THE PROMISE OF LIGHT
by Watkins, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679419748
- ISBN 13
- 9780679419747
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Random House,, (1992). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 269 pp
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80732
- Title
- THE PROMISE OF LIGHT
- Author
- Watkins, Paul
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679419748
- ISBN 13
- 9780679419747
- Publisher
- Random House,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1992)
- Keywords
- black and tans,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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