Recollections
by O'Brien, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & London: Macmillan and Co LTD, 1905. William O'Brien (1852-1928), an Irish nationalist, land reformer, journalist, and social revolutionary, a friend of Parnell, whose imprisonment in 1881 also led to a long career as a Member of Parliament. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with black lettering on the spine. Clean text; 518 pages, indexed; one page additional, publisher's advert in rear. Spine has darkened. Rubbed at margins. In basically solund condityion, but feels a bit shaken. An important source for Irish politics of the era. . First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002010
- Title
- Recollections
- Author
- O'Brien, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co LTD
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1905
- 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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...