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The Islandman
by Crohan, Tomas O
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 303pp., illustrated with photographic images. Translated from the Irish, with an introduction by Robin Flower. The author was born in 1856. He had lived all his life on the Great Blasket, one of a storm swept cluster of islands that lie a few miles off the wild Kerry coast of Western Ireland. He tells the way of life that has changed but little in his lifetime but that may soon disappear. He lived a very hard life, with the shadow of starvation and of famine averted on the island by the wrack of passing ships. This is a full record of a full life, from the earliest remembered events and impressions of childhood down to a ripe old age told very simply yet with a world of color, sympathy, tenderness, and humor. Bound in light green cloth which has faded much like that of Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa published by Scribner's the same year. spine lettered in gilt over black, endpapers are maps, very minor wear to head, in unclipped photo illustrated dust jacket lettered in black and white spine lettering in black, chipping to spine ends with spots of rubbing, corners chipped. A very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023223
- Title
- The Islandman
- Author
- Crohan, Tomas O
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Ireland Irish
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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