Search Results: Ireland from Blacket Books

Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.ix,157. 15 plates (on 8 pages). 21 figures. A study of the Anglo-Norman barony of Ulster showing how it functioned in medieval Ireland.

Belfast: James Cleeland / William Mullan & Son, 1906. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Good. A good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. End-papers and title page very browned. Pp.[vi],104 + 2pp. adverts. McSkimin was 23 years old when the uprising against British rule in Ireland broke out in 1798 and had personal knowledge of much of what he describes regarding the uprising in Ulster. Includes a biographical sketch and notes by E.J. McCrum. First published in 1849 this work seems to be uncommon in any early edition.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbacks. A very good two volume set in blue cloth lettered in gilt. No ownership inscription or other marking. Moderate edge foxing. 694 pages (continuously paginated). 32 illustrations. Macready was a senior British Army officer who saw active service in the Second Boer War and who held senior staff appointments in the First World War. The book's principal interest, however, lies in the fact that he was the last British military commander in Ireland prior to independence. He was sent to command British troops in Ireland in April 1920 to carry out a counter-insurgency role against the Irish Republican Army in the Irish War of Independence. He had already expressed his view of Ireland in writing as follows: "I loathe the country--and its people with a depth deeper than the sea and more violent than that which I feel against the Boche." He believed that Ireland could be suppressed in the Summer of 1921 but… Read More

London: John Murray, 1917. Half-Leather. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and with harp in gilt on upper board. A little wear to spine ends and board tips. No ownership inscription. Pp.xiv,[1],320. Six illustrations. Includes a memoir of Edward Bunting in nine chapters, a memoir of Arthur O'Neill in four chapters, three chapters of the diary and letters of Patrick Lynch and chapters on the harp in ancient Ireland, the last harpers, famous harps etc.

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy without dustwrapper. Small neat ownership inscription otherwise a lovely clean copy. 47 pages. A slim early volume by the well-known Irish poet.

Dublin: The Stationery Office, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which shows some fading to the spine although the lettering is clearly readable. Ownership inscription on the half-title. Pp.xvi,576. 83 plates (nearly all in colour). Maps. A volume in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland series. This is a very heavy book which will require extra postage.

Dublin: Sealy, Briers & Walker. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Nd but probably 1st edition of 1902. A good copy in green cloth letterd in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Board tips a little bumped. No ownership inscription. Some browning/foxing to end-papers. Pp.xviii,[2],314 + one page adverts. Frontispiece and eight plates. Preface by Edward Martyn. Includes eccleasiastical architecture, sculpture, stained glass etc.

London: Longmans Green & Co, 1904. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A near very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt. A little wear at spine ends. Single stamp of a church on title page. Pp.x,[4],428 + 40pp publisher's catalogue. 4 illustrations. A biography of a 19th century member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy. Includes a chapter on the Irish famine of the 1840's.

Dublin and London: The Dolmen Press and Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's brown covers with title in gilt on cream spine. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 14 black and white photographs by Synge. 46 pages. This is number 387 in an edition of one thousand two hundred and fifty copies. Includes an essay on "Synge and the photography of his time" by P. J. Pocock. Very good slipcase.

Irish Texts Society, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A nice clean copy with no ownership inscription or other marking. Pp.xii,110. Text in Irish and English.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1880. Sixteenth Edition . Hardcover. Good. A good copy in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Ownership inscription on half title. A little pencilled marginal writing. 423 pages + 112 pages of adverts. Folding frontispiece map of Ireland. Several other folding maps and plans.

Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Hardback.. A near fine copy in publisher's dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. No inscriptions. 318 pages. Fine illustrated dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover. A novel of literary lifde in Dublin in the 1950's.

Dublin: New Island Books, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 224 pages. Colour plates. Black and white illustrations. Includes a roll call of lighthouse keepers.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardback. Square 4to. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. PPp.xvii,254. 300 colour illustrations. The book is said to reveal "the architectural and design heritage of one of the most fascinating and formidable of all the civilizations of antiquity." [Please note this is a heavy book which will require extra postage for an overseas order].

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardback. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xxi,420. 32 illustrations. 8 figures. This is the first book "to trace the history of Ireland's most significant cathedral church from its foundation in the eleventh century to the present day---and provides a unique view of the development of the social and religious worlds of Dublin and Ireland generally".

Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.liv,781. 22 illustrations. "This book will be indispensable to anyone interested in the development of modern poetry, drama, and cultural history.

Dundalk: W.Tempest,, 1993. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. J.Humbert Craig, R.H.A.. A very good copy. Small ownership label on front fixed end-paper. Coloured frontispiece and numerous plates throughout. Map in pocket at rear. 164 pages. Very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is protected in a removable cover. A knowledgeable book about an attractive area of the Irish countryside.

London: The Bodley Head, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. William Stobbs. Hardback. Oblong 8vo. A very good copy in publisher's pictorial cover. No inscriptions. Colourfully illustrated on each page. Unpaginated. Very good dustwrapper, not price-clipped and protected in a removable cover.

Cork University Press, 1926. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged . A very good copy in original wrappers. 148pp. Largely unopened. Introduction in English by Robin Flower. Text of poems in Irish Gaelic.

Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A near fine copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and lettered and decorated in gilt on upper board. A nice clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xii,130. 8 colour plates. Numerous black and white illustrations. A study of the fine European book bindings - mainly from the 16th-18th centuries- in Marsh's Library, Dublin.