The Parnell Movement. Being the History of the Irish Question from the Death of O'Connell to the Present Time
by O'Connor, T.P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929) sat as an MP from 1885 until his death. Here is an important work on 19th-century Irish history by one of its prominent participants. First published in 1890; this is a Very Good copy of a reprint (by a different publisher) from a year later. Green cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; heavily tanned due to cheap acidic paper stock. Frontis photograph of Parnell; xiv, 370 pages. Indexed. Bumped, but not badly, with rub to the margins. The spine is darkened and there are spots on the front cover. . Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006243
- Title
- The Parnell Movement. Being the History of the Irish Question from the Death of O'Connell to the Present Time
- Author
- O'Connor, T.P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish History & Politics;
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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.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...