Dublin, Ireland: The National Theatre Society, Ltd. 1945. First edition - Program for Monday, 3rd December 1945 and the following nights for the Second Week of "The Playboy of the Western World" in 3 acts by J.M. Synge, with Brid Ni Loingsigh, Denis O'Dea, Cyril Cusack and others. Laid in is a small slip noting that Cussack had suffered an injury to his knee and asking the audience to overlook any stiffness. 4 pp stapled inside paper covers, includes many ads for local businesses.

New York: Akashic Books, (2006). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of original stories on how writers from the US and the UK - as well as Dublin itself - view the city. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories - Reed Farrel Coleman, Eoin Colfer and Gary Philips. Other authors included are Laura Lippman, Peter Spiegelman, Eoin Colfer and more. 228 pp plus notes on the contributors, ads. ISBN: 978-1888451924.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at major famines over the years - in China, India, Ireland, and Russia - and of attempts to prevent them, including the Indian Famine Code of 1887 and more recently the role of the United Nations - but even as it acknowledges the activities of the rulers of India in pre-colonial days to ameliorate conditions when drought caused a shortage of food, it downplays the role of British colonialism in ignoring the plight of the people and in putting in place policies that caused massive death tolls. Photographs, references, index. vii, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-701120479.

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

New York: Henry Holt, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery published under this pseudonym by Booker-award winning writer, John Banville. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it features pathologist Malachy Quirke and it is described as "both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter." 290 pp. ISBN: 97808050815434-.

New York: Henry Holt, (2013.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery published under this pseudonym by Man Booker-award winning writer, John Banville. Set in Dublin, Ireland in the 1950s when the Catholic Church controlled the lives of nearly everyone, it features Detective Inspector Hackett and pathologist Malachy Quirke. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780805094398.

New York: Henry Holt, (2006). First edition - First mystery and first novel published under this pseudonym by Booker-award winning writer, John Banville. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it introduces pathologist Malachy Quirke. Nominated for an Edgar Award. 340 pp. Includes a bonus audio sampler CD.

New York: Henry Holt, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery and first novel published under this pseudonym by Booker-award winning writer, John Banville. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it introduces pathologist Malachy Quirke. Nominated for an Edgar Award. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-81526.

New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the poems from the first 5 collections of this Irish born writer, with some revisions bu t 'not many' according to her introduction. Index of first lines. 204 pages. ISBN: 0-393-038521.

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel set in AD 647 - at the dawn of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. Double page map. Author's note. 541 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500030.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor series, set in Galway Ireland. One reviewer called this series "bracing, eccentric, hard-boiled, unforgettable." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312316453.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor series, set in Galway Ireland. One reviewer called this series "bracing, eccentric, hard-boiled, unforgettable." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312316453.

New York: St Martin's, (2003.). First edition - The first Jack Taylor book, which begins after he is fired from the Garda Siochana - the Guards, Ireland's police force - "an unforgettable story that's gritty, absorbing and saturated with the rough-edged rhythms of the Galways streets. Nominated for the Edgar award, winner of the Shamus Award. 303 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2003.). First edition - The first Jack Taylor book, which begins after he is fired from the Garda Siochana - the Guards, Ireland's police force - "an unforgettable story that's gritty, absorbing and saturated with the rough-edged rhythms of the Galways streets. Nominated for the Edgar award, winner of the Shamus Award. 303 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this very popular - and highly praised - series. Anti-hero Artemis is a millionaire, a genius, a criminal mastermind - and only twelve years old. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-786808551.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes, a complex story in which Julie matures a great deal. After her husband told her that he wanted a divorce, she left their apartment in anger and confusion. When walking by a construction site she is lured to a trailer and brutally raped by two men. This crime becomes intertwined with a trip to Ireland in search of the father she never knew. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-68418887.

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.

Chicago: Moody Publishers, (1994). First edition - "Brendan has dreamed all his life of sailing to this promised land. Now his dream is coming true. But he and his fellow travelers must face the peril of the high seas, explore strange and dangerous lands, and defend themselves against terrors both physical and spiritual, before they reach their goal." 337 pp. ISBN: 0-802422950.

New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the coming of age of a young Irishman, the squire of Andromeda Park, a "great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross-eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B." 402 pp. ISBN: 0-440019036.

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.

London: The Harvill Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant collection by this Irish poet. "Durcan's must be the most capacious and generous mind in contemporary poetry: in the face of the rabid and murderous dark he finds always something or someone to celebrate." (Theo Dorgan.) 257 pp. ISBN: 1-860466079.

New York: Crowell, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual short novel - the story of Frank Cleary, an Irish policeman shot down in Harlem, who, as he is falling to the ground, relives not only his experiences in Harlem, but his roots in Ireland and the civil strife of the 20s. 99 pp,. ISBN: 0-690-000898.

New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel in the award-winning Murder Squad series, set in Dublin. This features detective Frank Mackey. A compelling and unusual mystery series, highly recommended. 400 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021871.

New York: Viking, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by this award-winning Irish author, best known for her Dublin Murder Squad series. Cal, recently divorced and retired after 25 years with the Chicago Police Dept, has moved to a run down house in a small town in Ireland to restart his life - only to find himself stalked by 13 year old Trey who wants him to find her lost older brother. "It's unusually contemplative and visual, as if French literally needed this breath of fresh air. It steps back to examine the policing powers she has traditionally taken for granted. And it's her foray into the natural world, which is so welcome right now." (NY Times) 451 pp. ISBN: 978-0735224650.

New York: Viking, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Novel in the award-winning Murder Squad series, set in Dublin. This features detective Antoinette Conway. A compelling and unusual mystery series, highly recommended. 449 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021871.

New York: Viking, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Murder Squad detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, set in a half-built, half abandoned "luxury" development of the sort that litter Ireland. A man and his two young children are found dead; the wife is in intensive care. A compelling and unusual mystery, highly recommended. 450 pp. ISBN: 9780670023653.

New York: Harper & Row, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - A summer festival designed to re-enact the days of the Irish kings who ruled from Tara becomes a time of deadly terror for an archeologist and his family, when his two sons stumble upon a dangerous discovery. 170 pp.