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

London: Picador published by Pan Books 1992. 8vo. First edition. 245 pp. Black hardcover with gilt lettering to the spine, in a dustjacket. Some edge wear to the jacket, otherwise in lovely clean condition. This is Colm Toibin's second novel, for which he won the 1993 Encore Award. 0330321242 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1992.

Manchester; County Meath, Ireland: Carcanet; Gallery Books 1990. 8vo. First hardback edition 1990 with an introduction by Seamus Heaney, black hardback in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp. Fading to spine and to edges of jacket, internally clean. Though a recognised poet, radio dramatist, story-writer and essayist in Ireland, Padraic Fallon refused to collect his poems until shortly before his death.… Read more about this item

Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. Large 8vo. Ninth printing, May 1927. [vi], 735 pp. Brick red cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Original teal wraps with white lettering bound in (not spine). Deckle bottom edge. Wear to ends of faded spine and there is a split to the front joint. Internally clean. The previous printing, the eighth, had the type… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. 1920. Small 8vo. (x), 182 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Edges rough. Bumping to the spine and corners, and a slight lean to the binding. Ink ownership inscription to the first free endpaper dated 1926, otherwise internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. Sixth Edition. 1920.

London: Faber and Faber 1950. 8vo. Author Andrew Salkey's copy of this new edition of Finnegan's Wake published in 1950 with his inscription to FFEP; [4], 628, [2] (corrections of misprints). Red cloth in dust jacket, top edge brown. Dust jacket's spine has separated from jacket, which otherwise has a few chips and tears. Internally clean with no markings. Joyce's… Read more about this item

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd 1915. 4to. First edition thus. vi [ii], 162 pp., with 16 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie King (complete). Original blue cloth with ochre decoration and lettering to spine and boards; t.e.g.; illustrated endpapers. Wear to extremities and some rubbing to boards and faded spine. Foxing scattered throughout. Publisher's catalogue slip insert. A rather splendid edition,… Read more about this item

Dublin: Printed by Robert Dapper for John Gough 1805. 12mo. bound in 6's. First edition. [i], v, 92 pp. Full calf with red leather label and gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Light wear to extremities and small cases of loss to spine ends. Bookplate of Robert Logan, and another previous owner's name in pencil at endpapers, otherwise internally clean.… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent and Sons 1935. Small 8vo. First edition, viii, 229 pp. Cream-coloured boards with cover illustration by George Altendorf. From Irish children's writer, Patricia Lynch, this is the sequel to 'The Turf-Cutter's Donkey' (1934), which blends Irish rural life and fantasy fiction. Some discolouration to spine and back board; very light foxing to prelims. Colour frontis, endpaper… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head 1960. Small 8vo. First Edition Thus, new edition entirely reset. [viii], 939 pp. Publisher's green cloth in green jacket; top-edge blue. Jacket creased to rear panel and has very light shelf wear. Offsetting to ffep, otherwise internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1960.

London: Methuen & Co. 1933. Small 8vo. Blue hardback; gilt lettering to spine; gilt signature of Oscar Wilde to front board. [8], 180, [4], 16 publisher's catalogue pp. Wilde's second collection of fairy tales, following 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales'. They are strongly influenced by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. They were criticised for not being suited… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. 1920. 8vo. [viii], 157, [4] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped lettering and device to board. Minor bumping and rubbing to binding. Ink inscription to ffep. dated 1926, otherwise internally clean. Wilde's four act comedy, first performed in 1892 at the St James' Theatre. 18cms tall. . Very Good. Publisher's… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: T. N. and Foulis 1909. 8vo. 324 pp. Full crushed brown-green morocco; raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; top-edge gilt. Sunning to spine and top edge of boards; minimal rubbing to corners and head of spine. Foxing to edges of several of the front leaves, and occasionally to edges in the rest of the book, generally internally clean.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1972. 8vo. First edition thus. 56 pp. Paperback. Very slight rubbing, internally clean. The second main collection of Heaney's work, following Death of a Naturalist. 19cms tall. . Near Fine. Paperback. First Edition Thus. 1972.

London: Collins 1963. 8vo. 1120 pp. Light green cloth with cloth title-label, gold lettering and red top-edge in an unclipped dust jacket. Light spotting to endpapers and rear flap of jacket. Minor rubbing and some small tears to edges of jacket; foxing to endpapers but clean internally. With a black-and-white frontispiece of a painting of the artist and a newspaper… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1956. 8vo. Reprint. 256 pp. 15 full-page illustrations by Robin Jacques. Hardcover with gilt blocked Dublin streetlight design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped illustrated jacket. Short closed tears at head of jacket, otherwise jacket and book very clean. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 1956.

Dublin: Trumpet Books 1957. 8vo. 64 pp. Paperback. Slight creasing to spine, otherwise very clean in VG to NF condition. Contains the complete play 'The Big House' by Brendan Behan. Also featuring contributions from Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, Benedict Kiely, Donald Davie, Daniel Sullivan, James Douglas, L. D. Lerner, John Jordan and F. S. L. Lyons. . Very Good. Paperback.… Read more about this item

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.