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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding.

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.

Clean, unmarked copy!

First Superior printing, April 1945 so stated. Superioe Reprint #M650. Vintage Paperback. Reading crease, light wear and creasing, still very bright; typical wartime paper tanning. A tale of temptation, betrayal, and reprisal, this powerful novel is set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. It tells of Gypo Nolan, who informs on a wanted comrade. The source of the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford. Selected for The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction.

12mo. 214 pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers, showing hand reaching for money, w/ 25¢ price, w/ d.j. new Bantam cover art showing hand loading revolver (slight lifting to glassine on couple spots of spine), NF/NF copy, w/ neat ownership label of Hiro Wakabayashi (1930-2017), Japanese-American and Korean War veteran on front flap. First Bantam edition, No. 150, of this very rare murder mystery first issued by Superior, and then re-issued by Bantam with new cover art on a thick colour-illustrated dustjacket. This Irish suspense novel is set in 1920s Dublin after the Irish Civil War, and won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition Thus, a wartime reprint of the classic IRA story that was made into a fine movie. The bright orange cloth binding with black and silver printing, usually seen faded, is still quite fresh. Wartime paper is starting to tan, but still quite supple. A couple of small dings to some pages on the fore-edge. The striking dustjacket, which features Victor McLaglen in his Academy Award role, is still very bright on the panels, with a bit of fade on the spine. Several tears and chips along the edges. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.

This is a Very Good copy of a wartime edition of O'Flaherty's famous novel of the Irish Republican Army. Second printing of the First Edition Thus. Light wear and creasing, still very bright; typical wartime paper tanning, but not brittle. Increasingly uncommon, and difficult to find in nice condition. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.