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Ireland 109cma Costello, Mary, 1963- . Academy Street. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2014, 145 pages. Fine in dust jacket. $6.50 Box A 109
Summary: "A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. Anne Enright has said that Costello's first… Read More

Wales 010 Thomas, Dylan. Adventures in the Skin Trade and other Stories. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1955, viii, 275p. Good in dust jacket. $7.50 Box A 94

Ireland 91c4a Cronin, John. The Anglo-Irish Novel. Volume I: The Nineteenth Century. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1980, 157p, bib, index.. $8.50 Box A 90 Like new in dust jacket. THIS IS VOLUME ONE ONLY

England 947h2 Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome. A Romance of the Fifth Century. In two volumes. Copyright edition. (Series: Collection of British authors: Tauchnitz edition; volumes 678, 679, bound in one). Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867, x, 332 pages; 319 pages. Paper has toned over the years, with intermittent damp staining, still supple. Binding is in attractive blue cloth with red spine, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, at heel of spine is the name of the collector, who bound up scores of the Tauchnitz editions in like bindings. Has some minor fraying to top of spine and wear to spine edge. The set: $30.00 Box A 98
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel.
Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife,… Read More

Ancient world 1469 Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ. With an introduction by Ben Ray Redman and illustrations by JosephA. Mugnaini. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960, xxii, 486 pages: illustrations, (some color). Quarto. Light brown slipcase, tan label with grey decorative border and grey lettering mounted on spine. Binding with brown pebbled cloth over cream colored cloth boards. Brown label with gilt decorative border and gilt lettering mounted on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. This limited edition, #593 of 1500 copies hand numbered and hand signed by illustrator Joe Mugnaini, contains detailed color lithographic illustrations throughout. Binding has some minor stains and smudges to covers, which are distracting. Slipcase is good other than the smudges. $35.00
Couple of small notes for the bibliophiles: 1) Lew Wallace was a very prominent Union general in the Civil War; 2) I have a memory of Bennet Cerf, of Knopf, telling the story of Sears Roebuck placing an… Read More

Ireland 8019 Trevor, William.
Beyond the pale and other stories. NY: Viking Press, 1981, 256p. Good to very good in dust jacket. $6.50

Ireland 19m83c MacLaverty, Bernard. Cal. New York: George Braziller, 1983, 170 pages. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Further protected by a mylar dust jacket. $13.50 Box A 93

Americana 057 Chambers, Robert W. Cardigan.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1901, 513 pages, 2 pages of publisher's ads. Some shelf wear, good copy. Novel, Sir William Johnson of New York.

France 001 (Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922). Pasco, Allan H. The Color-Keys to A la recherche du temps perdu. (Series: Histoire des idées & critique littéraire, 157). Genève: Librairie Droz, 1976, 231 pages, notes to colors, tables, bib. Cream colored hardcover in good to very good condition. A friendly inscription from the author from 1976 on the front free endpaper.
$38.50

Irish in America 88o55d O'Connor, Philip F. Defending civilization. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, 305p. Very good in dust jacket. First edition. $8.50 Box 710
Should Lieutenant Thomas Hanlon blow the whistle on his base commander, Major Francis P. Shea? A novel about military bureaucracy and secrets. O'Connor's second novel. O'Connor is a professor of English at Bowling Green State University.

Gaelic044 Caimbeul, Tormod. Deireadh an Fhoghair. Edinburgh: Chambers, 1979, 116p. Very good to Fine in dust jacket. Scottish Gaelic novel. $45.00

Ireland hgdb Hogan, Desmond. Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea and other stories. New York: George Braziller, 1979, 181p. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. $4.50 Box 3

Germany 025 Grass, Gunter. Die Blechtrommel. Mit 65 Illustrationen von Heinrich Richter.Neuwied and Berlin: Hermann Luchterhand, 1968, 555 pages, illustrated cover as well. The first edition of this novel,
The Tin Drum, was published by Luchterhand in 1959. This illustrated edition was first done in 1968 and was signed by the illustrator. This is not signed and lacks the dust jacket. The book is in good to very good condition, with minor soiling to cover due to the lack of a dust jacket. $40.00

Ireland 2245 Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872. The Dodd family abroad. In three volumes. (Series: Collection of British authors: Tauchnitz edition; volumes 298, 299, 300). Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1854, xvi, 326p; vi, 314p; vi, 320p.Volumes I and II are bound together. Bindings are in attractive blue cloth with red spines, gilt lettering on spines, at heels of spine is the name of the collector, who bound up scores of the Tauchnitz editions in like bindings. The set: $50.00

Ireland 2242 O'Flaherty, Liam. Famine. New York: Literary Guild, 1937, 466p. Silverfish grazing to top paper edge, spine faded and dull as is cover, good else. $8.50

Ireland 7377f O'Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984. Famine. New York: Random House,1937, 466 pages. Stamp of collector on title page and endpaper. Good, clean, tight copy of the first American. $12.50

Ireland 4680df Trevor, William. Felicia's Journey. New York: Viking, 1994, 213 pages. First American edition, has felt tip pen mark on bottom paper edge, else fine copy in fine dust jacket. $4.50 Box 9

Americana 31R77g Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931. Giants in the earth. With an introduction by Vernon L. Parrington. (Series: Harper's modern classics). New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1929, xxxiv, 468p, bib. Edition also includes a preface by Rolvaag and another introduction by Lincoln Colcord. Good solid clean copy. $6.50 Box A 91

Ireland 9111a Stuart, Francis. Glory. New York: Macmillan, 1933, 286 pages. First American edition. Yellow cloth binding, blue lettering, intimations of the plot where an Irish woman learns to fly and escorts a general on the route to China. Would you feel comfortable on a long journey to China in 1933? I think I'd take a slow boat. Good, clean, tight overall. $14.50

Ireland 8024 Macken, Walter. The Green Hills and other stories. New York: Macmillan, 1956, 205p. There is some shadowing to front free endpaper from the dust jacket, good to very good in dust jacket. First printing (American) so stated. $8.50