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

London: Faber and Faber 1974. Small 8vo. First Edition. 48 pp. Slight yellowing to final leaves, though in near fine condition overall. Review copy with slip. High Island, or Ard Oilean, an island near Inishboffin, off Ireland's west coast, was purchased by Murphy a few years earlier. 0571106625 . Near Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 1974.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1949. 8vo. [v], 354 pp. Hardcover in unclipped pictorial jacket. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Internally clean. The first portrait of the writer to be published, benefitting from the full co-operation of Joyce himself. With a portrait by Augustus John and eight full-page photo-montages. . Fine. Hardcover. 1949.

London: Faber and Faber 1987. Small 8vo. First edition. [ix], 51 pp. Paperback. Clean in near fine condition. Heaney's poems here explore the theme of loss. 057114781X . Near Fine. Softcover. First Paperback Edition. 1987.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. 1909. 16mo. First edition in this format. [viii], 179 pp. Original green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Clean boards with only a few small marks near spine. Light bumping to extremities. Laid, deckle-edged paper; internally clean and bright. No ownership names. This is Wilde's second collection of… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.