1. 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 we offer here is the much better version.

2. Keane, John B.

Stories from a Kerry Fireside.

Dublin, Mercier Press, 1993. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 87 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Leamy, Edmund.

Irish Fairy Tales.

Cork / Dublin, Mercier Press, 1978. 11 x 18cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Poor condition !! Front jacket detached, otherwise good condition. Needs repair. Inscribed with previous owner’s name. Rare Book !

4. [Limerick – Lough Gur] Quinlan, Michael J. (Editor).

Lough Gur & District Historical Society Journal – No.7 – “Special Folklore Edition”.

Lough Gur, District & Historical Society, 1991. Octavo. 161 pages plus 14 pages of Notes and References and a list of Contributors. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Mc Gowan, Joe.

A Bitter Wind.

Sligo, Aeolus Publications, 2009. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 284 pages. Several colour photographs throughout. Original Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Now Out-of-Print !

6. Ó Cathasaigh, Thomás [Thomas Casey] / An Craoibhín Aoibhinn [Editor: Douglas Hyde].

Ocht Sgéalta ó Choillte Mághach [‘Eight Stories from Kiltimagh’].

First Edition. Báile Átha Cliath, An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, 1936. Octavo. (2), VI, 136 pages. Original, printed wrappers (Original, publisher’s Softcover boards). Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A very, very rare book !

7. O’Connor, Frank.

Leinster, Munster and Connaught. Illustrated and with a Map.

London, Robert Hale Limited, [1950]. 14.4 cm x 22.2 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 296 pages. With forty-eight plates of photographs and one fold-out map. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition. Dustjacket has very minor fraying. [The County Book Series].

8. Wright, Thomas.

Louthiana – Or, An Introduction To The Antiquities of Ireland – In Upwards of Ninety Views and Plans : Representing, with proper explanations, the principal Ruins, Curiosities and Antient [sic] Dwellings in the County of Louth. Taken upon the Spot by Thomas Wright, Author of the Physical and Mathematical Elements of Astronomy, &c. Engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

The second Edition revised and corrected, with some few Additions by the Author. Three Volumes in One. London, Printed for Thomas Payne, next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, DSt.Martins; and sold by Mess.Ewing, Dublin, 1758. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece showing “The Monument of the Battle of the Boyne”, two-coloured titlepage (lettering in black and red), Preface with printed Dedication (2 pages) to James, Earl of Clanbrassele, with two smaller Text-Illustrations showing Views of Dundalk and a Map of Dundalk Bay (4 pages), Book I: 16 pages of Text plus 20 full-page Plates (complete) / Volume II: 8 pages Text, Two smaller Text-Illustrations of the Mouth of the Boyn [sic] and of St.Laurence’s Gate of Doroghedah [sic]), 24 Full-page Plates (complete) / Volume III: 20 pages text, with one smaller Text-Illustration of the Bay of Carlingford, plus 22 full-page Plates. Collation complete ! Hardcover / Original full calf of the 18th century with orignal spine-label and gilt ornament on spine. Binding still holding but both boards nearly detached (in need of repair). Interior in very good condition with all of the fascinating plates present. Some minor creasing to some plates and only very slight foxing to very few plates. A Rare original version of this sought after Book !!