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The Strange Museum

Tom Paulin

Paperback. Num Pages: 51 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 5. Weight in Grams: 104. 51pp. A recommendation of the Poetry Book Society

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Number of pages: 51
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2002
Edition: Main
SKU: KHS1004392
ISBN: 9780571115112

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€ 25.00

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The Story of the Irish People

Sean O'Faolain

Hardcover. Good copy, dustjacket

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1983
SKU: KTK0094597
ISBN: 9780517379899

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€ 30.00

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The Story of the Abbey Theatre: From Its Origins in 1899 to the Presen...

Peter Kavanagh

Paperback. 243pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1950 edition. Illus. Irish Arts Series

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: National Poetry Foundation,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1984
SKU: KHS1004224
ISBN: 9780915032303

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€ 45.00

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The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

hardcover. Novel. 228pp

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Viking London
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2002
SKU: KTK0000565
ISBN: 9780670913428

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€ 45.00

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The States Through Irish Eyes

E. Somerville

Hardback. Bound in red cloth with paste-on title labels on cover and spine. Illustrated by the author. 199 pp. Clean and bright text. Keywords: Irish Literature - Rare Books

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KHS0056659

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€ 60.00

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The Spice of Life. And Other Essays.

Hardcover. """1st Edition. Fine copy in green cloth with gilt titled spine. Spine ends slightly worn/bumped. Dust jacket has corners cut on front inner flap, sunned spine and minor wear to spine ends, corners and edges."" Keywords: ""Subjects, English"""

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Browne and Nolan Limited
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1948
SKU: KHS0071136

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€ 65.00

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The Sphinx without a Secre, The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionai...

Oscar Wilde

Paperback. 64pp. Privately printed. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-gray wrappers. First edition of this collection, one of 300 numbered copies. Wilde's comic ghost story and two ironic society sketches issued in a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers, or by Wright & Jones, a firm of unscrupulous booksellers on Fulham Street, or by both of them. Seperately and in cahoots, they issued numerous piracies of Wilde's writings shortly after his death. Wrappers a little worn at the head and foot of the spine and slightly soiled; very good copy. Keywords: Literature - Rare - Irish - Wilde

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Very Good.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1904
Edition: First Edition
SKU: KHS0068089

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€ 895.00

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The Sorcerers: A Laotian Tale

Knute Skinner

Paperback. 31pp. Illustrations by Robert Michener

Condition: Used, Like New
Publisher: Boliards Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1972
SKU: KHS1004042

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€ 45.00

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The Something in Particular

John Hughes

Hardcover. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period - 20th Century,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General"

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1986
SKU: KEX0185944
ISBN: 9781852350079

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€ 40.00

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The Smiling Faces and Other Stories

Brinsley McNamara

Hardcover. "1929. 163pp. A fine copy in quarter black cloth, with gilt patterned sides and paper title label on spine. Rear spine edge is worn, slight wear to top of front spine edge, bottom edge and corners are very slightly worn, minor foxing to endpages. Dust jacket is slightly stained/sunned, with a tear on front bottom close to spine, and general wear to edges and corners." Keywords: Fiction

Condition: Used, Good
Publisher: The Mandrake Press, London
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1929
Edition: First Edition
SKU: KHS0070892

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€ 45.00

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The Smell o' The Turf: Verses

Samuel S McCurry

Hardcover. 140pp. With an introduction by Professor Dowden. Index of first lines. T e g, fore and bottom edges uncut

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Hodges, Figgis
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1912
SKU: KHS1003890

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€ 85.00

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The Sins of the Mothers

Frank Delaney

Hardcover. 8vo. Original cloth, . Irish Literature

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1992
SKU: KEX0279662
ISBN: 9780002239097

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€ 15.00

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The Silence in the Garden

William Trevor

Hardcover. 204pp. First US Edition. Fore edge marked

Condition: Used, Like New
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Viking
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1988
SKU: KHS1003868
ISBN: 9780670824045

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€ 48.00

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The Silence in the Garden

William Trevor

Hardcover. 204pp

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Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
SKU: KHS1003866
ISBN: 9780370312187

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€ 45.00

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The Silence in the Garden

William Trevor

Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in good dustwrapper.Irish literature.. 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.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Viking
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1988
SKU: KEX0273961
ISBN: 9780670824045