[CONTRIBUTIONS BY: A. P. GRAVES, M. BYRNE, MARY S. CONRAD, JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, STANDISH O'GRADY, HELEN LANYON, ETC.]

The Standard Irish Readers. Junior Book

Published by The Educational Company of Ireland Limited circa 1933. circa 1933. Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel with black decoration. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 160 printed pages of large text with colour plates and monochrome illustrations and throughout. Spine ends and corners soft with shallow rubs, ink name dated 1934 to the front free end paper, hinges loose and in Good condition, no dust wrapper.

-- Little Stour Books Books (Member of PBFA)

Book number: 72345

Catalogue: CHILDRENS

W.B.YEATS KATHARINE TYNAN JOHN F.TAYLOR STANDISH O'GRADY JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY J.O'DONOVAN ROSSA A.E CHARLES LEVER ALICE MILLIGAN

Irish Literature Irish Authors and Their Writings in Ten Hardcover Volumes

U. S. A. P.F.Collier. 1904, First American Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Ten Green Hardcover Volumes of story tellers, Irish women poets and Irish rebels Written by and for the Irish community. Frontis photos of Famine cottages that speak as loud as any song or poem. Street ballads and Yeats, Maudlin writers like Samuel Lover contrast serious translations from the Silva Gadelica.This really is an Irish literature library.Some of the Vols.are good and better and a couple are only fair with a lot of board fading and rubbing.Insides clean bindings tight. NOT a library and NO writing inside either. Great price for this very deep and moving set but extra postage for set. Good/None as Issued.

-- Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books

Book number: 014905

Catalogue: Irish

Keywords: w.b.yeats katharine tynan john f.taylor standish o'grady john boyle o'reilly j.o'donovan rossa a.e charles lever alice milligan irish poetry i.r.a the famine fenians irish street ballads silva gadelica

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE

Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport

Ticknor and Company, Boston, 1888. hardback. good+ condition in green cloth Cloth is somewhat worn & bumped with moderate spine darkening, otherwose a clean tight copy

-- Wonderland Books

Book number: 36401

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE

Moondyne

Adelaide, Rigby. 1975, Facsimile Reprint. (ISBN: 0851796540) Binding - Soft Cover, Medium Duodecimo - 190mm (71/2") tall. Facsimile edition, reproduced from the George Robertson Publications, 1880. Originally published as Moondyne Joe. Pictorial softcover, in good-very good overall condition. Covers lightly rubbed on edges with a few small spot marks, minor corner curl on covers, generally a clean and tightly bound copy. Autobiographical novel by 19th century Irish author, poet, journalist and political activist. O'Reilly (1844-1890) was sentenced to death for his involvement in the Irish Republican Movement, but his sentence was finally commuted to 20 years of penal servitute. He was transported to Western Australia in 1868, but within a year he managed to escape on a whaling boat to America, where he lived the rest of his life. Good - Very Good.

-- Booksplendour

Book number: 0215379

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Autobiographical Novel Early Settlement of Australia Australian Historical Saga Prose A1 Australia Ireland America Facsimile Edition A1 0851796540

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE.

Moondyne: A Story from the Underworld.

Boston, Pilot Publishing 1879. Octavo publisher's maroon cloth (unevenly faded, spine ends worn). There is a scattering of small black specks inside - messy printing; inner hinges cracked but firm, used but a decent copy.
¶ First edition, and no arguing about it. You can correct Morris Miller and Macartney. Miller gave the honours to Roberts of Boston but that seems to have been a supposition based on the ostensible third edition* in the Mitchell Library. The last time I found a copy of this there seemed to be no copies in any Australian library but I see that the National and Mitchell Libraries have fixed the omission. There was a plethora of American printings for some twenty years after this but this really does seem to be scarce. O'Reilly published Moondyne as a serial in his paper The Pilot and 'the first eight chapters were deliberately, carefully written ... many weeks in advance [so] he could continue to write with care ... No journalist will need to be told that that the ninth chapter and nearly all the others went to the printer in the first rough draft .. this is the reason that they precisely mirror the author's feelings, unaffected by policy or prudence ... and in them one may see ... the criminal's estimation of his guardians and of society' (Stephenson Browne in the New York Times, 1903). Moondyne is, as far as I'm aware, the first Western Australian novel; it's a romance, a thriller of sorts, drawn from O'Reilly's convict time and very much a novel of social, especially prison, reform. Modern and contemporary readers dismissed his claim that he lived among the aborigines; modern critics because of his derogatory ignorance; his contemporaries because he painted them as too noble to be real. *Blanck [15202-3] wondered about the gap between the Pilot printing of the first edition and Roberts' 'third edition' announced for sale on Oct 4, the earliest he could locate, and Mr Mott of Howard S Mott has kindly passed on information from Roberts' printing records that confirms what they called the 'R.B. 1st ed' was printed (2012 copies) in the last week of September 1879.

-- Richard Neylon, Bookseller

Book number: 8769

Keywords: literature fiction c19th Western Australia America Ireland reform prisons convicts

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE

The Poetry and Song of Ireland

New York, NY: Gay Brothers & Co, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Cover loose and needs slight repair. Comprehensive work on the Poetry and songs of Ireland. ; Engravings; 814 pages; p. Good with no dust jacket .

-- A Book Legacy

Book number: 1161

Catalogue: Ireland

Keywords: Music Poetry Ireland

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE, ED.

The Poetry and Song of Ireland with Biographical Sketches of Her Poets.

New York: Gay Brothers & Co., 1887. . . Frontis, 814p, ilustrations, index. 26cm. First edition. Illustrated beveled green cloth; all edges gilt. Some wear to the spine ends, corners slightly bumped and skinned; front endpapers are detached; paper has browned. Still in just about very good condition. .

-- Michael J. Osborne Books LLC ABAA ILAB IOBA

Book number: 15306

Catalogue: Ireland

(O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE):

SELECTED POEMS, SPEECHES, DEDICATIONS AND LETTERS OF JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY 1844-1890 (selected) by Liam Barry.

(Australind), National Gaelic Publications, (1994). Wrappers, illust., pp. xvi, 336. Stain on fore-edge else v.g. ISBN 0 646 18724 4.
¶ Sections of O'Reilly's recently rediscovered 1868 diary are included along with speeches, poems, letters and dedications.

-- Serendipity Books

Book number: 89175

Keywords: WA Western Australia John Boyle O'Reilly poems verse literature speeches Ireland Fenians Fenian Uprising Irish history Hougoumont convicts Fremantle politics

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

Selected Poems

P. J. Kenedy & sons, 1913. Hardcover. /. 1913 P. J. Kenedy & Sons blue cloth with gilt titles and top edge gilt. Clean tight and unmarked.. Very Good - Used .

-- Griffin Books

Book number: 26884

Catalogue: Literature-Poetry

Keywords: Selected Poems

O' REILLY, JOHN BOYLE

Songs, Legends and Ballads

Boston, Pilot Publishing Co. 1882. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This fifth edition, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. 318pp, with 20pp of reviews, bound in brown cloth, with gilt lettering, bevelled edges, top edge gilt and floral endpapers. Has light surface scuffing, light edge/corner wear, pages have light age mellowing, occasional foxing, with BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. Poetry. No inscriptions or labels.

-- Monroe Bridge Books

Book number: 000931

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: :John Boyle O'Reilly" Songs Legends Ballads Poetry Poet Poems

O'REILLY, JOHN BOYLE

Watchwords from John Boyle O'Reilly. Edited by Katherine E. Conway

Boston, Joseph George Cupples, [1891]. First edition limited to 500 numbered copies (this, 258) signed by the editor, and with an additional 4-line presentation from her on the half- title; 8vo, pp. xli, [3], 60, [2], [6] ads; color frontispiece portrait of the author, 7 other plates (4 of them gravures of the author in various poses); some dampstaining (affecting several plates); all else very good in original half brown cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g.

-- Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB

Book number: 29944

Keywords: Irish Literature Literature

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY; O'REILLY, MRS. JOHN BOYLE, EDITOR,

Life of John Boyle O'reilly - Together with His Complete Poems and Speeches.

New York, Mershon Company, 1891. Hardcover., G in Deep Red Cloth with Gilt Lettering. X-Library, Usual Flaws. Pages: 790. Clean, Binding Tight.

-- Vintage Books

Book number: MASTER194676I

Catalogue: Eclectic Collection