With an Introductory Note by E M Forster (4 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by Second impression, Oct., 1933. Published by Chatto and Windus, London., 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.Jerry Merkel
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Fair to good condition. Covers are very heavily faded. Spine tips and corners are worn. Spotting on endpapers. Name in pencil on half title page. 323 pages. Maps on endpapers.
Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Gwyn Tudur Davies, Aberystwyth, United KingdomGwyn Tudur Davies
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£ 30.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hbk, 322p. end-paper maps. Fading to covers with some foxing, slight scuff to head of spine , a couple of neat book-plates. A clean copy in good condition. [The Blasket Islands- Ireland - Life and Customs - Biography] p1357 / m8802.
Twenty years a-growing [ In Dingle -- My first journey home -- THe island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in t he Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The Wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Single east -- The City of Dublin -- The Civic Guard -- Connemara]
Ó Súileabháin, Muiris, 1904-1950 [Maurice O'Sullivan] ; Davies, Moya Llewelyn. ; Thomson, George Derwent. ; with an introductory note by E. M. Forster.
Published by New York, The Viking Press, 1933, 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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£ 76.90
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xii, 303 p. 22 cm. ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.196 ; LCCN: 33-20542 ; OCLC: 355514 ; green and beige cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Translation from the original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson." ; Contents : In Dingle -- My first journey home…-- THe island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in t he Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The Wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Single east -- The City of Dublin -- The Civic Guard -- Connemara ; O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.-Sean O'Fáoláin ; Maurice O'Sullivan was born in 1904 and joined the Civic Guard of the nascent Irish Republic as a young man, but found that law enforcement was not to his liking. While posted in Connemara he wrote a novel, Twenty Years A-Growing, for the entertainment was friends. He drowned tragically in 1950, leaving behind a widow and two children. ; "Here is the egg of a seabird, lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning "--E M Forster ; spine sunned, else VG/VG. Book.
