Search Results: Ireland & the Irish from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York & London: The Macmillan Company/Collier Macmillan Limited, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, green & white titles & device, pictorial endpapers, xv, 458 pp, 8 ff b & w plates, notes, index. Yellow highlighting on about 50 pages, otherwise very good. DJ worn, torn & chipped (without loss of text or image); in Brodart archival cover. History of the Irish in the United States from the potato famine to President John F. Kennedy. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/G. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Mustard cloth, copper titles on spine & device on front board, green endpapers, xi, 286 pp, 8 ff b & w plates, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on (a red dot) on bottom edge, else fine. DJ rubbed in spots, covered with adhesive plastic. Taking a broad view of who qualifies as Irish, the author has collected stories of familiars, hermits & ascetics, witches, spendthrifts, scholars, murderers, and just plain nuts. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14 cm.

Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, top & bottom edges dyed black, xvii, 257, [2] pp, footnotes, end notes, index. Rather battered covers, but internally very good. According to the preface, "The barony of Erris occupies the north-west corner of the Co. Mayo. ... At two points in the barony I found Irish in full vigour as the vernacular [in 1936]..." Contents: phonetic analysis & texts (phonetic description of vowels, diphthongs & consonants; glides; nasalization; sandhi; elision; length in vowels; syllable division; stress; texts (observed phonetic transcription on left page faces standard Irish orthography on right)); historical development (vowels & diphthongs; consonants; interchanges of consonants; metathesis); grammatical supplement (initial mutation; nouns & adjectives; pronouns, prepositions, etc.; verbs). Shipping weight 2… Read More

New York, Evanston, San Francisco & London: Harper & Row, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full white cloth, gilt titles on spine & blind device on front board, olive green endpapers, xiii, 322 pp, 9 ff b & w plates including 1 fold-out, index. DJ worn & tattering about edges & spine ends. According to the DJ, "Fleeing from the great Irish potato famine in the 1840's, they found themselves virtually penniless in the slums of New York and Boston, where they were regarded ans an 'invasion' and a curse, forced to accept the humiliation of notices which said 'No Irish Need Apply,' and to find employment at tasks which even the emerging Blacks considered too degrading to perform. ... Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, we read of how the Irish, or at least some Irish, emerged--frequently in less than a generation's time--out of poverty into positions of both social and business… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, foil titles on front board, foil & pale green titles on spine, 336 pp, footnotes, index. Top edge sunned, else fine. DJ has slight edge wear and a crease to front flap; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "The author has had close and personal contacts with every facet of opinion, and these personal influences are most entertainingly and instructively woven into the history of his country, which shows without rancor and with much wit how that country has become divided into North and South, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Nationalist. ...his book is a picture both of the making of a nation and of what can unmake it." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1925 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter tan cloth, dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front board & spine, ix, 94 pp, 34 ff b & w plates. Cloth rubbed through to boards at corners, spine somewhat soiled. Reminiscences of Orpen's childhood and youth in prewar Dublin. Orpen is known mostly as a portrait artist and for his war paintings. The plates are mostly of Orpen's own paintings & sketches. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . G+/No dj. Illus. by the Author. 21½ X 16 cm.