan Brooke’s Copy. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel.

Sixty-Third Thousand. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. 18 x 12 cm. (6), 192 pages. Illustrated. Original maroon cloth with gilt decorations and gilt title on spine. Black end papers. All edges gilt. Good condition. Binding well rubbed and bumped. Spine ends frayed. Front and rear free end papers missing. Half title age darkened. Name of previous owner on half title (‘Alan Brooke’). Gift inscription on front paste down (‘To Dear little Victor from his friend Charlie Rially ? 1880’). Front and rear hinge exposed and binding weak.

Tomás Ó Criomhthain [Tomas O’Crohan] (Author) / An Seabhac [Padraig O Siochfhradh](Editor).

Allagar na h-Inise [Island Cross-Talk].

First Edition. Dublin, C.S. O Fallamain, hOifig an tSolatain, [Printed by Alex. Thom & Co., Iona Works Dublin], 1928. 18 x 12 cm. vii, 186 pages. Original quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with a paper sticker and dark stain on front board (see image). Mild fraying to spine ends. Sound binding. Single library stamp (‘Colaiste Moibi’) and three numbers on front free end paper. Edges and end papers age darkened. Small red stain on page iii (see image). Internally bright and clean without annotations, underlining etc.

Haggard, H. Rider.

Allan Quatermain. Being an Account of his Further Adventures and Discoveries in Company with Sir Henry Curtis, Bart., Commander John Good, R.N. and one Umslopogaas.

First UK Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. 19 x 12 cm. (4), 278 pages, (2). With a tissue guarded frontispiece and 19 plates (complete), plus illustrations in the text. Original dark cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board. Bevelled boards. Decorated end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Book slightly slanted. Some stains on front board. It appears that the spine label was re-attached onto the text block. Inscription by ? on front free end paper dated 1887.

Mme. De Genlis [Stéphanie Félicité de DuCrest de Saint-Aubin Genlis, Comtesse de].

Alphonse, Ou Le Fils Naturel.

Three Volumes – Complete. London, De l’Imprimery de R. Juigne, pour B. Dulau et Co., 1809. 17 x 10 cm. Vol.1: iv, 188 pages / Vol.2: 190 pages / 187 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards. Hard covers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear and age darkening. Some material losses to leather and paper boards (see images). Paper coming off the boards in places. Internally ahe darkened, but otherwise clean.

Kingsley, Charles.

Alton Locke. Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography.

London, Richard Edward King, [not dated, ca. 1880]. 18 x 12 cm. vi, 3564 pages. Original dark red cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title and blind line decorations on front board and spine. Bevelled boards. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, mild rubbing and bumping. Internally clean but browned. Mild foxing to end papers. Large book plate glued to front paste down. See image.

Moore, Gerald.

Am I Too Loud? Memoirs of an Accompanist.

First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 21 x 14 cm. 304 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Inside original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Dust jacket with edge wear and fraying at spine ends and corners, now inside archival jacket. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.