the mercier press ltd cork and dublin (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp 271. A biography of one of Ireland's outstanding playwrights of the twentieth century.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, a near fine copy in wraps, with light rubbing at the edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce First edition, first printing Mercier Press soft cover. Glossy wraps have edge wear, corners bumped, light creases and retail sticker on rear. Internally the pages are toned throughout. There are no pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Please examine all seller photos. Smithson was born into a Protestant family in Sandymount, Dublin. She took the names Anne Mary Patricia on her conversion to Catholicism. Her mother and father were first cousins and her father died when she was young. About 1881 her mother married her second husband, Peter Longshaw, who owned a chemical factory in Warrington in Lancashire. Smithson disliked her stepfather and referred to him always as Mr Longshaw. There were five children of the second marriage. Smithson abandoned her ambition to become a journalist in order to train as a nurse and a midwife. She trained in London and Edinburgh, before returning to Dublin in 1900.She converted to Catholicism in March 1907 and became a fervent Republican and Nationalist. She became a member of Cumann na mBan and campaigned for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election. She took the Republican side in the Irish Civil War and nursed participants in the siege at Moran's Hotel. In 1922 she was imprisoned by Free State forces. In 1924 she wrote a series of articles on child welfare work for the Evening Mail newspaper, based on her work in tenements in the Dublin Liberties, one of the poorest areas of the city, where she continued to work until 1929. She was Secretary and Organiser of the Irish Nurses Organisation from 1929 to 1942. In 1917 she published her first novel, Her Irish Heritage, which became a best-seller. It was dedicated to those who died in the Easter Rising of 1916. In all, she published twenty novels and two short story collections. In 1944 she published her autobiography, Myself - and Others. From 1932 onwards she shared a house in Rathmines, Dublin with her stepsister and her stepsister's family. She died of heart failure at 12 Richmond Hill, Rathmines, Dublin and was buried in Whitechurch, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A nice clean copy. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Minimal edge wear. Original price sticker on rear. Please examine all seller photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. First published in 1983, this is the 1989 edition. The pictorial wraps are well creased and the corners well bumped. Internally the pages have tanned over the years and there is a Belfast name and address written inside the back cover. Binding remains tight. Please examine all seller photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A pocket size out of print publication. Corners lightly bumped. No heavy creases. Edge of page block is foxed. Spots on half title page. Pages slightly darkened. Binding is tight. No inscriptions or pen marks. Original price sticker on back cover. Please examine all seller photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing soft cover in very good condition. Internally clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Externally a little edge wear, light bumping and minor crease bottom right corner. Please examine all seller photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The sequel to Dublin Made me. First edition first printing in burgundy boards with gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends slightly crushed. Corners good. Internally clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Price clipped dust jacket with matching edge wear. No cuts tears or chips. Please examine all seller photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Minimal edge wear and corners sharp. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. There is unfortunately a gift inscription on the rear of the half title page (see photo). Unclipped dust jacket has a little edge wear to spine ends and corners but no cuts tears or chips. Please examine all seller photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A nice clean copy of this scarce soft cover first edition. Minor edge wear. Red lettering on spine possibly faded. Internally clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Please examine all seller photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. pp 242. Limited edition of 500. Extract of Dublin entries from the Samuel Lewis 'A Topogaphical Dictionary of Ireland' (1837). Sticker stain to front of dust-jacket with browning to page edges. End-papers - the Lewis map of County Dublin.

8vo, paperback, 87pp + adverts. Good condition. General light wear, pages yellowed. Pictures available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Mercier Press edition in very good conditon. Minimal edge and internally clean bright and tight. Please examine all seller photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. The Mercier Press Ltd, Dublin and Cork, Irelaznd. 1982. Octavo. first edition. 327 pages. Original red leatherette binding with gilt lettering to spine. Red, white and grey dustjacket with white circle and grey and red lettering to cover and spine. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition, not price clipped. See photographs. book 9991 location 6-5.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 8 vo, 58 pp, plus one page of ads. Orange covers with white title and brown decoration. cr. 1986, appears to be FIRST EDITION. Staple bound with one signature, very secure. Corners lightly bumped, some wear to front cover, spine faded to white. Fifty songs, six in Irish, the rest in English. Songs expressly written to be sung by the Irish woman, making this a unique collection.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce First edition first printing Mercier Press soft cover. A little edge wear, scratches and corner bumping to glossy wraps. Crease on rear. Internally the pages are toned, but no pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Please examine all seller photos. Smithson was born into a Protestant family in Sandymount, Dublin. She took the names Anne Mary Patricia on her conversion to Catholicism. Her mother and father were first cousins and her father died when she was young. About 1881 her mother married her second husband, Peter Longshaw, who owned a chemical factory in Warrington in Lancashire. Smithson disliked her stepfather and referred to him always as Mr Longshaw. There were five children of the second marriage. Smithson abandoned her ambition to become a journalist in order to train as a nurse and a midwife. She trained in London and Edinburgh, before returning to Dublin in 1900.She converted to Catholicism in March 1907 and became a fervent Republican and Nationalist. She became a member of Cumann na mBan and campaigned for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election. She took the Republican side in the Irish Civil War and nursed participants in the siege at Moran's Hotel. In 1922 she was imprisoned by Free State forces. In 1924 she wrote a series of articles on child welfare work for the Evening Mail newspaper, based on her work in tenements in the Dublin Liberties, one of the poorest areas of the city, where she continued to work until 1929. She was Secretary and Organiser of the Irish Nurses Organisation from 1929 to 1942. In 1917 she published her first novel, Her Irish Heritage, which became a best-seller. It was dedicated to those who died in the Easter Rising of 1916. In all, she published twenty novels and two short story collections. In 1944 she published her autobiography, Myself - and Others. From 1932 onwards she shared a house in Rathmines, Dublin with her stepsister and her stepsister's family. She died of heart failure at 12 Richmond Hill, Rathmines, Dublin and was buried in Whitechurch, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing soft cover with number line from 10 to 1 Signed by author on half title page. Internally clean bright and tight. No other pen marks or inscriptions. Externally the glossy wraps have a little edge wear, corner bumping, light scratches and dents. No heavy creases. Please examine all seller photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a copy of the scarce 1986 facsimile edition in green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Corners are sharp. A little edge wear to top and bottom of spine and dent on top edge. Otherwise book is clean bright tight and sits square. No marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. The unclipped dust jacket is also is very good condition with no tears or chips. However, corners of DJ are bumped and small amount of edge wear to and bottom. Original price sticker on front flap. Please examine all seller photos. More available upon request.