Search Results: Ireland & the Irish from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2000.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has more wear along the edges with some light scuffing to the covers. Black remainder mark across the upper edges of the pages. 480 pages with illustrations, select bibliography, and index. A detailed history of the origins and growth of Dublin.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine and minor scuffing to covers. 278 pages with illustrations, footnotes, and index. A collection of essays on how important events in Irish history have been mythologized and remembered.

West Link Park, Cork, Ireland: The Collins Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 534 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. A thorough survey of industrial archaeology in Ireland by a leading scholar in the field, organized into 5 sections: industrial and motive power; extractive industries; manufacturing industries; transport infrastructure ; & utility industries and industrial housing. A final essya covers housing, telecommunications, and urban transportation.

Boston: Stratford Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners, head and heel of spine bumped. Gilt titling to cover and sine, with an attractive image of the sun rising over Ireland in gilt on front board. Paper very slightly browned, more so at endpapers, but not fragile. 215 p. A collection of some 16 essays written "with very little thought that they would see light from the printed page" as the foreword says. Clearly written by an Irishman who has strong positive feelings for his new place in America, it is a surprisingly even handed group of essays, not pro -Sinn Fein at all and not enitrely pro-British policy towards Ireland either. He disapproved of Irish conduct with Germany (essays probably written during the war) and thinks the biggest problem with Ireland is factionalism on the Pro-Independence side. A good line from the book: " The Irish are a very truthful people.… Read More

Belfast, Ireland: Appletree Press, 1986. Reprint. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Notes in ink on last free endpaper. 200 p. w/ summary of facts, bibiography, index.

New York, NY: The Civil Service Printing Co, approx. 1917. Reprint. Pamphlet. Good. Good staplebound pamphlet. Some wear and light creasing to edges and corners with some light scuffing to covers. Few minor tears on upper edge of back cover. 24 pages. Reprint from London Times and Observer.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Dj has many chips and tears. Stamped Library of congress suplus on flyleaf. Name of former owner in pencil on flyleaf as well. 184 p. w/ a few pencil notes and underlining in pen, index. A discussion of the then current government of Northern Ireland under Viscount James Craig, with discussions of British policy pertinent to Ireland during the early war years.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 290 p. w/ footnotes, index. A collection of 12 scholarly essays examining Irish political thought and culture, drawing attention to neglected writers and treatises.

Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1893. First edition. hardcover in green cloth with gilt text on spine and front board. Very good. Small octavo (standard size). Some shelf wear to edges of boards. Top corners bumped. Pages lightly browned. 193 p. w/ frontis of author, 6 other plates of Irish scenery, green patterned endpapers. A flowery travel memoir of a trip to Ireland by an American matron.