Constance Markievicz (Cresset Library) by Sean O'Faolain - 1988-11

Cresset Library, 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Cressett Library an imprint of Century Hutchinson Ltd, London, 1987. First Edition. Softcover (Photographic). Good. Foreword to the 1967 edition, acknowledgements and index. Black-and-white photographic paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Countess Constance Markievicz, born of a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, was loved by the poor of Dublin was because she champion against the brutality and harshness of British rule. She became known as the Rebel or Red Countess and was the only uniformed woman officer in the Easter Rising of 1916. A national heroine in Ireland, she was also the first woman to be elected to parliament, though she never took her seat." – from the rear panel blurb. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Light tanning of the textblock edges and pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More