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pp. 279, (3)[Publisher's catalogue]. Age stained. Inked ownership of Bobby As. Aplin, August 12, 1916. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered and decorated. Worn with stain on front cover. Hardbound. First Edition. James Stephens (1882-1950) was left fatherless in the Dublin slums at the age of two. His mother remarried or took up with another man when James was about six years of age. She abandoned her young son and he was forced to go to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys. The Meath School was cruel and harsh and he ran away to live in the streets or live with families that took to the likely boy. In 1905 'The Greatest Miracle' was published by Arthur Griffith in The United Irishman. Griffith became good friends with Stephens and published his works in his magazine know as the Sinn Fein. From 1905-1910, Stephens attended Gaelic League classes and become involved with political meetings. During this time he published several pieces which focused on Irish national pride, the importance of learning one's Irish language and customs, and remembering the ancient saga heroes. Stephens met many of his great contemporaries during this period including George Russell (AE), George Moore, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, etc. In the year 1912, Stephens published The Charwoman's Daughter and later in the same year his noted work The Crock of Gold. The Crock of Gold was a great success and Stephens moved to Paris so he could concentrate on writing full time. Cynthia Kavanagh who had been his lover since 1907 accompanied him. He later married her in 1919. The Demi-Gods was published in 1914 and in 1915 he moved back to Dublin to become the Registrar of the National Gallery of Ireland (and stayed in that position till 1924). Stephens witnessed the shooting of a man as a result of the Easter Uprising in Dublin in 1916. This became a turning point for him as the event intensified his patriotic feelings and renewed his interest in old Irish literature. Stephens moved to London in the year 1925. He began a series of lecture tours which extended to the United States. In 1935 Stephens began a literary and personal friendship with James Joyce. His colleagues considered Stephens to be a genius who easily embraced fantasy, philosophy, and comedy - those who read him today will still be struck by his genius. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! STEPHENS/W77
366 p. Hardcover Good condition; faint dampstain in bottom margin
156 p. including color frontispiece. 8vo. 210mm. Clean and tight original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped in gilt, white black, and peach with title on spine in gilt. Manuscript ownership, 'This book belongs to R. H. Stilds Only.' Slight crinkling on cover. Hardbound. Very good NW66
8vo; 124 pages
404p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original seris binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at extremities. One of the scarcest titles in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
First edition, xxii, 240pp., library stamp on title and places in the text, early ownership signature on upper blank margin of leaf following the title, 3 folding tables at end (last defective), old water-staining of the tables and last 2 leaves, first and last few leaves chipped at margins, disbound. One of the significant works of it's era advocating free trade for Ireland, written in the form of a sequence of letters to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Buckinghamshire. However, "its doctrines being regarded as seditious it was ordered to be burnt by the common hangman." - DNB. Bradshaw, 2109; Wagner, 348; Kress, B203; Goldsmith, 11826.
First edition, 63, [1]pp., library stamp to tile and contents leaf, recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. "Erasmus Smith Schools were founded under a charter of 1669 by Charles II. Erasmus Smith, a London alderman, obtained property in Ireland under the Act of Settlement and endowed schools with part of the estates thus acquired. His original intention was to establish five grammar schools, but, in order to guarantee better salaries for the teachers and provide clothes for the existing pupils, decided to open only three, at Drogheda, Galway and Tipperary. Under the charter these had to be free schools for twenty poor children, (to be named by the founders or governors), dwelling within two miles of the school, as well as for all the tenants of Erasmus Smith. They were to be instructed in writing and 'casting accounts,' Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and if so desired, to be prepared for university."?Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Copac listing the Cambridge University Library copy only.
576p. Hardcover Very good condition, edges lightly soiled
[8] + 240 + [6] pp. + 2pp. theses, 30cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, text in typoscript, good condition, G112370
Light bumping to one corner ; Large b&w photo section ; 8vo; 355 pages
Dublin, APCK, 1965, in-8, br., pp. 72. Con 26 ill. in b.n. ed elenco cronologico dei Decani della Cattedrale (fra cui Jonathan Swift, che qui è sepolto).
Belfast, printed and sold by Samuel Archer, 1808-1810, volumi 4, in-8, legatura coeva in mezza pelle (spellature diffuse, mancanze al dorso del primo volume, consunzioni), pp. [4], 484 - [4], 456 - [4], 476 - [4], 508, VII, [1]. Rara edizione impressa a Belfast. Fioriture sparse.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
292p., illus. contains 32 pages of color pictures by National Geographic. Hardcover Very good condition good
Sm. 4to., Fifth Edition, LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, title in red and black, some very light and inoffensive spotting; brown cloth, upper board with two Greek Key fillets enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, bevelled boards, black endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. LARGE PAPER COPIES ARE UNCOMMON.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 228pp. History, archaeology and travel on the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland.
Folio, xxxviipp., followed by 198 collotype facsimile leaves, from the library of Percy J. Paley, Castle Hacket (bookplate), orig. cloth, some light staining and scratches but overall a very good copy. The manuscript was prepared for Finghin MacCarthy Reagh in the fifteenth-century and discovered in 1814 at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
First edition, 204pp., newspaper cuttings tipped-in, orig. pictorial cloth, a nice copy.
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, WITH TWO UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT LETTERS CITED IN THE STANDARD OLYMPIA PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. One of 2,000 copies of the first British edition. (Actually this "British edition" was created by taking 2,000 copies of the first American (Grove Press) edition to England, putting a sticker over the imprint, and issuing a new dustjacket.) LAID IN ARE TWO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TYPED LETTERS SIGNED--ABOUT 1,000 WORDS--FROM THE EDITOR, SINGLETON-GATES, on his letterhead, to a correspondent in Nothern Rhodesia (later Zambia) (!). In these unpublished letters, written during the 1960s, Singleton-Gates describes his feelings towards Casement. He also describes, in passionate terms, the fascinating circumstances surrounding the publication of these scandalous diaries, and the numerous obstacles he faced, including copyright and censorship issues. He furthermore explains his various other projects relating to Casement, none of which came to fruition. It is fair to say that these letters shed considerable light on the limits of press freedoms in Britain during the late 50s and 60s, as well as on the way Casement's heirs felt about his legacy. THESE LETTERS ARE CITED--and briefly excerpted--on pp. 60-61 of Patrick Kearney's bibliography, The Paris Olympia Press (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007). Also laid in are numerous newspaper clippings from 1959 and 1960, all relating to the publication. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Fine and bright, in a very good price-clipped dj.
London, Corgi Books, 1969. 222 p. 1 h. Láminas f.t. con fotos b/n. 8º menor. Buen ejemplar. 1ª edición en la editorial. En inglés.
in-12, 318 pages, broché, couv. Bel exemplaire, complet du bandeau pub. [109B-6]
<p>Incisione su acciao, impronta 27 x 19 cm, su foglio 31,5 x 23,5 cm. Un imponente scoglio si erge alto lungo la costiera occidentale irlandese. L'immagine è animata da uno stormo di uccelli marini che volano attorno alla roccia. Tratto da "Picturesque Europe" 1875-1876. Esemplare molto ben conservato. </p>
Oversize, 80p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Second edition, [ii], 39, [1]pp., recent marbled boards. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Surprisingly uncommon: we find no copy of the first or this second edition, Copac locates the third and later editions only.
