Introduction by padraic colum (32 risultati)

3/4 leather. Reprint. Good. structurally sound brown leather and cloth, spine looks great with mild loss at the head, corners bumped and a bit scuffed, other than that very good, no ownership marks, structurally sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Upper outer corners of covers are slightly bumped.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Poor. 1st Four Square Edition. 160 pp. Still an acceptable reading/study/work/research copy! Heavily used book in poor quality with clean text. Slanted and creased spine. Pages detached from spine. Damage to spine and bottom edge of front cover. Water stains on bottom edge and back cover. Discoloration of pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Slight foxing on outside edges of pages. Heavier foxing on back of half title page, frontispiece, and title page. Dust jacket is price clipped and browned, with several tears and edge wear.

9th, Ex-lib. Part of Portraits of the Nations Series. Illustrated survey of Irish history and culture. 6-1/4 x 8-1/2, 115 pp, index, b/w glossy photos, map. Very nice clean tight copy. Hardcover/DJ in mylar; VG w minimal library markings, else unmarked/DJ VG, bright.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Some wear along the DJ edges with small close/open tears. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers. Minor discoloration to pages and DJ back cover. Binding is not as tight. Tips are slightly bent.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bookplate inside front cover. ; Book of poetry. ; Small 8vo; 73 pages.

hardcover no dustjacket. Condizione: Good Exlibrary. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 425 pages;Good exlibrary hardcover no dustjacket; library pockets labels and stamps in various locations; spine starting to slant; tips bumped; tanned pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Second printing. Mass market paperback. 126pp. Foxing on page edges and wrapper, rubbing on wrapper, very good.

First edition, first printing Very good green boards with gilt titles and clean text. Soft leatherette cloth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dustjacket. 3rd Edition. Pp. xx, 620. Buckram covers light wear and stains. Internally good. Signed & Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 500 pages. A very good copy in a dust jacket with loss to the spine head affecting text. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Condizione: Very Good. 1945. Hardback. In cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Presentation label pasted to ffep. Internally lightly toned, spotting to edges, however text is crisp and clear and remains a good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good plus. 1st Edition thus. Originally published in London in 1829, Griffin (1803-1840) tells "a tale of crime and punishment which draws heavily on hs Limerick childhood and his familiarity with Irish Catholic society". though set in the 1770's, the story is based on murder in Limerick in 1819. Praised highly by contemporaries such as Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan. Boucicault used the story for his Colleen Bawn. The name of one of the characters, Myles na Coppaleen, was adopted later as a nom de plume by another Irish writer. A well printed and produced copy of what is seen as the best Irish novel of the nineteenth century. Small price mark in pen on front free end paper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 115 p. illus. 22 cm. ; LC: DA911; Dewey: 941.5 ; OCLC: 1327890 ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamp, label ; Contents : The island -- The small farm -- Islands to the west -- A Holy Island -- From shellfishers to scribes -- The Norsemen -- The Normans -- Plantations =-- Kinsale and Cromwell -- The battle of the Boyne -- Swift and Tone -- Seventeen ninety-eight -- After Napoleon -- The Nation -- A Nation once again -- Ireland today -- Dublin -- Round the south -- By the banks of the Shannon -- Up North ; small mark on page 114, else G. Book. …

Condizione: Very Good. 1945. Hardback. In cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Presentation label pasted to ffep. Internally lightly toned, spotting to edges, however text is crisp and clear and remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good hardback copy. xiv, 865pp. The text of this edition is based on the translation of Margaret Hunt (1944). It has been thoroughly revised, corrected and completed by James Stern. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Folkloristic commentary by Joseph Campbell. 212 illustrations by Josef Scharl. Josef Scharl (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. EX-LIBRARY. STAMPED "SOLD". HARDBACK IN JACKET. Clean & tight. BROWNED PAGES. Jacket is complete. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref OF888.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. The Poems of Samuel Ferguson. An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Authors - Number Two. Edited with an introduction by Padraic Colum. Includes index of first lines. Small thin volume. Printed in Ireland. Bound in original black cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine, in publisher's unclipped printed dustjacket. Slight shelfwear to dustjacket, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 99pp. Uncommon. SB-81.…

Flexible cloth. (1921) A very Good copy. 12mo. 212 pp. Bound in flexible 9or "limp") cloth binding, with the BL monogram in gilt on the front panel. Moderate edge wear, mostly at the spine's crown. Previous owner's name. Part of the publisher's series, The Modern Library (soon to be its own imprint). This title is number 34 in the series.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition thus. Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972). The plays are The Land, Thomas Muskerry, and The Fiddler's House. No.3 in An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Writers. A light book. Postage at reduced rate.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN . Bound in semi flexible green cloth with gold gilt lettering and design. . No date listed but looks to be around 1930s -1940s vintage. Book is a tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Dustjacket is in about Good condition with some chips and creasing around its edges. Dustjacket is white with green borders, with 95 cent cover price and with Amok by Stefan Zweig being the last title listed on the book list printed on the backside of the dustjacket. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. Photos on request. No Signature.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Xviii, 212 Pp. Green Leatherette, Firs Binding Toledano 1A, With No Publisher Indicated On Spine, "Modern Library / Bl" On Cover, Boni And Liveright Title Page, Marbled Endpapers. Wear, Spine Gilt Weak, Two Line Quotation In Ink.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition thus. With a (new?) preface by the author, dated 1963. Slim 16mo. 188pp. Close to fine in black cloth gilt and moderately worn, very good dust jacket. The plays are *The Land*, *The Fiddler's House*, and *Thomas Muskerry*. Issued as Number Three in the An Chomhairle Ealaíon Series of Irish Authors.…

Condizione: Very Good. New edition. Hardback. Very good indeed in near very good indeed, slightly faded and slightly edge-nicked, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Hardcover. A fine book in a near fine clipped jacket. Publisher top edge stain. A little rubbing to spine ends. A little missing to jacket. Else, great. Modern Library 124. 12mo. Pp. viii, 7-288 followed by six pages of publisher's titles.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good hardback copy. xiv, 865pp. The text of this edition is based on the translation of Margaret Hunt (1944). It has been thoroughly revised, corrected and completed by James Stern. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Folkloristic commentary by Joseph Campbell. 212 illustrations by Josef Scharl. Josef Scharl (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. BOOK: Only a Few Navy Blue Leatherettes, this is one of them; Gold Leaping Runner on front; Gold Title and Author's name on spine; Spine #4; Bernhard Endpapers, one corner missing. SURVIVING First Edition DJ (1927-28): Only three parts are left; 95 cents on front inside flap; my research shows titles printed on inside pieces are up to 1927-28 only. DUBLINERS is Collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages: (9), 10, (1). Frontispiece. 205x140mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt, with dust jacket. This is the Irish architectural historian, writer and poet Maurice Craig's copy, with his book plate and neat dated signature on the front end-papers. It contains annotations by him in pencil to a number of poems and a loose insert contemporary typed copy of Austin Clarke's poem 'Celebrations', dated 1941. The text of this version of 'Celebrations' differs significantly from that published in the edition of Clarke's 'Selected Poems' published by The Lilliput Press in 1991. Also included in this copy is a signed note from the literary critic Maurice Harmon to Maurice Craig, inviting him to the Memorial Tribute to Austin Clarke to be held at the Black Church, St. Mary's Place, Dublin on April 7, 1974. Some dusting and toning to spine of dust jacket, otherwise a near fine association copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1941, 1st Edition THUS , EARLY ISSUE REPRINT , VG/VG, ,RED & BLACK ILLUSTRATED DJ, 410 pages. red SALMON EMBOSSED cloth boards GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR LITE WEAR. Extremities tiny chipswear to DJ, BACK DJ MENTIONS OVER 970 VOLS. END WITH ZOLA, 527 PGS + ADS, Spine dJ small stain & wear, Mild tanning to pages throughout with occasional thumb marking present. Light marking to text block edges. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking to surfaces and crushing at spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and tanning to spine with small area of loss at top.…