Fallon Niall (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2002). 2002 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 217mm). Ppxxviii,244. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations, marbled end-papers, silk marker ribbon. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Various minor faults but a near fine copy in torn dust-wrapper. A good anthology of Irish angling writing, game, coarse and sea. Contributors include, Arthur Mainwaring, W.B.Yeats, William le Fanu, T.H.Kingsmill Moore, Augustus Grimble, J.O'Gorman, Stephen Gwynn, G.D.Luard, S.B.Wilkinson, J.B.Drought, Negley Farson, W.Durand, C.Gedney, W.Peard, Eric Craigie, F.D.Barker, Joseph Adams, Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, R.Allen, Maurice Headlam, W.H.Maxwell, F.D.Barker, Richard Hayward, Laurie Gaffey, A.A.Luce, Sir William Wilde, Seamus Heaney, Niall Fallon, J.W.Hills, Jim Reynolds, Sir Humphrey Davy, 'Cosmopolite', W.H.Maxwell, The Limerick Chronicle, John Bickerdyke, Gregory Greendrake, C.E.R.Sinclair, Ken Seamn, Michael Pritchard, E.V.Malone, John Nixon, R.H.Connell, Thomas O'Byrne, A.F.Magri MacMahon, Clive Gammon, Des Brennan. .…

Condition: Very Good. F First American Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. F First American Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2002). 2002 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 217mm). Ppxxviii,244. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations, marbled end-papers, silk marker ribbon. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A good anthology of Irish angling writing, game, coarse and sea. Contributors include Arthur Mainwaring, W.B. Yeats, William le Fanu, T.H. Kingsmill Moore, Augustus Grimble, J. O'Gorman, Stephen Gwynn, G.D. Luard, S.B. Wilkinson, J.B. Drought, Negley Farson, W. Durand, C. Gedney, W.Peard, Eric Craigie, F.D. Barker, Joseph Adams, Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, R. Allen, Maurice Headlam, W.H. Maxwell, F.D. Barker, Richard Hayward, Laurie Gaffey, A.A.Luce, Sir William Wilde, Seamus Heaney, Niall Fallon, J.W. Hills, Jim Reynolds, Sir Humphrey Davy, 'Cosmopolite', W.H. Maxwell, The Limerick Chronicle, John Bickerdyke, Gregory Greendrake, C.E.R.Sinclair, Ken Seaman, Michael Pritchard, E.V. Malone, John Nixon, R.H. Connell, Thomas O'Byrne, A.F. Magri MacMahon, Clive Gammon, Des Brennan. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 25.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean unopened copy. Jacket with mild shelfwear.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy of the First American Edition but for a slight forward cock to spine and previous owner's embossed stamp at first free endpaper, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. x [1], 2-236 pp., with 62 maps, charts, plates and illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, original cloth. "Niall Fallon has made a comprehensive and definitive contribution to sixteenth- century history, for the role which Ireland played in the Armada campaign has been largely understated."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Merlin Unwin Books, Ludlow, 2002. Hard Cover. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. Black and White Illustrations and Photographs. First Edition. Jacket complete and unclipped. Turquoise cloth with bright gilt titles to spine. Marbled endpapers. Very good binding. No inscriptions or markings. Clean and bright. All our books at the moment are reduced so the price you see reflects a 33% discount. You may be interested in The Literaticus Book Service. We specialise in tracking down those harder to find editions, among other bookish services such as gift fulfilment. Get in touch to send us your Book Wants or ask a bookish question. If this is intended as a gift, please email first and I can gift wrap for no extra charge. If you would like special delivery but don't see an option for it, just email first and I'll obtain a quote. If you have any questions, require more information or if you would like more pictures, do not hesitate to get in touch.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper(price-clipped). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 143 p.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Warner, Dick Travel Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Oxlip (Boat). Launches Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Description and travel. Travel. Ireland. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 143 p.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Warner, Dick Travel Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Oxlip (Boat). Launches Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Description and travel. Travel. Ireland. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. crisp, clean, tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This copy is FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for publisher's small smudge top of one page; binding is tight, but slight shelf wear on edges. STATED FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING. The jacket is near fine: intact in all ways, including perfect color and design but slight shelfwear and rubbing, plus price sticker bottom inside front flap. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. All shipments within U.S. sent with Tracking. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first American edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

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First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 143 p.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Warner, Dick Travel Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Oxlip (Boat). Launches Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Description and travel. Travel. Ireland. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper(price-clipped). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 143 p.; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Warner, Dick Travel Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Oxlip (Boat). Launches Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland). Shannon-Erne Waterway (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Description and travel. Travel. Ireland. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. (Dublin: 1991). Octavo (6.75" x 10"), navy cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 222pp. Illustrated with charming drawings. Jacket a little rumpled around the edges. "This is a collection of delightful and humorous Irish game angling stories which tell as much about the Irish character as they do about fishing".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine copy in like dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The Armada in Ireland (1978) by Niall Fallon Stanford Maritime | ISBN: 054007151X Condition: Good (Ex-Library) As sold by Crappy Old Books You know the Spanish Armada. Everyone knows the Spanish Armada. It?s practically a cultural shorthand for ?ambitious plan meets weather.? But what most people don?t dwell on ? because it?s inconveniently soggy, complicated, and involves far too many rocks ? is what happened when the Armada didn?t simply ?fail? in the abstract, but scattered itself in very real pieces along the coast of Ireland. That is where The Armada in Ireland comes in: a book that takes the grand, poster-friendly tale of imperial Spain and politely drags it into the Atlantic, where the wind is rude, the coastline is unforgiving, and history is written in wrecks, survivors, rumours, and local memory. Niall Fallon?s focus is deliciously specific: not the glorious ?we shall invade England? bit, but the aftermath ? ships trying to limp home, storms doing what storms do, desperate decisions made in the dark, and the grim lottery of landfall on an unfamiliar shore. It?s maritime history at its most human: navigation, logistics, panic, courage, and the unstoppable power of geography to ruin a perfectly good strategy. Expect drama, but not the tidy kind. This isn?t a single climactic battle with clear winners and losers; it?s a sprawling coastal tragedy told through incidents: wreck sites, scattered crews, encounters with local populations, and the political danger of being the wrong man washed up in the wrong place at the wrong time. The sea doesn?t care about your empire. The Irish coast, famously, also does not care about your empire. There?s also a peculiar romance to the subject. Armada wrecks have that magnetism: half history, half treasure-hunt, half ghost story told in a pub with a map on the table. The details matter ? bays, headlands, currents, weather patterns, what was carried, what was salvaged, what vanished. It?s the kind of history that feels physical: you can picture timbers grinding on rock, hear the wind, taste the salt, and imagine the terrible relief of seeing land? immediately followed by the horror of realising the land is not interested in helping. And because this is published by Stanford Maritime , there?s an extra layer of ship-nerd satisfaction: the sort of book that knows ships are not just props, but complicated machines filled with people making practical decisions under impossible conditions. It?s the unglamorous reality behind the legend ? and that?s always the best bit. Now, let?s talk about this copy: Ex-library . Which means it comes with institutional swagger. It has been stamped, shelved, catalogued, and quietly judged by librarians. It has probably survived decades of curious fingers, earnest students, and at least one person who opened it looking for pirates and found geopolitics instead. Ex-library books are like historical artefacts in their own right: slightly marked, slightly weathered, but carrying the faint thrill of public service. A book about shipwrecks that has itself been rescued from official oblivion ? poetic, really. Condition is Good , meaning it?s ready to be read without ceremony. Perfect for anyone who likes their history salt-stained, detail-rich, and far more interesting than the clean textbook version. From Crappy Old Books : because the Armada didn?t just ?fail? ? it arrived , in pieces, in Ireland? and left stories behind that the sea is still trying to keep.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 8vo (170 x 250mm). Pp222. B/w illustrations from old engravings. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. A good selection of short extracts from the best writing on Irish angling. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. x, 236pp., index, biblio., photos, maps. Jacket is clipped, with worn edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. 23cm, first edition, x,236p., with 62 maps, charts plates and illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, original cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket (s9) "Niall Fallon has made a comprehensive and definitive contribution to sixteenth- century history, for the role which Ireland played in the Armada campaign has been largely understated." (Jacket).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1986). (1983) 1986 paperback edition. 8vo (135 x 197mm). Ppx,146. B/w photographs, map, bibliography. Sporadic high-lighting, slight browning but solidly intact, second-hand paperback. This is Niall Fallon's "up to date and comprehensive work on fly-fishing in the rivers and lakes of Ireland for brown trout, white trout and rainbow trout. A valuable and detailed guide book on where, when and how to fish, it is also a thoughtful distillation of over three decades of trout angling." Chapters include: The changing scene; Brown trout in lakes; Lake angling tactics - daytime; Evening lake angling; The river trout; The river season; Daytime angling tactics; Evening tactics; Rainbow trout; The white trout; Behaviour and flies [for white trout]; White trout tactics. Appendices include, principal trout lakes and rivers, white trout fisheries, laws, licences and tackle shops, seasons for brown and white trout, other Irish trout, as well as a three-page bibliography. A useful and increasingly scarce book, especially the hardcover first edition. .…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket complete and unclipped. Green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Black and white illustrations and photographs. 244 pages clean and tightly bound. Size: 8vo. Black and White Illustrations and Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp x, 236. Loosely inserted a newspaper cutting from the 'Irish Independent' 25 June 1980 concerning Armada ship lost off the Donegal coast.

FIRST. NEW/FINE. Black cloth boards. [B35].

Imperial octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. xxvii, 244 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. K02950 187367449X Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The picture on our listing is a photograph of the actual book NOT a stock image.