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edition. Pages 128, 4to. Illus. b/w. photos. In red cloth and gilt. Fine in worn jacket. Ball Alan – Alan Ball’s international soccer annual. H/B. Pelham Books London 1969. First edition. Pages 120, 4to. Illus. b/w photos. In blue cloth and gilt. Fine in worn jacket. Hayter Ray (Ed. by) – The Arsenal Football Book No. 5. H/B. Stanley Paul London 1973. First edition. Pages 128, 4to. In red cloth and gilt spine. Fine in worn jacket with tares. (5) €160 - 180 991 Book: Collection of bird books Leslie Brown – Brtish birds of prey. H/B. Collins London 1946. First. Pages xiii, 400, 8vo. Illus. b/w photos. Mint copy in green cloth and gilt and like jacket in protected cover. Review copy with original slip. AA Book of British Birds. H/B. Drive London 1969. First. Pages 471, tall 8vo. Profusely illus. c’old plates throughout. In illus. cloth boards and gilt spine. Near fine in jacket with edge-wear and creases. Rutgers A – Birds of South America – with 160 colour -plates from the litographs of John Gould. H/B. Eyre Methuen Ltd. London 1972. First. Pages 321, 4to. Profusely illus. throughout with co’ld plates. In orange cloth and gilt spine. Very good+ in edge-worn jacket. Gosler Andrew (Ed. by ) – Philip’s birds of the world. H/B. Philip’s Ltd., London 2006. Pages 383, 4to. Colour illus. throughout. In black cloth and gilt spine. Mint in mint jacket. Ardley Neil – Illustrated guide to birds and birdwatching. H/B. Galley Books Leicester 1987. Pages 197, 4to. Illustrated colour and b/w. Mint in yellow cloth and gilt. Fitter R S R – Collins pocket guide to British birds. H/B. Collins London, 1963. Pages xvi, 240, 8vo. Illus. colour and b/w plates. Green cloth and gilt spine. Good. Wilson Jim & Carmody Mark – Freshwater birds of Ireland. S/B.Collins Press Cork, 2011. First. Pages 256, 4to. Profusely illus. throughout with colour photos by Carmody and signed by him on inside cover. (7) €170 - 200 992 Book: Sean Cronin Frank Ryan – the search for the republic. Repsol Publishing, Dublin, 1980. First. Frank O’Connor – The Big Fellow. Poolbeg Press Dublin 1986: Terence de Ver White – Kevin O’Higgins. Anvil Dublin 1986; Dan Breen – MY fight for Irish Freedom. Anvil Dublin 1964; PAMPHLET - Ghosts of Kilmainham. Dublin 1969. KAUTT W. H. Ambushes and Armour .The Irish Rebellion 1919 - 1921. P/B. Irish Academic Press 2009. P.p. 300. Illus. with tables etc. Very good + T.P. Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers P/B. Anvil Books, Dublin,1980. First. Pages 212. Very Good + All paperbacks in very good condition some scarce. (7) €140 - 160
993 Book: Louis N. Le Roux Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement. H/B. Talbot Press, Dublin, 1936. First. Pages 244. Illustrated. In original green cloth. The Biography of the Clan-na-Gael member, who, on his return from the US to Ireland, transferred to the I.R.B. and was the first signatory to the Republican Proclamation in Easter Week. Some foxing to page edges else a very fine copy in very good + jacket. Very scarce with jacket. (1) €230 - 300 994 Book: Signed collection of Irish poets Isolin Mullion – Metamorphosis. H/B. Vantage Press, New York, 1974. First. Very good + in edgeworn jacket. With signed dedication. Goulding Peter – Newgrange me arse. Wraps no date. Pages 24, with signed inscription from the author. Scarce. Morgan Downie - Stone and Sea S/B. Calder Wood Press, 2010. Pages 64, 8vo. Illus. wraps. Signed by the author. Fine/near mint. McNamee John – New and selected poems 1969 -90. S/B Weaver Dublin 1990. Pages 93, 8vo.Fine in stiff card covers. Signed by the author. Stack Prunella – Then and now. S/B. Envoi Poets Pembrokeshire, no date. Pages 48, in stiff card covers. Signed by the author. Paul Conway - Poems. Bray: Cicero Publications, 1977. Signed by the author. 8vo, card covers, 48 pages. Very good. Mary Turley-McGrath - New Grass Under Snow. Summer Palace Press, Donegal 2003. First. Pages 64, 8vo. Fine in illus. stiff card covers. Signed and inscribed by the author. Caitriona O’Reilly - The Nowhere Birds. Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2001. Pages 64, 8vo. Illus. card covers Mint. Signed by the author. Scarce. John F. Deane – High Sacrifice. S/B. Portlaoise, Dolmen Press, 1981. First. Pages 61, 8vo. Fine in stiff wraps. Presentation copy with signed inscription from author Deane, McDonagh Terry – At home in my shoes. S/B. Celtic Corner Hamburg 1997. First. Pages 88, 8vo. Fine/near mint, in card wraps. Presentation copy signed by McDonagh. Nice collection of modern irish signed poetry – future potential. ! (8)
996 Book: Kevin B. Nowlan The Making of 1916 Studies in the History of the Rising. H/B. Stationery Office Dublin 1969. First. Pages xvi, 338, map. Exlibrary with stamps. Very good in protected wrapper. National Gallery of Ireland - Cuimneachan 1916. A Commemmorative Exhibition of the Irish Rebellion 1916. Pub. 1966. Pages 96, in stiff card covers . Very good. William O’Brien - Forth The Banners Go - H/B. Three Candles, Dublin 1969. First. Pages vii, 314. Frontis and other Illus. Fine copy in edge-worn jacket. (3) €110 - 140 997 Book: George O’Brien The Four Green Fields. H/B. Talbot Press, Dublin & Cork, 1936. First. Pages 152. Very Good + in like jacket. Benedict Kiely - Counties Of Contention. H/B. Mercier Cork 1945. Pages 188. Brown card boards. Pages age-toned. Very good. Seamus O’Buachalla (ED.) - The Letters of P. H. Pearse. H/B. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1980. First Grained cream cloth, copper gilt titles to spine. Pages xxiv, 504. Fine copy in jacket with minor edge wear. Seamus G. O’Kelly - The Glorious Seven. P/B. Irish News Service and Publicity Dublin 1966. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, Pages 48. Illus. Fine copy. Florence O’Donoghue - No Other Law. P/B. Anvil Books, Dublin 1986. Pages 360 large 8vo. Edgewear to covers. Very good. Very scarce. Donal O’Donovan - Kevin Barry and His Time. P/B. Glendale Dublin 1989. First. Illustrated. Fine condition. Pages 244, index. Scarce. (6 €170 - 210 998 Book: Collection of four Yeats (W.B. and Jack) books €100 - 150 999 Book: Tom Barry Guerilla Days in Ireland. H/B. Irish Press, Dublin, 1949. First Edition. Pages 228, 8vo. Illustrated. Navy cloth boards. Ink written notes to end papers else very good. (1)
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995 Book: M. J. Macmanus Eamon de Valera - A Biography . H/B. Talbot Press Dublin, 1944. First Edition. Pages 359. Frontis. Blue cloth worn and gilt title to spine. Biro marks underlining to some pages, else very good. Michael McInerney - Peadar O’Donnell: Irish Social Rebel. H/B. O’Brien Press, Dublin, 1974. First. Pages 256. Ex-library usual stamps, in worn grey cloth. Text clean. Good. Donal Nevin - James Connolly: A Full Life. P/B. Gill and Macmillan Dublin 2006. First. Pages, xxii, 840, Illustrated. Very good + V. scarce. (3)
1000 Book: Le Roux Louis N - Life of Patrick H. Pearse H/B Talbot Press Dublin, circa 1930. First. Blue cloth and gilt spine. Pages 440. Frontis of Pearse. With owner’s inscription. In worn covers but all pages fine. Scarce. Mac Lochlainn Piaras F - Last words: letters and statements of the leaders executed after the rising at Easter 1916. H/B. Kilmainham Jail Restoration Society, 1971. First. Illustrated. A very good + copy, in torn dust jacket. €100 - 120
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