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  • Publisher: Little Brown & Co., Boston
  • Date published: 1957
  • Format: Hardcover
Seven essays on novelists including Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Faulkener, Hemingway, Bowen, Woolf and Joyce. 204pp. Bright copy with a sound binding. An old newspaper review of the book pasted to ffep. No wear to cloth. Dustjacket has a little rubbing and a little edge wear. Weight, 420g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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  • Publisher: Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co.
  • Date published: 1957
  • Format: Hardcover
Small octavo. Authors considered are Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Condition: corners lightly bumped; soiling to binding; else good. Pages: xliii, 204.
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  • Publisher: EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, LONDON
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Hardcover
THE VANISHING HERO, STUDIES IN NOVELISTS OF THE TWENTIES BY SEAN O'FAOLAIN. 1ST EDITION HARDBACK, PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME ON FFEP. 222 PAGES.
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  • Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Hardcover
This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped.The book has NO previous ownership names present.The book has a firm binding with no loose leaves.The d/j comes well protected in a brodart cover sleeve,8vo 222pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall
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  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literary criticism, literature, ireland, irish)
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  • Publisher: Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Format: Hardcover
1957 1st ed. 204pp. beige & black cloth 8vo: Good in a generally Good dj in Brodart poly cover [shelf rubbing along bottom edges & corners; some age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] Essays on the work of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner by the prolific Irish writer O'Faolain (1900-91).
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Auldfarran Books, IOBA (U.S.A.)
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First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literary criticism, literature, ireland, irish)
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  • Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
  • Date published: 1957
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine and some soiling at the extremities.
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  • Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Hardcover
222pp. 8vo. Original cloth in fine state, dustwrapper slightly less so. First edition. Novelists studied: Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Faulkner, Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce.
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  • Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Hardcover
Based on a series of lectures delivered at Princeton University in Spring, 1953. The chapters are on Waugh and Huxley ("I do not think, therefore I am"); Graham Greene ("I suffer, therefore I am"); William Faulkner ("More genius than talent"); Ernest Hemingway ("Man without memories"); Elizabeth Bowen ("Romance does not pay" - any irony here as she and O'Faolain were lovers?); Virginia Woolf and James Joyce ("Narcissa and Lucifer").
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LeeMan Books (Ireland)
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  • Publisher: Little, Brown
  • Date published: 1957
  • Format: Hardcover
Jacket faded at spine.
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Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA (U.S.A.)
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First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literary criticism, literature, ireland, irish)
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Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB (USA)
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1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 222pp. First edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
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1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 222pp. First edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
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