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Irish Literature20825. : Irish Life Christmas Number Vol. XXXV no 6 November 26th 1920. Dublin: Irish Life 26 Nov.1920. 30.5 x 21.5 cm 188-248 pp. illustratedsoftcovers, staples have rusted and gone, otherwise in fair/good condition. The last days of British rule in Ireland. £10.00993. Irvine, Alexander: My Lady of the Chimney Corner A Story of Love and Poverty in Irish Peasant Life. London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press n.d. c.1934. 248 pp. Illustrated by George Ogilvy Reid. Sunday School prize plate on front pastedown dated 1934. In very good condition in a somewhat rubbed red card slipcase. £10.0011147. Birmingham, Geo. A.: The Lighter Side of Irish Life. Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis, 1912. vii + 270 pp. 20 x 13.5 cm. 16 coloured mounted illustrations by the artist Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A. Gold blocked buff boards. In good condition. A classic, much-loved, book by this author. £15.0013511. Birmingham, George A.: The Red Hand of Ulster. Shannon: Irish University Press 1972 Irish Novels Series. A photolithographic facsimile of the text of the New York 1912 edition. xvi+277 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper. 2 small discreet library stamps and the title page a copy otherwise in good condition. £12.0014994. Breathnach, Diarmuid: Almanag Eireannach Imleabhar 2. Baile Atha Cliath: An Gum, 2001. 144 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £12.0012074. Brittaine, Rev. George: Irishmen and Irishwomen. Dublin: Richard Moore Tims 3rd edition 1831. 19.5 by 11.5 cms. 292 pp. in its original boards with spine title. Some wear, markings otherwise in fair condition. Brittaine was rector at Kilcormack in Ardagh He died in Dublin in 1847. All his eight novels seem to have been published anonymously. He seeks to portray the condition of the Irish peasantry but his view of the Catholic Church is fairly negative. This novel is set in the north west. The principal features are agrarian outrages in which the peasantry are shown as remorseless murderers, and a woman's conversion to Protestantism. All these novels are fairly uncommon now, but reflect the social mores of the time. £50.0020484. Brown, Dr Kris, exhibition curator.: An Exhibition on Forrest Reid & Stephen Gilbert. Belfast: Queens University no date. 21 x 14.5 cm. 46 pp. illustrated soft covers, in very good condition. The University has manscripts and papers for novelists Reid and Gilbert, who was Reid's Literary Executive. This book is a serious and valuable study of these men and their world. £15.0015343. Carleton, William: Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. Dublin: William Curry, Jun & Co. London: William S. Orr 1843,1844. A new edition. With autobiographical introduction, explanatory notes and numerous illustrations in wood and steel. In two volumes. Vol. I, xxiv+427pp. Vol II. 430pp. with overall 38 illustrative etchings. Half red leather and red cloth. Six panelled spine with raised bands, decorative gilding and titling, decorative endpapers, engraved tissue-guarded title page, along with the usual printed title page. A.e.g. Vol II is similar in all respects to Vol I. Both volumes bear an owner's gift inscription dated 1943 on the endpapers and there is a bookplate, with crest, on the front pastedown for Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle. H.M.L. Rundle, 1856-1934, was a British General with a very distinquished military career spanning the period 1879-1916. Internally tight and bright, but some four plates in volume II have a light water stain at the upper page extremity. There is also some small area of fading to cloth and leather to the top of the boards of Vol. I. and light fading to the cloth of the rear board of Vol. II. A few small faults but otherwise a handsome copy of a classic work. £165.0020100. Clyde, William M.: A. E. Edinburgh & London: The Moray Press 1935. 22.5 x 14 cm. 52 pp.frontispiece portrait, forward by Seamus O'Sullivan, gold blocked blue boards, in good condition. An essay on the work of A.E. George W. Russell, Irish poet, essayist and painter. £10.0013954. Comber Reading and Creative Writing Groups: Netting the Flow. Comber, County Down: Comber Reading and Creative Writing Groups, c2005. 79 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Seventy items of creative writing. Pictorial matt card covers. In near mint condition. £10.007545. Connell, Noel: Time to Dander. Belfast: Northern Whig 1974. 18 by 12 cms 65pp. paperback. Short articles on local life from his newspaper column and radio talks. Some wear to covers, otherwise good. £10.002860. Coulter, John.: Deirdre of the Sorrows Toronto, Macmillan Co. 1944 72 pp. g. An ancient and noble tale retold by John Coulter for music by Healey Willan. £15.0016942. Craig, Patricia: The Ulster Anthology. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2006. xiv + 722 pp. 24 x 16 cm. More than 1,000 extracts, from three centuries, arranged in 21 subjects. Gold-blocked black boards, in dw. The half-title has the neat signature of Nancy Simpson, the Uster watercolourist. Unpackaged weight 1,250g. £10.0015931. Crofts, Freeman Wills: Fatal Venture. Limavady: North West Books, Ian Henry Publications, 1984. 224 pp. 20.5 x 13 cm. The Story of the White Rocks Murder. Gold-blocked blue boards, in a worn dustwrapper. The book itself is in good condition but the dustwrapper has several repaired tears. Signature of F Magill on ffep. £15.0018505. Davidson, Florence: Loan-Ends Stories in Ulster. Belfast: The Quota Press, 1933. First edition. 120 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. 12 full-page illustrations from original linocuts by Alfred E. Kerr. Black blocked grey cloth boards, with another linocut illustration to the front board., and with a dedication from the atist, Alfred E. Kerr, on the ffep. Some edge rubbing to boards, and corners bumped, but internally clean and bright. A hard-to-find publication from this local Press. Florence Davidson was a local poet, author of a collection, "The Little Roads". Loan-Ends is welve short stories of Ulster rural life and character ...an old age pensioner, a country woman recording her vote for the first time, the return of the prodigal from America, the nesting bird, a love story, the sisters a poignant story of tragedy, the political world of violence and bloodshed..... Alfred Edward Laws Kerr was born on 27 September 1901 in South Stoneham, Hampshire, son of Alfred Edward T. E. Kerr, an iron turner from Belfast, and Isabella, née Laws, from Durham. They married in South Stoneham in late 1899. Alfred seems to have been educated at Chelsea School of Art. By the mid-1930s he was illustrating books for The Quota Press, and became known as "the Ulster Beardsley". He worked for a variety of British and Irish publishers through the 1940s. He moved to the Isle of Wight in 1959, and established the Seaview School of Painting. He died 11 January 1980, aged 79. £70.0018678. Dolmen Press: Dolmen Press Books 1983. Portlaoise: Dolmen Press, 1983. 29 pp. 21 x 14 cm. A catalogue of quality publications. Pictorial paper covers. In very good condition. £15.0015168. Draper, R.P. editor,: 'The Regional Forecast'. Houndmills and London: The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1989. First Edition. xi+ 265 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Gold blocked black boards in a very good dustwrapper. A series of nineteen papers. The first paper is by Seamus Heaney and was read to the first International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, held at the University of Aberdeen from 19 to 23 August 1986. The paper is pages 10 to 23 of the published proceedings of that conference: the first of nineteen contributions in The Literature of Region and Nation, edited by R.P. Draper. Seamus Heaney's paper is an extended analogy between regional and general weather forecasts and regional and general literature. In very good condition. £20.0010699. Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent and The Absentee. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. xlix+381 pp. illustrated by Chris Hammond, red embossed boards, spine a little faded otherwise good. From Macmillans uniform edition of the works. With an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Edgeworth, 1767-1849, was much admired by Scott and other contemporaries. Her books were enormously popular and frequently reprinted. They can still be read with pleasure. Castle Rackrent was first published in 1800 and is a picture of the feudal gentry in the late 17th century in the form of reminiscences by an old retainer. The Absentee first pub. in 1809, is a vivid impression of the Irish Nobility trying to dazzle London Society and to prove itself more English than the English. £18.0014042. Edgeworth, Maria: Vivian. London: Dent & Co. 1898. 17.5 by 11.5 cms. 257 pp. tissue guarded frontispiece and title page vignette, hardback with green boards with dark green shamrock and gilt harp containing title. Rubbing to spine extremities, otherwise in very good condition.This is volume V of the novels of Maria Edgeworth in twelve volumes. £15.0018677. Fitzpatrick, Olivia, compiler: The Dolmen Press 1951-1987 Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Faculty of Art and Design University of Ulster at Belfast 11-22 March 1991. Belfast: University of Ulster, 1991. 29 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. An invaluable history of this famous press. 13 illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial matt card covers. A few marks to front cover, and a small corner fold, otherwise in very good condition. £15.0019616. Foster, Lydia M: Tyrone among the Bushes. Belfast: The Quota Press 1933 1st ed. 19 x 13 cm. 169pp. Five woodblock illustrations by Alfred H. Kerr, no d.w. in good condition. Stories and poems reprinted from newspaper and magazine articles. £20.0017337. Friel, Brian: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov A Translation. Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981. First edition. 87pp. 21 x 14 cm. Plain glazed white card covers, in a wrapper printed red and black on mustard. In good condition. £12.0010697. Froude, J. A: Two Chiefs of Dunboy or An Irish Romance of the Last Century. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1891. 456 pp. hardback, red boards with a gilt marginal line to the boards, gilt spine titling and the gilt device of the publisher's Silver Library, decorative endpapers. Set in south west Cork in 1750-98 and first published in 1889 this novel embodied Froude's views on Ireland. His thesis was that if England had from the first striven to replace the hopeless Celt with Anglo Saxon and Protestant colonists she would have avoided her subsequent troubles and all would have been well.The Irish characters stand as a powerful indictment of Ireland and the Irish as seen by Froude. £15.0014543. Graham, Joe: Ghostly Tales of Old Belfast Belfast: Rushlight Publications, 1993. i + 47 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Thirty essays, illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. Scarce title from this Belfast publisher. Contents fresh, but front cover stained, and back cover creased. £15.0012289. Grattan, Thomas Colley: Highways and Byways or Tales of the Roadside, picked up in the French Provinces by a Walking Gentleman. London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823 Second Edition, Vol I only of two vols. I series Vol. I. xxviii+228 pp. half leather and marbled boards. Contains, The Father's Curse, and La Vilaine Tete. Rubbing and wear to boards, spine label edge chipped, internally clean and bright. The front pastedown bears a bookplate with crest for Rev. J. Stack, and a label for John Nelis bookseller and bookbinder Omagh. Grattan was born in Dublin 1792 and died in london in 1864. The three series of Highways and Byways brought him some considerable fame. £35.0012290. Grattan, Thomas Colley: Highways and Byways or Tales of the Roadside, picked up in the French Provinces by a Walking Gentleman. London: Printed for Henry Colburn 1825 Second Series, Vol III only of three vols. I series xxviii+228 pp. half leather and marbled boards. Contains, The Priest and Garde de Corps (concluded), and The Vouee au Blanc. La Vilaine Tete. Rubbing and wear to boards, spine label edge chipped, internally clean and bright. The front pastedown bears a bookplate with crest for Rev. J. Stack, and a label for John Nelis bookseller and bookbinder Omagh. Grattan was born in Dublin in 1792 and died in London 1864. The three series of Highways and Byways brought him some considerable fame. £35.0010830. Gregory, Lady: Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of The Red Branch of Ulster arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. London: John Murray reprinted Apr. 1926. First printed Apr. 1902. xvii+360 pp. hardback, linen and cloth boards, showing some wear, a fair copy only. £30.0014786. Griffin, Gerald: Tales of the Munster Festivals Series 2, Card Drawing The Half Sir, Suil Dhuv the Coiner. London: c1850. xiii+478 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Frontispiece plate. Hardback. Title page is missing, otherwise complete. Boards a bit worn. A poor/fair copy only. £15.0014328. Griffin, Gerald: The Collegians A Tale of Garryowen. Dublin: James Duffy 1895. 473+14 pp. engraved frontispiece and an engraved vignette on the first of two title pages, green and black decorative boards with gilt titling, shook, rear board detatching, fair only. £10.006149. Hallin, O. W. editor: Jonathan Swift II Historical Writings Commemmorative Series Vol II Dun Laoghaire: C.A.R.L. 1970. 169 pp. card covers very good. Part of the 1971,72 commemmorative edition, Satirical I, Historical, II, and Biographical III, IV. A useful anthology. £12.0020031. Harmon, Maurice: Select Bibliography for the study of Anglo-Irish Literature and its Backgrounds. Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1977. 22 x 15.5 cm. 187 pp. gold blocked black boards, in a rubbed, slightly worn dustwrapper. £8.0012264. Harper, George Mills: Go Back to Where You Belong Yeat's Return from Exile. Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1973. 24.5 by 17.5 cms. 43 pp. softcover, brown wraps, showing a little wear to covers otherwise good. Yeats saw himself as a spiritual exile and the mythology of exile as a cosmic diastolic movement.This paper is a development of a lecture delivered to the Yeats Summer School at Sligo on 16th Aug. 1968. £20.0015775. Hastings, Catriona and Andrew Whitson: Balor. Belfast: Dragonfly Press, 2008. 42 pp. 30.5 x 30.5 cm. A beautifully-illustrated book about the mythical hero Balor. A very handsome production. CD in back board. Two loosely-inserted related items. Inscription signed by both authors on title page. Pictorial matt boards, in vg dw. A generally-undervalued book that is an important contribution to publishing in Belfast. £15.006790. Heaney, Seamus: Finders Keepers Selected Prose 1971 - 2001. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002. 452 pp. almost as new in dustwrapper. the most complete one volume edition of his prose to date. There are selections from the poet's three prose collections, along with a rich variety of pieces not previouslty collected in books. £15.009392. Henry, James: Tan ann. Belfast Inis Gleoire Publications 1987. 102 pp. paperback, five short stories. £5.0016690. Hogan, Robert and Michael J. O'Neill: Joseph Holloway's Irish Theatre. Dixon, California: Proscenium Press, 1968-1970. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Volume One, 1926-1931, 88 pp. Volume Two, 1932-37, 85 pp. Volume Three, 1938-44, 110 pp. Holloway from the 1880s until his death in 1944 attended practically every first night in Dublin. He kept a journal which reached a total of 221 manuscript volumes. These three volumes have been mined from the journal and cover part of the later history of the Abbey Theatre, etc. Wonderfully gossipy and readable. He was architect to the Abbey, and saw and knew everybody in Dublin literary and theatrical circles. Plain card covers in pictorial dustwrappers. Slight wear to the top of the dw of volume 3, otherwise very good. A scarce set. £95.0017139. Hutton, W.: Laughter and Life ( By an Ulsterman ). Belfast: The Quota Press, 1939. 84 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Hutton is listed as "Member of Belfast City Y.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Society, and Ex-Principal, Dunbar Memorial School, Banbridge. The contents are in three parts: The Psychology of Laughter, Wit and Humour, and Cheerfulness. Red-blocked green boards, showing some wear and a little dusty in places, otherwise fair/good. A scarce Quota Press publication. £15.008687. Irish Booklore: Irish Booklore Volume 2 Number 2. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1976. Gracey, Jim. Gracey, Diane. McClelland, Aiken. editors, 24.5 by 15.5 cms. pp. x: 217-322. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. Articles include, The contemporary editions of Tone's Argument on behalf of the Catholics, James Dartas an early Dublin Stationer, a checklist of the publications of John and William Neale, William Steele Dickson, The Armagh Public Library, A County Down private printing press, William Allingham a bibliographical survey and others. Vol 2 index a loose insert to this volume £12.508689. Irish Booklore: Irish Booklore Volume 3 Number 2. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1977. editor Wesley McCann. 23 by 17.5 cms. pp. viii: 76-140. illustrated, laminated card covers, an ex-library copy, bookplate removed from ffep otherwise in very good condition. Articles include, Papermaking in Ireland in 1590, John Denton desires William Kearney to print books for use in Down c.1588 a sidelight on printing in Ireland, Early English books in Armagh Public Library: a short title catalogue of books printed before 1641, Forrest Reid and Kenneth's magazine, the bibliography of Somerville and Ross's Through Connemara in a governess cart, and others. £10.008690. Irish Booklore: Irish Booklore Volume 4 Number 1. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1978. Editor Wesley McCann. 22.5 by 17 cms. pp.iv: 1-71. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. Articles include, Edward Norman Carrothers 1898-1977 an appreciation, the spread of provincial printing in Ireland up to 1850, Library provision for children in County Down prior to 1850, Thomas Carnduff 1886-1956 chapters from an unpublished autobiography, Richard Rowley: an introductory bibliography, and others. £10.006434. Irish Writing: Irish Writing Late Autumn 1956 no 36. Dublin: Trumpet Books 1956. 21 by 13.5 cms. 192 pp. paper covers, good. Articles by Benedict Kiely, L.D. Lerner, A O'Neill,Thomas Kinsella, Donald Davie, John Renehan, J.F. Reynolds, Thomas Neill. £10.0019467. Irvine, Alexander: The Man From World's End and Other Stories of Lovers and Fighting Men. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1926. First edition. 256 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. Eleven stories. Ffep inscribed "Robert Maxwell Your friend Alexander Irvine Oct 13 1926". Pasted to the front pastedown is The Northern Whig's obituary of Alexander Irvine, 26.04.1941. Black blocked red boards. In good condition. No dw. Slight discolouration to the edges of the print block. £45.0020205. Kearney, Richard nd Mark Hederman editors: The Crane Bag Irish Language and Culture: An tEagran Gaelach. Dublin: Vol 5 No.2 1981. 24x 18 cm 99 pp. illustrated, card covers, an old crease across the lower corner of the front board otherwise in good condition. 18 Articles come under four parts, A Culture in Crisis, The Northern Challenge, The Writer and the Language, A Current Controversy, and New Bearings in Gaelic Culture. £10.0021081. Killen, John editor: Dear Mr McLaverty The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty 1959-1980. Belfast: The Linenhall Library 2006. 24.5 x 16 cm. 56 pp. softcovers in very good condtion. "The correspondence throws new light on two of Ireland's foremost writers, and is an important addition to the canon of Irish Literature in the twentieth century." £20.0016205. King-Hall, Magdalen and Stephen: Personal Letter. Numbers 1 - 93. London: A Stephen King-Hall Publication, 1950 -1954. 744pp. 19 x 13 cm. Ninety-three printed letters, in three of the binders that could be purchased in addition to the annual subscription. This appears to be a complete run of Personal Letter, written by Stephen King-Hall (1893-1966) and his sister Magdalen (1904-1971). Commander King-Hall had previously published series of letters in this way. Fascinating details of their lives, and those of their extended family, and events like the Coronation. £60.0014007. Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, Sir Charles Young Bart. and others.: A Stable For Nightmares or Weird Tales. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1896. The first edition. 256 pp. illustrated, tissue guarded frontispiece, hardback yellow boards with black decorative rather art nouveau style floral panels. The table of contents has the initials slf in ink as a small annotation, against the title of the first story. The author (1814-1877), was the son of a Limerick clergyman descended from R.B. Sheridan as a grand-nephew. He wrote what now would be seen as early horror, fantasy, supernatural ghost stories as well as historical novels. Previous owner's names on the front pastedown for Allan Seaton a minor Irish poet and correspondent with Ezra Pound. A little rubbing to rather dusty boards otherwise very good. £225.0020058. Lennon, Sean: Irish Gothic Writers Bram Stoker and the Irish Supernatural Tradition. Dublin Corporation Public Libraries n.d. 21 x 14.5 cm. 34 pp.illustrated by the author., softcovers, in very good condition. £10.0012358. Lever, Charles: Charles O'Malley The Irish Dragoon. London: Richard Edward King n.d. c.1900. 446 pp. hardback, dark green boards, decorative gilt spine, owner's name on ffep, showing some wear, a fair copy. The second of his rollicking military novels, in which the hero goes through the Peninsular campaign and ends up seeing Waterloo from the French camp. First published 1841 and still a good read. £10.0011549. Lever, Charles: The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. London: Macmillan and Company 1905 xx+421 pp. with 22 illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ( Phiz ).hardback, green boards., in very good condition, all plates present, bright and clean. Lever, 1806-1872 was once a most popular writer, and though not without his faults, can still be read with some pleasure. Perhaps a television adaptation would help him? This is the first of his rollicking military novels - full of humorous incidents and characters. £10.0012288. Lever, Charles: The O'Donoghue; A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company. William S. Orr and Co London. Fraser and Co. Edinburgh 1845. The First edition in book form. xi+410 pp. with 26 illustrations by H.K. Browne, ( Phiz. ), marbled endpapers and foreedges. The book is in a contemporary polished calf binding, but the spine has been professionally replaced in matching calf with six panelled spine, raised bands, gilt decoration and a new spine label. The boards are decorated with a very old fashioned design of blind stamping and ruling, with triple gilt edgelines, and textured central panel more reminiscent of the early eighteenth rather than nineteenth century. Internally very clean and bright, no foxing on text or plates. First issued in shilling monthly parts this is a handsome copy. £125.0014784. Lorrequer, Harry (Charles Lever): Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1841. First Edition. ix + 336 pp. 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Gold-blocked and blind-stamped olive-green boards. Hinges have been professionally strengthened. Front pastedown has bookplate of John Finlay of Lismara (Crossgar, County Down) and "John Finlay/ Belfast/ 1841" neatly written on the ffep. The 22 plates by Phiz are all present, but not neccesarily bound in exactly where they were meant to be. There is slight browning to the edges of the plates, but generally a tight clean copy. £24.0014648. Lyttle, Wesley Guard: Sons of the Sod A Tale of County Down. Belfast: R. Carswell & Son n.d. c.1915. 155 pp. softcovers, a new black spinestrip and new endpapers. Internally a former owner's signature on the half title, the front board has some wear and damage, otherwise good. Lyttle, 1844-1896, was the author of Robin's Readings, Betsy Grey, Daft Eddie and the Smugglers of Strangford Lough. This is a scarce title. £25.0015248. Mac Annaidh, Seamus: Fermanagh Books, Writers and Newspapers of the Nineteenth Century. A Bibliographical and Biographical Dictionary. Enniskillen & Belfast: Marmara Denizi, 1999. 113 pp. 21 x 14.4 cm. An invaluable study, with biographies of over one hundred and twenty Fermanagh writers. Particularly useful list of pseudonyms. Index of titles. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. Appears to be fairly scarce. £12.0011559. Macmanus, Francis: Pedlar's Pack Stories, Sketches, Essays, Verse. Dublin: The Talbot Press reprinted Jan. 1945. 244 pp. hardback, in a very worn and battered dustwrapper. MacManus, 1909-1965, was born in Kilkenny. From 1939 he had a post in Radio Eireann. This book has 12 stories, light entertaining tales, many dealing with Hurling, poems and sketches. £8.003585. Magee, William Kirkpatrick. (John Eglinton. pseud.): Anglo-Irish Essays. New York: Books for Libraries Press 1968 reprint. 129pp. Essay Index Reprint series. v.g. First published as a collection 1918. Previously published in various Irish journals. £10.006712. Marshall, Isobel: A Jack and His Jill A Romance of Modern Derry with other Stories. Belfast: The Quota Press 1944. 19.5 by 13 cms. 100 pp. Very good in dustwrapper. This is a relatively elusive title by this local press. Apart from an old small crease to the rear of the dustwrapper it looks largely unused. £15.0011125. Marshall, Isobel: An Ulster Idyll and Other Stories. Belfast: The Quota Press 1939. 112 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper, the spine is slightly sun-faded otherwise in very good condition. £20.0019609. Marshall, W.F.: Planted By A River. Belfast: William Mullan & Son. 1st ed. 1948. 19 x 13 cm. 250 pp. gilt blocked green boards, no dustwrapper, in very good fresh condition. A popular Tyrone writer. £25.0018940. Martin, Shaun A.: Crewe to Ballywatermoy. Published by the author, 2016. 299 pp. 23 x 15 cm. A semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1940s, centred on the LMS NCC railway system in C. Antrim. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. In very good condition. £12.0017531. McAughtry, Sam: Touch and Go A Novel. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1993. 233 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Green matt card covers, printed black. An advance proof copy. In good condition. £12.0014486. McCleery, Heather: The Old Manse and Other Tales. Belfast: The Quota Press 1945. 43 pp. hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. In very good condition. Chapter, The Old Manse, The Childther's Clothes, Old Fashoioned week-End, I'd like to take a Walk by the Sea and Windy Hill. £10.0012704. McCormack, W.J: The Battle of the Books. Two decades of Irish cultural debate. Mullingar: Lilliput Press1986. 94 pp. paperback.,in very good condition "Is Conor Cruise O'Brien best understood as a Catholic mystic? Should Field Day be seen as a de-politicising force in Irish culture. What truly distinguishes the manoeuvres of Seamus Heaney, Edna Longely and Denis Donoghue from each othrer?" etc etc £10.0014605. McKelvie, Colin: Gullivers Travels. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1976. 266 pp. 22 x 16.5 cm. This important academic study includes Swift's previously unpublished manuscript corrections and amendments, and the endpapers illustrate sections of Swift's amemdments. There are nineteen illustrations by James Millar: extraordinary illustrations - white lines on black, in the manner of some of Beardsley's work. And the importance of this copy is that it has an extra, manuscript, illustration, in red, on the half-title, with the inscription "For Mr Allan Seaton with Best Wishes. Millar. 7.10.76." Allan Seaton was a Northern Ireland poet and artist, noted for his friendship with Ezra Pound. Gold-blocked brown boards, in price-clipped dw. £200.002781. McNeill, Rev. W: Told to His Reverence County Down Sketches. Dublin, Talbot Press. n.d. 96 pp. foreword by Robert Lynd £10.004144. McNeill, Rev. W.: His Reverence Listens Again, County Down Sketches. Dublin, Talbot Press. 1933 96 pp. foreword by Lynn Doyle. Original blue boards. In very good condition. The Sequel to Told to His Reverence, popular stories of life in this lovely county. £10.0019612. Millar, Ruddick: Stirabout from an Ulster Pot. Belfast: The Quota Press 1929. 19 x 13 cm. 192 pp. frontispiece photographic portrait, a foreword by Richard Rowley. Gold blocked green boards, no dustwrapper, in very good condition. William Ruddick Millar, 1907-1952 was a local Poet, Playwright, author and Journalist. His father worked in the Shipyard of Harland and Wolff, working on the Titanic. He sailed on her to improve his work opportunities in north America, and sadly left his son an orphan, aged just 5 yrs. He was known to locals as,"the Titanic orphan". £15.0020039. Miller, Liam editor,: The Irish Book Volume II Number 2 Spring 1963. Dublin: The Dolmen Press. 21.5 x 14 cm. vii+ 37 68 pp. light card covers, in very good condition. Useful bibliographical information. Articles include, Early Printed Cyrillic Books in Archbishop Marsh's Library Dublin, the Dun Emer Press, a List of Plays about Robert Emmet, bibliographical notes, etc. £20.0020040. Miller, Liam editor,: The Irish Book Volume II Number 3/4 Autumn 1963. Dublin: The Dolmen Press. Special Yeats Issue, 21.5 x 14 cm. 69-136 pp. light card covers, in very good condition. Useful bibliographical information. etc. Articles include, Two Letters to John O'Leary from Yeats, W.B. Yeats and Edward Calvert, The Dun Emer Press (2) Additions to Allen Wade's Bibliography of W.B. Yeats, Yeats as a Reviewer, The Yeats Memorial Library Sligo. Includes a loose insert index for Vol. II. £20.0012705. Montague, John: The Figure in the Cave and other essays. Dublin: The Lilliput Press 1989. x+228 pp. paperback, in very good condition. "selects the prose of one of Ireland's foremost contemporary poets - part criticism, part self commentary - a gathering from the mid century to the present day, that marks a lifetime's critical engagement with literature in both Europe and America. £9.5011628. Montgomery, Professor Michael and Smyth, Mrs Anne: A Blad O Ulster-Scotch frae Ullans. Belfast: The Ullans Press, 2003. Ulster Scots Culture, Language and Writing. 229 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Articles from the first eight issues of Ullans the Magazine for Ulster-Scots. Illustrated. Pictorial card covers. There is a binder's fault affecting four pages whereby there is a vertical crimp in the paper, not affecting legibility, otherwise very good, almost as new. £10.0015719. Moore, George: In Minor Keys The Uncollected Short Stories of George Moore. London: Fourth Estate, 1985. Edited with an introduction by David B. Eakin and Helmut E. Gerber. 229 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Gold-blocked red boards, very good, in a very good dustwrapper. £10.0011548. Moore, George: Memoirs of My Dead Life. London: William Heinemann second edition August 1906. 335 pp. hardback grey boards, in good condition. Moore was a distinguished poet, novelist, dramatist and art critic. Controversial in his time his work was excluded from lending libraries like Mudies and Smiths. £8.005962. Neuman, Shirley, editor: Some One Myth Yeat's Autobiographical Prose. Portlaoise: The Dolmen Press, 1982. 160 pp. four illustrations, paper covers, New Yeats Papers XIX. The editor demonstrates and attempts to evaluate Yeat's exploitation of the possibilities of autobiography in the service of his conviction that biography is but the dramatic embodiment of myth. Covers slightly dusty otherwise very good. £12.0014642. O Muireadhaigh, Ath. Reamonn: Lamhscribhinn o Cho. Lu. Dublin?: c1980. 4 pp. 24 x 15 cm. Offprint from a Journal, in Irish, pages 128-132. Card covers. In very good condition. £10.009189. O'Brien, William: Irish Fireside Hours. Dublin: M.H.Gill and Son new and enlarged edition 1928. 290 pp. frontispiece portrait, red boards, some edge spotting and some foxing to title page, otherwise good. Essays divided into four sections, Tales to the Young, Boyish Memories and Ideals, In the Holy Land and its Vicinity, and The Contrast of Three European Capitals, written between 1893 and 1918. £8.0020084. O'Brien, William: When We Were Boys A Novel. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. new edition 1890. 550 (16) pp. gold blocked green boards. Showing some wear, a fair copy. O'Brien 1852-1928 was editor of "United Ireland" and a leading Irish Nationalist politician, agrarian campaigner, Home rule activist, etc. He became an M.P. in 1883. He spent two years in prison for political offences and wrote this acclaimed novel in prison. It was first published in 1890. Described as, "a very brilliant book, sparkling with epigram and metaphor. Full of criticism, argument, thought, and dreams about Ireland" He wrote a second novel, "A Queen of Men" in 1898. £10.0018011. O'Driscoll, Kathleen: Ether A collection of short stories. Dublin: Caledon Press, 1981. 73 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In good condition despite being printed on fairly poor quality paper. The author is from Galway, and this was her second book. There has been at least one more book. £10.001390. O'Flaherty, Liam: Insurrection. London: Gollancz 1950 1st ed. 254pp. hardback, no dustwrapper. One of the greatest writers of short stories. This is his final novel. £15.0014038. O'Grady, Standish: Selected essays and Passages Dublin. Talbot Press n.d. (1918). 18.5 by 13 cms. 340 pp. frontispiece portrait, hardback, dark green boards, blindstamped celtic decoration to front and spine, gilt titling, spine faded, two nicks to top spine extremity, in good condition. An Every Irishman's Library volume. contents include, A bibliography of O'Grady, Irish Bardic History, Irish Politics and Political History, and Miscellaneous essays. £30.0014103. O'Grady, Standish: The Coming of Cuculain. Dublin: Talbot Press n.d. 18.5 by 12.5 cms. 168 pp. hardback, frontispiece plate, blindstamped celtic design on boards, gilt titling, some very light spotting in places otherwise good. First published 1894 this is a later printing. £15.0014040. O'Grady, Standish: The Flight of the Eagle. Dublin: Talbot Press new cheap edition 1943. 18.5 by 13 cms. 307 pp. hardback, in a dusty, rather worn dustwrapper, ffep removed, otherwise fair/good. £23.0010910. O'Hanlon, Patrick. Jourdan, Pat. Wilson, John Ross: Taking the Field and Other Stories. Belfast: The Linenhall Library 2006. 24.4 by 16 cms. 23 pp. card covers, in very good condition. This book presents the three shortlisted stories in the Michael McLaverty Short Story award for 2006. £10.0012366. O'Neill, Terry: Terry O'Neill's Belfast. Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, 1999. 43 pp. 30 x 20 cm. Nineteen short stories and reminiscences by a great storyteller, and a very shrewd observer. Fifteen illustrations by Bill Pierce. Pictorial card covers. Author signed on titlepage, o/w very good condition. £10.0010847. Odling-Smee, Hugh editor: "Its Own Way of Things" a celebration of the Ulster Literary Theatre. Belfast: The Linen Hall Theatre & Performing Arts Archive Lagan Press 2004. 21 by 18 cms. 74 pp. illustrated, Contains the text of two plays, "The Enthusiast" by Lewis Purcell and "Thompson in Tir-na-nOg" by Gerald Macnamara, (Harry C. Morrow), and a list of the first productions of the Ulster Literary Theatre. £10.001898. Ormsby, Frank: Thine in Storm and Calm An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader. Belfast : Blackstaff Press, 1988. 166 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece portrait. An amazing Irish writer, a literary celebrity at the turn of the 20th. century, once read never forgotten, and still a bit of a cult for collectors in Northern Ireland. "She had a swell staff of sweet faced helpers swathed in stratagem...". "I expect I will be talked about at the end of 1000 years". Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight wear to front cover. £20.0015030. Pepper, John: What a Thing to Say Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977 61 + i pp. 21 x 15 cm. Humour in the Ulster dialect, with nine illustrations by Rowel Friers: the hilarious product of a local columnist and a local caricaturist. Inscribed and signed by the author. £10.0019902. Philpott, Anthony: The Files of Flynn de Courcy An Erato-Comedic Romp Through the Correspondence of Ireland's Finest Legal Mind. Dublin: Ashfield Press 1999. 24 x 16 cm. no pagination (c. 160pp ), gold blocked blue boards, in very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Amusing. £15.00526. Quinn, Hubert: Mine Eyes have seen the Glory. London: 1953. 207pp, v. g. Quinn was a Presbyterian Minister and author of 11 novels. £10.0011859. Quinn, Hubert: Mother Machree. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1933. 127 pp. illustrated light card covers, slightly dusty otherwise in good condition. Quinn was a Ulster Presbyterian Minister and author of 11 novels. Once popular and now rather neglected. £8.004570. Quinn, Hubert: My Lady of the Glen and Mother Machree. Belfast: The Pentagon Press, 1947. 209pp. 18.5 x 13 cm. Maroon boards, green backstrip, and printed paper label, in good condition. Quinn was a Presbyterian Minister, and author of eleven novels, many set in the Glens of Antrim. £10.0014143. Read, Charles Anderson: Savourneen Dheelish, or The One True Heart. London: James Henderson Seventh edition (1874). 12.5 by 9 cms. 248 pp. The People's Pocket Story books. Green textured boards, gilt spine title. Covers rubbed and the book has a slight lean, otherwise in very good condition. Read, 1841-1878, was born near Sligo and was for some years a merchant in Rathfriland Co. Down. He moved to London in 1863. He wrote nine novels, of which this and "Aileen Aroon" are best known. The story is set in the district around Dundalk and includes agrarian crime, evictions, murders, Whiteboys traitors, trials, secret caves etc. "The Fair at Keady is a noteworthy piece of description." It first appeared in the Weekly Budget and was published in book form in 1869. A scarce item. Copac lists only 1 copy in the B.L. and the NLI does not have a copy of this edition. £75.005927. Reid, Forrest: Pirates of the Spring and A Garden by the Sea. Dublin The Phoenix Publishing Company n.d. c.1920. 356+152 pp. frontispiece plate. Two novels by this Belfast Author, long out of print. Pirates was first published in 1919 and A Garden in 1918. This edition in The Library of Modern Irish Fiction is dated 1920(?) in Nat. Lib. of Ireland catalogue. Both novels here with separate title page and pagination. Old tear at top of spine professionally restored, otherwise in very good condition. Reid is arguably the most significant novelist to emerge from Belfast, but his work dealing with adolescent boys, and adolescence, in a charming, innocent, way can be misunderstood by cynical moderns. £65.0020184. Reid, Forrest: The Retreat or The Machinations of Henry. London: Constable reprinted 1954. 208pp. hardback, in red cloth, In a dustwrapper. which has loss to the upper spine extremity. In good condition. Reid is arguably the most significant novelist to emerge from Belfast. £10.001078. Reid, Forrest: Young Tom. London: Faber 2nd imp 1944. 169 pp. v.g. in a torn dustwrapper. £10.004486. Robinson, Phillip: Ulster-Scots A Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language. Belfast: The Ullans Press, 1997. x + 229 pp. 24 x 15.5 cm. "This work is of outstanding importance and fills, for absolutely the first time, a major gap." Gold-blocked red boards. No dw. In very good condition, almost as new. £20.0014036. Ros, Amanda M.: Delina Delaney. London: Chatto & Windus Pelham Library, 1941. 302 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper, spine sunfaded otherwise good. Ros, Amanda Malvina Fitzalan Ann Margaret McClelland nee McKittrick, was a prolific novelist with a high opinion of her worth and value to literature. She became a cult figure as a writer so bad as to be rather wonderful. Many literary figures were admirers. Her work is popular still and is increasingly hard to find. £20.007868. Saddlemeyer, Ann editor: J.M. Synge Collected Works Plays Book II. London: Oxford University Press 1968. xxxvi+394 pp. illustrated, very good in price-clipped dustwrapper. This second volume, of two dealing with the plays, has definitive texts for, The Tinker's Wedding, Deirdre of the Sorrows and The Playboy of the Western World.This was one of four volumes of the definitive edition of Synge's works. £23.008669. Saul, George Brandon: Traditional Irish Literature and its Backgrounds A Brief Introduction. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press 1970. 115 pp. A Revision of the Three Queens. An ex-library copy, "sold" stamped on title page, otherwise very good, no other library indications. Good dustwrapper. This is a completely revised edition of the earlier work published in 1953. Designed for serious students of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature as well as the more casual reader. £10.0012668. Slader, Bert: Belshade. Newcastle, County Down: Quest Books (NI), 1997. vi + 186 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Laminated pictorial covers. A first novel "of post-war Donegal, the Lourdes Pilgrimage ... and the French and Spanish Pyrenees". Author-inscribed on half-title, to WD Bailie (the Rev Dr Desmond Baillie, eminent Presbyterian theologian). In very good condition. £20.0019744. Sotheby & Co.: The Library of Thomas Percy Editor of The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry London: Sotheby & Co. Mon.23rd June 1969. Auction Catalogue 25 x 16 cm. 72 pp. 24 illustrations, hardback in very good condition. This collection was acquired by Queen's University Library Belfast. £15.0015926. Swift, Jonathan: Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...and several of his friends from the year 1703 to 1740...with notes Historical and Critical by J. Hawkesworth and others. Vol. III. Dublin: John Williams, 1767. The first title page has this volume as Volume XIV of The Works of Jonathan Swift. iv+230 pp. 17 x 10.5 cm. Two title pages, the first being decorated with a small bust of the author. Contemporary calf binding, six panelled spine with raised bands and some gilt lining. Boards a little edge-rubbed and corners a little bumped, one page V of the contents pages has been removed, or is a pinter's error, pagination otherwise complete but otherwise in very good condition for its age. £30.0020697. Swift, Jonathan: The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift D.D. edited by Temple Scott. Vol. II Swift's London: George Bell and Sons 1897. With a biographical introduction by the Rt,. Hon. W.E.H. Lecky M.P.18.5 x 12.5cm. xxi+507(40) pp. frontispiece folded facsimile letter, gold blocked brown boards , minor wear, in good condition. £15.0015122. Swift, Jonathan Dr.: Miscellanies The Ninth volume. London: Charles Davis and C. Bathurst, 1751. Fourth edition. 278 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Original but worn calf boards with a modern professional replacement spine, gilt lined and titled with a modern black and gilt title. Some ornamented tailpieces, headpieces and decorated capitals. In fair/good condition. Internally tight and bright. Contents include: Drapiers Letter V., Intelligencer No I, V, VII, XV, A Vindication of His Excellency John, Lord Carteret, Considerations on two Bills relating to the Clergy of Ireland, Presbyterian Plea of Merit, A complete collection of Genteel and Ingenous Conversation, A Proposal for giving badges to the beggars in Dublin, and several others. £35.0015123. Swift, Jonathan Dr. and others.: Miscellanies The Sixth volume. London: Charles Davis and C. Bathurst, 1751. 316 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Original but worn calf boards with a modern professional replacement spine, gilt lined and titled with a modern black and gilt title. Some ornamented tailpieces, headpieces and decorated capitals. In fair/good condition. Internally tight and bright. Contents include: A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, The last speech and dying words of Ebenezer Elliston, Some arguments against enlarging the power of the Bishops, A humble address, Account of the execution of Wood, A Short View of the state of Ireland, A letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympton, The Intelligencer No 3, The Intelligencer No. 19, A Proposal for an Act to pay off the Debt of the Nation, An Examination of certain abuses in the City of Dublin, and several others, including three on the Sacramental Test. £35.0017322. The Honest Ulsterman: HU100 A Special Centenary Issue. Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, No. 100 Autumn 1995. 144 pp. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Tom Clyde, editor. Printed matt card covers. In good condition. The Centenary Edition of The Honest Ulsterman, Ulster's literary journal. £12.0021084. Tomelty, Joseph: Red is the Port Light. Belfast: Lagan Press 1997. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 210 pp. softcovers. One of the darkest novels to come out of Northern Ireland. Tomelty, 1911-95, was co-founder of the Ulster Group Theatre and wrote plays for it. He also wrote two novels. This was first published by Cape in 1948. £12.0017849. White, Agnes Romilly: Gape Row Belfast: William Mullan & Son (Publishers) Ltd, 1951. 296 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Gold-blocked green boards, with browning to eps, o/w vg. Protected dw has tear to front. Agnes Romilly White, 1872-1945, lived in Dundonald between 1890-1913, where her father was Rector. The life of the Parish forms the subject of her two novels. Strong plots, racy dialogue and a vivid evocation of the countryside, continued in Mrs Murphy Buries the Hatchet.. £21.5011557. White, Agnes Romilly: Mrs Murphy Buries the Hatchet. Belfast: The White Row Press, 1989. 286 pp. 21 x 15 cm. The sequal to Gape Row. Agnes Romilly White, 1872-1945, lived in Dundonald between 1890-1913, where her father was the Rector. The life of the Parish forms the subject of her two novels. Strong plots, racy dialogue, and a vivid evocation of the countryside. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0012500. Wiggin, Kate Douglas: Penelope's Irish Experiences. London: Gay and Hancock, 1913. 17 by 11.5 cms. xiv+335 pp. illustrated by Charles E. Brock, t.e.g. spine relaid , internally tight bright and clean, nice illustrations. £12.0012674. Witherspoon, Charles: A Sea of Troubles. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1973. 123 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. Eight short stories by this former presenter and broadcaster for Ulster Television. scarce £20.00 |
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