The Bright Temptation: A Romance
by Clarke, Austin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The Irish poet's first novel, a story set in medieval Ireland, in the era of the Vikings. The book was banned in Ireland under the Censorship of Literature Act and was not published there until 1965 (per Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
313 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published" on the copyright page). A very good copy in a completely spine-faded fugitive green dust jacket. The ink fades away anywhere it is exposed to light. This is a review copy with the publisher's slip, partially completed by hand, laid in. This copy also belonged to the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning Texas writer Larry McMurtry, with his distinctive stirrup bookplate on the front pastedown. Very scarce in a dust jacket.
313 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published" on the copyright page). A very good copy in a completely spine-faded fugitive green dust jacket. The ink fades away anywhere it is exposed to light. This is a review copy with the publisher's slip, partially completed by hand, laid in. This copy also belonged to the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning Texas writer Larry McMurtry, with his distinctive stirrup bookplate on the front pastedown. Very scarce in a dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351131
- Title
- The Bright Temptation: A Romance
- Author
- Clarke, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- list106
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION; Ireland;
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