QPB Book of Irish Literature
by Kiernan, Kathy (Editor)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 096579749X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965797498
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York USA: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1999. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Good Condition. A tremendous lot of exciting reading from Irish writers who write with a passion and genius for words. Many of the pieces involve great Irish writers commenting on their fellow great Irish writers: MacNeice on Joyce, Beckett on Joyce, Flann O'Brien on Joyce, Shaw on Oscar Wilde, Austin Clarke on Jonathan Swift, and Thomas D'Arcy McGee on Thomas Moore. There are jail memoirs spanning 100 years with John Mitchel's Jail Journal, Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy. And there is science fiction and horror as well as Irish folktales. Cover is clean with crease down the front, near the fore edge side. No soilng, trace wear to extremities. First page wrinkled on upper edge, otherwise internals are quite clean and free from any markings, noi creases. Glued binding is tight and solid. Great Reading! 943 pages with Biographical Notes. 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.75 inches. Quality Paperback Book Club, New York, 1999.
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Details
- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 021122
- Title
- QPB Book of Irish Literature
- Author
- Kiernan, Kathy (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 096579749X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965797498
- Publisher
- Quality Paperback Book Club
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- LITERATURE IRISH IRELAND FOLK SONGS
- X weight
- 0 oz
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