Preface by shane leslie (4 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. 12mo, 7 1/2? tall, 355 pages + notes, gilt on red spine titles, brown cloth. A very good, clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear, binding tight, thin paper cream white. In a good +, moderately dust jacket with chipping at the spine and flap fold edges top and bottom and a short edge tear.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Condizione: FINE. Reprint. Originally published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine, and in book form in 1869, this is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels, here reissued in a uniform format. This deals with "both British parliamentary politics of the 1860s, including voting reform (secret ballot and eliminating rotten boroughs and Irish tenant-right) and Finn's romances with women of fortune, which would secure his financial future." Preface by Sir Shane Leslie, illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson . Notes and a "who's who." 367 pp. Fine in brown cloth in a very good dust jacket (chip to top edge, some other edgewear).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Green cloth covers with blue lettering on spine. The covers are a bit soiled and scuffed and the spine is slightly cocked. The paper is of cheaper quality - the book appears to have been privately printed; there's no publisher given. There's browning and a bit of discoloration to the end pages and the page edges but the binding is tight. Off-white dust jacket with unidentified portrait on front cover and portrait of Maher on front flap with a review of the book. The dust jacket is a bit soiled and worn. ; First published in Autumn 1954, this reprint was done in Spring 1955. Slievenamon is the famous mountain in County Tipperary, rich in mythology, history and folklore. Charles Kickham romantized the mountain in song and in his book, "Knocknagow." The review on the dust jacket flap states that Kickham depicts the Knocknagow of fiction but Maher in his anthology depicts the Slievenamon of history. This is an anthology of Irish writers' views of the area's local history folklore, its place in national history and in Gaelic lore and in song ; Black and white photos ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi, 301 p. pages. …