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Going Native (Signed)
by Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957)
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Jacket has minor
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Jacket has minor extremity rubs.. Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by William Butler Yeats to leave Ireland and go native among the queer English. Signed by Gogarty on front free endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 738
- Title
- Going Native (Signed)
- Author
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Jacket has minor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- autographed books, signed books, irish writers, first editions, modern firsts, james joyce
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature; Biography & Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Annapolis, Maryland
About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
We buy and sell quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Americana, Military and Naval History, and Nautical material. But we have many good books in a variety of subjects. We are located in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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