I'm guessing that Kenny's have kept a few copies as they have the storage space to keep backlisted stock. Apparently Amazon and the others have an automatic programmed increase in the price of a book when according to their system, it has become rare.

Seo dhuit:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... dition=all

Personally, I would buy the one for 88 cents. It's the hardcover edition and the condition is listed as "very good".

Thanks lads, I knew there was an accompanying English- Irish dictionary to FGB, but I didn't know it was de Bhaldraithe's.

That's odd them being out of print, I thought I spotted a few of them flying around.

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

You're welcome! I'm also very surprised that it's out of print. Every serious learner needs both Ó Dónaill's and De Bhaldraithe's Dictionary – and Dineen's Dictionary, eventually.

Best bet on most Irish books, if you can't get to Antiquarian booksellers in Ireland, is ABE:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchR ... ithe&sts=t

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

So I just placed an order for a copy from the Book Depository, an abrupt zig-zag for my budget, but I've rationalized it as the same money getting spent twice, as I just got refunded by an eBay seller. I've been experiencing a weird run of used book and eBay sellers turning out not to have the item they had listed to sell though, so I half-fear that the listing will turn out to be a computer error or some other manifestation of this weird streak of bad luck.

Go n-éirí liom! <= does that work? In English, "Good luck to me!" would be kind of a joking twist of usage, right?

Updates:
1) This morning I get an email from the Book Depository telling me my copy de Bhaldraith had been dispatched.
2) I idly clicked back to the book's page on the Book Depository, and the book was once again was listed as unavailable. so I checked Amazon's listing from Kenny's (and there was one more seller I don't recall), but nobody is selling these $20 new copies anymore. Apparently (or at least hopefully) a number of us grabbed one while we could!

De Bhaldraithe's English-Irish Dictionary appears to have been reprinted this year. This is printed amid the copyright info on the fresh clean paperback copy I received today:

An Séú Cló Déag 2015

easons.com or easons.ie or http://www.easonschoolbooks.com/categor ... ence/Irish
in the searchbox type in Foclóir and you will have a choice of the dictionaries at a good price