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Makamen en Ghazelen. Proeven Oosterscher Poezie.
Edition: Reprint
Aalst: De Seyn-Verhougrstraete: 1894. 3rd edition. With frontis portrait of the author. Original softback binding, but rebound in recent marbled boards. Leather label to spine. Bookplate to inside front board. The binding is in excellent condition. The contents are in good clean condition, with a touch of darkening to the page edges. Original covers bound in. 164 pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 1964More details Price: £48.00 -
Real Life in Ireland
or, the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Spress, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru, Esq. And His Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty... by A Real Paddy.
Edition: Reprint
London: William Evans, 1829. Fourth edition. Complete, with 19 hand coloured plates with one having an offset mark to a small piece at the bottom of the right hand margin. One page toned but legible. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth covered boards with black edge decorations to front and rear boards. Gilt spine title. Chipping to head and toe of spine. The head has been crudely glued, and the bottom edge corners worn through. Slightly weak to the front hinge. Owner's bookplate (Francis de Neufville Schroeder - author of works on Interior Design). A presentable copy. (iv); vii; (i); [5]-296. pp 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).
Book ID: 1871More details Price: £90.00 -
The Wife Hunter,
by the Moriarty Family.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Moriarty. Two volumes. ( Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1.
18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00 -
Lucian and the Tragic Performances in his Time.
Edition: First Edition
Athens: A. Sideris and Co: 1961. First edition. Soft cream covers. Stapled. Handwritten note to the top of the cover "For review in the Classical Review". Printed from ΠΛATΩN Vol XII. 1960 Fasc. A. A very nice clean copy. Soft cream wrappers. The staples are a little rusted. Otherwise in excellent condition. author [ MINΩΣ KOKOΛAKHΣ ] was a Greek author and academic who specialised in the work of Lucian. 45 pages.
Book ID: 1283More details Price: £10.00 -
Sacred Drama: JOAN OF ARC
Written in commemoration of the Beatification of Blessed Joan of Arc, Low Sunday 1909.
Edition: First Edition
Barnet: St Andrew's Press, 1909. First edition. Pink paper covers, stapled. The cover of this slim paperback states that it receives "Blessing of Holy Father Pius X on Literary Work". Mainly clean pink paper, with a little nicking to the edges and slight marking. Internally clean and tidy, with a touch of darkening. A little rusting to the staples. 16 pages.
COPAC cites only the BL copy of this work. Sheila Agnes Turk was the pseudonym of Sarah Ann Agnes Turk (1859–1927). A Catholic writer, buried in Nottingham Cemetery.Book ID: 1203More details Price: £38.00