The Zookeeper’s Wife – A War Story.
New York / London, W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. 14.5cm x 21.5cm. 368 pages. Includes photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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Around Cinemas (Second Series).
First Edition. [Amsterdam], Home & Van Thal Ltd., 1948. 21 x 14 cm. 284 pages plus ten pages Index. With a frontispiece. Original pale cloth with black title on spine. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Edges and end papers dust dulled/foxed. Names of previous owners on front free end paper. Internally clean.
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A Proper Job. Illustrated with Photographs.
First Edition, First Printing. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. 21 x 14 cm. xi, 355 pages. With photographs. Original light blue cloth. Hard cover with gilt title on front board and spine. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the Author on the front free end paper. A very nice clean inscribed copy (see images).
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The Disciple.
London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. Not dated (c.1930). 18 x 12 cm. (4), 304 pages. Original paper covered boards. Hard cover with black title and decoration. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled. Mild foxing to edges. Ex Library (Convent of Mercy – Ballinasloe) with an embossed stamp on title page and some writing (Convent School Libary) on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean. Front top hinge cracked on 2 cm (see images).
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The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature: The First Forty Years.
First Edition. Dublin, Ashfield Press, 2016. 23 x 15 cm. 95 pages. Illustrated. Original light blue cloth. Hard cover. Near fine condition. Bright and clean. Losely inserted invitation card for the 2016 event and prospectus. Scarce. From the library of Irish Poet Paul Durcan.
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The Scandal of the Andover Workhouse.
First Edition. London, Geofrey Bles, 1973. 22 x 14 cm. 176 pages. With a folding red & black map and various B&W Plates. Original black cloth in original decorated dust jacket. Decorated end papers. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket with a few closed tears and minor paper loss to the front (see image), now inside protective jacket. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean. Inscribed by the Author on the half title page. Small closed tear to bottom of half title page. Internally bright and clean.
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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.
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The Revival of Irish. The Ten Commandments And a kick in the arse.
First Edition. Galway, Printed by Corrib Printers, 1999. Oblong 21 x 15 cm. (6), 154 pages. Illustrated. Original black cloth with gilt title. Hard cover. Very good condition. Dust jacket is worn and stained (see images). Internally clean. Inscribed by the Author (‘Pat’) on the front free end paper. Scarce.
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Death Enters the Ward.
First Edition. London, Francis James Publishing, 1947. 18 x 12 cm. 192 pages. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Paper somewhat age darkened / browned. Name of previous owner on front paste down. A nice clean copy of this scarce book.
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Poetry from Oxford in Wartime.
First Edition. London, The Fortune Press, 1945. 19 x 12 cm. 94 pages plus two pages publishers list. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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Tulips in the Prison Yard [Signed]. Selected Poems of Daniel Berrigan chosen and introduced by Patrick O’Brien.
First Edition. Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1992. 21 x 14 cm. 77 pages. Hard cover, inside original unclipped dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy. Signed by the Author on the title page. From the library of Irish Poet Paul Durcan.
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The Northern Iron.
Dublin & Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland, ND [c. 1920-40]. 18 x 12 cm. 210 pages. Original laminated boards with red and black celtic design. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. ‘Specimen’ stamp on front board and title page. Name of previous owner on title page. Internally clean.
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The New Decameron. Four Volumes. Volume I: Containing The Prologue and The First Day, Volume II: Containing The Second Day, Volume III: Containing Stories by Compton Mackenzie, D.H. Lawrence & Vita Sackville West, Volume IV: Edited by Blair and Containing Stories by L.A.G. Strong, D.H. Lawrence & J.D. Beresford.
4 Volumes (of 6 Volume Set). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1919 / 1920 /1922 /1925. 13 x 20cm. 225 / 183 / 231 / 269 pages. Original quarter-clothbound hardcover. Foxing to edges and age darkening to endpapers. Bumping and slight splitting to corners. Spine label worn on Volume I. Text in good condition.
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The Tale of Lundravar the Dragon.
Limited Collectors Edition. Copy No. 33 of 650. Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, Wee Hills Publishing, [2008]. 30 x 21 cm. (6), 207 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Extensively decorated brown leather with coloured and blind decorations. Gilt titles on front board and spine. Inlaid natural stones on front board. Raised Bands. In plain, dark green padded presentation case with gilt title on front. All edges gilt. Two coloured book mark strips with natural stone decorations. Signed and numbered on half title page. Loosely inserted ‘Certificate of Authenticity’. Marbled end papers. Decorated brass clasp. A unique presentation binding (see images). Fine. As New.
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At My Mother’s Knee.
Uncorrected Proof Copy. London, The Bodley Head, 1978. 21 x 13 cm. 137 pages. With several B&W illustrations. Limp grey paper covers with title on spine and front boards. ‘Uncorrected Proof Copy’ printed on front cover (see image). Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Short (1 cm) closed tear to half title.
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Paddy’s Memories.
First Edition. Colchester, Privately Published, 1998. 23.5 x 15 cm. 333 pages, xiv. Illustrated in B&W. Modern cloth. Hard cover with gilt title and decorations on spine. Fine. Edges a little dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. With a losely inserted hand-written letter, signed ‘Sue’.
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Through the Air. Adventures with Wild Fowl and Small-boat Sailing.
First Edition. London, Country Life, 1941. 24 x 18 cm. 127 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Peter Scott, including 20 original drawings in blue ink, of which one is a full page drawing. All drawings are signed or initialed. Blue Morrocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Gilt line decorations and gilt title on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping to binding. Minor material losses to lower front board. Internally dust dulled and foxed. Text block clean. Inscribed by Michael Bratby ‘To the Field Marshal’. 20 original drawings by Peter Scott.
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Pros Na Fiannaidheachta.
[First Edition]. Dublin, Comlucht Oideachais Na hEireann, Teor., ND [1932]. 18 x 12 cm. 184 pages. Original cloth with blind celtic decorations and black titles to front board and spine. Very good condition. Edges dust dulled. Very few neat pencil notes. A very nice copy. See images.
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The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books.
Second Edition, with the Author’s final corrections. Oxford, Clarendon Press, [1930]. 22 x 17 cm. 175 pages. With a frontispiece showing the author and a losely inserted ‘Publisher’s note on the Text’. Quarter vellum over marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Hard cover. In original dust jacket. Very good with good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket shows some edge wear with minor paper losses and a few tears. Now in protective archival jacket.
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Masques and Phases.
First Edition. London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 19 x 13 cm. xv, 229 pages. Original red cloth with paper label on spine. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges age darkened. Spine label darkened. Large Exlibris to front pastedown. Internally dust dulled and occasionally mildly foxed. A few closed tears. Otherwise internally clean.
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Muinntir Chois Locha. (The Loughsiders).
First Irish Edition. Dublin, 1934. 18 x 12 cm. 371 pages. Original dark blue cloth with black titles on front board and spine. In original dust jacket, now in clear archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear only. Spine a little faded. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Short biro pen line on fore edge. Stamp with name of previous owner on front free end paper. Dust jacket a little dust dulled and with a few short closed tears. Very minor paper losses to corners and head of spine. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.
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The Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern English. Retold by Jean Watson. From the Story by John Bunyan. Illustrated by Peter Wane.
[London], Galley Press, 1978. 22 x 15 cm. 142 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Original cloth with gilt title and decorations. Inside original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some edgewear to dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.
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The Light of the West. With some other wayside Thoughts. 1865 – 1908.
First Edition. Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1909. 19 x 12 cm. (4), 246 pages. Original red cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. All edges deckle. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Binding both faded and age darkened (see images). Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally clean.
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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.
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Strange Harmony. Detective Novel by Antony Carr.
First Edition. Bournemouth & London, William Earl & Company, ND (c. 1950s). 18 x 12 cm. 296 pages. Original blue cloth. Hard cover. Silver title and author on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine faded (see images). Edges and end papers dust dulled and very mildly foxed. Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Internally clean.
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Lyricists of the Restoration. From Sir Edward Sherburne to William Congreve. Selected and Edited by John and Constance Masefield.
[First Edition]. London, E. Grant Richards, 1905. 12.5 x 8 cm. xxiv, 282 pages. Original velum covered paper boards with inserted leather strips (see images for better understanding). Black title and decoration on spine. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Occasional very mild foxing / staining. Overall a very nice copy in an unusual binding.
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Later Poems.
First Edition. Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1961. 20 x 14 cm. (4), 96 pages. Errata slip tipped in on page 96. Original cloth inside original dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled and mildly foxed. Dust jacket age darkened. Small closed tear to top of spine. Small damage to spine. (see images). Internally clean.
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Tuscan Spring. A Novel About Sandro Botticelli (1444 – 1510).
First Edition. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. 20 x 14 cm. 328 pages. Original cloth hard cover with gold paper label on spine. Fore edge deckle. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped and slightly faded on spine. Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.
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Secular Eden [Signed]. Paris Notebooks 1994 – 2004.
First Edition. Wake Forest University Press, 2007. xv, 201 pages. Pale cloth hard cover with name of Author in gilt on front board and spine. Inside a plain white dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the Author on the title page. A very nice copy. Large collection (>10) of newpaper articles losely inserted. From the library of Irish Poet Paul Durcan.
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Broad-Sheet Ballads. Being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs with an Introduction by Padraic Colum.
[First Edition]. Dublin and London, Maunsel & Company, [1913]. xvi, 76 pages. With a frontispiece reduced from a drawing by Jack B. Yeats. Original green cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine. Blind line decorations. Very good condition. Minor rubbing and bumping to corners and spine. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occasional foxing, otherwise internally clean. A nice copy.
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The Lost World. Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone of the “Daily Gazette”.
First Edition. London, New York & Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, ND [1912]. c. 18 x 12 cm. vii, 319 pages. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. With eight B&W Plates and a Map. Original blue cloth. White title and gilt decoration on front board. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Spine faded (see images). Front free end paper missing. Names of previous owners on verso to frontispiece. Internally clean.
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Son Riley Rabbit and Little Girl. With forty Illustrations in Black and White from Photographs.
First UK Edition. London, W.&R.Chambers, Limited, Not dated [c. 1910]. 26 x 20 cm. (6), 113 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original red cloth with decorations. Good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled. Front free end paper missing. Some dog ears and short closed tears to first few pages. Internally clean.
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A Munster Twilight and The Hounds of Banba. [The Library of Modern Irish Fiction].
Dublin and Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Company, ND (c. 1930s). 19 x 13 cm. 140 pages. Original blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened. Remnants of a paper label glued to front free end paper. Spine creased. See images.
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Earth out of Earth.
First Edition. Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, 1939. 18 x 12 cm. 271 pages. Original green cloth with black title on spine. In original dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Very good condition. Book shows minor rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket is worn and has some paper losses to spine and corners. Tear to top of front. Internally bright and clean.
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From Ulster’s Hill. A Book of Verse.
[First Edition]. Belfast, M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr, The Linenhall Press, 1913. 18 x 12 cm. 111 pages. Original cloth hard cover with gilt title and decorations on front board. Very good condition. Rubbed bumped and age darkened binding. A list of names and numbers is neatly written on front free end papers. Minor foxing to a few pages. Dust dulled but internally clean.
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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.
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Irish Sporting Sketches – Signed.
First Edition. Gigginstown, Mullingar, The Lilliput Press, 1984. 21 x 14 cm. 108 pages. With small B&W Illustrations. Original stiff paper covers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Inscribed by the Author (‘Eric’) on the first blank page. See images.
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Telling Tales – Signed.
First Edition. Scarriff Bridge, Ballivor, County Meath, Zircon Publishing, 1990. 21 x 13.5 cm. v, 89 pages. Original stiff paper covers. Soft covers. Losely inserted invitation to the book launch. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Inscribed by the Author (‘Eric’) on title page.
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Caribbean Vagabond.
First Edition. London, Robert Hale Limited, 1968. 21 x 13 cm. 207 pages. With B&W photos. Original dark cloth with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Some age darkening. Some wear to dust jacket and long closed tears. See images.
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Glimpses of Clare Island.
First Edition. Published by the Author, Printed at Colour Books, Dublin, 2004. 29 x 20 cm. viii, 261 pages. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs. Original blue cloth. Hard cover inside original decorated dust jacket. A bright and clean copy. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Fine in very good dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket.
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A New Trafalgar. A Tale of the Torpedo Fleet.
First Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1902. 19 x 12 cm. vi, 301 pages plus ten pages publishers list. Includes two newspaper reviews of the book losely inserted. Original cloth with title on front board. Gilt title on spine. Good condition. Corners, boards and spine rubbed, bumped and stained. Spine age darkened and seriously frayed with some material losses to its ends. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Spine a little shaky, but holding. Internally clean with occasional mild foxing.
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Roads from Home.
Second Impression May 1949. London, Michael Joseph, 1949. 18.5 x 12 cm. 254 pages. Original cloth inside original dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket with small paper losses to top of spine and closed tear (5cm) to the back. Mild age darkening. Internally clean.
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Give Dust a Tongue [Signed]. A Faith & Poetry Memoir.
First Edition. Blackrock, Co. Dublin, The Columba Press, 2015. Octavo. 229 pages. Original paper covered boards. Hard Cover. Inside original dust jacket. Inscribed by the Author on the front free end paper. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Selected Delanty [Signed]. Poems and translations by Greg Delanty chosen and introduced by Archie Burnett.
First Edition. Boston, Un-Gyve Press, 2017. xxi, 244 pages. Scarce Hard Cover Copy. Pale cloth hard cover with blue line design across boards. Authors name and book title on front board and spine. Dark blue end papers. Frontispiece. Fine textured paper and deckle fore edge. Near fine. Inscribed and signed by the Author on the titel page. A very attractive copy. From the library of Irish Poet Paul Durcan.
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The Emigrant. Translated by Vera Margolies, with an introduction by Stephen Graham.
First American Edition. New York, Brentano’s, 1916. 12.5 x 19cm. (9), 320 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket worn with some paper losses to front, rear and spine ends. Now in archival jacket. Internally bright and clean.
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Datad A Haon. (Forty-One. A Story of the second Anglo-Irish War in the Seventeenth Century.)
First Irish Edition. Dublin, 1955. 18 x 12 cm. 344 pages. Original red cloth with black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Head of spine a little frayed. Mild browning to edges and end papers. Paper sticker on title page with names of author and translator (by publisher?). Internally bright and clean.
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East Coker / Burnt Norton.
EC: Sixth Impression 1942 / BN: Third Impression 1941. London, Faber and Faber, 1942 / 1941. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. 15 pages / 15 pages. Original paper wrappers. Stapled. Very good condition. Covers a little dust dulled (see images). Small gift card with handwritten note tipped in, in both volumes. Internall clean. Few small nicks and creases.
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What is a Classic? an address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944.
First Edition. London, Faber & Faber, 1945. 22 x 14 cm, 32 pages. Original light blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Book is slanted and begins to open between pages 8 and 9. Binding is faded. Some shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally bright and clean.
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Modern First Editions: Points and Values: Second and Third Series.
First Limited Editions.289/1000 and 458/750. Two Volumes. London, W. & G. Foyle, 1931 & 1932. 23 x 14 cm. 2nd Series: xvii, 93 pages / 3rd Series: xxvii, 99 pages. Original black cloth with gilt titles on foreboards and spines. In original unclipped dust jackets (inside protective plastic jackets). Fore and tail edge deckle. Very good condition. 2nd Series inscribed by author on ffep. Printed on heavy stiff paper. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Some age darkening and dust dulling. Over all two very nice copies.
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The Lifted Veil. a collection of poems 1966 – 67.
First Edition. Tehran, Sherkat Sahami Ketabhaye Jibi, 1968. 23 x 12 cm. (4), 59 pages. Original blue cloth with title and author on the front board. Inside original dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some edgewear to dust jacket. Inside bright and clean.
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Throne Shadows. A Historical Episode.
[First Edition]. London, Rich and Cowan, [1950]. 19 x 13 cm. 272 pages. Original blue cloth with black title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good in good dust jacket.Minor rubbing and bumping. Mild fading / staining to cloth. Dust jacket creased with edge wear and paper losses (see images). Dust jacket now in neat archival jacket. Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally bright and clean.
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The Five Of Trumps. [Short Stories].
Second Impression. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1926. 18.5 x 12 cm. 256 pages. With B&W Illustrations in Text. Original red cloth. Hard cover. Blind title on front board. Gilt title one spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened and mildly foxed. Boards discoloured and spotted (see images). Name of previous owner on front paste down. Both hinges started to crack. Internally clean.
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