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The Ireland Reader
by Helen O'Clery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$13.62NZ$12.26
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About This Item
First hardcover edition, published by Franklin Watts, 1963. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has several short tears on the edges, Shallow edge wear chipping to the heel of the spine area, about 1/8 inch along that bottom edge. Rubbing wear to the spine area and back panel of the jacket as well. Jacket has since been protected with a clear, removable cover. 399 pages with several Indexes. Sorted by date, contributors include; Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Padraic Colum, Samuel Beckett, Kate O'Brien, Wilde, Shaw, O'Casey, Lord Dunsany, and of course James Joyce. Off-white cloth covered boards with the title in green on the spine and front board. Boards are flat and only show very minor edge wear. Blue top stain on the top edge of the text block has faded. The binding is tight and square. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. A solid copy with dust jacket that shows some wear. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-307
- Title
- The Ireland Reader
- Author
- Helen O'Clery
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Franklin Watts
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ireland, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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