A Soul for Sale
by Kavanagh, Patrick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1947. Paddy Kavanagh (1904-1967) may be Ireland's second-greatest poet of the Twentieth Century, following of course William Butler Yeats. This is a Near Fine copy of his second collection, containing perhaps his best-known work, "The Great Hunger." [First published in 1942 in "Horizon" magazine, There are eighteen others within.] Green cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; v, 55 pages. Mild bumps to the corners, else a Fine copy. Lacking the dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005519
- Title
- A Soul for Sale
- Author
- Kavanagh, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
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.
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Bumps
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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