Irish Interest from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Calder and Boyars 1966. 8vo. First reprint. 418 pp. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Some marks to jacket and light rubbing to extremities. A little bit of sunning to spine ends of book, otherwise clean boards and spine. Internally clean. 'The Trilogy' was written in French between 1947 and 1950, concurrently with… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber and Faber 1996. 8vo. First edition. 70 pp. Green hardback in dust jacket. Book in fine condition, dust jacket has light scratching to panels and minimal rubbing to spine ends. This book won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards, by the 1995 Nobel Prize laureate, Seamus Heaney. 9780571177608 . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1996.

London: The Bodley Head 1971. 8vo.Review Copy. First edition. 292 pp. Purple hardcover in unclipped jacket. Slight rubbing to jacket and crushing to its extremities. Slight bumping to book's spine. Internally clean. Review copy with compliments slip from publishers insert. From the library of the author Andrew Salkey. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize. 037001460X… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber and Faber 1964. 8vo. First edition. 112 pp. Purple hardback with gold lettering to spine in dust jacket (not price clipped). Bottom right corner bumped; edges slightly yellowed. Internally clean and neat. Irish poet and playwright, Louis MacNeice, wrote prolifically as a screenwriter, with more than 150 scripts to his name in his time at the BBC. The… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber and Faber 1954. 8vo. First edition. 163 pp. Purple hardback with gold lettering to spine in dust jacket (not price clipped). Some offsetting to endpapers, light creasing to top edge of jacket. Internally clean with no markings. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1954.

London: MacMillan & Co Ltd. 1920. Square 8vo. First Arthur Rackham edition. x, 318, (1) pp. Bound in recent dark green half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & maroon leather title label. In green cloth slipcase. New endpapers. With sixteen full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Some occasional spotting and fingermarks, including to plates… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1948. Tall 8vo. Third impression. [iv], 628, 28 pp. Original cloth in unclipped dust wrapper. Jacket worn at extremities, with brown paper repairs to verso. Internally clean. Insert from Anthony Burgess' review in The Observer. . Very Good. Cloth. 3rd Impression. 1948.

London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. 8vo.Limited Edition. vii, 151 pp. 3 engraved full-page illustrations. Decorated half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Uncut. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Bookplate of John Roland Abbey. Light foxing and sunning to endpapers and occasional edges, but overall VG to near fine condition. Copy 748 from a limited edition print… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Jonathan Cape 1970. 16mo. 329 pp. Purple hardback in illustrated dust jacket (price clipped). Light foxing to top-edge and boards, binding has a minor lean, stain to back board. Jacket has a stain to inner back flap and backboards, and light rubbing to extremities, but is overall presentable and intact. Decorative endpapers and ownership inscriptions to FFEP. Internally clean.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press Limited 1936. Small 4to. First Edition. 128 pp. Cloth in pictorial paper jacket. Toning to jacket, slight spine lean and ink ownership mark to ffep. Occasional light spotting to the text. From the author of Cloonagh, Irish Airs and The Open Arms. This story recounts the summer wanderings of a blind basket-maker and his… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Chatto & Windus 1935. Small 8vo. xx, 302 pp. Quarter salmon cloth over patterned boards. Paper title-label. Light sunning to the spine. A few bumps and marks. Internally clean. Uncut pages. Ink name inscription to front free endpaper. Wood engraving on title page signed by Enid Marx. . Very Good. Cloth Spine. First Edition Thus. 1935.

London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin 1870s. Large 4to. Two volumes. xii, 288 pp; vii, 288 pp. Full calf with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers; a.e.g. Some wear to spine and boards, including scratching and chipping to the latter. Some scattered foxing. Steel engravings, all present. This is a very heavy… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: James Duffy 1869. 12mo. 255 pp. Quarter brown calf over maroon boards with black lines, brown leather title label and gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing around edges, to boards and spine ends. Yellowing to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Ink name to title page. A collection of stories, some taken from Carleton's famous Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Joseph Robins 1837. 8vo. Second Edition. xxxii, xvi, xxxii, 33-363 pp. Half navy morocco over blue boards, with raised bands, gilt lettering and devices to spine; all edges gilt. Beautifully bound by Baynton's. Externally fine save a small hole at the top of the front joint, occasional light spotting but generally internally clean. Bookplate to front pastedown. Fold out… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: Irish University Press Limited 1966. Large 8vo. xviii, 815 pp., 2 maps. Full morocco, top edge gilt and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Light indentations to front board. Light rubbing to boards and spine. Light spotting to fore-edge and bottom edge. Internally clean. Includes 2 maps to rear: one an ecclesiastical map and the other a map of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Bodley Head 1960. 8vo. vii, 939 pp. This edition has been entirely reset. Bound in a recent half dark green morocco with cloth boards and top edge stained green. Internally clean. The classic Modernist novel. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. 1960.

London: The Folio Society 2007. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition thus. xxiii, 536 pp. Publisher's quarter brown morocco over patterned boards with gilt lettering on spine, inside a brown slipcase; top edge brick red. Engraved illustrations by Harry Brockway, with an introduction by Roy Foster. Very fresh and clean copy - all in fine condition - and no ownership marks. .… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Chatto & Windus 1965. 8vo. First Edition. 319 pp. Black hardback with gilt lettering to spine in a pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Jacket slightly yellowed with a minor stain and chipping at the head of the spine. Boards clean, internally clean. Murdoch's ninth novel, set in Dublin during the week leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Quartet Books Limited 1987. Oblong 4to.Illustrated. vii, 151 pp. Green hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated dustjacket. Price sticker to flap. There is a tear to the front of the jacket and wear to the panels and edges. Boards are clean with minor bumping to extremities. Minor foxing at prelims and along fore-edge, but otherwise a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited 1935. 8vo. Third Impression of the first edition published in 1933. xvi, 475 pp. Top edge Gilt. Purple hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket, not price clipped. Minor chipping to head of jacket spine. Slight fading to spine ends and very light minimal marks to boards. Minor spots to fore-edge and occasional… Saber más sobre este artículo