Sunday March 3
Tara Towers Hotel
Merrion Road (Just Past Vincents Hospital
Doors open 11am 5pm
Admission €2.00.
All Welcome
Dear Booklover,
Our next Book Fair is on this Sunday and our Book Dealers have managed to put together as fine a collection of books for your delectation as it is possible . History , Literature, Illustrated, Poetry Ephemera, Postcards and many First Editions. Thousands of books, mostly out of print and unavailable elsewhere. Well worth a browse.
Listed below are some of the items being offered by dealers. So the moral is get in early before they are gone. We will also have a dealer from Clare who is exhibiting for the first time, so who knows what surprises he has?
Schull Books of Cork will have A Letter to the Rt Hon Robert Peel, MP, on the present state of the Catholic Question by An Irish Catholic [William Bullen] and inscribed by him. Original full leather, VG
Allod Books of Dublin, in addition to their special selection of fine books, will be offering a gathering of 19th and early 20th-century tourist /travel/topographical guides to Ireland.
Dublin Bookbrowsers are offering Signed note & letter by Dan Breen Tipperary Rebel Leader; First editions of Padraig Yeates Lockout Dublin 1913; A rare 1966 publication by the GAA refuting the Roger Casement Slanders; The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1721) & lots of fantastic books at unbeatable prices.
Eamonn de Burca, who continues to publish fine books of Irish interest will be launching two of his most recent publications at the Book Fair MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin.
Standard edition €75
Limited edition €255
TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €45 Limited edition €175
Lyonshill Books of Dublin will have the Two Volume First Edition “History of the Queens County” by Canon Hanlon.
Book Fair is wheelchair friendly and children with adult are welcome and free. Parking is free to patrons of the Book Fair but do collect your Parking Permit at the Admissions desk as many people go directly to car park and pay for parking.
Looking forward to seeing all and hope you can make it. Any queries don’t hesitate to contact me, Eddie Murphy at 087-2567908 or Barbara O’Connell at 028-37317 or Jim Valley at 048-37-526938.
Our website , www.dublincitybookfair.com gives dates for all of 2013.
Eddie and Kay Murphy