Webb, Igor.

From Custom to Capital – The English Novel and the Industrial Revolution.

First Edition. Ithaca / London, Cornell University Press, 1981. 22.5cm x 14.5cm. 219 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with minor external signs of wear, such as slightly fading colour on dustjacket.

Coward, Noel.

Future Indefinite. Signed and with a handwritten Letter by Coward to FM Alanbrooke. A second volume of autobiography.

First Edition. London, William Heinemann, 1954. 21 x 13 cm. viii, 336 pages. Illustrated. New (2018) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New pale blue end papers. In original unclipped dust jacket. Good condition. Binding and end papers new. Internally mildly foxed / browned, mainly to first and last pages. Tipped intwo-sided hand written and signed letter by Noel Coward to Lord Alanbrooke, in which Coward writes about Alanbrooke’s War Diaries and his own autobiography. Book also inscribed by Coward to Alanbrooke ‘with best wishes and great admiration’. Dust jacket seriously worn with several tears and some paper losses. Now in archival jacket.

Feheney, J. Matthew.

Gentlemen of the Presentation: Brief Biographies of Twenty-Five Presentation Brothers (1762-1999).[Signed].

Dublin, Veritas, 1999. 14 x 21cm. 204 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Signed by author on title page.

Hartford, Rev. R.R.

Godfrey Day. Missionary, Pastor and Primate. A Memoir. With a Foreword by The Archbishop of Armagh.

First Edition. Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, 1940. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. 246 pages with B&W Plates. Original cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Blind line decorations. In original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and foxed. Internally mildly foxed. Dust jacket with tears and small paper losses (see images).

Dunne, John Joseph. Under the Pseudonym H.R.N.

Here and There Memories.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 22.3cm x 15cm. XI, 411 pages. Original ‘tri-colour’ cloth with gilt title and decorations. Good condition only. Seriously rubbed and bumped. Age darkened and stained. Remains of a paper sticker (ex library?) on front board. Front hinge open and end paper nearly detached. Edges and end papers age darkened. Occasional mild foxing, but internally clean.

McBrien, Peter F.

Higher English: Drama. How to Know Good Drama and to Say Why it is Good. A Text-Book of Literary Appreciation…

Dublin, The Intermediate & University College, Not dated. C. 1930. 21 x 14 cm. 269 pages plus ads. Original stiff cardboard covers. Very good condition. Some abrasion to front cover (see images). Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Ireland, John.

Hogarth Illustrated.

Third Edition. Three Volumes – complete. London, J.N. Boydell and Co., G. and W. Nicol, 1806 / 1812. 23 x 14 cm. Vol.1: (8), cxxii, 237 pages / Vol.2: (2), 379 pages / Vol.3: xxiv, 370 pages. All volumes illustrated. New (2019) uniform brown cloth with gilt titles and volume numbers on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New bindings. Text block seriously age darkened / browned and foxed. Some dark water stains. A good, complete study copy.

Howitt, William.

Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. Illustrations by W. and G. Measom.

Second Edition. Two Volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1847. 15 x 23.5cm. Vol. 1: 504 pages / Vol.2: 473 pages, illustrated throughout. Original green embossed cloth, hardcover with gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Some signs of wear including small slight tear to cloth at spine joint, some foxing to text and loosening of subtitle page.

Francis Sheehy Skeffington.

In Dark and Evil Days.

First Edition. Dublin, James Duffy and Co., 1916. 18 x 12 cm. xxviii, 237 pages. With a Frontispiece showing the Author and his Signature (printed). Original dark cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped and somewhat discoloured (see images). Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner on verso of Frontispiece. Internally clean.

Haskell, Arnold L.

In His True Centre. An Interim Autobriography. With thirty photographs.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1951. 23cm x 14.5cm. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.