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The Leavetaking

John McGahern

Hardcover. Stated first edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and mylar. DW showing a little age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1975
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited London
Edition: First edition
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KSG0031363
ISBN: 9780571106219

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€ 150.00

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The Pornographer

Paperback. Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225712
ISBN: 9780571225712

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€ 13.99
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John McGahern - Amongst Women - 9780571225644 - 9780571225644

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Amongst Women

John McGahern

paperback. Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158 184pp

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Condition: New
Edition: Main
SKU: 9780571225644
ISBN: 9780571225644

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€ 11.99
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Love of the World

John McGahern

John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are part of the canon of Irish and world literature. Of interest to those who love his work, this book brings together McGahern's surviving essays, reviews and speeches. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 41. Weight in Grams: 770. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: Main
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
SKU: KEX0303037
ISBN: 9780571245116

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€ 45.00

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High Ground: and Other Stories

John McGahern

Paperback. Includes stories that are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.

Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Number of pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225699
ISBN: 9780571225699

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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

John McGahern

Paperback. A collection of short stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.

Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber London
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2007
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571237852
ISBN: 9780571237852

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€ 17.99
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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

John McGahern

Hardback. First new hardback edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and with plastic book wrap. DW faded and showing light shelf wear. Page edges browned, otherwise a fine copy

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2006
SKU: KSG0015926
ISBN: 9780571225668

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€ 75.00

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The Dark

John McGahern

Hardcover. First edition, worn copy, dustwrapper slighyl worn

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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1965
SKU: KTK0094194

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€ 245.00

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The Barracks

John McGahern

Hardcover. Out of Print. First US edition, very rare. Keywords: Irish Literature, fiction, comedy, tragedy

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1964
Edition: [1st American ed.]
SKU: KHS0081651

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€ 380.00

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The Power of Darkness (Plays)

John McGahern

Paperback. In an old Irish farmhouse, the wealthy but ailing Peter King and his second young wife, Eileen are surrounded at close quarters by the smothering attentions of "interested" parties, from Paddy the casual labourer to Paul, a handsome young workman. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 121 x 193 x 4. Weight in Grams: 82. First edition. 52pp. Excellent condition. Keywords: "Subjects - Music, Stage & Screen - Performing Arts - Plays & Drama - Bestsellers,Subjects - Music, Stage & Screen - Performing Arts - Plays & Drama - 20th Century,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism"

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Number of pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2002
Edition: Main
SKU: KHS0048525
ISBN: 9780571167098

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€ 40.00

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All Will Be Well: A Memoir

John McGahern

Hardcover. 304pp. First US edition. Orange-brown boards with brown cloth spine and gilt titles. A bright crisp copy, fore edge uncut. Includes near perfect dust jacket

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2006
SKU: KHS0076351
ISBN: 9781400044962

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€ 45.00

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The Barracks

John McGahern

Paperback. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.

Publisher: Faber & Faber London
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2008
Edition: Main
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225651
ISBN: 9780571225651

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€ 13.99
€ 10.74

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Stories from the Great Irish Writers

John McCarthy (Ed.)

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1990
SKU: KRA0003953
ISBN: 9780853429470

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€ 4.99

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The Way In

John McAuliffe

Hardcover. First edition - Like new copy in original cloth with dustwrapper - Includes newsclippings carefully folded with publisher and dates noted - Signed and inscribed by the author - 1/0017 - 86pp. - The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co.Meath

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: The Gallery Press Oldcastle, Co.Meath
Number of pages: 86
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2015
SKU: KCK0001396

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€ 85.00

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Of All Places

John McAuliffe

Hardcover. First edition - Like new copy in original cloth with dustwrapper - Includes newsclippings carefully folded with publisher and dates noted - Signed and inscribed by the author - 2/0071 - 70pp. - The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co.Meath

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Publisher: The Gallery Press Oldcastle, Co.Meath
Number of pages: 70
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2011
SKU: KCK0001395

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€ 75.00

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Next Door

John McAuliffe

Hardcover. First edition - Like new copy in original cloth with dustwrapper - Signed and inscribed by the author - 2/0072 - 61pp. - The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co.Meath

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: The Gallery Press Oldcastle, Co.Meath
Number of pages: 61
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2007
SKU: KCK0001394

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€ 65.00

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The Leavetaking

John Mc Gahern

Hardcover. 195pp. First US Edition. Published in Boston by Atlantic-Little, Brown Books in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Bound in red paper, with title, author's name and publisher in gilt on spine. In very good condition. Keywords: Irish Literature

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Atlantic-Little, Brown Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1974
Edition: 1st Edition
SKU: KHS0081665