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THE RAINBOW SINGER.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ('x' on front pastedown)
Book ID: 88849More details Price: $16.50 -
AFTER RAIN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning writer. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670870072.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86918More details Price: $21.00 -
ARE YOU SOMEBODY: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this columnist for the Irish Times - both very highly praised and a surprise bestseller - an unassuming, and very honest book, which touches a cord in the reader. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-56637.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86647More details Price: $24.50 -
THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86494More details Price: $16.00 -
AFTER RAIN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning writer. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670870072.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot).
Book ID: 77872More details Price: $18.00 -
THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A haunting and powerful novel by this award winning writer - "the tale of a young girl whose Protestant family is driven from its rural Irish home in 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy is in love with Lahardane: the old house itself, the woods,. . The day before her family is scheduled to flee Ireland, leaving the house and furnishings in the care of trusted servants, Lucy runs away. Her parents, finding a scrap of her clothing on the beach, assume the worst." 228 pp. ISBN: 0-67088202X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77871More details Price: $18.00 -
NORA WEBSTER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (2014). Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Irish author's eighth novel, set in Wexford, the story of a woman "widowed in her forties with four children and not enough money" but who nevertheless manages to find solace and encouragement. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-1439138335.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73578More details Price: $18.50 -
THE FOX'S WALK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 69194More details Price: $17.50 -
THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A haunting and powerful novel by this award winning writer - "the tale of a young girl whose Protestant family is driven from its rural Irish home in 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy is in love with Lahardane: the old house itself, the woods,. . The day before her family is scheduled to flee Ireland, leaving the house and furnishings in the care of trusted servants, Lucy runs away. Her parents, finding a scrap of her clothing on the beach, assume the worst." 228 pp. ISBN: 0-67088202X.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name).
Book ID: 68002More details Price: $14.50 -
NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63123More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LEDGER OF FRUITFUL EXCHANGE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Dublin, Ireland: Gallery Books, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Fourth collection by this award-winning Irish poet, INSCRIBED on the half title page to a noted California poet with the notation "in the poet's house" and dated in 1998. 91 pp. ISBN: 1852351748.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62679More details Price: $24.50 -
A STAR CALLED HENRY: Volume one of The Last Roundup.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59241More details Price: $17.50 -
THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 58622More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH IN SUMMER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of Trevor's most haunting and powerful novels: "There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted by the details of their last afternoon. No one expected that drizzling Thursday in June to signal the approach of two more tragedies -" Winner of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. ISBN: 0-67088202X.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, line on bottom edge).
Book ID: 56956More details Price: $14.50 -
NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (slight spine slant) .
Book ID: 56716More details Price: $30.00 -
AN IRISH COUNTRY GIRL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in his Irish country series, this one tells the story of Maureen Kincaid, the doctor's housekeeper, as a young girl back in 1922. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in Oct 2009, before publication. Includes an afterword with recipes and a long glossary. 319 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue and especially so signed.
Book ID: 55530More details Price: $30.00 -
SEPTEMBER IN QUINZE.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Exceptional condition for a book of this vintage.
Book ID: 55139More details Price: $25.00 -
THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53949More details Price: $18.50 -
THE GATHERING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove / Atlantic / Black Cat, (2007.). Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-70390.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 53100More details Price: $12.00 -
EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST: A Novella and Two Stories.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52903More details Price: $35.00 -
TARA ROAD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1998.). First edition - 13th book by this Irish writer, a novel set in Dublin.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy black wrappers in a colorful thin cardstock slipcase.
Book ID: 50860More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH IN SUMMER.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Penguin, (1999.). One of Trevor's most haunting and powerful novels: "There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted by the details of their last afternoon. No one expected that drizzling Thursday in June to signal the approach of two more tragedies -" Winner of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-140-27720x.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 49258More details Price: $10.00 -
THE MASTER.
Edition: First Canadian printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Irish writer's most highly acclaimed novel, based on five years in the life of novelist Henry James. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2005. Shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Award. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-85826.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 49144More details Price: $50.00 -
THE RETURN JOURNEY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-385-315066.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45440More details Price: $12.50 -
MY DREAM OF YOU.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Irish reporter (her first book, 'Are You Somebody' was a surprise bestseller.) Set in both the present and 150 years ago during the great famine in Ireland, this is the story of a woman who is writing the story of a scandalous affair in 1850. ISBN: 1-57322-1775.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 44071More details Price: $12.50 -
DEATH IN SUMMER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of Trevor's most haunting and powerful novels: "There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted by the details of their last afternoon. No one expected that drizzling Thursday in June to signal the approach of two more tragedies -" Winner of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. ISBN: 0-67088202X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42592More details Price: $16.50 -
ARE YOU SOMEBODY: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this columnist for the Irish Times - both very highly praised and a surprise bestseller - an unassuming, and very honest book, which touches a cord in the reader. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-56637.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (glue remnants under flaps.)
Book ID: 42222More details Price: $16.50 -
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 42086More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BOOK OF INTRUSIONS.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42016More details Price: $20.00 -
TWO LIVES: Reading Turgenov & My House in Umbria.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York & London: Penguin, (1992.). Two short novels in one volume by this writer whom The Times called 'a master craftsman and a deep creative talent.' 375 pp. ISBN: 0-16-0172637.
Condition: Very good (some wear to the covers, usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 41347More details Price: $10.00
