Cruiskeen Lawn by Myles Na gCopaleen. Extracts of Contributions to The Irish Times. Dublin: Cahill, [1943]. First Edition. Pp, 80. Text illustrations. Wrappers printed in black & red. Patchy mottling to endpapers but contents pages in nice condition.
O'Brien, Flann First printing of this delicate publication featuring humorous extracts from Brian O Nolan s satirical column in The Irish Times written originally in Irish, later in English. Until the last years of his life, Cruiskeen Lawn was O Nolan s main or only literary output. It appeared daily throughout the war and for a year or so afterwards. Then it was reduced to three days a week, a rate more-or-less maintained, apart from a few longer absences through ill health, until his death in 1966.- $385
- $385
The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Years 1758 to 1806. 32 Volumes. Lacking 16 Years [1759, 63,6 4, 66 69, 77, 86, 91, 92, 94,1800-1803]. London: Printed for J. Dodsley. Mixed Editions. Contemporary quarter leather marbled boards. All volumes in very good condition (except for 1784 which is heavily worn & damp affected at top right corners however the text is generally in good condition)
Burke, Edmund (Editor) Of notable interest are the years 1774, 1783 &1787 which provide a contemporary account of the events leading to the American Revolution and during the American Revolutionary. 1776, covers the events of the American Revolutionary year, and prints the American Declaration of Independence, one of its earliest publications in book form. Also 1786 containing one of the earliest printing of the Constitution of the United States, 7th September, 1787. 1774: A report on the Boston Tea Party. Of particular Irish interest are reference & reports on the 1798 Rebellion (May-October 1798). The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley, under the editorship of Edmund Burke.- $4,126
- $4,126
Shooting in China. Methodist Publishing House, 1908. First Edition
Jernigan, T. R. Pp xiv, 313. Publisher's cloth, title in gilt to spine . Covers faded & lightly worn, small piece cut from top right corner of title page, front inner hinge cracked (but holding firm). Scattered foxing to contents pages. Illustrated with 23 plates.- $385
- $385
Intentions. The Decay of Lying, Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1891. First Edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author
Wilde, Oscar Intentions. The Decay of Lying, Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1894. First Edition. Pp, 258. Original olive green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt; light soiling to covers, contents very good. Housed in quarter morocco slipcase. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILDE on front free endpaper: 'With the Compliments of the Author.' The recipient's name heavily deleted in ink (the name of the recipient of this copy has been obliterated by dense scoring, possibly by a descendant or relative who desired to conceal the connection after Wilde's trial and conviction). Intentions collects five essays by Wilde that had previously been published in periodicals, and then extensively re-worked by Wilde for publication in volume form. 1,500 sets of first edition sheets were printed, of which 900 were issued in England and 600 were issued in the United States under Dodd, Mead and Co.'s imprint with a cancelled title. [Mason 341].- $7,646
- $7,646
Rudimentary Astronomy.
Main, Rev Robert Rudimentary Astronomy. London: John Weale, 1852. First Edition. Ppm xx156, [12]. Publisher's soft green cloth boards, decorated in blind with title label to upper cover. Covers lightly faded, light spotting to page margins, overall a nice bright copy. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate and many text drawings throughout. Robert Main served for twenty-five years as First Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and published numerous articles, particularly on stellar and planetary motion. The lunar crater 'Main' is named after him, and there is also a crater on Mars named in his honour.- $165
- $165
Station Island. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem ‘Stone from Delphi’ which appears on page 24.
Heaney, Seamus Station Island. London: Faber, 1984. Pp, 123. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. Presentation copy, Inscribed by Seamus Heaney on the front free endpaper, and with three lines of verse from the poem 'Stone from Delphi' which appears on page 24. Heaney's first new collection of poems since 1979, is set on an island (Lough Derg) which has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years.- $1,650
- $1,650
The Informer. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. First Edition. Pp, 272. Smooth green buckram boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate to pastedown, small ownership stamp to front free endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, very light rubbing to joints and spine ends. Housed in matching collector’s solander box.
O'Flaherty, Liam An excellent copy of the scarce first impression of O'Flaherty's famous novel concerning the underside of the Irish Civil War, set in 1922.- $4,016
- $4,016
The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. With a Preface by The Most Rev. Dr. Brownrigg, Lord Bishop of Ossory. Four volumes. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1905. First Edition. Autograph letter (loosely inserted) signed from Rev. Abraham Brownrigg to the publisher’s commending them of the quality of this edition & enclosing payment for ten copies ordered. Rev. Brownrigg served as the Bishop of Ossory from 1884 until his death in 1928. He wrote the preface to this edition & there is a frontispiece portrait plate of Brownrigg to volume one
Carrigan, Rev. William Four volumes. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1905. Pp (1) xxxi, 300, folded map at rear; (2) viii, 397; (3) vii, 512, folded map; (4) vii, 433. Profusely illustrated with plates and text illustrations. Publisher's olive green covers, front covers ruled in gilt with crest of the dioceses gilt embossed in centre. Scattered foxing to preliminary leaves, light water staining to upper margin of frontispiece plate of volume (3) otherwise a very good set. The first volume gives an overall history of the diocese from its pre-Christian Celtic origins through its various Bishops and Clergy. The other three volumes examine Ossory's parishes in detail. Each parish's buildings, churches, castles, monuments etc, are described and examined. Written between 1897 and 1903, one thousand sets were printed. The work was well received on its publication and although other diocesan histories exist, none match it for its scope and depth.- $1,925
- $1,925
The Search for the Dice Man. London: HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition. Black cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. a nice bright copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper: “For Carsten With much thanks for all your help on our screenplay- past and future! George”
Rhinehart, Luke The official sequel to The Dice Man written by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart. The Dice Man was first published in 1971, this sequel is set twenty years after the end of the first novel. The dedicatee Carsten Lorenz is a movie producer & screenwriter best known for his work on Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Midway (2019) and Greenland (2020).- $655
- $655
The Dice Man. New York: William Morrow, 1971. First Edition. Quarter cream paper boards, in publisher s pictorial dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Author: “For Carstein, I’m really looking forward to working together. Whenever we disagree we’ll shake the dice (my dice and I shake!) George.”
Rhinehart, Luke Light toning to jacket & cloth spine, otherwise a nice bright copy. The dedicatee Carsten Lorenz is a movie producer known for his work on Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Midway (2019) and Greenland (2020). Cockcroft meet & consulted with Lorenz possibly with a view to a movie of The Dice Man which in the event was never made.- $1,980
- $1,980
The Light of the Leaves. Poems in English with Translations into Dutch by Jan Eijkelboom and Spanish by Pura Lopez Colome. With original screen-prints, many double-page, by Jan Hendrix. Mexico City: Imprenta De Los Tropicos/Banholt: Bonnefant Press, 1999. First Edition, Limited Issue. Two Volumes. Fine set, housed in collectors solander box.
Limited Numbered Edition of 70 Copies Signed by the Author and Artist (numbered 1-63; with seven copies printed as Personam.) One volume containing poems, translations and four sets of full-page screen prints, one silver foil, the others black & white. Signed by the Author and Artist; bound in quarter cloth with natural white Japanese paper sides, small screen-print to centre of upper cover. The other volume with ten prints, reduced to 7×11 cm on a silver background, bound in printed black paper wrappers, signed by the artist. Contains ten poems by Seamus Heaney, followed by their translations. The Dutch artist Jan Hendrix, explores in his work how the relationship between place, space and time affect landscape.
The Candle of Vision. London: MacMillan, 1919. Third Impression. Pp viii, 175, [4], uncut. Blue cloth titled in gilt, a very good copy. Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper, with portrait to front pastedown. ‘To my dear James Pryse this works is inscribed humbly by his old friend, AE
James Morgan Pryse (1859 1942) was an author, publisher & member of the esoteric religious movement the Theosophical Society. Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell's collection of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including W.B. Yeats, and James Stephens. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. Written by Alexander Pope, embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Edition.
Publisher's blue cloth, gilt blocked beveled boards, with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, slight rubbing to gilt & scattered foxing to some pages, but overall a nice bright copy. Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Publisher in the year of Publication on the front free endpaper. Fairy Tales. By the Abbé De Voisenon. Translated by R.B. Douglas. Illustrated with an Etched Frontispiece by Will Rothenstein. Imprinted by the Erotika Biblion society for Private Destribution Amongst Its Members. Athens: MDCCCXCV (1895).
Smooth green buckram, title lettered in git to spine, bookplate to pastedown. A nice bright copy. Printed limitation statement verso half-title; One hundred copies only of this Translation have been printed, No. 10 and initialed 'LCS' in purple ink by Leonard Smithers. Printed & published in London on hand-made paper watermarked Van Gelder by H.S. Nichols, in collaboration with Smithers. Some copies were issued without the Rothenstein etching. Contains two tales by the French novelist & playwriter 'So Much the Better for Her' and 'The sultan Misapouf' light-hearted erotic allegory which were typical of many fairy tales written in 18th-century Parisian salons. [Mendes 92]. Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, with his Original Correspondence: Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim, and Other Authentic Sources. Illustrated with Portraits, Maps, and Military Plans. Second Edition In Six Volumes. London: Longmans, Hurst, etc, 1820.
Contemporary full smooth calf, boards with gilt rules and filet boarder in blind, spines ruled in gilt with black title labels lettered in gilt; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers & fore-edges, Armorial bookplates. Scattered browning to contents pages, but overall a nice bright set, handsomely bound. First published by William Coxe in three volumes in 1818,for this second edition the military maps and plans were issued in a separate volume "being on too great a scale to fold in this edition." The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. Written by Himself now for the First Time Translated into English in Twelve Volumes. Privately Printed, 1894. Large Paper Edition, Strictly Limited to 50 Copies, Each Numbered (this set #7)
Publishers full cream buckram boards, title lettered in gilt to spines. Top edges in gilt, fore-edges uncut. Covers with occassional pale stains & light dust soiling, contents pages bright and clean. Large Paper Edition, Strictly Limited to 50 Copies, Each Numbered (7). Translated by Arthur Machen from the French original. Volume One with translator's & author's prefaces. [Note: Extra Shipping Charges Apply] Many Mansions. Designed and published by Stoney Road Press for the Ireland Chair of Poetry, November 2009. Containing twelve new unpublished poems, two each, by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Durcan, Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney has also written a Foreword to the volume. This special edition is limited to one hundred and twenty five copies and each numbered copy is signed by all the contributors [copy 100].
The text is composed in 12.5 point Book Antiqua and printed by hand at the National Print Museum, Dublin. The paper is 250gsm BFK Rives Blanc paper and the inside papers are Somerset velvet black. It is quarter-bound in mid-blue goatskin leather and beige bookcloth with matching slipcase by Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Dublin. A fine bright copy