1871. [Frömel, Gerda].

Gerda Frömel – A Retrospective. [ Irish Museum of Modern Art 10 April – 5 July, 2015].

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Octavo. 124 pages. Illustrated throughout. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A very rare book now !

1872. Schumpeter, Joseph A.

History of Economic Analysis. With a new introduction by Mark Perlman.

London, Routledge, 1997. Octavo. XLVIII, 1260 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear only. Interior absolutely clean with no names or markings.

1873. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – [British Museum / Dave Naylor].

I. British Caenozoic Fossils (Tertiary and Quarternary) – Third Edition / II. British Mesozoic Fossils – Third Edition / III. Palaeozoic Fossils – First Edition.

Three Volume Set. London, British Museum, 1964 – 1968. Octavo. Pagination: I. British Caenozoic Fossils: IX, 132 pages with illustrations of Fossils on 44 plates / II. British Mesozoic Fossils: VI, 207 pages with illustrations of Fossils on 73 plates / III. British Palaeozoic Fossils: VI, 208 pages with illustrations of Fossils on 69 plates. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. From the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor, with his name on two of the volumes.

1874. McCarthy, Patricia.

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2016. Quarto: (25 cm wide x 28 cm high). 260 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition. The rare Hardcover-Edition.

1875. [O’Connell, Daniel / MacDonagh, Michael / Ronan, Myles V. [Ed].

Catholic Emancipation Centenary Record [Including some interesting interesting historical illustrations and information on Daniel O’Connell. For example the interesting essay on Daniel O’Connell: “Derrynane and its Relics” by Margaret O’Connell and a Cartoon of Daniel O’Connell being flanked by Jack Lawless and Richard Lalor Shiel].

First Edition. Dublin, Literary Committee, 1929. 18.5cm x 27cm. 96 pages of content with numerous illustrations, portraits etc. and the publication includes also 105 pages of advertising features on historical irish companies. Original softcover with illustrated paper wrappers. Small cutout (c.10 x 5 cm) to endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

1876. Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spotting to the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.

1877. Walker, Dorothy.

Modern Art in Ireland. Foreword by Seamus Heaney.

First Edition. Dublin, Lilliput Press, 1997. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 239 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1878. Connolly, Claire.

Irtish Literature in Transition (1780 – 1830).

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Octavo. XIV, (2), 439 pages (including a thorough Index). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed by Claire Connolly on the titlepage.

1879. Huebler, Douglas.

“Crocodile Tears” – (Brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70: 1971 “to photographically document the existence of everyone alive.”).

First Edition. Buffalo / New York, CEPA Gallery, 1985. Quarto (22.5 cm x 27.7 cm). 40 unnumbered pages. Original, illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes the original purchase-receipt.

1880. The Religious Tract Society.

The Money in the Milk and other Stories. [Together with Ephemera: Broadside: “A Song”].

London, The Religious Tract Society, no year [c.1879]. Duodecimo. Frontispiece (Chromolithograph), 63 pages with text-vignettes. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament to cover. Binding a little shaky and stronger rubbed. Pastedown with Exlibris from the First Presbyterian Church in Carrickfergus – Albert Hall Sabbath School: “Presented to Jane McFerran for regular attendance for six months ending June 1884 – Signed J.M.N.Stevenson”.