Plain Tale Bogs by Rearden Conner (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1937. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 256pp. Green cloth boards with dark blue titles to spine. No inscriptions. Boards very lightly bumped with small nick to cloth at hinge to front panel. Textblock clean tight and bright. A pleasing copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy with foxing on the page edges. Former library copy with stamps within on the first few pages (including the first page of chapter one) and on the last page (under The End). The front end paper appears to have been torn out.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth, name on the front end paper.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 256. Publishers' green cloth with black titles to spine. A clean and bright copy with just a touch of rubbing and a few minor marks to boards. Conner (1907-1991), the author of "Shake Hands With the Devil" and numerous other works of fiction, here tells his own story. His upbringing during the regime of the Black and Tans and during the Civil War in Ireland was difficult as the son of an RIC police officer, and Conner also suffered from depression and homelessness during the period before his success as an author.…