The Island of Horses
by Dillon, Eilis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/New
- ISBN 10
- 1590171020
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171028
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as well as fiction for adults, including the best-selling historical novel Across the Bitter Sea , about the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With few exceptions, her young people’s books are set in the west of Ireland, in small communities struggling to make a living on the islands and along the Atlantic coast. As the critic Declan Kiberd wrote in Dillon’s obituary: “What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children’s literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave . That interest in history was a natural expression of her curiosity of mind, and of her family inheritance."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- np0193
- Title
- The Island of Horses
- Author
- Dillon, Eilis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 1590171020
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171028
- Publisher
- New York Review Children's Collection
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Children's Books, Adventure, mystery, Fiction, Ireland, Horses
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...