Daniel O'Connell and the Story of Catholic Emancipation
by MacDonagh, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press Limited, 1929. MacDonagh (1912-1968), was a poet and a barrister, was a co-editor with Lennox Robinson, of "The Oxford Book of Irish Verse." His father had been executed by the British for his part in the Easter Uprising of 1916. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Not common. Green cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; 386 pages, indexed. Corners bumped; spine has faded to tan but all titling still bright; rubbing to the head and foot of the spine. Previous-owner signature on the FFEP; small Dublin bookseller label on the front paste-down. Although not the prettiest copy, a solid one.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004478
- Title
- Daniel O'Connell and the Story of Catholic Emancipation
- Author
- MacDonagh, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Talbot Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- Dublin & Cork
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish History & Politics;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...