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

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

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: 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: The Century Company, (1924). Hardcover first edition - An historical novel by this American-born Irish novelist set in the west of Ireland, and based on the life of the Irish poet Antoine Raftery (1779-1835). The basis of the 1957 BBC television opera. Illustrated by John Richard Flanagan with a frontispiece and 3 interior plates. 175 pp.

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: Norton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - New York born author's idiosyncratic look at his adopted homeland - illustrated with double page, black and white photographs by Patrick Prendergast. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-393027600.

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

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

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.

Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland: Ardmore Pottery Shop, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A combination of local history, traditions with a dash of humor, by a woman born in Ardmore in 1919 and who lived there all her life. Ardmore is a small seaside village o the south coast of Ireland, with a history going back to at least the 5th century. SIGNED on the title page. Foreword by Fergal Keane. Illustrated with photographs, some in full color. Double page hand-drawn map. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-953890309.

Dublin: The O'Brien Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover - An easily understood version, written for both children and adults, of the most famous Irish legend. Tells of the army of Queen Maeve, of her greed, and of the great battle between the warrior Cuchulainn and his friend, Ferdia. Illustrations by Donald Teskey. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-86278-204-X.

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: Dial Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this Irish writer and playwright (his first novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), one in which he "returns to the emotionally dense landscape of small-town Ireland to explore the inner lives of two men: a headmaster and a schoolteacher, each man the product of a soul-stifling culture, each battling his own demons of loss and betrayal. " 286 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314205.

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.

Belfast, Northern Ireland: Blackstaff Press, (1997). First edition - An uncommon short story collection by this award winning Irish writer - it begins and ends with parts of a folk tale - "The Search for a Lost Husband" - and parts of this tale are inserted before each of the other 13 stories. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-856405965.

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

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.

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