Saint Exupery, Antoine de.

Terre Des Hommes.

Paris, Gallimard, 1939. 19 x 12 cm. 218 pages. Original paper wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and age darkening. Name of previous owner on first blank.

Séamus Mag Uidhir.

Da Crann na Marbh. Agus Gearr-Scealta Eile.

First Edition. Dublin, Oifig An tSolatair, 1939. 18 x 12 cm. 165 pages. Original green cloth. Hard cover. Inside original unclipped dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Bainville, Jacques.

Dictators. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1940. 20 x 14 cm. 268 pages. Original green cloth with silver titles and decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine faded. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Name of previous onwer (‘Michael Tierney’) on half title page. Internally clean. The Life and Letters Series No. 96.

Carbery, Ethna (Anna Johnston MacManus).

In the Celtic Past.

Dublin & Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland, ND [before 1940]. 18 x 12 cm. 107 pages. Original cloth with green and black celtic design. Hard cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Binding faded (see images). Edges and end papers age darkened. Name of previous owner on front free end paper, dated 1940. Internally clean.

Dreiser, Theodore.

The Financier.

Cleveland / New York, The World Publishing Company, 1940. 13.5 x 21cm. 503 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Haines, Gladys M.

Pines On The Hill and Other Poems.

First Edition. London et al. Hutchinson & Co., ND [c. 1940]. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 36 pages. Original green cloth. Hard cover with gilt title on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Occasional mild foxing. Internally clean. Scarce.

Lamplighter.

Hidden Years. Scenes from the Childhood of Jesus.

[First Edition]. Dublin, M.H. Gill, 1940. 18 x 12 cm. Title, (4), 25 pages. Musical scores on last two pages. Original blue stiff paper covers with title in black on front board. Very good condition. Very clean.

O Cadlaigh, Cormac.

Gnas Na Gaeldilge.

First Edition. Baile Atha Cliath [Dublin], Oifig An tSolatair, 1940. 21 x 14 cm. xxiv, 660 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt title and author on front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped and faded. Front free end paper neatly cut off. Stamp of previous owner on front paste down. Name of previous owner on half title. Number ‘28’ written on top edge. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

O Farachain, Roibeard (Editor).

Éire: Bliainiris Ghaedheal. [The Year’s Treasury of Gaelic Literature]. Rogha Saothair Ghaedheal mBeo.

First Edition. Dublin, Basil Clancy / Cahill & Co. Ltd., 1940. 27 x 21.5 cm. 148 pages. 44 pages Ads. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Original textured stiff paper wrappers. Soft cover. Title and decorations on front board. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Externally dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Power, Arthur / Henry, Paul (Foreword).

From the old Waterford House.

First Edition. Waterford and Dublin, The Carthage Press, 1940. 16 x 10 cm. (4), 180 pages. New (2024) blue cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title. New binding. Internally mildly foxed, otherwise clean.