Search Results: kansas irish by charles b driscoll

Art and Educational, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. First Edition Thus. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Notable denting to board edges. Book has forward lean.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. First Edition, Third Printing . Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 359 pages. Light use and wear, though overall a tight and clean copy.

New York: The MacMillan Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1943. Third Printing. Hardcover. Book has bumped edges, top fore corner of the back cover is rubbed through, Average wear and staining otherwise. Block and inside paste down pages have toning. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages .

Wichita, KS: Rowfant Press , 2011 Rowfant Press, Wichita, KS. 2011. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition by Rowfant. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 300 pp 8vo. The author was a first generation Irish who writes of his family and his upbringing on a farmstead at the Arkansas River and South Hydraulic Street in Wichita Kansas where he was born in 1885. His father, Florence or Big Flurry, was from Ireland, married a girl from New York and moved to Wichita to become a farmer, a profession he was not good at. The author tells of family life, his upbringing, the problems of being Irish and Catholic in Kansas, and of a multitude of family problems both farming and marital. The author went on to graduate from Friends University, was the editor of the Wichita Eagle in 1912, and later moved to New York where he was a successful journalist and columnist. A clean… Read More

Macmillan, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Former owner's name on front page. Pages are clean and intact.

NY: Macmillan. 1943. vg-. Hardcover. Signed by Author SIGNED / INSCRIBED "For Johnny Jones- Hoping he doesn't bite as many people as his namesake who lives in my home." by the author on front free endpage; 1st ed. / 2nd ptg; 359pp; text unmarked, hinges darkened; light wear to edges of red cloth cover .

New York,: Macmillan Company, 1943. Stated First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 359 pp. 'Kansas Irish' is the first in Driscoll's trilogy of the immigrant experience: homesteading and growing up on a farm in Kansas. Discoloration along gutters of spine mar an otherwise near fine copy. Dust jacket spine faded, with frayed edges, inside front flap corners clipped but publisher's price of $2.50 remains.

New York: Macmillan, 1943. stated 1st . hard. Very Good+/Good+. 15800 shelf. Red cloth. Review slip affixed FEP. No names, clean text. Irish family in 19th-century Kansas. Syd Browne dj art. Good+ dust jacket w/ old tape repair. Solid. 359 pgs

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.