Beal Bocht by Obrien Flann, First Edition (9 results)

First Edition. First edition in this form. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Notes; Translation of: An béal bocht. Subjects; O'Brien, Flain 1911-1966. Ireland Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Gaeltacht (Ireland) Social life and customs ; Fiction. Fiction in Irish 1850 English texts. Fiction in Irish 1850- Texts. 1 Kg.

Ex-library. First edition, thus. Super 8vo, pp. 128; brown heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps & tp, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; library stamps to top pg edge, ffep, rfep tp verso & final pg; library slips pasted in to rear pastedown & ffep; tape to bds); in d/w VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; lg closed tear to frotn cover extrem).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Steadman , Ralph (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. 128 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped pictorial jacket, with a design by Ralph Steadman, with his illustrations. Some creasing and chipping to jacket. Bumping to extremities. Gift inscription to half-title endpapers, otherwise clean. 0246106123 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ralph Steadman (illustrator). First Edition. pp 128, 1st ed. in the English language translated by Patrick C. Power, illus. by Ralph Steadman. Very good in good but lightly edge worn d.j.

First trade edition of the English translation. Map endsheets, pictorial title page, and 12 illustrations by Ralph Steadman. 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First published in Irish in 1941, here translated from the revised second edition of 1964. Hilarious sendup of the Irish literary and folkloristic revival. Brown boards, yellow spine lettering piece. Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine panel slightly faded) Map endsheets, pictorial title page, and 12 illustrations by Ralph Steadman. 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First trade edition of the English translation.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. First English translation of An Béal Bocht which was originally published in 1941. A near fine copy in a near fine wrapper.

First English-language edition, first impression; 8vo; black and white illustrations by Ralph Steadman, unmarked internally; publisher's brown boards, gilt lettering to spine, map endpapers, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, minor edge-wear, else very good. First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.

First edition, special issue, number 107 of 130 copies signed by the artist, with signed & numbered etching loosely inserted as issued; 8vo; illustrations by Ralph Steadman, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's tan hessian, titles to upper board in black, pictorial endpapers after Ralph Steadman, hessian abraded at upper joint slightly. A perfectly written comic novel (by a genius), perfectly illustrated (by a genius), wonderfully printed in very small numbers and complete with the correct, signed engraving, which is quite often missing.

First edition, special issue, number 74 of 130 copies signed by the artist, with signed & numbered etching loosely inserted as issued; 8vo; illustrations by Ralph Steadman, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's tan hessian, titles to upper board in black, pictorial endpapers after Ralph Steadman, fine copy. A perfectly written comic novel (by a genius), perfectly illustrated (by a genius), wonderfully printed in very small numbers and complete with the correct, signed engraving, which is quite often missing.