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London: Printed for J Johnson, 1808. Third edition, corrected. 12mo, [6], [1] - 280 pp, two engraved illustrations in text. Later (nor recent) quarter calf & patterned cloth over boards with a gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine label.
Lightly rubbed, brief wear at corners, bookplate of Captain Todd, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) at front pastedown, a couple of leaves roughly opened causing small losses in the margins (text unaffected), occasional soiling internally, still Very Good. A collaborative effort which is apparently mostly the work of Maria Edgeworth which "rejects an English stereotype of Irishmen and portrays them accurately in realistic, everyday settings" (Fauske & Kauffman/ An Uncomfortable Authority, p. 44)

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1879). Sextodecimo (7" x 5.5"), 96 pages including 3 full page illustrations from engravings preceding text & 3 following. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in black on the upper cover.
Moderately soiled, spine browned, brief wear at corners, binding cracked following the last page of text (still secure), otherwise good or better.
"Father Tom and the Pope. - There is a time to laugh. And we had it when we read this book ... It is a broad satire on the faith and practice of Mother Rome: too broad perhaps for this country, where the Irish brogue, Irish humor, and Irish technical terms are not as readily caught as they are in the green isle for which the book was written."
 ~Excerpted from the publisher's remarks.

[Manville, New Jersey]: published by the compiler, 2000. First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 34 photomechanically reproduced sheets mostly printed recto & verso, stapled at the upper left corner. Includes some illustrations. Lightly soiled, moderate edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
Compiler Heelan was Superintendent of the Manville, New Jersey public schools. Chapters include:Penal Laws, Famine Scenes, Mass Evictions, Coffin Ships, Case for Genocide in Ireland.

[Staten Island, New York]: Stone Street Press, (1990). Three volumes, first editions. 24mos (5.75" x 4.75"), unpaginated. Publisher's textured black light card stock with applied, gilt-lettered labels, "Handmade by Malachi McCormick," housed in a hand made paper over thick card slipcase with gilt-lettered labels. Text in Gaelic & English.
Fine copies in slightly rubbed slipcase.
"Prepared for the tenth anniversary of the Stone Street Press."
Includes:Book one, Liadan, Eve, Gormflaith.Book two, Creide, Grainne.Book three, Bui: the old woman of Beare.
"This anthology suggests important ways in which the scope of women's lives was reduced by the organized church. It's been a long time in coming. But great changes in consciousness are afoot in our world today, driven, I think, by an unstoppable force for justice. And all sorts of bastions are losing their walls." ~Excerpted from the introducton in book three.

New York: Privately printed by the Derrydale Press, 1927. Complete in 7 variously paginated & profusely illustrated tall octavo volumes. Limited edition, an assembled set, volume one number 440 of 500, the others number 435. Original green cloth with pairs of gilt-lettered black leather spine labels on each volume, the upper covers with armorial crests in gilt. Volume one with large, lithographed "by the name of Howe" bookplate at the front blank. Partially unopened.
This set signed by illustrator & author Edith Somerville at the half-title page of volume one. Tipped to the verso is an autograph letter signed from Somerville to Harry Worcester Smith on "Drishane House" letterhead (2 pp, approximately 236 words recorded in purple ink recto & verso). Responding to a letter from Harry Worcester Smith, founder of the Masters of Foxhounds Association in America, Ms Somerville replies on July 6, 1928 She indicates that she is supplying sketches at his request which are "re-drawn little subjects from my… Read More

Boston: Printed by Joshua Cushing, 1808. Second edition. 12mo, 44 pp. Printed text only, lacking wraps (if issued).
Soiled & foxed, apparently removed from a larger volume, still good.
The second edition adds 4 pages not found in the first printing comprising "interesting documents, furnished by a gentleman lately from London."

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A Hart, 1837. First American edition. Complete in two octavo volumes, [9], 10 - 199; [9], 10 - 186 pp. Contemporary paper over boards backed in plum muslin with printed paper spine labels.
Bindings soiled & rubbed, spines & labels browned, lettering on labels obscure, shallow losses at spine extremities, joints splitting on volume two, previous owner's name in old ink at the pastedowns & first blank page of both volumes, Good or so. From the library of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg who was a Lutheran clergyman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania & additionally served in congress from from 1829 to 1838. The first American edition, originally published with a slightly variant title in Dublin in 1836. The Dublin imprint supplies Philip Dixon Hardy as editor & describes the contents as "selections from the Dublin Penny Journal."

Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1905 (copyright 1904), Two volumes, sextodecimos (7" x 4.75"), viii & 283 pages including 39 plates & a folding map; viii & 304 pages including 48 pates. Publisher's green cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt, the others uncut,
Spines & margins sunned, gilt dull, bindings cracked here & there (still secure), signature sprung in volume 2, previous owner's name at the ffep in both volumes, lightly toned, otherwise good or better.
A title in L.C. Pages Travel Lovers' Library series, this co-authered by the prolific team of husband & wife Mansfield, the illustrations by wife Blanche McManus Mansfield.

No place (United Kingdom ?), no publisher, no date (ca. 1880's per OCLC). First & only edition. 12mo (7" x 5"), 76 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth over flexible boards. Recorded by OCLC but not located (accession number 4263946).
Ex-library (deaccessioned) with call number label on the upper cover, bookplate, rubber stamped markings, etc., modest edge wear, front cover warped, cloth a bit soiled & lightly stained, offsetting at endpapers, otherwise good or better.
The title page reflects author as "Edmund Burke," which is a pseodonym for anonymous Irishman "who has lived in Scotland for over thirty years" (p. 47). The contents, in fact, are not a speech but a 48-page political manifesto condemning rebellion and anarchy, sandwiched between two sections of verse regarding the proper behavior of a civilized, respectful, religious, dutiful nation.

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, no date [1876]. Sextodecimo (7" x 4.75"), 414 pages. Contemporary half black calf & green cloth, the spine lettered & ruled in gilt.
Binding a bit rubbed & soiled, text lightly stained, toned & foxed, previous owner's bookplate & rubber stamp of a Dublin bookseller at front pastedown, otherwise good or better.
Originall published in 1852. As we learn from Wikipedia, The Squanders is "spoiled by the mass of political matter in" [it].

New York: Published by the author, 1902. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"), 501 & [1} pages. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, in unprinted, plain white dust jacket (as issued ?).
Binding slightly spotted, brief foxing & offsetting at pastedowns, endpapers & edges of the text block, otherwise very good or better in worn, soiled, torn, & chipped dust jacket.
Author Crimmins was a partner in the Thomas Crimmins Contracting Company, a major New York City construction company which was founded by his father. A prominent philanthropist, he was a tireless supporter of Irish-American causes & the Catholic Church. This title includes 119 pages of biographical "sketches of 550 people," largely Irish Americans.

Greystones County Wicklow: Published by the author, (2004). First edition. 8vo, 355 pages, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.
Corners & spine extremities bumped, otherwise very good in near fine dust jacket with a trace of edgewear. Although the title page indicates that this is volume one, no subsequent volumes have ben published to date.
"Recalls life in an old Irish fishing village, against a backdrop of world wars and revolution. The tales, laced with humour and pathos, are told by twenty-five elders, among them a parlourmaid, milkman, plumber and judge, blacksmith, soldier, sailor and airman, doctor merchant and boat-builder. And the wife of a sea captain who brought home the body of W.B. Yeats." ~excerpted fron the front flap.

London: Selwyn & Blount, (1921). First edition. 12mo, 75, [1] pp, frontis & 8 plates from photographs. Publisher's light brown cloth with printed paper spine label.
Slightly rubbed, brief wear at the corners, endpapers & pastedowns browned, minor foxing & occasional handling marks, Very Good. The Irish poet's first book, uncommon in the first edition.

London: Macmillan, (2004), First British edition, this copy signed in ink on the title page by Walters. Octavo (8" x 5.5"), [8], 114 & [1] pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Originally written & published in 1998 at the invitation of the Collective Promotion for the Dutch Book Organization (in Dutch) who wanted a promotional suspense novella for Book Week.
"In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavina Fanshaw & her live-in nurse ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.