The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bacht): A bad story about the hard life
by Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien) [pseud. Brian O'Nolan]; Patrick C. Power [trans.]; Ralph Steadman [illus.]
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0246106123
- ISBN 13
- 9780246106124
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, [1973]. First English-Language Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in tan pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (£2.75), map endpapers; 128pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, jacket spine panel a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound.
Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941, overlooked by the English publishing market for more than two decades.
Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941, overlooked by the English publishing market for more than two decades.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27579
- Title
- The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bacht): A bad story about the hard life
- Author
- Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O'Brien) [pseud. Brian O'Nolan]; Patrick C. Power [trans.]; Ralph Steadman [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0246106123
- ISBN 13
- 9780246106124
- Publisher
- Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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