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Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-book

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-book

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Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-book

by Behan, Brendan

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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About This Item

United States: Bernard Geis Associats 1962. 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition, signed by the author and illustrator. 192 pp. Green and red boards under a yellow illustrated jacket, with illustrated endpapers and top-edge red. Signed by both the author, Brendan Behan, and the illustrator, Paul Hogarth. Collection of poetry and local histories in English and translations of Irish about the 'Island', Ireland. The jacket is from the English Hutchinson edition, so will have been supplied; a little creased in places, but generally in very good condition; clean internally apart from small ink owner's name on half title. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1962.

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Bookseller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
67229
Title
Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-book
Author
Behan, Brendan
Illustrator
HOGARTH, Paul
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Bernard Geis Associats 1962
Place of Publication
United States
Date Published
1962
Size
8vo.Illustrated
Keywords
Ireland,Signed Books,Dublin,Behan,Paul Hogarth
Bookseller catalogs
Modern First Editions; Irish Interest;

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