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Castle Daly. The Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago
by Keary, Annie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. This novel of the Irish Famine was first published in 1875 by the Anglo-Irish writer Anna Maria Keary (1825-1879). An uncommon title. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of a the fifth printing of the "New Edition" of 1889. Red c;loth binding, with ruling in black on the front cover, black lettering on the spine. Clean text; 576 pages. Corners are bumped, the spine has faded to orange, and it is shaken due to a cracked front hinge. Please note the condition issue; Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of some restoration or repair. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004067
- Title
- Castle Daly. The Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago
- Author
- Keary, Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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