KING OF THE BEGGARS: A LIFE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, THE IRISH LIBERATOR, IN A STUDY OF THE RISE OF THE MODERN IRISH DEMOCRACY (1775-1847)
by O'Faolain, Sean
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, Inc, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 338 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Pictorial celery green spine with beige and red lettering. Dust jacket shows age toning to spine, slight soiling wear with chips to edges with tape mend inside jacket and price clipped front flap. Boards covered with the publisher's beige cloth stamped with green lettering. Mild foxing to spine and edges. Text block has head edge colored red and moderate age toning to the fore and tail edges with previous owner's name to front end paper. Frontispiece. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First American Edition. 1369610. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1369610
- Title
- KING OF THE BEGGARS: A LIFE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL, THE IRISH LIBERATOR, IN A STUDY OF THE RISE OF THE MODERN IRISH DEMOCRACY (1775-1847)
- Author
- O'Faolain, Sean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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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...
- Fair
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- Edges
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- Price Clipped
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.