New York: Morrow (Beech Tree Books), (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Irish author's very highly praised second book, first novel, a simple but moving view of the strife in Belfast over a period of almost 60 years as shown through the eyes of an ordinary woman trying to raise her four sons and keep her family safe. ISBN: 0-688-075622.

New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small village on a Greek island where a sudden tragedy brings together a group of visitors and the local residents. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 294 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-525-94754x.

New York: Delacorte, (1998.). First edition - 13th book by this Irish writer, a novel set in Dublin.

New York: Delacorte, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-385-315066.

New York: Dutton, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title refers to a newly formed catering company started by two cooking school friends - Binchy's forte has been described as "telling stories of ordinary people captured in their most extraordinary moments." Full color illustrated endpapers. 537 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945938.

New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small village on a Greek island where a sudden tragedy brings together a group of visitors and the local residents. 294 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-525-94754x.

New York: Dial Press, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the French Riviera, a world of sybaritic luxury, violence, self-indulgence, lonliness and sometimes even love. Fifth book published in the US by this Irish born writer. 306 pp. Dust jacket art by Edgard Cirlin.

New York Harcourt, Inc., (2003.). First edition - A portrait of an Anglo-Irish family in the midst of World War I, based very loosely on some notes in a journal which the author's mother kept, a world of great privilege but one which comes at the expense of others. The author, who now lives in the US, was born in County Waterford, the setting of this novel. 319 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.). A novel about the making of an IRA terrorist.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about the making of an IRA terrorist by this Booker-prize winning author. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-670-887579.

New York: Viking, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1993 Booker Prize. First issue dj with the "e" missing from Clarke on the dj spine. Booker Prize sticker on front cover of dj. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-670-853453.

New York: Grove / Atlantic / Black Cat, (2007.). Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-70390.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full biography of this influential father, about whom James Joyce said "Hundreds of pages and scores of characters came from him." The London Sunday Times called this "An exuberant account of the man who set the whole remarkable Joyce saga rolling; [this] book leads us inexorably, truthfully, into a darker, more depraved world than anything most of us have associated with Joyce to date." Illustrated with photographs and reproductions from periodicals of the era. Bibliography, source notes, index. Map endpapers. 494 pp. ISBN: 0-312-185995.

New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Irish writer's highly praised first novel, a darkly humorous story of what happened when a group of Irish teenagers - both Protestants and Catholics - are sent to Milwaukee as part of the US peace initiative, Project Ulster at the height of the troubles. Narrated by one of the teens, Wil Carson - a 'no-hoper' from the streets of Belfast - from behind the bars of a Wisconsin penitentiary. Nominated for the 2003 Impac award. First hardcover edition (originally published in the UK as a trade paperback.) 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67981.

New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Irish writer's highly praised first novel, a darkly humorous story of what happened when a group of Irish teenagers - both Protestants and Catholics - are sent to Milwaukee as part of the US peace initiative, Project Ulster at the height of the troubles. Narrated by one of the teens, Wil Carson - a 'no-hoper' from the streets of Belfast - from behind the bars of a Wisconsin penitentiary. Nominated for the 2003 Impac award. First hardcover edition (originally published in the UK as a trade paperback.) 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67981.

Boston: Godine, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1973 by this highly acclaimed and prize-winning Irish writer.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy based on the mythology of ancient Rome; the first collaboration between these two Irish writers. Dustjacket art by Boris Vallejo. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-312866275.

Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scultptor and writer's author's first novel. Donleavy - who used MacNamara as the model for MacDoon in 'The Ginger Man' - called him 'the Einstein of Irish literature.' 213 pp. ISBN: 1564780414.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-54529.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (1998.). His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-965-591700.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-54529.

New York: Henry Holt, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and two stories, works of quiet mastery which show the impact of the Troubles in Northern Ireland on the lives of ordinary people, and especially on children. The unwritten final word in the title is, of course, "die." INSCRIBED on the title page "For Jim with all best wishes and thanks" and dated in the year of publication. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-63986.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - O'Brien tackles a subject of universal concern: the primal undertow of motherhood. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-374-277761.

New York: Farrar, Straus, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this wonderful Irish author. ISBN: 0-374-183325.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A collection of 12 short stories about love and relationships by this wonderful Irish writer. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-385-143494.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 9 short stories. ISBN: 0-15-1795584.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A moving novel about the bonds between a mother and a daughter - even when they have been estranged for years - and incorporated into this novel are some of the actual letters which O'Brien's mother wrote her. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-618718672.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by the author on the title page. Foreword by Philip Roth. vii, 461 pp. ISBN: 0-374153426.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 9 short stories. ISBN: 0-15-1795584.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small Spanish enclave overlooking the Meditteranean Sea. ISBN: 0-374-292736.