THE HOUSE OF GOLD by O'Flaherty, Liam - 1929

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First American edition. No jacket. A few light spots on rear board. 1929 Hard Cover. 348 pp. The first novel to be banned in Ireland, The House of Gold is a rare perspective on the Irish at a major turning point in their history. The House of Gold in a turbulent post-Civil War town in the West of Ireland where the old ascendancy has been replaced by a corrupt native elite headed by the avaricious Ramon Mor Costello and his clerical accomplices. His exotically beautiful wife is the catalyst for a series of violent events that lead to an unexpected climax. Greed, priestly lusts, sexual frustration, alcoholism, and murder are themes woven together in this compelling tale by Liam O'Flaherty, one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.

Cape, 1929. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1929 hardcover. NO DJ. MAJOR shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. Magic marker scribble inside cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition. 8vo, orange cloth, dustjacket. VG text (no owner's marks, minor wear) in price-clipped dj with some wear/short tears to extremities. Spotting/sunning to spine of dj but front panel is very bright and attractive. Nice copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, MCMXXIX. First Edition. Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 352 pp. Very Good, with neat former-owner bookplate; in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with darkened spine & edges and edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The main scheme of this book is to give a picture of the Irish countryside consequent on the revolution and the overthrow of the feudal land-owning system and to picture, by not stressing too much the local characteristics of this change, the passage from a feudal system to the growth of democracy and middle-class life. The peculiarly Irish characteristic of this change is typified in the hero Ramon Mor Costello (who has his replica on a smaller scale in the Russian kulaks who are rising from the Bolshevik revolution). He is a kind of Irish Shylock, and the plot of the story is the struggle of the rising middle-class to rid themselves of this incubus. He is the personification of the peasant grasping for power and he is… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Orange cloth, gilt printing to the spine, 352 pages. Previous owner signed the front pastedown, otherwise this is a nice copy. Very Good in a slightly scuffed and toned dust jacket. .

Jonathan Cape, London, 1929. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. spine of DJ darkened, slight chipping of head/heel of DJ; bookplate of former owner

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 352 pp. Beige endpapers, with previous owner's name on ffep. Orange cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, a few small stains. No DJ. VG. First British Edition.

London:: Jonathan Cape,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. B0006E6ZA4 . A novel. First British edition. New York literary agent's label on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor wear and age darkening along the edges) dust jacket.; 352 pages .