Rare Books, Literature, Manuscripts & Sporting Collectibles

Keane (John B.) Strong Tea, Cork 1963; Man of the Triple Name, Dingle 1984; Owl Sandwiches, Dingle 1985; Love Bites and Other Stories, Cork 1991; ...

Signed Limited EditionMeehan (Paula) & Foley (Marie) illus. Six Sycamores, 12mo, Belfast 2004, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 60 (150) copies, illus., cloth...

Ros (Amanda McKittrick) Fumes of Formation, 8vo Belfast 1933. First Edn., Inscribed 'Mr. Lennox Robinson with the publishers Compliments, decor. o...

Presentation Copies to Mrs. Patrick KavanaghNi Chuilleanain (Eilean) Acts & Monuments, D. (Gallery Press) 1972. Signed Lim. Edn. 300 Copies, Pres...

Stein (Gertrude) Paris France, L. 1940. First Edn., illus., cloth; Wars I have Seen, L. 1945. First Edn., illus. cloth & pict. d.w. (spine dam) Si...

Signed by Each AuthorPoetry Ireland Pamphlets: First Series - Longley (Michael) The Ship of the Wind, D. 1997; Montague (John) Chain Letter, D. 19...

Signed by Both AuthorsKennelly (Brendan) & Holzapfel (Rudi) Cast a Cold Eye, 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1959. Lim. Edn. 250 Copies; The Rain, The Moon, 8vo D...

With Four Manuscript Poems loosely InsertedNi Dhomhnaill (Nuala) An Dealg Droighin, Cork (Mercier) 1981. First; Fear Suaithinseach, 8vo Maynooth (...

Joyce (James) Ulysses, 8vo Paris (Shakespeare & Co.) 1926. Eight Printing, hf. title, in full blue letter, with decorative gilt design and letteri...

Signed by Author & IllustratorAdams (Richard) Watership Down, 8vo, L. (Penguin Books (Kestrel Books) 1976, First Illustrated Edn., Signed on f.e.p...

Very Fine Complete FileDublin Gate Theatre. Motley (periodical), ed. Mary Manning, Vol. I No. 1 (March 1932) - Vol. III No. 4 (May 1934), 19 numb...

Joyce (James) The Cat and the Devil, 4to, L. (Faber & Faber) 1965, First Edn., illus. by Gerald Rose, illus. boards, lacks d.j., otherwise clean c...

Thomas (Dylan) 18 Poems, Roy 8vo L. (The Fortune Press) 1934. First End., black cloth, & orig. red printed d.w. spine dam. (with loss). (1)

A Rare CollectionFirst Editions Signed Jordan (Neil)The Past (Cape,1980). Specially bound Ltd. Edition 9/50, five raised bands, a.e.g, in matching...

All First EditionsBehan (Brendan) The Scarperer, L. 1964. First American Edn., also First English Edition, L. 1966. Both in v. good unclipped d.w....

Rare First EditionBehan (Brendan). The Quare Fellow, a Comedy-Drama. L. 1956, First, d.w., name on e.p., an excellent copy. The play that made ...

[Behan (Brendan)] Kearney (Colbert) The Writing of Brendan Behan, D. 1977; Behan (B.) After the Wake, D. 1981; Mikhail (E.H.) Brendan Behan - An A...

'For Jimmy O'Dea, A great small man against a mean big world'Behan (Brendan) The Hostage L. 1958, first, d.w., with a wonderful inscription on f....

Special Edition One of 4 CopiesBehan (Brendan) The Hostage, 8vo N.Y. (Grove Press) 1958, Limited Edn. 2 (4), Signed by the Author, cloth back boar...

First English & American EditionsBehan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, L. 1958; and Borstal Boy, Adapted for the Stage by Frank Mc Mahon. N. York 1971; als...

With Uncorrected Proof CopyBehan (Brendan) Hold Your Hour and have Another, decorations by Beatrice Behan. Roy 8vo L. 1963. First Edn., cloth & d....

Signed by Author & ArtistHeaney (Seamus) The Riverbank Field, Paintings and drawings by Martin Gale 4to Gallery Pres 2007. Lim. Edn. No. 174 of 45...

Signed by the AuthorDolmen Editions I: Kinsella (Thomas) Wormwood sm. folio D. 1966. Lim. Edn. 350 Copies Only = Signed by Author, orig. vellum ba...

Signed by HeaneyHeaney (Seamus) Between Comets. For Norman Nicholson at 70. Ed. by Wm. Scammell 8vo Durham (Taxus Press) 1984. No. 17 of Hard boun...

With Fine Hand-Coloured Plates Edwards - Edwards Botanical Register, Ed. by John Lindley. Vols. I - VII. Together 7 vols. (ex. 10). roy 8vo L. 183...

Coloured Plates: Baxter (W.) British Phaenogamous Botany: or Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants. Vols. 1 - 6, toge...

Signed by The AuthorsKearns (G.P.) & Maguire (P.) A to Z of all Old Dublin Cinemas, sm. folio D. n.d. c. 2006. First Edn., Signed, illus., cloth &...

Signed Limited Edition of 100 CopiesO'Byrne (Robert) The Irish Georgian Society A Celebration, Lg. 4to D. 2008. First Edn. Lim. Edn. No. 27 of 100...

With 1696 Hand-Coloured Plates Sowerby (J.E.) English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants. Ed. by J.T. Boswell Syme. 10 vols. roy 8vo L....

Coloured Plates: Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Blunt (Wilfrid) Great Flower Books 1700 - 1900, lg. atlas folio L. 1956. Lim. Edition No. 94 of 295 Copie...

Coloured Plates: Sitwell (Sacheverell), Buchanan (H.) & Fisher (James) Fine Bird Books 1700 - 1900, lg. atlas folio L. 1953. Lim. Edn. No. 157 of ...

Signed Limited Edition Coloured Plates: Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Madol (Roger) Album de Redoute, lg. atlas folio L. 1954. Lim. Edn. No. 155 of 250 ...

Audubon - The Original Water-Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America, 2 vols. lg. 4to L. (M. Joseph & The Connoisseur) 196...

Military: Gibb (Wm.) Naval and Military Relics of British Heroes, lg. folio L. 1896. First Edn., red & bl. hf. title & title, 36 full page cold. p...

Jekyll (Gertrude) Garden Ornament, lg. folio L. 1918, cold. frontis (loose), illus. thro-out, orig. cloth, spine loose. (1)

Limited Patrons Copy, 50 Copies Only & With An Original Watercolour Sex (Susan) & Sayers (B.) Irelands Wild Orchids, lg. Atlas folio, Patrons Copy...

Fine Large Hand-Coloured Plates Grove (A.) & Turrill (W.R.) A Supplement to Elwes Monograph of the Genus Lilium, Parts I - VII and Parts VIII & IX...

Limited to 75 Copies[Gainsborough] Iain Bain, Publisher, The Etched and Engraved Prints of Thomas Gainsborough R.A., Executed in soft-ground and a...

With Original Pencil Sketch Clarke (Harry) RHA [1889-1931] The Year's At The Spring An Anthology of Recent Poetry compiled by L. D'O. Walters and ...

With Manuscript Poems InsertedJohnson (Lionel) Some Poems of, [selected & edited by] Louise Imogen Guiney, L., Elkin Mathews 1912, orig. wrapper...

Ulsterman Publications. A collection of Poetry Pamphlets including James Simmons, No Ties, 1970; Michael Stephens, Blues for Chocolate Doherty, 1...

With Autograph Letter from AuthorStevenson (Patric). The Hillsborough By-Pass. A Conversation between A-1 and the Hillsborough By-Pass at the ti...

Fine Association Copy[Gregory (Lady A.)] Blunt (Wilfred Scawen). The Wind and the Whirlwind. L., Kegan Paul Trench 1883, black cloth gilt. Insc...

Gregory (Lady) Some Signed and Inscribed Ephemera & other Items from collection of her grand-daughter, the late Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, including ...

Rare Broadside BalladConnolly (James) One of the Connaught Rangers. Composed by James Connolly. Air: 'Patrick my Darling'. Broadside, Warren, ...

O'Duffy (Eimar) The Walls of Athens. A Comedy in Allegory. Quarto wrappers, Irish Review 1914, First. Title page (cover) amended by a previ...

Yeats (Jack B.) A folded sheet with Signed Christmas message to the publisher Elkin Mathews (who published his children's books), 'This to wish yo...

Signed by Each PoetSheridan (Niall) and MacDonagh (Donagh) Twenty Poems. D., Privately Printed 1934 (Three Candles Printing), wrappers., No. 183...

Festival Publications, Q.U.B. A full set of six Poetry Pamphlets (Second Series, 1967), viz. Montague (John) Home Again, inscribed 'For Douglas, ...

MacDonagh (Donagh) Three Christmas Cards, printed with extracts from his work, 1950/57/59, one printed at Dolmen Press, and a copy of Love Duet ...

Cadenus Press: Carpenter (Andrew) Natural Journal, roy 8vo D. 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 51 (200). Signed Presentation inscription to Mary Manning, 5th J...

Scarce Complete SetRuna Press Quartos - Nos. 1 to 6 [All Published] 6 nos, 4to Monkstown 1943-44, orig. decor. wrappers, some stains. (1)* Rare, c...

With Fine Woodcut IllustrationsDolmen Press: Rivers (Elizabeth) Out of Bedlam, lg. 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1956. Text by Christopher Smart No 112 of...

[Mac Nie (Isa)] 'Mac' The Celebrity Zoo, (First Visit) Some Desultory Rhymes and Caricatures. 4to D. (Brown & Nolan) 1925. First Gen. Edn., 20 ill...

Not Recorded by MillerDolmen Press: Britton (Coburn) Cap with Bells, Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff & ink washes by Noel Sheridan. Sm. 8vo D. 1959. Lim...

The First Book from Dolmen PressDolmen Press: Clifford (Sigerson) Travelling Tinkers, sm. 8vo D. 1951. First Edn. Limited to 500 Copies. Wd.-cut d...

The Fifth Book from Dolmen PressDolmen Press: Kennedy (Maurice) Freebooters, Linocuts by Michael Morrow. Sm. sq. 8vo D. 1952. Limited Edition, No....

Dolmen's First book Illustrated by Elizabeth RiversDolmen Press: Imitium S. Evangelii Secundum S. Joannem, 8vo D. 1953. Lim. Edition of 500 Copies...

Dolmen Press: The Navitity from The Holy Gospel According to St. Luke, wood engravings by Michael Biggs, 8vo D. 1953. Lim. Edn. of 500 Copies, ill...

The Twelfth Book from DolmenDolmen Press: Ussher (Arland) An Alphabet of Aphorisms, Linocuts by Michael Morrow. 8vo D. 1953. [Lim. Edn. of 500 Cop...