181. Durcan, Paul.

A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems.

London, Harvill, 1993. 13 cm x 21 cm. XIII, 272 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. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

182. Donleavy, J.P.

The History of the Ginger Man. An Autobiography.

First American Edition. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Large Octavo. 517, (1) pages. With numerous photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

183. Donleavy, J.P.

Schultz.

London, Allen Lane, 1980. 14 cm x 2237 cm. 375 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. First Edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

184. [Brown, Christy] Jordan, Anthony J.

Christy Brown’s Women – A Biography Drawing on His Letters. Includes the Founding of Cerebral Palsy Ireland by Robert Collis.

Dublin, Westport Books, 1998. 20.8cm x 14.7cm. 178 pages. With illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

185. Boland, Bridget.

The Wild Geese. A Novel.

London / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1938. 19.5cm x 13cm. 264 pages, including a map showing A Part of the Baronies of Iveragh, Dunkerron & Glanerought in the County of Kerry. Original Hardcover (green cloth) without dustjacket. The binding with some darkening and slightly stained. Else in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Bridget Boland: “Going away present (alas) for the Goughs [British Actor Michael Gough] – from Bridget B.”

186. Boland, Bridget.

At My Mother’s Knee.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1978. 22.3cm x 14.3cm. 137 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

187. Keane, John B.

The Change in Mame Fadden.

Cork / Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1973. 11 cm x 18 cm. 114 pages. Original softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some marks on cover. Clean inside with intact binding.

188. Healy, John.

Nineteen Acres.

Galway, Kenny’s Bookshop, 1988. 20.1cm x 14cm. viii, 141 pages. Frontispiece photograph: Mary O’Donnell. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

189. Craig, Maurice.

Poems – Selected and Edited by Andrew Carpenter. With an Introductory Essay by Lucy Collins.

Signed / Limited Edition No.4/50. Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011. Octavo. 73 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and a small paper-fault to endpaper/pastedown.

190. Binchy, Maeve.

Firefly Summer. [SIGNED / Inscribed by Maeve Binchy].

First Edition. London, Century Hutchinson Ltd, 1987. 16 cm x 24 cm. 572 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

191. Stephens, James.

Insurrections.

Dublin, Maunsel, 1912. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. 55 pages. Original Hardcover. Endpaper missing. Otherwise in very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Private giftinscription from eminent irish artist Brian Lalor to Erik and Myrna Haugaard in September 1975.

192. MacNamara, Brinsley.

The Clanking of Chains.

First Anvil edition. Tralee, Anvil Books, 1965. 11 cm x 18 cm. 173 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

193. Marcus, David (Editor).

State of the Art – Short Stories by the New Irish Writers.

London, Sceptre, 1992. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 377 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages discoloured. Dogear.

194. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

195. Higgins, Aidan.

Balcony of Europe. Revised by the author. Edidted and with an Afterword by Neil Murphy.

Champaign and London, Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. 8°. 358 pages. Original Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Aidan Higgins to irish photographer John Minihan on the front free endpaper.

196. Donleavy, J.P.

A Singular Country.

Peterborough, Ryan Publishing, 1989. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 198 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing and smudging to endpapers.

197. Conyers, Dorothea.

Old Andy. Author of “Sandy Married”.

Fourth Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1916. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 253 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Pages tanned. Some foxing throughout. Smudging to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner’s names endpapers. Bar code sticker on rear endpaper.

198. Shorter, Dora Sigerson.

The Tricolour – Poems of the Irish Revolution.

Dublin, Maunsel and Roberts, Limited., 1922. 11 cm x 17 cm. 71 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor smudging and discolouration to pastedowns and endpapers. Foxing to edges.

199. Sheridan, John D.

The Right Time.

Dublin, The Talbot Press Ltd., [c.1951]. 13 cm x 19 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some tearing, fraying to dustjacket. Otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription to front free endpaper.

200. Sheridan, John D.

Joking Apart. Illustrated by Paul Noonan.

Dublin, The Talbot Press Ltd., 1964. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 202 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.