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Published by Longmans, London, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1920
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, illustrations by E. OE. Somerville, original decorated blue cloth. First edition. Collection of sketches and stories, some set in Ireland, mostly nonfiction, ranging from the very short to a 100-page article on Denmark. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, some scuffing to cloth at bottom edge of front panel, spine panel a bit sunned, hairline crack along inner front hinge, still a tight, very good copy. (#113142).
Published by Longmans, London, New York and Bombay, 1903
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-274 [275-280: ads], illustrations by E. OE. Somerville, original pictorial gray cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. First edition. Eleven short stories of a comic variety, set in southwestern Cork. At least one of the stories has an element of the supernatural. "A Nineteenth-Century Miracle" concerns an act of white magic performed by an old blind man who can heal wounds with a spell -- Kane the Blood-Healer. "Sketches of fox-hunting, horse-dealing, racing, trials for assault between neighbors, petty boycotting, rural larking, full of sprightly and rollicking humour . The peasantry are drawn in caricature ." - Brown, Ireland in Fiction 1528. Some mild foxing to text block, mostly preliminaries and fore-edge, else a bright, tight, very good copy. (#113143).
Published by Longmans, London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 1915
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, eight inserted plates with illustrations by E. OE. Somerville, original green cloth. First edition. Third book in the authors' popular "Irish R. M." series. Eleven comic stories about life in Ireland. Brown, Ireland in Fiction 1531. Tiny stain at upper edge of front cover, free endpapers tanned, else a fine copy. (#113144).
Published by Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, Westminster, 1902
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good (+). First Edition. 47pp /illustrated (with engraved text vignettes, and eight beautiful full-page color plates by Somerville, depicting sporting scenes). Loose with occasional foxing, else clean. Oblong folio. Some rubbing and "bleached" spots on covers; pages a little loose with some foxing. Publisher's binding of grey cloth; illustration and lettering Binding cover faded and generally in poor shape.
Publication Date: 1911
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. 8vo., original decorated tan cloth, lettered in gilt and black. London, Longmans Green & Co. Inscribed by the author on the title page: ?E OE Somerville, October 1936? Loosely inserted is a compliments slip from the author with his holograph greeting. An excellent copy.