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Hardback. No date given. Very fine and handsome copy professionally rebound in quarter calf over modern marbled boards, gilted raised bands, attractive bright gilt tooling on the spine, top page edges gilted, gilted leather title labels, new end papers for tight and firm binding. Keywords: Ireland - Poetry and prose
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The Talbot Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS0039631
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 340.00

Hardcover. 86pp. Gilt top. Bumped, some shading, otherwise good. One of a limited edition of 500. Keywords; Poetry; Irish
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Irish Review
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1913
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS1003618
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 595.00

paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1111.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Foul Play Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780393319736
ISBN
9780393319736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 8.29

paperback. The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 122. From the library of Ivor Browne and Jane Levine. Signed by author with gift inscription. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025645
ISBN
9780224039734
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Hardcover. A collection of essays that examine the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts. They explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be in a world that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003870
ISBN
9780099273233
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A collection of poems, in which, the author attends to the flora and fauna and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224090063
ISBN
9780224090063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. By the award-winning author of "The Undertaking", this second collection of Lynch's essays examines the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts, a relationship on which he has a unique perspective, being both a poet and a funeral director. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 119. Weight in Grams: 319. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KHS0037843
ISBN
9780224059046
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 31.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also a funeral director in a small Michigan town, and this is his testimony. It comprises 12 essays - each a lesson taught to the living by the dead. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099767312
ISBN
9780099767312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. Extensive historical documents provide a rich framework for this new edition of the first English revenge tragedy.

Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812059
ISBN
9781554812059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.85

Paperback. Thomas Kyd's highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Neill, Michael. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393934007
ISBN
9780393934007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141192277
ISBN
9780141192277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Revenge plays became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. The Spanish Tragedy brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically contrasting romantic passion with violent deaths and clandestine politics. Editor(s): Gurr, Andrew; Mulryne, J. R. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408114216
ISBN
9781408114216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.10

Paperback. Presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. This selection begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, WB Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney. Editor(s): Kinsella, Thomas. Series: Oxford Books of Verse. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 306
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
SKU
9780192801920
ISBN
9780192801920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.93

Hardcover. Fine in original dust wrapper. DW price clipped and showing shelfwear with nicks and small tears. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Lightly toned, text is clear and crisp and remains fine
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1962
Publisher
The Dolmen Press
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0027248
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 28.00

Hardcover. 102pp.1969 reprint of first US Edition. Fore edge uncut. Out of print in hardcover. Fine
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS1003603
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 75.00

Single tall sheet folded once. Fine. One of 300 copies printed on the occasion of Kinsella's reading at the University of Connecticut Library on April 22, 1975. Slight browning to edges. Keywords: Irish Poetry
Publication date
1975
Publisher
University of Connecticut Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS0076452
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Published in a limited edition of 350 copies. Wrapper has slightly browned edges. Keywords: Irish Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Peppercanister 3
Publication date
1973
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS0076460
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 124.00

Hardcover. 63 pp. Downstream collects for the first time in one volume all Mr. Kinsella's poetry subsequent to the publication of Another September (1958). Keywords: Rare & Collectable- Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Dolmen Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1962
Edition
First edition
SKU
KHS0040151
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 236.00

Hardcover. 19pp. Published in Dublin by The Dolmen Press, 1966. First Edition. Wormwood by Thomas Kinsella is set in Pilgrim type with perpetua initials and a title page lettered by Rugh Brandt. The edition is limited to three hundred and fifty copies. Keywords: Irish Poetry.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Dolmen Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1966
SKU
KHS0081585
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 508.80

Hardcover. 45pp. Second edition
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Dolmen Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1962
SKU
KHS1003969
ISBN
9780851054926
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 65.00

Paperback. 79pp. First paperback edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Dolmen Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Edition
New edition
SKU
KHS1003966
ISBN
9780851052816
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

Paperback. "71p. Backboard a little marked, o/w internally very clean, a good copy. PB." Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - Poets, A-Z - ( K-L ) - Kinsella, Thomas,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period - 20th Century"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
SKU
KON0808011
ISBN
9780192118912
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 27.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. Paperback. Red paper wraps. Previous owner's inscription. Clean text. 20pp. Keywords: Ireland - Prose & Poetry - Irish poets
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Peppercanister
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
SKU
KHS0038034
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 85.00

Hardcover. 47pp. Excellent copy, in equally good dust jacket. Keywords: Poetry
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
The Dolmen Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1958
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS0040038
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 595.00

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