Ireland from JimsOldBooks

Belfast: Eastside Partnership, 2015. Some scuffing to spine ends and outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Short piece on the lives and works of thirteen writers from East Belfast working between the late eighteenth century and the 1980s. The writers are: Sam Hanna Bell, John Boyd, Joseph Campbell, William Drennan,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2015. Hardback edition. A small tear to top edge of front panel of unclipped dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the twenty-four bridges in Dublin city and county that span the river Liffey. A heavy book, packaged weight is about 1200g, so extra postage will… Saber más sobre este artículo

Coleraine: Cuilrathain Publishing, 1994. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover novel (with some Christian emphasis) set in rural north-west Ulster in the 1930s and '40s. Signed by the author on title page ''Every Blessing, Speedy''. Originally published in April 1994, this is a reprint from November the same… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1939. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, a couple of scratches on the back cover, original owner's name and date (Sept 1939) on f/ep, also a much later owner's bookplate. Otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine still bright, of this hard-cover novel… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also some corrugation to bottom edge of same where it has got wet at some point, though with no damage to the illustration. A tiny bit of bumping to corners of black boards, again a little bit of corrugation to bottom edge of outer pages,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: Glendale Press, 1981. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper and some fading to spine of same, bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, a little bit of corrugation to top corner of text block caused by water spillage, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at the sea fishing industry… Saber más sobre este artículo

Galway: Archeological Historical and Folklore Society, 1982. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, mostly at spine ends, also some old water-marking (just to the dustwrapper, not to the book); minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection… Saber más sobre este artículo

Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2007. Very slight scuffing to corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Contains eighteen pieces by different authors, mostly on aspects of Scots and Irish literature. 307pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Selwyn & Blount, 1927. Some creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also the spine is a bit grubby. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, paper title labels on spine and front board are both clean. A previous owner's name and date (1934) on f/ep, an old Belfast bookseller's label inside back cover,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork: Southernmost House Press, 1998. Some yellowing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover novel. A ''bright sophisticated international thriller'' set partly on Cape Clear island off County Cork. Inscription on first page ''Sept '99. To ... , The man… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1968. Ex university library copy with card pocket inside front board, paper labels on f/ep, brown tape mark on otherwise clean dustwrapper. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of nine essays on the early twentieth century Irish novelist and short-story writer George Moore (he wrote ''The Brook Kerith''). Part of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1994. Ex library copy with fading to the spine of the unclipped dustwrapper, paper label inside front board and mark on facing page where another label has been removed, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev and on top and bottom edges of pages. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing… Saber más sobre este artículo