Edited by David Willis Mccullough (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition Fine. Single-volume collection includes works by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ruth Rendell, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, P.D. James, Ed McBain, Ellery Queen, Ray Bradbury, and more. 728 pages. Jacket in clear wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Book Club Edition. AN/AN, used hc, 348 pages. Black colored paper over boards with gilt text on spine; no defects. Color illustrated dust jacket with gold text on upper and spine; no chips or tears; no defects. Interior pages clean, unmarked, no highlighting. Binding is tight. Color plates and b&w drawings and photographs throughout. Photographs, Maps and Drawings (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Hardcover. Near Fine book Very Good jacket.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated Edition. black hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~7"x10"). large book. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. couple of tiny corner bends at bottom, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. a few scratches on the rear, not torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). full color illustrated endpapers. b&w frontis. illustration. xxxi+348p+ about the author. 2 glossy full page full color maps. 16 pages of glossy full color plates. b&w illustrations throughout. glossary. guide to pronunciation. sources. additional bibliography. index. ancient history. mythology. folklore. medieval history. history of ireland. ~ For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough has turned back to the earliest accounts of these struggles to present a rich tapestry of Ireland's fight for its identity. Beginning with the legends of ancient wars and warriors, moving through the time when history and storytelling were not separate crafts, into a time when history was as much propaganda as fact, Wars of the Irish Kings tells of tribal battles, foreign invasions, Viking raids, family feuds, wars between rival Irish kingdoms, and wars of rebellion against the English. The collection is peopled with familiar names: Cuchulain, Finn MacCool, Brian Boru, Mad King Sweeney, Strongbow, Edward and Robert Bruce, Queen Elizabeth and Lord Essex, Hugh O'Donnell, Hugh O'Neill. Battles formed the legends and history of the land: the Da Dannan meet the Fir Bolgs near Sligo, Brian Boru faces the Vikings at Clontarf in Dublin Bay, high king Rory O'Connor confronts the English invaders near Waterford, O'Briens battle the English (and other O'Briens) at Dysert O'Dea near Limerick, guns are carried for the first time in battle at Knockdoe near Galway, the Bruces from Scotland and their Irish allies overwhelm the English at Connor in Ulster, Hugh O'Neill ambushes General Bagenal near Armagh. The book ends near Cork in 1601 when the English defeat O'Neill and his Spanish allies at Kinsale. Common people as well as kings appear in these pages. A foot soldier in the early days of gun powder accidentally sets off a disastrous explosion; a harper's disembodied head is sent by error to the king of England who displays it as the king of Ireland's; a Welsh camp follower named Alice is given the job of executing Irish captives during the English invasion. The texts for these~and many more stories range from ancient manuscripts telling of mythical battles to a seventeenth~century siege diary. There are excerpts from such Irish literary masterpieces as The Cattle Raid of Cooley ( The Tain), selections from the monumental Annals of the Four Masters, passages from Gerald of Wales's account of the English conquest in the twelfth century, pages from an Icelandic saga, even a blistering letter from Queen Elizabeth to her inept commander in Ireland ("You do but piece up a hollow peace . "). The result is a surprisingly immediate portrait of an all~but~forgotten time that forged the Ireland to come.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First wrappered edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 725pp. Neat bookplate inside front cover, edges lightly soiled, just about near fine with the text bright.

trade paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 728 pages; acceptable trade paperback; spine slanting; crease to cover; few pages corners bent; nicks and chips to edges cover; small tear spine heal; spine head and heal bumped; small indent bottom edge; faint stain top edge; marker from previous owner and red ink stain from previous owner back cover; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 586pp. Fine in just about fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of edgewear. An anthology of crime stories.