An Apology for the British Government in Ireland
by Mitchel, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Dublin: O Donoghue & Company and M.H. Gill & Son, 1905. John Mitchel (1815-1875) the nationalist writer who founded the "United Irishman" newspaper, suffered criminal transport to Tasmania, from which he escaped and made his way to America. His "Jail Journal" is one of the most famous books in the Irish canon of prison narratives. This is a Very Good copy of an obscure Mitchel work, originally published in 1860. Quite rare; copies held by the British Library and Trinity College Dublin; no copies in USA. Green pebbled cloth with white lettering. The text is clean and bright, if a bit stiff; 90 pages, with six pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. The covers are worn, with some bubbling, and there is a chip to the lowere front edge of the spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001915
- Title
- An Apology for the British Government in Ireland
- Author
- Mitchel, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- O Donoghue & Company and M.H. Gill & Son
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish History & Politics;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...