schofield william g b 1909 (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. (21 cm.) viii[5]4-309p. Index. Rear panel of dust jacket has a black and white photo of the author. Brown cloth with black letters on the spine. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, letters bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket missing a couple of chips, is lightly soiled and price-clipped, else very good. This is the story of John Boyle O'Reilly [1844-1890] who was a fighting poet-journalist who suffered for liberty in his native Ireland and bought to America a love of freedom and justice for the oppressed of every race. As a Fenian spy in the British army, he was seized and sentenced to the worst of England's prisons, the dread Dartmoor. After he came to America, he settled in Boston where he became editor of the PILOT nd devoted his talents as write and orator to the fiery defense of the rights of the Negro, the American Indian, the Jew, and to the cause of Irish independence. [from the dust jacket].