REMINISCENCES, IN TWO VOLUMES
by JUSTIN MCCARTHY
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1899 VERY NICE LOOKING SET OF DARK GREEN COVER BOOKS, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, OWNERS SIGNATURE 1899 ONLY MARKING INSIDE BOTH BOOKS. Signed by author under frontispiece. M'Carthy, Justin, 1830-1912, Irish historian, politician, and novelist. After a long career in journalism, he entered the British Parliament in 1879, advocating home rule for Ireland. He was at first a supporter of, then head of the opposition to, Charles Parnell. A NICE PHOTO OF MCCARTHY IS THE FRONTISPIECE. THESE TWO VOLUMES ARE REMINISCENCES, RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT PEOPLE WHOM MCCARTHY CAME IN CONTACT WITH. CHAPTERS SUCH AS "FIRST SIGHT OF LONDON, THE PRINCES OF LITERATURE, WALT WHITMAN, SOLDIERS OF WAR, BRIGHAM YOUNG, GEORGE ELIOT, LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, PRINCE NAPOLEON, FROUDE, SOME MEMORIES OF STAGE AND IRISH MEMBERS." MANY OTHER CHAPTERS. GREAT LOOK AT EUROPE AND THE WORLD. BOOK ONE HAS 387 PAGES AND TWO HAS 424 PAGES WITH INDEX. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000702
- Title
- REMINISCENCES, IN TWO VOLUMES
- Author
- JUSTIN MCCARTHY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American
- Publisher
- HARPER & BROTHERS
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- IRISH, JUSTIN MCCARTHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; EDUCATION; Autobiography and Biography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Spine
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