Irish Fiction from Quinn Rare Books

First Edition. First Impression. The Stinging Fly (Dublin), 2017. Octavo. Hardcover with black cloth to boards and gilt lettering to spine. 228 pp. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

First Edition. First Impression. Octavo. Hardcover with blue cloth to boards, black lettering to spine. Secker & Warburg (London), 1991. 311pp. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

First edition. First impression. Hardcover, green cloth to boards with gilt lettering to spine. Allen Figgis (Dublin), 1966. 119pp. Octavo. 145x225x18mm. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fixing to head of text block. A tiny spot of tanning to foot of spine. Dent to four of rear board. Four slight tears and general shelfwear to dust jacket. Not… Read more about this item

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 147x225x28mm. Hardcover. Black cloth to boards with gilt lettering to title. Allison & Busby (London), 1984. 286 pp. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Wrapper Condition: Near Fine. Neatly price-clipped with inscription to front free endpaper. Otherwise immaculate. Healy's critically acclaimed first novel. Set in rural Fermanagh in the 1980s, Fighting With Shadows is a story of conflict,… Read more about this item

Signed by the author. Octavo. Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Blackstaff Press (Belfast), 1983. 130 pp. condition: Very Good. Slight fading to spine. Corners and fore edges slightly bumped. Some minor scuffs to cards. Binding tight. Pages bright, clean and unmarked. A beautiful reading copy. Fifteen early stories from the author of Grace Notes.

183 pp. 200x130mm. Softcover withpictorial card covers. The Writer's Cooperative (Dublin), 1981. Condition: Nesr Fine. Spine is uncreased. Binding is tight. No marks to pages. 'Co-op Books' published the first edition of Bardwell's second novel in softback and hardback simultaneously. A characteristically devastating account of a seven year affair with a married man. A classic of modern Irish fiction.

FREE DELIVERY TO DUBLIN. First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover with black cloth to boards and gilt lettering. 86 pp. New Island (Dublin), 2001. Foreword by Clare Boylan. Editor's note by Christopher Carduff. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Slight foxing to head of text block caused by dust accumulation, rest of book is pristine. Not price-clipped. No marks or wear to… Read more about this item

Uncorrected Proof Copy. Octavo. Softcover in plain brown wraps. Chatto & Windus (London), 1975. 391 pages. Condition: Good+. Unavoidable shelfwear to wraps as they are soft, due to this being an uncorrected proof.

Softcover with stiff pictorial cards depicting a portrait of the author by Brian Burke. The Goldsmith Press (Newbridge), 1987. Edited by Peter Kavanagh. Condition: Very Good. Minor shelfwear. Binding is tight. Spine is uncracked. Book is unmarked but for a a neat one word name to the front free endpaper.

Softcover with pictorial cards. The Irish Writers Cooperative (Dublin), 1977. 160 pages. Condition: Very Good. No markings to text. Binding is tight. Spine uncreased. Minor shelfwear to cards. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Very scarce first edition.

FREE DELIVERY TO DUBLIN. First Edition. First Impression. London; Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1985. First edition. 20.5x13.5 cm. 522 pp. Publisher's green boards with pictorial dustjacket by Tom Phillips. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The Good Apprentice was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize. The critic Harold Bloom listed The Good Apprentice in his The Western Canon (1994)… Read more about this item

FREE DELIVERY TO DUBLIN. First Edition. First Impression. Beautifully Illustrated throughout by Paul Hogarth. Hardcover. Quarter bound in black cloth with red cloth to boards. Gilt lettering to spine with decorative gilt signature to front board. Hutchinson (London), 1987. 71 pages. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Very minor foxing to head of text block. Slight crease to front… Read more about this item

Octavo. Hardcover. Irish University Press (Shannon), 1979. Pages: xix, 408. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Introduction by Timothy Webb. Condition: Fine. Very slight scuff to text block and another to front board, barely noticeable. Binding is perfectly tight, no marks, foxing or tanning to pages.