New Year sales are not necessarily confined to department stores. Co. Mayo based rare book dealers Vanessa Parker and Roger Grimes are having a 20% off sale for the month of January at their shop at The Old Thatch, Mulranny, Westport and on their combined websites. Here is a sample:

A boxed set of the works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens 1920 with illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen with illustrations by Harry Clarke. (2nd (1930) Edition.

A c1918-1920 lidded vase by Michael Polowney from the Loetz factory in Poland.