Ireland from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The Irish poet's first novel, a story set in medieval Ireland, in the era of the Vikings. The book was banned in Ireland under the Censorship of Literature Act and was not published there until 1965 (per Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). 313 pages.… Read more about this item

Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939. Second Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Yeats last prose work; he completed revising the proofs but never saw the finished book. The first edition was ready in July 1939, but Yeats' family, who ran the Cuala Press, were unhappy with the print quality; they pulped the edition and had it reprinted (this second edition).… Read more about this item

London: MacDonald & Co. Ltd, 1944. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Long poems about the Second World War: The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Greece, The Battle of the Mediterranean, Battles Long Ago, and The Battle of the Atlantic. This is one of 250 specially-bound initialed and numbered copies issued in dark blue pebbled morocco stamped… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Ten short radio plays. viii, 163 pages. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, p. 171. First edition (first printing). A very good or better hardcover copy in a fair dust jacket, missing 2-1/2 inches at the spine and a corresponding triangle-shaped piece from the back panel. Previous… Read more about this item

New York and Toronto: Longmans Green & Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The second Jorkens book. This American edition is the true first of this book per Currey. x, 303 pages. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, p. 170. First edition (first printing). Green cloth faded at all edges, else very good in a… Read more about this item

London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A novel of paganism in English rural life. "The Blessing of Pan is remarkable in Dunsany's work for being a tightly knit fabric of symbols; every action, every utterance is symbolic of some aspect of the conflict between paganism and Christianity, Nature… Read more about this item

[Aberdeen, Scotland]: William Maclellan, 1967. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Poems, reproduced from handwriting, by an Irish leftist who lived in Scotland. 28 pages. First edition (first impression stated). Covers a bit grubby, thus very good in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author, "To George with the warmest regards of the poet, Freddy Anderson. 20/1/68.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1937. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 240 pages. Preface by Walter de la Mare. An Irish classic in a pretty pre-war edition, somewhat revised from its 1905 publication under the title of The Weans of Rowallan. First printing of this edition. Bookseller's notes on front jacket flap and front endpapers, else near fine. … Read more about this item

London: Privately Printed [Boriswood], 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A novel, set in Ireland, about a teenager, Sheila Moynihan, who leaves home because her brothers are molesting her, only to have to fight off an attempted rape, and to suffer further molestation by a series of priests she turns to for help. A rather grim picture of… Read more about this item