Ommanney, F.D.

The River Bank – An Autobiography of the 1920s.

London, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. 1966. 22.2cm x 14.4cm. 279 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of wear.

Oscar Leslie Stephen (editor)

Sir Victor Brooke. Sportsman and Naturalist. A Memoir of his Life and Extracts from his Letters and Journals. A Chapter on his Researches in Natural History by Sir William H. Flower. Portraits and Illustrations.

First Edition. London, John Murray, 1894. 20 x 14 cm. x, 266 pages, 28 pages publishers list. Complete with all Illustrations, as listed. Original maroon cloth. Gilt titles and decorations. Fore edge deckle. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Front hinge cracked. Edges and end papers age darkened. Occasional mild foxing.

Palmer, Arnold.

More Than Shadows. A Biography of W. Russell Flint R.A., P.R.W.S.

Signed by W. Russell Flint on half title. London & New York, The Studio, 1943. 16 x 24 cm, (8), 146 pages. With 136 Illustrations in Colour and B&W. Original blue cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt titles on spine Top edge blue. Very good condition. Some minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine. Age darkened.

Parry, Donald, Wilkinson, Patrick et al.

Seven individual Memoirs prepared by direction of King’s College, Cambridge. Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson, E.M. Forster and King’s, Lord Noel Gilroy Annan, Frank Ezra Adcock, John Tresidder Shepard, Edmund Leach & Bernard Williams.

Seven Volumes. Cambridge, University Press, 1985, 1970, 2001, 1969, 1969, 1989 & 2005. Small paperback publications in various colours. See images. Very good condition. Name of previous owner in some of the pamphlets, otherwise internally clean.

Pearse, Padraic H. / Ryan, Desmond (Editor).

Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse. The Story of a Success and the Man Called Pearse.

Dublin, Cork, Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., 1924. 21 x 14 cm. xii, 260 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Original dark cloth with title on spine. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Internally age darkened and occasionally mildly foxed.

Philip, Rev. Brother Philip, F.S.C.

Brother Thomas Kane – Assistant Superior-General De La Salle Brothers; Former Principal De La Salle Training College Waterford.

Leix, Lasallian Publications, 1951. 19.3cm x 13cm. X, 155 pages. With 8 historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear on dustjacket. Small section of the dustjacket torn.

Pierce, David.

Yeats’s Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination. With contemporary photographs by Dan Harper.

First Edition. New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 1995. 20 x 26cm. (14), 346 pages, with illustrations throughout. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition, as new. Boards, text and dustjacket bright and clean, binding firm.

Plutarch.

The Fifth and Last Volume of Plutarchs Lives. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. [Includes: The Lives of Demetrius Poliocretes, Marcus Antonius, Demosthenes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratus, Artaxerxes, Dion, Marcus Brutis, Galba & Otho].

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street, 1686. 17.5 x 11 cm. 764 pages (some sections misnumbered). With a frontispiece and nine plates. Contemporary panelled calf. Blind decorations. Red speckled edges. Raised bands. Interesting armorial blind stamp with two lions (?) on front and rear boards (see images). Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened throughout. An impressive little book in a sound contemporary binding.

POGGIOLI, Renato.

The Phoenix and the Spider, a Book of Essays about some Russian Writers and Their View of the Self.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. 24x16cm, 238pp. First English language edition of Poggioli’s first book to be translated into English. This work covers nine Russian writers including Tolstoy, Goncharov, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bunin and Babel. A scholar of comparative literature in the European tradition, Poggioli’s areas of expertise encompass literary historiography, the theory of the avant-garde, the notion of modernity, decandence and barbarism, Russian literature, and Dante. His daughter Silvia is European correspondent for National Public Radio. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

Pope, Alexander.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.

Three Volumes. Glasgow, Printed by Andrew Foulis, Printer to the University, 1785. Folios, 37 x 24 cm. Vol.1: xxxviii [Engraved Frontispiece, Title, Dedication, TOC, The Life of Alexander Pope, Preface], (3), pages numbered 43 – 315 / Vol.2: Title, Dedication, TOC, 365 pages / Vol.3: Title, Dedication, TOC, 402 pages, (4) [Subscribers List]. Uniform contemporary full calf. Gilt titles and decorations. Two spine labels per volume. Marbled end papers. Near fine condition. Sound bindings. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Armorial Ex Libris of previous owner (Sir Samuel Hannay, Bart.) on all three front paste downs. All three dedication pages are dated by hand in the bottom, see images. A beautiful complete set.