31. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition in Hardcover, which we offer here, is the much better version.

32. Gallivan, G.P.

Decision at Easter. A Play in Three Acts. [With the printed dedication: To the Men of Easter Week]. With a foreword by Ignatius Johns.

Dublin, Progress House, 1960. 8°. 74 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Popular Plays Series].

33. Gogarty, Oliver St. John.

Tumbling in the Hay.

First Edition. London, Constable and Company Ltd, 1939. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 325 Pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

34. [Gogarty, Oliver St. John] Ussher, Arland.

The Face and Mind of Ireland.

Third Impression. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Modern Hardcover binding (grey cloth with black lettering on spine andnew endpapers). Excellent condition. This book comes from the library of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty and was signed and inscribed to him by Arland Ussher on the halftitle in May 1950. A very nice association copy.

35. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

36. Griffin, Gerald.

The Collegians or The Colleen Bawn – A Tale of Garryowen.

London and Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no year (c.1890). Octavo. Frontispiece, VII, 369 pages. Original publisher’s cloth / Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Late 19th century edition of this irish classic. [The Evergreen Library]

37. Gwynn, Stephen.

Memories of Enjoyment.

Tralee, The Kerryman Limited, 1946. Octavo. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of fraying and some external wear to the jacket.

38. Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.

Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language. A Short History.

London, Thomas Nelson, 1936. 21 cm. IX, 240 pages. Original hardcover. Poor condition but with signs of external wear. There is noticeable rubbing to and fading of the spine, and foxing on inside and selective pages. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

39. Haining, Peter / Bradbury, Ray.

Irish Tales of Terror – Twenty-two Bewitching Stories of Irish Magic and Mystery by James Joyce, Ray Bradbury, H.P.Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, W.B.Yeats, Oscar Wilde and others. Introduction by Ray Bradbury / Edited by Peter Haining.

New York / Avenel (New Jersey), Wings Books, 1970. Octavo. 317 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

40. Hassett, Declan.

Make ‘em laugh ! A golden year of theatre.

Cork, Collins Press and Everyman Palace Theatre, 2008. 22 cm. xv, 288 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.