eithne strong (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1961. Reprint. 69 pages. No dust jacket. Beige boards. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Zustand: Good. 1990. Hardback. Fil?ocht. 33pp. First edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Hand numbered (No. 44) and signed by the author in black ink on title page. 5-1/2" x 8-5/8", 63pp incl. front matter. Two signatures case bound in brown linen textured boards. Spine is blank. Slight wear at top and base of spine. A bit of shelf wear, rubbing to jacket. Binding is square and tight. Pages are age toned but except for noted inscription, clean and unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Good. . Paperback. Very good, clean copy. Minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. . Paperback. Very good, clean copy. Minor shelf wear. . . . .

Zustand: Good. 1990. Hardback. Filíocht. 33pp. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Edited by David Marcus. Preface by V.S. Pritchett. Introduction by David Marcus. 186pp. Pictorial wrappers. Rear wrap lightly tanned, covers with light creasing and mild edgewear, very good. Short stories, with contributions by Benedict Kiely, Patrick Boyle, Desmond Hogan, Eithne Strong, William Trevor and more.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition, American issue. Edited by David Marcus. Preface by V.S. Pritchett. Introduction by David Marcus. 186pp. Pictorial wrappers. Rear wrap lightly tanned, near fine with publisher's labels on rear cover. Short stories, with contributions by Benedict Kiely, Patrick Boyle, Desmond Hogan, Eithne Strong, William Trevor and more.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xxii, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780807083208, 9780807083253, 0807083208, 0807083259 ; OCLC 19886086 ; beige-yellow cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin -- Housekeeper's cut / Clare Boylan -- Midwife to the fairies / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- Granny / Bernadette Matthews -- The bride of Christ / Eithne Strong -- The wall-reader / Fiona Barr -- The day of the christening / Harriet O'Carroll -- Melancholy baby / Julia O'Faolain -- Pure invention / Anne Le Marquand Hartigan -- The intruders / Rita Kelly -- Naming the names / Anne Devlin -- Amnesty / Maeve Kelly -- A family picnic / Ita Daly -- Made in heaven / Maura Treacy -- Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien -- One word / Juanita Casey -- Park-going days / Evelyn Conlon -- Trio / Jennifer Johnston -- All fall down / Helen Lucy Burke -- A day in the dark / Elizabeth Bowen -- The foundress / Emma Cooke -- Shepherd's bush / Maeve Binchy -- Failing years / Mary Beckett -- A curse / Brenda Murphy -- Village without men / Margaret Barrington -- Checkpoint / Ann McKay -- The dove of peace / Leland Bardwell ; A collection of twenty-seven short stories by Irish women writers. The first collection of contemporary short stories by Irish women writers to appear in the United States. ; Louise A. DeSalvo (1942-2018) was an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who lived in New Jersey. ; Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy's Irish roots stem from County Offaly and Tipperary. Her parents emigrated from Ireland in the 1920s and she was born and raised in Manhattan, in Holy Name Parish. Her mother, Kathleen Kearney Walsh, was a founding member and president of the Offaly Association, the first woman director of the United Irish Counties Association, the founder of the Irish Hospital Cheer Committee, and the president and founder of the East Hampton Irish American Club.Her father, Patrick F. Walsh, was a famous bandleader in New York, a member of the Musicians' Union, the Hotel Workers' Union, and the Tipperary Association.As a child, Kathleen was immersed in Irish culture. She was a step dancer with the McNiff School and a competitor in the U.I.C Feis, dancing and singing. She marched and step-danced up the avenue in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. She spent time in Ireland as a child and teenager, later living in Dublin in the early 70s, working for Sinn Fein. Kathleen has worked as a writer, editor, teacher and social worker. She compiled and co-edited "Territories of the Voice/Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers" (Beacon Press). As a social worker, she has worked with homebound elders, teen mothers, and domestic violence survivors. ; Katherine Hogan teaches English and Latin at Pearl River High School in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the political works of Seamus Heaney. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

Zustand: Fine. 71 pp., paperback, fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Margins lightly toned, light bump at the foot of the spine, very near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 69pp. bound in cream polished boards (faux vellum) with red lettering to the spine. A very good unmarked copy with a lightly dusty top edge and without dustjacket, but looking good plus oiverall.

First edition. The Irish poet's first novel. 8vo plain black simulated cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine; 106 pages. Issued without a dust jacket. Abrasion from label removal to top edge front endpaper backed with archival tape but otherwise near fine. Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Illustrated with portraits of the authors by Housen. Brown cloth with gilt spine, applied cover label, and all edges sprinkled. Fine. Copy 24 of 100 copies of the first edition, numbered and Signed by Housen on a front blank. The poets are: Seamus Heaney, Desmond Egan, Eithne Strong, Philip Casey, Peter Fallon, Knute Skinner, Gearoid O'Brien, Maurice Scully, Matthew Sweeney, and James Liddy.