Tramp press ireland (32 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Every devotee of literature and art should read this rare, bright-lit, hard-won book, and every student of life that is to say, everyone.' - Sebastian Barry In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to try to live as an artist. Elegantly encompassing images from a work-in-progress, handiwork offers observations that are at once gentle and devastating on grief, renewal, and the migration of birds. handiwork is Baumes non-fiction debut, written with the keen eye for nature and beauty as well as the extraordinary versatility Sara Baumes fans have come to expect. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philo- sophical power of sound and music, and the effects of Alzheimers disease on a family, Ian Maleney questions the nature of home, memory and the complex nature of belonging. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune. The fifteen darkly funny stories in this book illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Irelands direction. Science and technology would transform everything: life, love, death, crime, war, and even history itself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. "A few years ago my husband recommended me for a job in his company, and I thought it would be fun, and so a woman named Rosaleen would ring me for a chat. Rosaleen was a senior director in the firm, and these were scheduled chats, but I was always unprepared, running from a room, looking for a pen, or out in the rain, pushing the baby in the pram. Rosaleen had a terse and serious manner that unwound into listless expectation when my turn came to speak. I would say something and she would wait for me to say something better. Rosaleen savoured a pause. The line burned with a shared misgiving even as Rosaleen made me an astounding offer ." 'Old Romantics' is an acutely observed and hideously entertaining collection of linked short stories from an astonishing new talent. Slippery, flawed and acute, Maggie Armstrong's narrator navigates a world of awkward expectation and latent hostility. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 'We need fewer road maps towards a treaty with patriarchy, and more manifestos on how to destroy it.' The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls identifies seven sins women and girls are socialised to avoid anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence and lust. With essays on each, Mona Eltahawy creates a stunning manifesto encouraging women worldwide to defy, disobey and disrupt the patriarchy. Drawing on her own life and the work of intersectional activists from around the world, #MeToo and the Arab Spring, Eltahawy s work defines what it is to be a feminist now. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyce s classic short story collection one hundred years after its publication. It serves to bring together ambitious new writers, like Elske Rahill, with well-known voices, like Patrick McCabe, looking in, reacting to and reinterpreting Joyce. Dubliners 100 is a celebration, an invitation, a tribute, and a wonderful collection in itself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. Someone leaves and it's the end of the world.Someone comes back and it's the end of the world.Somebody puts their cock in you and it's the end of the world.Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it's the end of the world.Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope.It's about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and an Irishman who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It's about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what's worth knowing, what's worth living, and the necessity of irrationality.It's about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it's about what to try to do next. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In this dynamic new collection of essays, critically acclaimed author Roisin Kiberd dissects the business of attaining perfection or even normality through consumption and body modification.Linking her personal experiences with Botox and eating disorders to broader phenomena, the author explores subcultures including the underground drag scene and competitive dog shows to better understand how differing groups define and judge excellence. From Westport to Paris, Dublin to Berlin, Versailles to the Ringsend Recycling Centre, Kiberd takes us on a journey of obsession with an unanticipated answer to the question: am I normal yet? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. When Virgilia Wilde begins to suffer from strange visions she visits her local doctor, reporting somberly that her imagination has been playing tricks. What transpires is far more alarming; Virgilia seems to have developed the power of precognition, and with this terrible ability comes fears for the safety of her beloved daughter. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed haunted-house novel The Uninvited is one of the most sharply observed accounts we have of middle-class post-war Dublin. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Celebrate the darker season with new stories and essays from the best and most exciting Irish writersWhen shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland mark Christmas?A woman shops for a very particular Christmas dinner: a man tries to buy a puppy for his daughter: a girl watches as her mother roasts a fowl over an open fire.From old traditions to the creation of new ones, from moments of quiet reflection to chaos, comedy and even horror, this alternative seasonal collection reflects the stunning breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, later printing paperback original with integral dustjacket (french flaps), npublished simultaneously with a small print run of the hardback. Book in fine condition with no inscriptions, spine uncreased. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine/French Flaps. 1st Edition. THIRD PRINTING. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. The author has written in above her name" Everything Best". Winner of the Davy Byrnes Award. One of newest and best of the Irish writers. Signed on Full Title Page.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. Fine book in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Second book from the author.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. First edition, First Printing. Fine. First edition, first printing. Paperback. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, BELINDA McKEON, without dedication or inscription on title-page. x,246pp. A collection of short stories from airport lounges and hotel hallways to the spaces between people, to the most secret spaces within the human heart, these stories look at the many ways we can feel at a remove from what we want, what we long for, but also from what we wish to forget. A fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Signed by Editor, Belinda McKeon.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good+. Soft-bound - contents are bright - signed by the author Joanna Walsh on the title-page. ; Signed by Author.

Trade Paperback Original. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: "French Flaps". First Edition/First Printing. This copy of "A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance" has been SIGNED by Belinda McKeon (Editor) on the title page! This being a copy of the trade paperback issue in "French Flaps." With stories from some of the best writers working today, "A Kind of Compass" brings us to places and situations we could never otherwise experience. McKeon's debut novel "Solace" won the 2012 Faber Prize, was voted Irish Book of the Year, and was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Signed by Editor. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Irish Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Number 218 of 600 copies signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover Edition this is the latter which is one of only 100 numbered copies. (#59/100) A collection of short stories. Contributors: Sam Lipsyte, Maria Takolander, Gina Apostol, Sara Baume, Kevin Barry, Mark Doten, David Hayden, Elske Rahill, Ross Raisin, Porochista Khakpour, Francesca Marciano, Niven Govinden, Yoko Ogawa, E.C. Osondu, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Suzanne Scanlon, and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. Signed by the editor Belinda McKeon to the title page. Signed by Author(s). …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published iin Ireland simultaneously as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover. This is the former and published as a very limited number, A very good plus clean copy with crease to spine. Signed by the author Mike McCormack to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, (First impression) this is the original edition that was published in Ireland as a soft cover only. Light pushing to upper and lower corner, clean pages, unread with no creasing to spine.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. First Irish Edition/First Printing. Softcover original. Fine book in French flaps. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published in Ireland as a soft cover edition. A very good plus copy with toning to the top and fore edge of the text block. Signed by the author Doireann Ní Ghríofa to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Proof Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover Edition this is a proof copy of that publication. A collection of short stories by contemporary Irish writers to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners. this copy has been signed to the title page by Thomas Morris, Sam Coll and Donal Ryan. A very good copy, light shelf wear. Publicity flyer laid in loosely.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover Edition this is the latter which is one of only 200 hardcover copies signed by Sara Baume. SIGNED by Sara Baume to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, (First impression) this is the original edition that was published in Ireland as a soft cover only. Clean pages. tight binding, light rubbing to corners. Signed by Emilie Pine to the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Edition PROOF copy. A very good plus to near fine clean copy with crease to bottom front corner, light rubbing to extremities, clean pages, tightly bound. Signed by the author Doireann Ní Ghríofa to the title page. Uncommon. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) published iin Ireland simultaneously as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover. This is the former and published as a very limited number, A near fine clean copy with a touch of spotting to rear cover. Signed by the author Mike McCormack to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 279 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and a small dent along spine tail. Signed flat by Sara Baume on title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1403805. Special Collections - Upstairs. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy of "A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance" has been SIGNED by Belinda McKeon (Editor) on the title page! This being copy #57 of 100 Limited Copies (embossed Publisher's seal) done in hardcover - with issued copies not being signed. With stories from some of the best writers working today, "A Kind of Compass" brings us to places and situations we could never otherwise experience. McKeon's debut novel "Solace" won the 2012 Faber Prize, was voted Irish Book of the Year, and was short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Signed by Editor. …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, True First Printing, (first impression) with full numberline beginning with [1] published as a soft cover edition and as a Limited hardcover Edition, this is the former, tiny stain to top of text black. Signed by Sara Baume to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…