The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss.
by O'BRIEN, Edna
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hutchinson [then Cape], 1960, 1962 & 1964. . First editions, first impressions; 3 vols, 8vo; publisher's black, pink and blue boards respectively, titles to spines, with the pictorial dust jackets. I: spine just a touch rolled but a lovely copy in the lightly frayed dust jacket with a couple of pieces of internal support; the other two titles are gorgeous in the dust jackets.
O'Brien's first three novels form a trilogy and a testimony to life for women in southern Ireland in the middle of the twentieth century. It established its author as the major novelist she continued to be for the five decades - and counting! Sets in this condition are not common.
O'Brien's first three novels form a trilogy and a testimony to life for women in southern Ireland in the middle of the twentieth century. It established its author as the major novelist she continued to be for the five decades - and counting! Sets in this condition are not common.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106160
- Title
- The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss.
- Author
- O'BRIEN, Edna
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hutchinson [then Cape], 1960, 1962 & 1964.
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- Spine
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- Rolled
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