The Martins of Cro' Martin
by Lever, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Foster, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Chapman & Hall, 1856. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Chapman and Hall; London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition book, following publication in monthly serial parts also including List of Books published by Chapman and Hall. Included are forty plates (including frontispiece and vignette title) by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Book depicts the fall of a Connemara estate in the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Great Famine (1845-1849). Even as he asserts that the fall of the landed gentry brings disastrous upheaval to a traditional society, Lever insists on the inevitability of such collapse. Levers reforming Anglo-Irish heroine Mary Martin is doomed to defeat and early death, unable to stem the costs of her absentee families arrogant isolation from their tenants and neglect of their responsibilities as landlords. A Very Good, three quarter leather binding with green buckram boards, gilt lettering and ornate design on spine, binding sturdy and intact, TEG with some blemishes, deckle fore-edge and bottom text block edge, sunned leather spine, some age toning to pages, marbled pastedowns and endpapers with discoloration to endpaper margins, some rubbing along board edges, without Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 625pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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- Bookseller
- Lavendier Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1041199
- Title
- The Martins of Cro' Martin
- Author
- Lever, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
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Foster, Rhode Island
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
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- Vignette
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...