The Phoenix Flame by Ryan - 1937

A. Barker, limited, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1937. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to half-title page. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Book has pronounced backwards lean. Boards are slightly bowed.

London: Arthur Barker, 1937 Hardback: green cloth decorated in gilt, marbled end-papers, title-page printed in black & red; Slight lean to book, some marks and dirtying to covers, Boots Circulating Library stickers to top board and rear pastedown (no other library markings),, g

Arthur Barker Ltd, 1937 Book. Good. Hardcover. The spine and boards are rubbed, bumped and marked. Light foxing to the end papers. Good.

London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1937. The Irish historian Desmond Ryan (1893-1964) was a member of the Republican Brotherhood and fought at the GPO during the Easter Uprising of 1916. Unhappy with the Civil War. he returned to an academic and journalistic life. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition [stated "First published...1937"]. A scarce title. Green cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 336 pages. Bibliography; indexed. ndexed. This copy has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED in Irish by Eamon De Valera (1882-1975) on the half-title page. Dated in 1938, De Valera was President of Ireland at that time. Hardly any wear evident; slight darkening at the margins. No dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.