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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First pocket edition without jacket on red cloth + inscrition on inside cover page will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

New edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: [6], 280, 2p., 8 plates; 16.5cm. Subjects: Tales, Irish. Ireland Tales. Ireland in literature. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 8 pages ; 92 mm ; OCLC 41202775 ; small booklet with pictorial printed covers in green paper ; Miniature book advertising "Piso's Cure for Consumption" and "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh". Testimonials for advertised remedies dated 1885 interspersed throughout text ; foxing ; exceedingly rare advertising item ; testimonials from W. M. Pryor, Iowa City, IA -- Lillie N. Smith, Peru, Mass -- J. H. Carleton, Union Center, Ill. -- R. N. Baker, Fort Stockton, Texas -- Mrs. T. S. Heck, Long Pine, Neb. -- L. L. Whipple, druggist, Kintner, Mich. -- Mrs. Cora Barber, Princeton, NJ -- Wm. O. Outten, Maysville, Ky -- Sold by Chas. E. Swift, Ashtebula, O[hio]; small tear and crease to back cover, else VG; Rare. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. 2nd Edition. 16mo. Ex reading room library copy. worn extrems. Tears to backstrip Tear to front board leading edge.Owners name to ffep.Tanning to edges of frontis. Foxing. Book.

hardcover no dustjacket. Zustand: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 533 pages; good hardcover no dustjacket; tanning edges; faint stain to edges; spine slanting; scuff to face board; tips bumped with slight fray; stain back back inside; spine heal fray and slight fade; spine head slight fray; clean pages; prompt shipping wtih tracking.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Kirkwood (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce anthology of charming short stories about the Irish and life in Ireland, with illustrated plates. A collection of charming short stories about quaint life in the Irish countryside.The first edition of this work.Written by William Carleton (contributed five short stories), Samuel Lover (contributed three short stories), and Mrs Anna Maria Hall (contributed two short stories).These stories are based off of Mrs Hall's childhood in county Wexford, and offer a colourful depiction of Irish life during the early nineteenth century.Containing an engraved frontispiece and a further five engraved plates by Kirkwood, collated and complete.A very scarce work. In full contemporary cloth binding. Externally, sound, with fading to the cloth on the spine and extremities. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, binding is slightly tender. Spotting and age-toning to the plates, and light scattered spots to the pages and a bit of age-toning to the pages, not affecting readability. Very Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

FIRST EDITION. 6 illus. by Kirkwood. Original green vertical-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt: 'IRELAND AND THE IRISH'. (vi), (300). Not in Sadleir or Wolff; Loeber H139. An anthology of stories, edited by Philip Dixon Hardy, first published in the National Magazine. Hardy explains in the preface that he had purchased the copyright of the tales which 'the reader will find rather more faithful to nature than the garb in which one or two of them were afterwards made to appear under the idea of 'polishing so as to suit the public taste'. Five stories by Carleton, three by Lover and two by Mrs. Hall.

16x10. 288 pgs. (N10357).