1671. [Davitt, Michael] Cashman, D.B.

The Life of Michael Davitt – Founder of the National Land League – To which is added: “The Secret History of the Land League” by Michael Davitt.

Cameron & Ferguson Edition. London, R. & T. Washbourne, no year (c. 1920). Octavo. 256 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1672. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

1673. Dawe, Gerald.

Stray Dogs and Dark Horses. Selected Essays on Irish Writing and Criticism.

First Edition. Newry, Abbey Press, 2000. Octavo. 212 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. Inscribed to John Wakeman. Number 21 of 250.

1674. Dawe, Gerald.

The Rest is History.

First Reprint. Newry, Abbey Press, 1998. Octavo. 123 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Examines Belfast through its poetry and culture. Signed and inscribed by Gerald Dawe to John and Hilary Wakeman.

1675. Dawson, Barbara.

[Turner, J.M.W.] Turner in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Dublin, The National Gallery of Ireland, 1988. 24.5 cm x 20 cm. 140 pages. With many illustrations. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

1676. Dawson, Fielding.

The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Transformation.

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 8°. 69 pages. Original Hardcover in the original acetate dustjacket [Mylar]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. No. 107 of 200 hardcover copies, numbered and signed by the author.

1677. [Dawson, Miles Menander / Meynell, Alice] Rittenhouse, Jessie B.

The Little Book of American Poets 1787-1900 [Association copy: Inscribed by american Poet and Philosopher Miles Menander Dawson and his wife to english Poet Alice Meynell: “To Mrs. Alice Meynell with the best regards of her friends Mr. + Mrs. Miles M. Dawson”].

First Edition. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Small Octavo. XX, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare and beautiful association between these two Poets.

1678. Day Lewis, C.

The Poet’s Task. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 1 June 1951.

First Edition. Oxford, At The Clarendon Press, 1951. 14,5 x 22 cm. 24 pages. Original Softcover. In protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1679. 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.

1680. Day, Angelique (Editor).

Letters from Georgian Ireland: The correspondence of Mary Delany, 1731-68. Edited by Angelique Day. Foreword by Sybil Connolly.

Belfast, The Friar’s Bush Press, 1991. Octavo. VIII, 303 p ages with 66 black & white illustrations plus 16 color plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.