Barry, Patrick.

By Bride and Blackwater ! – Poems, Stories and Historical Articles: The Guerilla War / Gaelic Athletics / Fermoy and the Upper Blackwater Basin / Pedigree of the Earls of Desmond / The Munster Geraldines by the Blackwater and the Bride / Lisgoold Footballers / Matches with Carrig and Little Island / The Glenville Tournament / Ballyhooley Tournament / Great Cork Priest in the Opening Years of the GAA (Fr. E. Barry from Rathcormac and Bartlemy) / A Veteran Hurler’s Reverie / Lismore Castle etc. etc.

First Edition. Cork, Lee Press, 1944. Octavo. 168, [8] pages with historical advertising. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and very few dogears. A very scarce book in unusually excellent condition !

Bolster, John / [Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph] / Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L.E.L.]/ Sloane, Hans.

Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine. Volume I. No. I (February, 1826) – Volume I. No. IV (November, 1826).

Cork, John Bolster, Patrick Street, 1826. Octavo. VIII, 394 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the boards and corners. Interior very good with only occasional signs of foxing. A very rare Cork publication with some extremely scarce, often anonymously published essays on local history, poetry etc. The publications signed with J.J.C. are by Corkonian Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. Name of 19th century preowner on endpaper: “Michael Higgins”.

Bolster, Sister M. Angela.

The Lough Parish and its Historic Associations.

Cork, c.1975. Octavo. 32 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Cronin, Tom.

Cork Then and Now.

Dublin, The History Press Ireland, 2012. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 95 pages. Several black and white, sepia and colour photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

d’Alton, Ian.

Protestant Society and Politics in Cork: 1812-1844.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1980. 15.5 cm x 22 cm. XIV, 264 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket with some stronger wear and some fraying but otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Extremely important and scarce book !

Dwyer, James A.

The Dominicans of Cork City and County.

Illustrated. Cork, Guy and Company Limited, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 199 pages. 21 illustrations. Missing frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt embossment to front board also. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fading to spine. Staining to front board. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Gutter between endpaper and titlepage cracked with exposed cloth. Binding still firm and strong. Some foxing to front endpapers. Interior bright and clean. Front pastedown carries presentation bookplate of Presentation College, Mardyke, Cork detailing prize awarded to “Master A Swanton” for “maintaining second place in English” signed by “M J O’Connor”.

[Eason & Son Ltd.].

Souvenir of Cork & Killarney. With 19 [tipped in] Illustrations [early photographs], complete with Letterpress.

Dublin / Belfast, Eason & Son, Ltd., no year [c. 1910]. 28,5 cm x 22 cm. 13 pages with tipped in photographic postcard illustrations in different sizes. Original, illustrated softcover. Breathtaking publication in unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This very rare publication is a true gem for all collectors of local Cork and Kerry photography. The photographs are all accompanied by a very informative text. Very Rare !

3. Father James.

African Adventure.

Dublin, The Father Mathew Record Office, 1936. Octavo. Portrait Frontispiece of Father Matthews in Livingstone, 201 pages wihth several photographs and plus folded map of Father Matthews’ Travels from Capetwon, South Africa, to Kimberley, Mafeking, Bulawayo in S. Rhodesia, Livingstone, Mongu Barotseland in North Rhodesia to Angola. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Finn, Tom (editor).

Conna in History and Tradition.

Mallow, Conna Community Council, 1998. 15 cm x 20 cm. VI, 412 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slightly battered cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

[Goodman, Canon James] Various.

Abbeystrewry: A Parish Memoir.

Blarney, Forum Publications, 1991. 20.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 80 pages including many black and white photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.