ireland

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Over 200 duotone images throughout. Tight copy. Born in Cork, Ireland, Frank Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera. Browne quickly discovered a strong affinity for photography, and continued to take photographs throughout his life. It was not until 1985, however-when Father Edward O'Donnell SJ discovered a large trunk in the Irish Jesuit Provincial's House and found it packed with negatives and photographs-that Browne was catapulted to international fame. Father Browne's remarkable life is recorded in the superb selection of images presented in this book. With wit and a sharp eye, he observed 20th-century Ireland; life as a Jesuit priest; his experience as a passenger on the first leg of the voyage of the Titanic in 1912; and his later travels throughout Europe, Egypt, Yemen, Ceylon, and Australia. This handsome, copiously illustrated volume offers a complete survey of the photographic work of an exceptional man.

Hardcover. N. Ireland, Laurel Cottage Ltd., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, 92 pages, color illustrations by Derek Biddulph. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS AND ARTIST on the title page. The combination of Derek Biddulph's delightful paintings and the fascinating history, stories and anecdotes from Peadar and Dick make this handsome guided tour of Galway City and the surrounding area. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sheed & Ward, 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 231 pages. Tales of life in the West of Ireland by Father Leo R. Ward, philosopher and theologian. The Irish "treat every stranger as though they expected him to write about them and wanted to give him plenty of material....But we ... have never seen it put into a book -- not even by Synge--as it has been put into this book" (from the jacket flap). Wonderful travel memoir by a native of Nebraska. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 226 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth with an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. The book is a very good, clean, tight copy. White's account of life on the west coast of Ireland. The author comments on the front flap: "God knows what this book is about. I suppose it's a bit of autobiography really. But it's about living on the West Coast of Ireland, in 'the parish nearest to America' -- they all are, I mean the parishes -- and it is about the people and things there, more than about me."

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 251 pages. A story of murder and family intrigue set in Ireland.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Virtue and Yorston, 1864, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 477 pages plus index. Black & white plate illustrations with tissue guards. Leather spine and corners. Raised bands on spine. Tear to one illustration page. Rear fly leaf almost completely torn out. Previous owner's signature on front end paper and front fly leaf. Edgewear. Wear to corners. Soiling and tears to pages. Creasing to pages and tissue guards.

Hardcover. Dublin, James Duffy, 1st , 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library, rebound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Residue on endpapers, Interior is clean.

Softcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 233 pages. Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and African-Americans and draws a powerful connection between the embracing of white supremacy and Irish "success" in 19th century American society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket, 165 pages. Illustrated with Steve Pyke's b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH O'GRADY AND PYKE on the title page. Stranded in a dismal flat in England, the protagonist remembers his happy childhood in Ireland, the rough living and working conditions in England, and his only love. The language is quite simple and often Hiberno Irish, but deeply imaginative and so lyrical, that the line between prose and poetry gets blurred. The beautiful black/white pictures added to this book, and the author's ability to portray Irish music help to give an insight into Irish culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and three colors, 384 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w illustrations by Charles Sheldon. Desmond Kennedy is a young Irish lad who left Ireland to join the Irish Brigade in the service of Louis XIV of France. In Paris he incurred the deadly hatred of a powerful courtier from whom he had rescued a young girl who had been kidnapped, and his perils are of absorbing interest. Captured in an attempted Jacobite invasion of Scotland, he escaped in a most extraordinary manner. As aid-de-camp to the Duke of Berwick he experienced thrilling adventures in Flanders. Transferred to the Army in Spain, he was nearly assassinated, but escaped to return, when peace was declared, to his native land, having received pardon and having recovered his estates. Previous owner's signature on a blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Decked foreedge. Teal fabric covered, Very clean inside and out. Review from back cover, "There's a cast of characters worthy of a modern-day Shakespeare; bathetic descriptions of using the lavatory that would have had Beckett smiling; and the gods' playful pursuit of women that could be lifted straight from Ovid's The Art of Love. Banville, already esteemed for the brilliance of his language, proves in this novel to have a mastery, too, of these many colliding universes."

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover with decoration. Tanning to pages and edges (agewear). Top edge gilt (faded). Binding good, spine straight. The autobiography of Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), who was an Irish politician, journalist, novelist, and historian.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 265 pages. Brick-red cloth with black decoration, color and b/w plates by Wilfred Jones. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Dublin, Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Includes 405 illustrations with 384 in color. A collection of works by Jack Pierson.

Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 463 pages. numerous b&w illustrations. Described as "Original Edition With a Continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a Preface, Appendices and Illustrations". The Journal of an Irishman who fell foul of English rule in the mid-19th century, was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and escaped. No date but probably late 1940s. Mild musty odor.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 767 pages. 'This book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyses early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and the development of early Enlightenment culture and will be essential reading for scholars of early modern European history, religion, political science, and philosophy.' Clean copy.

Softcover. San Rafael CA, Coracle Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages, b&w frontis. A new printing of the journal and letters of Stephen Mackenna (1872-1934), a vivid and representative thinker whose life intersected with many of the leading figures of his day, and especially those of the Irish literary renaissance. The editor, E. R. Dodds, writes: Stephen MacKenna's working life was divided among three countries, and was further broken by two complete changes of occupation and by continual changes of residence. When he died, he left behind him no wife, child or lifelong friend; . . . and with the exception of the 1907-9 Journal no papers of any considerable biographical value. He left instead a legend. In the Memoir which follows I have endeavored to recover and present the facts underlying the legend. Best known for what AE (George William Russell) called his 'noble translation of Plotinus', MacKenna nonetheless harbored views that collided with those of Plotinus, and so speaks to us as an authentic forerunner of the 'modern' human being, by which is meant those who, once their individual inner light is lit-and no matter how it may gutter in the wind of uncertain freedoms-must, even while hallowing earlier and magisterial records of paths of spiritual ascent, accept the need for a complete 'descent' (without which the whole engine of creation will have had no final purpose), with all the provisional darkness this may entail, so that the final ascent may be made in personal love and freedom. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages, illustrated in b&w by Charles Keeping. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An adventure story from a 13th c folk-poem with elements from invasions of the 9th and 10th century, redone by a well known modern writer and illustrator. Prince Horn, driven from his father's kingdom at 15 by Turkish invaders, flees to Westernesse and becomes a page at the royal court. Then his love for the Princess is treacherously revealed and he is exiled to Ireland, from which he battles to free his kingdom and win his princess. Published when the author was 24, and the second of his many vivid translations and retellings of traditional narratives.

Hardcover. London, England, Collins, 1st UK Edition, 1962, 352 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Before Columbus, before the Vikings, did Ireland's St. Brendan make a North Atlantic crossing?

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages plus publisher's ads. ...to Which are Prefixed and Added Extracts From the Same Journal Giving an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. B/w illustrations throughout, including two facing frontispieces with tissue guard. Binding still quite good. Tanning and foxing throughout with other agewear appropriate for a book this old. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers and ID stamp on preliminary page. Dark red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover, agewear (see image). From Editor's Preface: "During one of the Editor's official visits to Balmoral, her Majesty very kindly allowed him to see several extracts from her journal relating to excursions to the Highlands of Scotland...It...occurred to her Majesty that these extracts, referring as they did, to some of the happiest hours of her life, might be made into a book,..."

Softcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated in color. Leon Golub was a leading exponent of history painting - painting as a narrative, symbolic expression of global, social and political relations and of the realities of power. In this book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition traveling to Ireland, England and the United States, Jon Bird examines the artist's work from the classically influenced early paintings through depictions of conflict and masculine aggression to compelling images of his recent work. Crease to rear cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this compelling new study of one of the century's most memorable poets, Jon Stallworthy has produced an outstanding full-scale biography of Louis MacNeice, drawing on the testimony of family, friends, lovers, and MacNeice's extensive unpublished correspondence and papers. Stallworthy, whose Wilfred Owen was described by Graham Greene as "one of the finest biographies of our time," has produced another no less remarkable life of an equally haunting figure. MacNeice's mother died when he was seven and Stallworthy shows how his imagination transmuted her ghostly presence, and the powerful presence of his father, into an elemental opposition structuring most of what he would write - from anguished indictments of his native Ireland to poignant love poems.