Dublin Book Fair

16/09/2013

Dublin Book Fair highlights being added to the Fair website:

Here you can view a list of Fair Highlights for the 2013 Dublin Book Fair

16/09/2013

Some Highlights from this year's Dublin Book Fair taking place on the 5th & 6th of October

14/02/2013

Malton's excellent work on Dublin, festooned with hand-coloured aquatints, and a snip at £25,000

engraved title and dedication, folding frontispiece plan dd.1797, 2 maps dd.1792&1795, key panorama plate and 25 hand-coloured aquatints

06/10/2012

The PBFA's Dublin Book Fair for 2012 starts today at the old Freemasons Hall in Molesworth Street, Dublin. Irish & mainland UK dealers together under one roof and offering a wonderful selection of rare, antiquarian, collectable and secondhand books, manuscripts, ephemera and more... visit website for more information

The PBFA Dublin Book Fair provides a wonderful opportunity to see a wide selection of rare, antiquarian & secondhand books, manuscripts & ephemera from all periods

24/09/2012

Dublin born horror maestro is also represented at the upcoming 2012 Dublin Book Fair, with this first edition first issue copy of gothic classic 'Dracula' handsomely bound to style of original canary cloth,

Archibald Constable, 1897. First edition, first issue on thicker paper with one blank leaf at rear and without advertisement(s). Morocco in style original cloth

24/09/2012

and another collection, this time from Andrew Lang's impressive series of rainbow hues, this Crimson

illustrations, original gilt-pictorial cloth, gilt edges, 8vo, Longmans, 1903.

24/09/2012

More highlights added to the Dublin Fair site, including books on fairy tales (appropriately for this the 200th anniversary of Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales): one illustrated by Rackham of Irish tales

1924 8vo edition, plates and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, original gilt-pictorial cloth, t.e.g., Macmillan, 1924. A very good copy.

14/09/2012

and an excellent signed copy of Brendan Behan's 'Island. An Irish Sketch-Book'

Drawings by Paul Hogarth. First US edition. 4to., original cloth, dust jacket. New York, Bernard Geis. 1962. Signed by the author and the artist.

14/09/2012

...several works by Seamus Heaney, including a special limited edition of 'The Door Stands Open'

8vo., original stainless steel covers within a frame of twin glass-rods attached to a full mixed-metal spine with the poet's signature in relief, Dublin, 2005

14/09/2012

...and a fine copy of Thomas Kinsella's translation for Táin Bó Cúailnge, printed by the Dolmen Press

Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. First edition. 4to., original red morocco, decorated in gilt.Dublin, Dolmen Press. 1969. One of 50 specially bound copies

14/09/2012

Irish highlights so far for the 2012 fair and now up on the fair site include a copy of Northern Irish poets Muldoon & Simmons' Out of the Blue, signed by Muldoon

first edition, Square 8vo., original blue and white wrappers. Belfast, Arts Council for Northern Ireland. 1974. Signed by Muldoon. A fine copy.