London: Jonathan Cape, 2023. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Fine book in a very good jacket, with just a couple of marks to front.Shortlisted for the women's fiction prize, this very clean example appears unread.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Attractive combination of Behan's prose reflections and poetry, and Hogarth's illustration. Book has no mark or inscriptions, no spotting or foxing, with binding tight. Boards vey fresh, attractive and clean. Jacket, unclipped & intact, has some sunning to spine.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1974-1976. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impressions. The second and third novels from the Irish writer best known for his autobiography, My Left Foot. Largely mirroring his personal life, these novels are set between New England (USA), and Dublin. Both books are in fine condition with like.....
London: Penguin-Viking / Picador, 2009-2024. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. The accomplished and much admired series from Tóibín. Both books signed by the author, with Brooklyn dated by him 1 May 2009 and Long Island noted as 'Signed limited edition' to the front cover. Publisher's launch bookmarks (x2).....
Viking-Penguin, 2018. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by author to title page. Toíbín considers the influences some fathers had on their sons - in this case, three of the most high-profile Irish writers. A unique and fascinating insight into the authors' lives and works. There.....
Picador, 1997. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Novel with each chapter written by one of seven Irish writers like Doyle, O'Connor, Toibin et. al. Although the writer of each chapter is not identified, so that is the first mystery to be solved about this hotel. There is.....
London: Picador, 2023. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Irish writer Donoghue surprised her readers with this new foray into Victorian pastiche, based around two close female friends and their attempt to be free of the strictures surrounding marriage and propriety. Echoes Sarah Waters in the frank.....
London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A tremendously important book in Irish modern fiction, Kennedy's work deals with across-the-divide issues of love and trust in 1970s Northern Ireland. This book is fine in all respects and appears unread. It is part of a limited issue.....
London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: As new. A tremendously important book in Irish modern fiction, Kennedy's work deals with across-the-divide issues of love and trust in 1970s Northern Ireland. This book is fine in all respects and appears unread. It is signed to the title.....
Orion, 1998. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Best-seller Binchy bolsters the Irish balance of payments through this guiltily pleasurable, page-turning evocation of friends, family and personal growth. Will become a popular classic and this is a nice example to keep.
Michael Joseph, 2020. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Signed via publisher's tip-in page. What does it mean to be grown-up, asks today's popular modern chronicler. A funny and page-turning read. The price has been obliterated in ink.
Hutchinson, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Signed by author to front free endpaper "Maureen Duffy, November 1987". This collection of poems was Duffy's first, and joins her extensive canon of novels, play-scripts and TV/film screenplays. Duffy was a well known, early activist for numerous causes.....
Gollancz, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. For a while, Menna Gallie was a 'forgotten' novelist - being Welsh and a woman didn't help her much in London publishing circles. Nevertheless, with a revived interest in Welsh writing encouraged by initiatives such as the Writers of Wales.....
Oneworld, 2023. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed and dated by the author on 23/11/23 at a promotional reading of the Booker Prize Shortlist. Ticket to same event included along with publisher's promo. bookmark. Appears unread.
Oneworld, 2023. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed by the author to a pastedown bookplate to title page. The somewhat controversial Booker prize winner for 2023 is nonetheless a stunning study in tyranny ranging from the political to the deeply personal and familial.
Faber, 1965. Edition: 1st UK thus, 1st impression. Book Condition: Good. This is the 1965 new and unexpurgated version. Still nothing happens. There is evidence that stamps (e.g. school) have been erased from endpapers although all pages complete and no other markings. Some tanning to page edges. The jacket is a little.....
Calder/Jupiter, 1963. Edition: 1st UK thus, 1st impression. Book Condition: Good. Interesting reading copy, quite rare in this edition and a great author photograph to the cover. John Calder were known as the 'alternative' London publishers and thus had no issue in publishing this in association with the equally bohemian.....