251. Allen, Charles.

A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India.

London, Futura, 1986. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 254 pages. With several photographs and maps. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some fading to cover. Yellowed pages and spotting on several pages. Clean inside with solid binding.

252. Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), Strong, L.A.G.

A New Anthology of Modern Verse, 1920-1940. Chosen and with an introduction by C. Day Lewis and L. A. G. Strong.

London, Methuen & Co, 1941. 11 cm x 17 cm. XXXIII, 221 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

253. Christian, Gilbert Augustus and George Collar.

A New Arithmetic: Theoretical and Practical.

Eleventh Edition. London, Meiklejohn and Holden, 1904. 13 cm x 19 cm. X, 564 pages. With a table of references. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear, for example slight rubbing to the spine.

254. Jones, Stephen.

A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation.

Fourth edition (corrected). London, Robinson / Longman and Rees / Wallis, 1802. 8.5 x 13.5cm. Unpaginated. Hardcover / Contemporary, full morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on board edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Very minor signs of wear to spine and corners, otherwise excellent condition. Binding solid and text clear and bright. Previous owner’s name on title page: “Susan Courteney, died 10 June 1808”.

255. Nance, R. Morton.

A New Cornish Dictionary: Gerlyver Noweth Kernewek.

Redruth, Agan Tavas, 1999. 14.5cm x 22.5cm. 200 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

256. Laver, Michael.

A New Electoral System for Ireland ?

Dublin, The Policy Institute in association with The All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, 1998. 21cm. 56 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Studies in public policy (Trinity College.Policy Institute) ; 2].

257. [Nietzsche, Friedrich] Hollingdale, R.J.

A Nietzsche Reader. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R.J. Hollingdale.

London / New York / a.o. Penguin Books Ltd., no year. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 285 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name and date in ink pen on endpaper.

258. Rider Haggard, Lilias.

A Norfolk Notebook.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1946. 20.9cm x 13.1cm. 177 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private giftinscription on the endpaper.

259. Beales, Peter.

A Passion for Roses. Special Photography by Marianne Majerus.

First Edition. London, Mitchell Beazley, 2004. 22.5cm x 29cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear. Beautifully inscribed and signed by Peter Beales. (Mitchell Beazley Gardening).

260. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

261. Figes, Orlando.

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891 – 1924.

London, Pimlico, 1997. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXII, 923 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

262. [Burke, Edmund].

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taset, and several other Additions.

A New Edition. London, Printed for J.Dodsley, in Pall-mall, 1787. Octavo. IX, [7 unnumbered], 342 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with original, red spine-label. Gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Spine cracked but still firm and holding. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

263. Gray, Andrew.

A Pilgrimage to Bible Lands. Historical Notes and Reflections on Scenes and Places Visited.

London / New York, Skeffington & Son / Edwin S. Gorham, 1903. 13 cm x 19 cm. VIII, 178 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and on front board. Blind stamp to front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of O.N.Ogilvie.

264. Follett, Ken.

A Place Called Freedom.

Advance Reader’s Edition. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 405 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition.

265. Community Council to End the War in Vietnam.

A Poetry Reading for Peace in Vietnam.

First Edition. Santa Barbara, Unicorn Press, 1967. 14,5 x 21,5 cm. 18 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition. Signed by Philip Levine on page 9. Minimal discoloration on the cover only.

266. Riordan, Patrick.

A Politics of the Common Good.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1996. 22 cm. vi, 185 pages. Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

267. Humphreys, Christmas.

A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism.

Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997. 16 cm x 24 cm. 224 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

268. Elliott, A.G.

A Portrait of Brighton. Circa 1911 and Today.

First Edition. Portslade, A.G. Elliott, 1980. 15 x 21 cm. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of Art Historian Claudia Kinmonth.

269. Morris, Willie.

A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season. Illustrated by Barry Moser.

San Diego / New York / London, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. 18.8 cm x 19.9 cm. Unpaginated (28 pages). Colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. Slipcase still in protective film. As New condition with only minor signs of external wear. This edition has been specially bound and is limited to three hundred copies signed by the author and illustrator. This copy is number 74.

270. Maclennan, Ben.

A Proper Degree of Terror: John Graham and the Cape’s Eastern Frontier.

Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1986. 13.8 cm x 21.5 cm. 252 pages. 21 illustrations. 3 maps within text. Softcover [publisher’s original] with beautifully illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

271. von Franz, Marie-Louise.

A Psychological Interpretation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius.

Private limited edition. New York, Spring Publications, 1970. 15,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 184 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Limited private edition of only 900 copies. Some minor misprints. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

272. Creeley, Robert.

A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays.

First Edition. Berkeley, Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. 8°. 365 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Robert Creeley to Robert Winson and Miriam Sagan on title page. Also included is a signed postcard to Winson and Sagan in which Creeley thanks them for sending their magazine.

273. Lovell, Mary S.

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton.

New York, W.W. Norton, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 910 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition, extremely rare first edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

274. Posner, David / Hockney, David.

A Rake’s Progress – a poem in five sections. First edition (with the often missing Errata sheet bound in to the rear of the Volume)

No. 218 of a limited edition of 450 copies. London / New York, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962. Square Folio (39.5 cm wide x 36 cm high). 84 unnumbered pages with illustrations by Hockney throughout. Hardcover / Designed by John Tomlinson. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Wonderful, firm example of this rare publication.

275. [Melville, Herman] Miller Jr., James E.

A Reader’s Guide to Herman Melville.

New York, The Noonday Press, 1962. 14 cm x 20 cm. XV, 266 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear.

276. [John Minihan Collection] – [Beckett, Samuel] Kenner, Hugh.

A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett.

Second Impression of First Syracuse University Press Edition. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2000. 14cm x 20,5cm. 208 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan.

277. [Rilke, Rainer Maria] McCarthy, Patricia (Editor).

A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Mayfield, Agenda and Editions, 2007. 15 cm x 21 cm. 288 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Agenda Vol. 42 No 3-4].

278. Tomline, George.

A Refutation of Calvinism – in which, The Doctrines of Original Sin, Grace, Regeneration, Justification and Universal Redemption are explained and the peculiar Tenets maintained by Calvin upon these points are proved to be contrary to Scripture, to the writings of the Antient [sic] Fathers of the Christian Church and to the public formularies of the Church of England. [Bound with a rare Cork-Print of “Remarks on the late publication of Dr.G.Tomline, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, entitled a Refutation of Calvinism, extracted and abridged from the Eclectic Review, for August 1811].

[Third Edition of the main title / First edition of the Cork-print]. London, T.Cadell & W.Davies, 1811. Octavo. Main title: IX, (1), 590 pages / Additional title: (1), 23 pages (Printed in Cork, 1811 and sold by Edwards & Savage and J. & R. McMullin in Castle-Street).. Hardcover / Original, early 19th-century half leather with paper-covered boards. In protective Mylar. Paper on boards slightlys damaged. Binding otherwise firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. One page of the additionally bound title slightly loosened. Bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, on pastedown. Rare and especially interesting version of this book with the Remarks on the Refutation bound in the rear.

279. Gladstone, John.

A Review of Mr. Cobden’s Corn Politics. Submitted for the Consideration of Landlords, Farmers, and Manufacturers of the United Kingdom. In a Letter, dated London, May 18th, 1843, addressed to the Editor of the ‘Morning Herald’.

c.1843. 22.1cm x 13.8cm. 8 pages. Softcover / Cover missing. Good condition with only minor signs of wear.

280. [Rockwell, Norman] Walton, Donald.

A Rockwell Portrait. An Intimate Biography.

Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1978. 24 cm. 285 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white with 8 leaves of plates. Original hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

281. Anson, Peter F.

A Roving Recluse. More Memoirs.

Second Impression. Cork, Mercier Press, 1946. 14 cm x 22 cm. 230 pages with illustrations by the author. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight damp stains in inner covers. Embossed stamps marks on few pages.

282. Thomas, Ann.

A Safe House. Poems.

First Edition. New Hampshire, Self-published, 1996. 14 x 21,5 cm. 101 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

283. Carcaterra, Lorenzo.

A Safe Place: The Story Of A Father, A Son, A Murder.

First Edition of the First Book. New York, Villard Books, 1993. 17 cm x 24,5 cm. XVI, 315 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

284. Soares, Jo / Landers, Clifton E. (translator).

A Samba for Sherlock.

Special Preview Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1997. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 271 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

285. [Schoenberg, Arnold] Auner, Joseph.

A Schoenberg Reader. Documents of a Life.

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2003. 8°. XXVI, 428 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes – with some underlining in pencil.

286. Wakeman, John.

A Sea Family. New and Selected Poems.

First edition. Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005. 14 cm x 21 cm. 56 pages. With 8 illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the poet’s dedication to Kruger and his wife Nell to title page. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. [Bradshaw Poets].

287. Moloney, Ed.

A Secrret History of the IRA.

London, Allen Lane, 2002. 25 cm. xxi, 600 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

288. Walker, George.

A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and his Contemporaries – Now first published from the original Manuscripts with Notes and Additions by George Walker.

First Edition. London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, XVI, 110 pages plus 2 pages with advertising (List of Works by George Walker). Hardcover / Original cloth with original printed label to frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Very Rare !

289. Broom, Herbert.

A Selection of Legal Maxims, classified and Illustrated. The Ninth Edition by W.J.Byrne.

London, Sweet & Maxwell Limited, 1924. Large Octavo. LXXV, 668 pages plus a catalogue of “Books for Law Students” (July 1927 – Sweet & Maxwell Ltd.”. Hardcover / Original buckram with gilt lettering to spine. The boards of the binding heavily stained but otherwise in very good condition. Interior very clean and with only minor signs of foxing.

290. Garlick, Raymond.

A Sense of Europe. Collected Poems 1954-1968.

First Edition. Wales, Gwasg Gomer, 1968. 22.1cm x 14.3cm. (12) 106 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Dustjacket with mild signs of foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

291. [Woolf, Virginia] Sterne, Laurence.

A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: with an introduction by Virginia Woolf.

[First Edition. Limited printrun of 5000 copies. Kirkpatrick B 7]. London, Oxford University Press, 1928. 9.5 x 15.5cm. (17), 233 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of shelf wear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford World’s Classics, No. 333].

292. [Pound, Ezra] Carpenter, Humphrey.

A Serious Character – The Life of Ezra Pound.

London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 1005 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two minor items of ephemera from ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ 1989 [Review of the book by William H.Gass in TLS in January 1989 and Responses to the review, also printed in TLS, in February 1989].

293. [Shakespeare, William] Brown, Richard Danson / Johnson, David.

A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism. Shakespeare: Text and Performance.

United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. 23.4cm x 15.7cm. XV, 330 pages. With 2 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

294. Maclear, G. F. (George Frederick).

A Shilling Book of Old Testament History. For national and elementary schools.With a map of the Holy Land.

London, Macmillan, 1904. 15 cm. 124 pages. One double map illustration. Original hardcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Some noticeable staining to cover.

295. Villalobos R, Sergio.

A Short History of Chile.

Fifth Edition. Santiago, Editorial Universitaria, 2002. Octavo. 204 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

296. Carstairs, Andrew McLaren.

A Short History of Electoral Systems in Western Europe.

London, Allen & Unwin, 1980. 23 cm. 236 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket torn but otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper.

297. Mulcahy, Michael, B.E.

A Short History of Kinsale.

Kiinsale, Michael Mulcahy, 1968. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 68 pages. With the large fold-out-map of the Battle of Kinsale and several illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

298. [Green, Alice Stopford] Green, John Richard.

A Short History of the English People. To some extent re-written by Alice Stopford Green. With Maps and Tables.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1911. 19 cm. XXXIX, 847 pages. Illustrations, including maps, in colour and black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight fading to frontcover and rubbing to spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

299. [Kierkeaard, Søren] Lowrie, Walter.

A Short Life of Kierkegaard.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1965. 8°. XI, 271 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

300. Hersey, John.

A Single Pebble.

London, Corgi Books, 1966. 11 cm x 18 cm. 143 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration to pages throughout but mostly to endpapers and inside covers. Spine sunned.