Groarke, Vona.

Shale.

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 1994. Octavo. 60 pages. Original black cloth. Inside original dust jacket. Hard cover. Very good condition. Clean copy. Mild age darkening to edges.

Groarke, Vona.

Spindrift [Signed].

First Edition. Oldcastle, Ireland, The Gallery Press, 2009. 21 x 14 cm. 75 pages. Original cloth inside original dust jacket. As new condition. Inscribed on title page and signed ‘Vona’. A lovely copy. From the Library of Irish Poet Paul Durcan.

Haggard, Sir H. Rider / Niall Ó Domhnaill (Translator).

Maire .i. Marie.

Presumed First Edition in Irish. Dublin, 1935. 18 x 12 cm. 400 pages. Original blue cloth with black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Binding faded into white (see picture). Edges and end papers dust dulled. Stamp with name of previous owner on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean.

Murphy, Nicholas P.

A Corner in Ballybeg.

First Edition. London, John Lang, 1902. 13 x 19 cm, 255 pages. Original illustrated cloth hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear and age darkening; rubbing and bumping to corners and spine. Inside bright and clean. Rear free end paper missing. Small closed tear on contents page. Overall a very nice copy.

Hartnett, Michael.

A Book of Strays. Edited by Peter Fallon.

First Edition. Oldcastle, Ireland, The Gallery Press, 2002. 21 x 14 cm. 689 pages. Original cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Maeterlinck, Maurice.

The Treasure of the Humble.

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 16 x 12 cm. 218 pages. Paperback in glassine Wrapper. Printed on quality white paper. All edges deckle. Very good condition. Paperboards darkened and foxed. Glassine wrapper worn with a few tears. Edges dust dulled. Name of previous owner: ‘Thomas SK Lees’ on first blank page. Internally bright and clean.

Mahon, Derek.

Resistance Days.

First, numbered, signed and limited Edition. 61/175. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2001. 21 x 14 cm. Unpaginated. Original stiff paper wrappers. Fine condition. Signed and numbered by the author and the artist on colophone page.

Wheen, Francis.

Karl Marx.

First Edition. London, Fourth Estate, 1999. 23 x 15 cm. 431 pages. Original paper covered boards, inside original decorated dust jacket; now inside archival jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Roger [Katz] on the title page.

Hesse, Hermann.

Knulp. Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps von Hermann Hesse.

First Edition. Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1915. 17 x 12 cm. 145 pages. New (2024) brown cloth. Hard cover. Original front cover has been cut to size and used on new front board (see images). Gilt title on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Small stamp with name and address of previous owner on half title. Internally clean. Faint damp staining. Mild shelf wear. Printed on ‘war paper’. A nice little item.

Semple, Maurice.

Reflections on Lough Corrib [Signed].

First Edition. Galway, Publsihed by the Author, 1974. 24 x 18 cm. 218 pages. With a folding map and illustrations in B&W. Original blue cloth. HArd cover. Gilt titles on front board and spine. Inside original dustr jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Inscribed by the Author of the front free end paper. Internally clean. Dust jacket with wear and material losses (see images).