Galvin, Patrick.

Man on the Porch. Selected Poems.

First Edition. London, Martin Brian & O’Keefe, 1979. 21 x 13 cm. 100 pages. Original cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Coady, Michael.

Given Light [Signed].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2017. 21 x 14 cm. 94 pages. B&W photos. Original cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the Author on title page.

Strong, Eithne.

Flesh … the Greatest Sin.

First Edition. Monkstown, The Runa Press, 1980. 22 x 16 cm. 48 pages. Unpaginated. Line drawings. Stiff cardboard covers. Paperback. Very good condition. Some shelfwear. Internally clean.

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.

Gilbert, W.S.

The BAB Ballads. With which are included Songs of a Savoyard.

Sixth Edition. London, Macmillan, 1906. 19 x 13 cm. xii, 563 pages plus 32 pages publisher’s list. With 350 illustrations by the author. Original green cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing anf bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Binding a little shaky, but holding. Name on half title page reads ‘a.m. Pelly 3rd ap. 1909’.

Gillis, Alan.

Scapegoat.

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2014. 87 pages. Original cloth inside original dust jacket. Hard cover. Near fine. Corners clightly bumped. Internally bright and clean.

Kinsella, Thomas.

Love Joy Peace. Peppercanister 29.

First Edition. Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2011. 20 pages. Stiff paper covers with flaps. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to wrappers. Internally bright and clean.

Synge, John M. (author) / O Briain, Liam (translator).

Deirdre An Bhroin. Deirdre of the Sorrows.

[First Edition in Irish]. Dublin, Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialtais, 1932. c 18 x 12 cm. 106 pages. Original stiff paper wrappers. Soft cover. Very good condition.

Stephens, James.

Julia Elizabeth. a comedy in one act by James Stephens.

First and Limited (861) Edition. New York, Crosby Gaige, 1929. 24 x 18 cm. 25 pages. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Paper labels on front board and spine. Deckle edges. Very good condition. A bright and clean copy. Signed by the Author on colophon page.

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.