Recent Arrivals from Quinn Rare Books

First UK Edition. First Impression. Victor Gollancz (London), 1985. Octavo. Hardcover, red cloth to boards, gilt lettering to title. Octavo. 274 pp. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Free from marking. Unclipped. Binding tight and square. Small price sticker ghost to corner of dust jacket at front.

First Edition. First Impression. Baobab Books (Harare), 1993. Octavo. Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Illustrated by Jayne Pilossof. Condition: Very Good-. Wear to cards. Crease to rear. Damage caused by price sticker. Spine is uncreased but showing slight wear. Pages are immaculate, free of foxing or marks of any kind. Binding is perfectly tight.

First Efition. First Impression. Faber & Faber (London), 1966. Octavo. Hardcover with turquoise cloth to boards, gilt lettering to spine. 181 pp. condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Goood. Fading to title on spine. Superficial nicks to jacket. Minimal shelfwear. Fascinating piece of speculative fiction/satire which sees the resurrection of Jesus occur in the mid-twentieth century.

First Edition. First Impression. Dobson Books (London), 1974. Octavo. Hardcover with black cloth to boards, silver lettering to spine. 184 pp. condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

First Edition. First Impression. Weidenfeld & Nicholson (London, 2011. Octavo. Hardcover with black cloth to boards, gilt lettering to spine. xii, 228 pp. index. Eight pages of colour reproductions of artworks. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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.

Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Octavo. 284pp. Condition: Fine. Spine uncreased. Text unmarked. Binding perfectly tight. No foxing.

Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. Four Courts Press (Dublin), 2005. pp 128. 16 pages of b&w photographic reproductions of historical documents. Condition: As New. No marks to text. Binding perfectly tight. Corners sharp. Spine uncreased.

Hardcover, blue cloth to boards with gilt lettering to titles. xxiii, 407 pages. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Profusely illustrated with county maps & photographs covering all of the ESB buildings in the Republic of Ireland. With CD in pocket attached to front pastedown

Case bound laminated pictorial hardcover. Boydell Press/Royal Historical Society, 2011. viii, 184 pages. 162x240x23mm. Condition: As New.

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

First edition in English. Octavo. Hardcover with red cloth to boards gilt lettering to spine. Title impressed in decorative shield to front board. Marbled endpapers. Translated by Ralph Mannheim. Illustrated by Roswitha Quadflieg. 396pp. Doubleday (New York), 1983. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Confition: Very Good+. Tiny chip to head of dust jacket at spine. Minor shelfwear. Price-clipped. A truly… Read more about this item

First edition in English. Translated by William Weaver. Hardcover, black cloth to boards with silver lettering to title. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York), 1989. 642pp. 165x243x60mm. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Minor spotting to head of text block. Slight bump to lower corner of rear board. Shelfwear to one area of head of dust jacket. No inscriptions.… Read more about this item

First Edition. Softcover with stiff pictorial cards. 208pp, (12 pages of notes). 149 grams. 182x107mm. Doubleday Anchor (New York), 1958. Translated by Vladamir Nabokov. Cover illustration by Edward Gorey. Condition: Near Fine. Very slight marking to front card. Small clip to corner of first page. Spine is uncreased. Binding is perfectly tight. No marks to text. No inscriptions. Remarkably well… Read more about this item

Paperback. Mercier Press (Dublin), 1972. 269 pages. Condition: Fine. Binding is perfectly tight. No marks to text. Spine uncreased. Price sticker to rear card. Scarce study of the short story form by a true master of the medium. Free delivery to Dublin.

First Edition. First Impression. Hardcover. Lilliput Press 2007. 440 pages. Condition: As New. Dust Wrapper Condition: Near Fine. Fading to spine of dust wrapper as is very common with this particular title. Acclaimed collection of obscure, lost and overlooked Irish poetic curiosities. Free delivery to Dublin.

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.

First Edition. Octavo. Softcyeith stiff pictorial cards. Carysfort Press (Dublin), 2007. x, 299 pp. Five pages of b&w photographs. Index and chronological table of Irish plays produced in London between 1920 and 2006. Condition: Fine. As new throughout. Collection of thirteen essays on Irish theatre's influence on that of zen gland in the twentieth century. Free delivery to Dublin.