New York: P..M. Haverty, 1868. Hardcover. Good. . Bound in original green beveled cloth boards with gold lettering to spine and gold decoration to front and rear board ( shield with harp ) - 370 pages. - some wear and a bit of rubbing to edges of cloth. - some mild writing, in pencil to ffep. - Portrait frontis with tissue guard. - small closed tear to fore-edge of title page. - mild toning and a bit of foxing to some pages ( mostly around end papers and frontis ) - Otherwise, quite clean and unmarked. Binding is solid. Overall, a Good+ Copy. [ John Mitchel, an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Mtchel became a leading Member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation. He also became a public voice for the Southern American viewpoint in the United States in the 1850s and 1860s before ending up elected to the British House of Commons, only to be disqualifien. His Jail Journal is one of Irish nationalism's most famous texts]

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Bookseller: Schwabe Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0003465194
Title: Jail Journal; or, Five Years in British Prisons.
Author: John Mitchel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: New York: P..M. Haverty
Date Published: 1868
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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.