1. Mc Cionniath, L.

Focloir Bearla agus Gaeilge / English-Irish Dictionary.

Baile Atha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialitais, 1935. 14 cm x 19 cm. XXII, 1546 pages. Original hardcover. Good + condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some browning of pages, and wear at cover-edges. Browning and spotting of page edges. Binding a bit shaky, intact but strained in places. Clean inside.

2. [John Minihan Collection] – Hogan, Desmond.

The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea and Other Stories.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Internal pages fine. Manuscript letter from the author Desmond Hogan to irish photographer John Minihan loosely inserted.

3. Hayward, Richard.

Munster and the City of Cork. With pencil drawings by Raymond Piper.

London, Pheonix House, 1964. 18 cm x 26 cm. XIV, 354 pages, 120 half-tone illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Price-clipped dustjacket. Otherwise in unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private gift-inscription (not by author).

4. Wigham, Billy / Rynne, Colin.

‘A Life of Usefulness’: Abraham Beale and the Monard Ironworks.

Blarney, Sitka Press, 2000. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. X, 79 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains dedication by Colin Rynne. Newspaper-clipping stapled to end-paper. Slight bending crease on front cover near spine. Volume otherwise clean and intact.

5. The Knight of Glin / Griffin, David J. / Robinson, Nicholas K.

Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland.

Kildare, The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1989. 25.5 cm x 28.5 cm. VI, 161 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. This is the rare Hardcover – Edition !

6. Taylor, Alice / Ní Choileáin, Orna / Taylor, Patrick / et al.

Be Inspired – Gems from Irish Publishing. Extracts from 30 Great Irish Books.

Dublin, Publishing Ireland, 2009. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 207 pages. Several black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Brehony, Tony.

West Cork – “a sort of a history, like…”

Dublin, AB Books, 2001. 15 cm x 21 cm. XII, 154 pages. Original softcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Rare !

8. O’Sullivan, Ted.

Bere Island: A Short History.

Cork, Inisgragy Books, 2002. 20.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight curling of corners on cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

9. Alexander the Coppersmith.

Remarks Upon, The Religion, Trade, Government, Police, Customs, Manners, And Maladys, Of The City Of Corke.

Cork, Tower Books, 1974. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 133 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

10. Haliday, Charles / Brendain O Riordain (introduction).

The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin. Edited with some Notice of the Author’s Life by John P.Prendergast.

Reprint of the Second Edition – Dublin, 1894. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1969. 15 cm x 24 cm. CXXIII, 300 pages. Illustrated with maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Extensive spotting on endpapers and some on pages edges and spine. Interior pages mostly clean with intact binding. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.