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A Chosen Light

John Montague

Hardcover. 69pp. Drawing on p.5, by Louis Le Brocquy. First US Edition

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: Swallow Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1969
Edition: [1st American ed.]
SKU: KHS1003529

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€ 125.00

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James Thomas O'Brien - A Charge Delivered to the United Diocese of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, at his Primary Visitation in September 1842 - - KON0808316

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A Charge Delivered to the United Diocese of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighli...

James Thomas O'Brien

Hardcover. 294pp. Rebound in quarter red aniline calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt tooling. Some minor foxing, but overall an extremely good copy

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1905
SKU: KON0808316

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A Century of Short Stories

Aidan Higgins (Ed.)

Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. Very good copy in original cloth with dustwrapper . Irish Literature.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1977
SKU: KEX0279181
ISBN: 9780224015516

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€ 25.00

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A Bunch of Wild Flowers: Poems on Religious Subjects

Brian O'Higgins

Hardback. 60pp. With an introduction by the Rev. Bernard Gaffney, Diocese of Kilmore. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Decorated cover in good condition with some shelf wear and staining

Condition: Used, Very Good
Format: Hardback
Publisher: M.H. Gill
Publication date: 1906
SKU: KHS1003718

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€ 60.00

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A Bowl of Broth

Lynn Doyle

Hardback. First edition in original cloth, stained. dustwrapper.

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Publisher: Duckworth
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1945
SKU: KTK0094047

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€ 25.00

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A Book of Memory: The Birthday Book of the Blessed Dead

Katharine Tynan (Compiler)

Hardcover. 216pp. n d. Decorated boards, with leather title on spine. Gilt title on front cover. t e g. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Text bright and clear. Keywords: Poetry - Collections

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
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SKU: KHS1004486

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€ 195.00

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A Book of Memory, The Birthday Book of the Blessed Dead

Compiled By Katherine Tynan

Hardcover. First edition, inscription on endpaper, original cloth cover slightly worn

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton LOndon
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SKU: KTK0094388

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€ 145.00

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A Bit on the Side

Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in good dustwrapper.Irish literature.First American edition. William Trevor, KBE (born 24 May 1928), is an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world,[1] he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.[2] He has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name has also been mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] Trevor has resided in Devon, South West England, since the 1950s.

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Publisher: Viking Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2004
Edition: First American Edition
SKU: KEX0273967
ISBN: 9780670033430

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€ 35.00

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E H Mikhail - A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama, 1899-1970 - 9780295952291 - KHS1004202

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A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama, 1899-1970

E H Mikhail

Hardback. 51pp. With a foreword by William A Armstrong

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Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 1972
SKU: KHS1004202
ISBN: 9780295952291

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A bibliography of George Berkeley

T. E. Jessop

Hardback. "Includes index. Commissioning organisation: by T.E. Jessop. With an inventory of Berkeley's manuscript remains, by A.A. Luce. xi, 99 p. 23 cm. Associated Names: Luce, A. A. Associated Dates: 1882-. Original cloth. Very good copy in slightly edge rubbed and dulled dark blue boards. Text bright and clean in a strong binding." Keywords: "Berkeley, George,"

Publisher: Oxford University press, H. Milf
Condition: Used, Good
Format: Hardback
SKU: KHS0032143

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€ 70.00

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A Ballad of The Gloster & The Goeben

Maurice Hewlett

Hardback. "Four Page Poetry Broadside. 19 x 28 cm. Published in London by The Poetry Bookshop. Contains 6 black, white and blue illustrations of the World War One pursuit of two German ships; the Goeben and the Breslau, by the Gloster. The German ships evaded the British fleet and arrived in Constantinople, where the Goeben was made flagship of the Ottoman navy. In the words of Winston Churchill, they brought more slaughter, more misery and more ruin than has ever before been borne within the compass of a ship. The poem ends Now God bless all our seamen/Who keep the English seas,/And send them equal fortune,/With worthier foes than these!". Four Page Poetry Broadside. 19 x 28 cm. Published in London by The Poetry Bookshop. Contains 6 black, white and blue illustrations of the World War One pursuit of two German ships; the Goeben and the Breslau, by the Gloster. The German ships evaded the British fleet and arrived in Constantinople, where the Goeben was made flagship of the Ottoman navy. In the words of Winston Churchill, they brought "more slaughter, more misery and more ruin than has ever before been borne within the compass of a ship." The poem ends "Now God bless all our seamen/Who keep the English seas,/And send them equal fortune,/With worthier foes than these!

Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop
Condition: Used, Good
Format: Hardback
SKU: KHS0068115