Publisher: Del Rey Date of Publication: 1961 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the stated Signet First Edition from November 1961. Both the cover and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum.
Publisher: Del Rey Date of Publication: 1961 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the stated Signet First Edition from November 1961. Both the cover and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum.
First edition, second impression, 1925. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine cocked. Spine ends pushed and rubbed; top board's forecorners a bit exposed. Interior is unmarked. Small, plain white remnant of label on front pastedown, else interior is generally clean. pp. 272. Liam O'Flaherty's third novel, a tense drama set in Dublin in the early 1920s during the milieu of the Irish Civil War. It won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was adapted into film in 1935. The film, directed and produced by John Ford, earned four Academy Awards.
O'Flaherty's fourth published novel, and perhaps his most famous, due to the movie that gave Victor McLaglen his Oscar. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition, lacking the dustwrapper. Green cloth binding, ruled, with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 272 pages. The dustwrapper is a facsimile. Please note a condition issue: the cover has split along the edges of the spine and the cloth has come loose. Due to this, Quercus must list this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration.
First edition, second impression, 1925. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine cocked. Spine ends pushed and rubbed; top board's forecorners a bit exposed. Interior is unmarked. Small, plain white remnant of label on front pastedown, else interior is generally clean. pp. 272. Liam O'Flaherty's third novel, a tense drama set in Dublin in the early 1920s during the milieu of the Irish Civil War. It won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was adapted into film in 1935. The film, directed and produced by John Ford, earned four Academy Awards.
O'Flaherty's fourth published novel, and perhaps his most famous, due to the movie that gave Victor McLaglen his Oscar. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition, lacking the dustwrapper. Green cloth binding, ruled, with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 272 pages. The dustwrapper is a facsimile. Please note a condition issue: the cover has split along the edges of the spine and the cloth has come loose. Due to this, Quercus must list this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration.
First edition of this classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, which was adapted numerous times, most famously by John Ford for RKO Pictures in 1935. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. Set in 1920s Dublin in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the novel centers on "Gypo" Nolan. Having disclosed the whereabouts of his friend Frankie McPhillip to the police for a reward, Gypo finds himself hunted by his revolutionary comrades for this betrayal. It received the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
First edition of this classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, which was adapted numerous times, most famously by John Ford for RKO Pictures in 1935. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. Set in 1920s Dublin in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the novel centers on "Gypo" Nolan. Having disclosed the whereabouts of his friend Frankie McPhillip to the police for a reward, Gypo finds himself hunted by his revolutionary comrades for this betrayal. It received the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
272 pages, 8vo, olive-green cloth, dust wrapper. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. First Edition. A near fine copy (edges foxed; bookplate) in a brilliant dust wrapper. Presentation copy, Dec. 5th, 1925 "To J.R. Highton Esq. with the compliments of Liam O'Flaherty." A Haycroft-Queen cornerstone, the basis for a film, and a difficult book to find in any condition.
272 pages, 8vo, olive-green cloth, dust wrapper. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. First Edition. A near fine copy (edges foxed; bookplate) in a brilliant dust wrapper. Presentation copy, Dec. 5th, 1925 "To J.R. Highton Esq. with the compliments of Liam O'Flaherty." A Haycroft-Queen cornerstone, the basis for a film, and a difficult book to find in any condition.
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