History Literature & Collectibles

Collection of items relating to the life of 'Gusty' Spence including Union of Post Office Workers membership card, Transport and Genera...

WW1 Soldier's Pay and Service Book of 5522 Driver William Edward Spence Royal Garrison Artillery, father of Gusty Spence. Royal Navy certif...

A collection of photographs taken in Long Kesh and kept by 'Gusty' Spence. A number of which are of the UVF commander himself. Includes...

15 by 15 in. Framed artwork with UVF crest and decorative inscription stating "To the UVF RHC Commanding Officer, Gusty Spence, 1966-1976, ...

14 by 14.5 in. An extremely attractive and decorative piece of prisoner art painted on glass. With the crest of the Royal Irish Rifles flanked by

14.5 by 14.5 in. Another piece of framed prisoner art on glass. With the badge of the Royal Irish Rifles flanked on four sides by the crests of Cy

35 by 50 in. Large flag made surreptitiously in Long Kesh by Spence with other prisoners and used at parades and other events. Designed in order t

4.25 by 6 in. Loyalist Christmas Card produced and printed by 'People's Democracy" with a depiction of Brian Faulkner as a Nazi and...

6.25 by 4 in. Card backed photograph of Spence taken in July 1972 after the wedding of his daughter Elizabeth for which he was granted two days pa

24 by 18 in. Acrylic on board portrait of Spence in uniform painted by self taught and well respected artist George Morrow. Signed lower right &...

4 by 6 in. Maze Prison visitors card issued to Merlyn Rees while serving as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at his address at Stormont all

7 by 5 in. An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir by Muiris Ó Droighneáin, 80pp, 2nd edition. With notation on title page "A....

Two Archdiocese of Armagh Christmas cards sent from Tomás Ó Fiaich to Gusty Spence. One with signed and with a note in the hand of &#...

4.25 by 6 in. Diocese of Armagh Christmas card signed and with manuscript note by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich relating to the fact that he...

12 by 8.5 in. An important piece of historical ephemera. The printed statement read by Spence in October 1994 at Fernhill House announcing the ces

Collection of items relating to the 1994 visit of Spence to the United States of America. Including 1985 British Passport joint passport of Spenc

12 by 8.25 in. Signed letter sent to Spence by John Major on Downing Street headed paper and marked "In confidence". Sent just ten day...

11 by 8.25 in. Signed letter sent by General de Chastelain to Spence, thanking his for a Christmas card and stating "let me wish you and yo...

16.5 by 12 in. Large single page sheet with Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom and "The Belfast Agreement: An Agreement Reached at th...

12 by 9 in. "The Millennium Calendar" designed and produced by Spence for the UVF and Red Hand Commando Old Comrades Association. Comp...

12 by 8.25 in. A unique and important manuscript speech in the hand of 'Gusty' Spence. 2pp written on the back of a letter sent to Spenc...

12 by 8.25 in. Single page letter sent to Gusty Spence and signed by Councillor Tom Hartley whilst Lord Mayor of Belfast. Thanking him for a badge

Three boxes of Irish interest books from the library of Spence. With many examples relating to Northern Ireland, politics, Republican and Unionis

Three boxes of mainly relating to international history and military history in particular. (100+)

A large number of Irish military interest items from the collection of 'Gusty' Spence. Including regimental wooden plaques, framed mili...

16 by 12 in. Two Volumes. Imperial Folio. The Codex bound in full vellum, volume two in quarter vellum boards. The codex contains the text of the

9 by 5.5 in. Full leather original boards, complete in 8 volumes.Printed for James Williams, Skinner Row. All volumes 1776 except volume 1 which i

7 by 4 in. Two volumes, brown half calf marbled boards.J. F. And C. Rivington, London. 17th edition. With many illustrative engravings.

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full blue crushed morocco, 92pp Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Ecologue; with Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. C. And J. Ollier,

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full blue crushed morocco, 222pp Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. C. and J. Ollier, London 1820.

8.5 by 5.5 in. Full calf with gilt titles, 415pp.Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, London 1824. The first book published after Shelley's d...

Half calf, marbled boards, Bradbury and Evans,, London:, 1848 624pp.First edition, early issue with mistakes present on p324 "Capatin"...

8.5 by 5.5 in. Macmillan and Co, London, 1879. Large format edition limited to 750 copies

A complete run of Boy's Own Annuals from 1879 to 1907, the British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys. Comprising of 29 volumes. S...

6.45 by 4 in. Full leather with raised bands on the spine and embossed title, 172pp.Kegan Paul Trench & Co, London 1881. An excellent example

10 by 8 in. Baillie, London 1905, decorated cloth boards, 196pp.Edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham Contains 'Two Songs (I) W...

12 by 10 in. S. Lewis & Co., London, 1837, cloth boards.Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, comprising the several counties, ci...

Including Art of Cookery, Gilbert, Dublin 1791, Ireland's Miseries, the grand cause and cure Mullan, Belfast, 1809, 304pp, Old Irish postag...

11 by 8.5 in. Virtue & Yorston, New York, undated, 2 vols, quarter leather with gilt titled front cover and spine.Picturesque Ireland, Picto...

Talbot Press, Dublin, original boards, 173pp.Irish Life & Landscape by J. Crampton Walker with excellent illustrations by Percy French, Har...

10 by 7 in. Full morocco, gilt titled, three volumes.How and Parsons., London. Vol 1 435pp, Vol 2 468pp and Vol 3 512pp. An extremely interesting

10 by 7 in. Half calf, three volumes.The undated 'new edition' published by Hall, Virtue and Co. London

10 by 8.5 in. Quarter leather, marbled boards, bound in two volumes, 649pp.Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natural

10 by 8.5 in. Quarter leather, marbled boards, 648pp.Another similar copy of Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natur

15 by 10.5 in. Quarter calf, embossed with gilt, marbled boards.First edition in two volumes, published by George Bell and Sons, London. An excell

9 by 7 in. A & C Black, London, 1904, 208pp.Red cloth with red rose design. Illustrated throughout with colour plates

The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, Friar's Bush Press, Belfast, 1992, 232pp. The Arts and Crafts movement in Dublin & Edinburgh, ...

9.5 by 6.5 in. Original boards, Hutchinson, London, 284ppTurning Points in History by The Earl of Birkenhead. Signed and dated by famous Irish por

12 by 9 in. Original boards, 664pp.Scarce with articles by Oscar Wilde (Editor), Constance Wilde and Lady Wilde. (Sperenza) Also with a three page

Collection of Yeats books including Responsibilities and other poems MacMilllan, London 1916, 188pp. Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose