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Kennys of Galway; Gerald Dawe
Faces in a Bookshop: Irish Literary Portraits.
Galway Kennys Bookshop 1990 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. Portraits of 100 Irish writers by 75 artists color reproductions for the exhibition. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good endsheet has faint spots with very good dust jacket light wear to spine tips. ISBN 090631238X Kennys Bookshop hardcover
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Keary, Annie
Castle Daly: The Story of An Irish Home Thirty Years Ago.
Philadelphia Porter & Coates 1880 hardcover. No publication date given circa 1880s ownership dated 1884 or 1887; originally published in England 1875 as a triple-decker. -- Hardcover reddish-brown cloth with nice gilt and black decoration. Condition: very good cover cloth rubbed at tips; last page of text almost free. -- The English-born author 1825-1879 gained recognition for this novel a "sympathetic and exciting account of Irish life during the Famine" Feminist Companion. The Philadelphia publication is held in few libraries. Porter & Coates hardcover
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Lever, Charles
Roland Cashel. 2 volumes.
London Chapman and Hall 1858 First Edition. hardcover. Reprint original was 1850. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. -- Hardcover two volumes gilt spine lettering. Condition: good spine tips worn; corners bumped; both volumes have wavy text block; owner name; scattered foxing but plates are clear. -- Charles Lever 1806-1872 was Irish novelist who studied medicine and worked with cholera epidemic victims 1832. Oxford Companion Chapman and Hall hardcover
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Grey, Vivian [Elliott E. Mills]
The "Pandora's" Log: A Diary of Our Ulster Campaign.
London Remington & Co 1884 hardcover. Elliott E. Mills wrote other pseudonymous books including a 1905 futurist fantasy of 2005 and other speculative works on politics and culture. -- This book is a discussion among unnamed men for example "W--myss" of the Orange and papists in Ireland. -- Hardcover flexible cloth-covered boards. FAIR-ONLY condition cover stained and darkened cover nearly detached as are pages; outer pages stained. Complete; we list this lesser copy because it is scarce. Remington & Co hardcover
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McDowell, Henry
Irish Family Treasures. The Irish Heritage Series: 51.
Dublin Eason 1985 paperback. Color photos and brief descriptions for 13 familes. -- Slim softcover. Condition: near fine surface scratch. ISBN 900346671 Eason paperback
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Ellison, John
A Pocketfull of Irish Ballads Volume 1.
Corballis Rathdrum County Wicklow John Ellison 1995 paperback. Words music & guitar chords of popular Irish songs. -- Softcover 32 pages 4x6 inches. Condition: near fine. John Ellison paperback
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Ellison, John
A Pocketfull of Irish Ballads Volume 2.
Corballis Rathdrum County Wicklow John Ellison 1995 paperback. Words music & guitar chords of popular Irish songs. -- Softcover 32 pages 4x6 inches. Condition: near fine. John Ellison paperback
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Squire, Geoffrey
Dress and Society 1560-1970
NY: Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name on front pastedown endpaper . jacket price-clipped and tattered. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. 067028484X . A sumptuously illustrated history of Western clothing through five centuries. Bibliography index. Tan cloth binding. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages . Viking hardcover
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Mitchell, Susan L.
Secret Springs of Dublin Song.
Dublin Talbot Press 1918 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition limited one of 500 hand-numbered copies. -- Anthology of anonymous Irish verses preface by Mitchell. -- Hardcover printed on heavy laid paper 61 pages. Condition: very good minus front cover uniformly spotted; no jacket issued. Talbot Press hardcover
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Foster, John Wilson
Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction.
Oxford Oxford University Press 2008 hardcover. Comprehensive study of popular and minor novels 60 writers rarely discussed. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 9780199232833 Oxford University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34692 ISBN : 0199232830 9780199232833
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Kinealy, Christine
A New History of Ireland.
Gloucestershire England Sutton 2004 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by author on title page "to name with warmest regards." -- Hardcover. Condition: very good pages lightly tanned with very good dust jacket. ISBN 0750928190 Sutton hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34466 ISBN : 0750928190 9780750928199
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Kavanagh, Peter
The Irish Theatre; Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period Up to the Present Day.
Tralee The Kerryman Limited 1946 hardcover. First Edition. Explores the roots of the Abbey Theatre School of Drama detailing those Irish dramatists with a critical appraisal of the work. -- Substantial hardcover 488 pages. Fair-only used condition cover is edgeworn and blotchy; endsheets are missing; outer pages fexed. However spine letters are bright all plates are present and clear as are the pages; binding is tight. The Kerryman Limited hardcover
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O'Farrell, Ciara
Louis D'Alton and the Abbey Theatre.
Dublin Four Courts Press 2004 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. -- D'Alton's plays premiered 1937-1958; his career contributes to the social and cultural background of touring companies in Ireland. -- Hardcover. Condition: fine with fine dust jacket. ISBN 1851828680 Four Courts Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34518 ISBN : 1851828680 9781851828685
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Whelan, Kevin
A Bibliography of the 1798 Rebellion.
USA Keough-Notre Dame Center 2003 paperback. Reprinted from: 1798: a bicentenary perspective. Comprises a checklist of publications since 1900 on Ireland 1790s the United Irishmen and the rebellion. This is only a list with no accompanying text. -- Softcover 61 pages. Condition: very good. Keough-Notre Dame Center paperback
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Francis, Mark; King, Margery
The Warhol Look: Glamour Style Fashion
Pittsburgh/Boston: The Andy Warhol Museum and Bulfinch Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket has a small pull tear at top of . spine. 1997. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth. Color photos black and white photos illustrations list and notes on contributors. Highlights of an exhibition of the artist's work featuring ten essays examining the full range of his varied activities. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . The Andy Warhol Museum and Bulfinch Press hardcover
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Kinealy, Christine
A Disunited Kingdom England Ireland Scotland and Wales 1800-1949.
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999 paperback. Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 0521598443 Cambridge University Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34460 ISBN : 0521598443 9780521598446
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Maxwell, D. E. S.
A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980.
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1984 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. -- Includes a chronology bibliography and photographs. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine small stamp bottom-edge with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0521225329 Cambridge University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34251 ISBN : 0521225329 9780521225328
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Kennelly, Brendan
The Crooked Cross.
Dublin Allen Figgis 1963 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing of this novel of southwest Ireland. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine with very good dust jacket creased tear; light edgewear spine crown. Allen Figgis hardcover
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Rosenstock, Gabriel
The Wasp in the Mug: Unforgettable Irish Proverbs.
Dublin Mercier Press 1993 paperback. Newly translated from the Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. -- "Sorrows are never as real after a good meal." -- Softcover 111 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 1856350436 Mercier Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33998 ISBN : 1856350436 9781856350433
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Byrne, Ophelia
The Stage in Ulster From the Eighteenth Century.
Belfast Linen Hall Library 1997 paperback. Selected from the Theatre Archive of the Linen Hall Library in Ireland. A guide to the theatrical companies listed chronologically and by theatre with a brief history of each and vintage illustrations. The Archive contains programs posters scrapbooks handbills etc. -- Softcover 99 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 1900921057 Linen Hall Library paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33977 ISBN : 1900921057 9781900921053
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Watson, William
Ireland Arisen.
London Grant Richards 1921 paperback. Printed at The Curwen Press Plaistow. Softcover string binding 23 pages. Condition: good cover edges tanned; some foxing; corner faintly bumped. Grant Richards paperback
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Cleeve, Brian
Dictionary of Irish Writers. 3 volumes.
Cork Ireland Mercier Press 1969 paperback. 1 Fiction; 2 Non-fiction; 3 Writers in the Irish Language. Published 1969-1971. -- Softcover three pocket paperbacks. Condition: very good pages lightly tanned; v.3 has dark stain front-cover. Mercier Press paperback
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Haughey, Jim
The First World War in Irish Poetry.
Lewisberg PA Bucknell University Press 2002 hardcover. Study of the work of over thirty Irish poets "a startling range of viewpoints expressed about the war from an Irish perspective" and compares these to current political opinion. -- Hardcover 309 pages. Condition: near fine with near fine dust jacket. -- ISBN 0838754961 Bucknell University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34064 ISBN : 0838754961 9780838754962
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Foster, R. F.
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change c.1970-2000.
London Penguin Allen Lane 2007 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Condition: near fine with near fine dust jacket. -- "Supercedes all other accounts of modern Irish history" Conor Cruise O'Brien ISBN 9780713997835 Penguin Allen Lane hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34063 ISBN : 0713997834 9780713997835
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Lever, Charles
St. Patrick's Eve.
London Chapman and Hall 1845 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated by Phiz title page. -- Hardcover dark green with elaborate gilt spine and front-cover decoration all-edges-gilt discreet vintage seller label. Condition: good spine color change but still bright; hinge cracked; one plate foxed others and some pages more lightly; previous seller pencilled notes. -- Overall an attractive book by this 19th century author born in Dublin; this novel includes episode of cholera one engraving shows a coffin carried down a hill. Chapman and Hall hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34117
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Mulcahy, Risteard
Richard Mulcahy 1886-1971 A Family Memoir.
Dublin Aurelian Press 1999 First Edition. paperback. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by the author. -- Richard Mulcahy was active in Irish military and political fields and these memoirs recall colleagues and events from 1915 Volunteers training camp severing communication lines during the Rising member of the Free State cabinet heading opposition party etc. Specialized history of Ireland. -- Includes historic photographs. -- Softcover 421 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0953579506 Aurelian Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33909 ISBN : 0953579506 9780953579501
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Bowles, Micheal [Michael]
Claisceadal 1.
Dublin Anchor House 1986 paperback. IRISH TEXT with English translations of the preface and the song words. The author says these are "songs for singers" although they do exemplify Irish life in 18th and 19th centuries and each song has short commentary. -- Softcover sheet music 60 pages. Condition: good only pages are spotted and corners creased. ISBN 0907606350 Anchor House paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33716 ISBN : 0907606350 9780907606352
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Cullen, Fintan
The Irish Face; Redefining the Irish Portrait.
London National Portrait Gallery 2004 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing. -- SIGNED by author on title page. -- With 158 illustrations including 78 in color. The author discusses portraiture related to politics geography religion commerce and class specifically applied to Ireland. Portraits include Swift Parnell Seamus Heaney Bono etc. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 1855142902 National Portrait Gallery hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33774 ISBN : 1855142902 9781855142909
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Ryan, Tom
A Fair In the Square.
Thurles County Tipperary Ireland Tom Ryan 2006 paperback. Book has 75 tales of Thurles Tipperary and Ireland and includes many photographs of persons and places. -- Examples: a shoe repairer Hayes Hotel magic of the cinema Parnell drama society etc. etc. -- Softcover. Condition: very good bookplate; owner gift note. ISBN 0954849620 Tom Ryan paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33525 ISBN : 0954849620 9780954849627
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Mitchell, Brian; Derry Youth and Community Workshop
Parish Maps of Ireland.
Apollo PA Closson Press 1988 paperback. Depicting all townlands in the four Ulster Counties of Armagh Donegal Londonderry and Tyrone. Several maps are fold-out. -- Softcover 287 pages 8.5x11 inches. Condition: very good neat handwritten index note on map pages and some counties have neat parish names written on. ISBN 0933227337 Closson Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33440 ISBN : 0933227337 9780933227330
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O'Kane, William; Eoin Kerr
Irish Gravestone Inscriptions; A Guide to Sources in Ulster.
Baltimore Clearfield and Genealogical Publishing Co 2008 paperback. Reprint 2008 of the 1999 original. -- Softcover 57 pages. Condition: very good couple of hi-lites. ISBN 9780806316161 Clearfield and Genealogical Publishing Co paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 33477 ISBN : 0806316160 9780806316161
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Hopkinson, Michael
Green Against Green; The Irish Civil War.
Dublin Gill and Macmillan 1988 paperback. Analysis based on detailed scholarship of the period following the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 between those willing to accept its terms and those Republicans who felt that it betrayed the ideal of an Irish republic. -- Softcover. Condition: very good minus few hi-lites. ISBN 0717116301 Gill and Macmillan paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32924 ISBN : 0717116301 9780717116300
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Ryan, Desmond
Michael Collins.
Ireland Anvil Books 1968 paperback. 1968 re-publication of the 1932 original this copy is 6th printing 1985. -- Softcover pocket paperback. Condition: very good minus pages tanned; spine sunned. ISBN 0900068000 Anvil Books paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32962 ISBN : 0900068000 9780900068003
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Murray, Sheila
Potters in Ireland Enjoying Ireland.
Dublin Zircon 1973 paperback. Chapter devoted to each pottery. Includes map black-and-white photos drawings. Softcover 72 pages. Condition: very good owner notes on blank page. ISBN 071792016X Zircon paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32948 ISBN : 071792016X 9780717920167
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Murray, Sheila; Alan Beesley
Irish Glass Enjoying Ireland.
Dublin Zircon 1973 paperback. Includes maps black-and-white photos drawings. Softcover 74 pages. Condition: very good. ISBN 0717920151 Zircon paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32947 ISBN : 0717920151 9780717920150
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Paor, Liam de
Unfinished Business: Ireland Today and Tomorrow.
London Hutchinson Radius 1990 paperback. The great issues of Irish politics such as differences between the border country and the ghettoes of West Belfast culminating in a 1990 suggestion for an independent Ulster. -- Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 0091744067 Hutchinson Radius paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32931 ISBN : 0091744067 9780091744069
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Keogh Dermot
Ireland and Europe 1919-1948.
Totowa NJ Barnes & Noble Books 1988 hardcover. Study of the neglected continental influence on Ireland from 1919 to 1948. -- Hardcover. Good-only used condition hi-lites; owner name; edges foxed. ISBN 0389208035 Barnes & Noble Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32957 ISBN : 0389208035 9780389208037
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Irish Sword
The Irish Sword: The Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland Summer 2004 vol. XXIV no. 95.
Dublin Military History Society of Ireland 2004 paperback. This issue is volume 24 number 95 and includes articles on Irish tents winter 1641; garrisons South Tipperary 1650-1730; war deaths in Irish regiments WWII etc. -- Color and black-and-white illustrations maps. -- Softcover. Condition: very good short cover tear. Military History Society of Ireland paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32940
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Duggan, John P.
A History of the Irish Army.
Dublin Gill and Macmillan 1991 paperback. SIGNED by author with warm inscription to names. -- Comprehensive book service from World War II to helping victims of snow and floods. Includes maps photos bibliography. -- Softcover 373 pages. Condition: very good minus couple pages hi-lited; corner small stain. ISBN 0717119572 Gill and Macmillan paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32919 ISBN : 0717119572 9780717119578
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American Irish Historical Society
The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society Volume 38 1977.
New York American Irish Historical Society 1977 hardcover. Annual articles by: Mary Higgins Clark Jimmy Breslin Rupert Murdoch Eugene J. McCarthy Ronald Reagan and others. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good edges foxed; no jacket. American Irish Historical Society hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32942
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Reade, Linda
Aranwear and Tweed Enjoying Ireland.
Dublin Zircon 1973 paperback. Includes map black-and-white photos drawings. Softcover 68 pages. Condition: very good owner notes on blank page. ISBN 0717920135 Zircon paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32949 ISBN : 0717920135 9780717920136
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Reed, David
Ireland: The Key to the British Revolution.
London Larkin Publications 1984 paperback. This book says it "takes sides for the oppressed Irish and against British imperialism." It was written during the early 1980s when Irish prisoners were on hunger strike. Detailed political history. -- Softcover 436 pages. Good-only used condition some hi-lites; cover corner crease. ISBN 0905400046 Larkin Publications paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32927 ISBN : 0905400046 9780905400044
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Ring, Jim
Erskine Childers.
London John Murray 1997 paperback. Acclaimed biography which used newly public papers with strong emphasis on Childers' role in complicated Irish political history. -- Softcover. Condition: very good spine crease; stain bottom-edge. ISBN 0719556872 John Murray paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32953 ISBN : 0719556872 9780719556876
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Smyth, Sam
Thanks a Million Big Fella.
Dublin Blackwater Press 1997 paperback. Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 086121952X Blackwater Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32935 ISBN : 086121952X 9780861219520
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Brady, Ciaran
Worsted In the Game: Losers in Irish History.
Dublin Lilliput Press 1989 paperback. Thirteen persons pivotal in Irish history from the first century AD described by 13 historians edited by Brady and illustrated with portraits. -- Softcover. Condition: very good pages tanned. ISBN 0946640351 Lilliput Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32950 ISBN : 0946640351 9780946640355
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Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts; Geraldine Walsh
Martello Arts Review; Special Issue.
Dublin Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 1991 paperback. History of the Society with chapters on the schools wartime years the 1920s John Butler Yeats many more with color reproductions of the artworks. -- Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 0709097X Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts paperback
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Greaves, C. Desmond
1916 As History: The Myth of the Blood Sacrifice.
Dublin Fulcrum Press 1991 paperback. Presented as a lecture on 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising plea for real history. -- Softcover 42 pages. Condition: good-only some hi-lites; cover spine sunned. ISBN 1872993052 Fulcrum Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32917 ISBN : 1872993052 9781872993058
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Toibin, Colm
Martyrs and Metaphors.
Dublin Raven Arts Press 1987 First Edition. paperback. First Edition First Printing. -- Series: Letters From the New Island. -- Observations on Irish literature and political history. -- Softcover stiff covers with flaps. Condition: near fine. ISBN 1851860363 Raven Arts Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32977 ISBN : 1851860363 9781851860364
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Arts Council of Northern Ireland
On the Balcony of the Nation: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Five Artists from Northern Ireland.
Belfast Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1990 paperback. Artists are: Micky Donnelly Rita Duffy Dermot Seymour Chris Wilson Gordon Woods. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. Arts Council of Northern Ireland paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 31265
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Wootten, Geoffrey
Waterloo 1815 the Birth of Modern Europe Campaign 15
London: Osprey 1992. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers edge and corner worn with some small scratches. 96p. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrations and Maps. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback. Osprey Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : EW1127 ISBN : 1855322102 9781855322103
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