Rose and crown : This is the porcelain clay of humankind [London apprentice -- The silver tassie -- The friggin frogs -- Feathering his nest -- Black oxen passing by -- A long Ashwednesday -- A gate clangs shut -- A friar by the fireside -- Star of the County Down -- Ship in full sail -- In New York now -- Within the gates -- Pennsylvanian visit -- Wild life in New Amsterdam --- Hearts and clubs -- Only five minutes more]
by O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
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- Hardcover
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1st American edition], 1st printing ; 323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 52-4597 ; OCLC: 1595964 ; blue cloth in nicked dustjacket ; Contents : London apprentice -- The silver tassie -- The friggin frogs -- Feathering his nest -- Rose and Crown -- Black oxen passing by -- A long Ashwednesday -- A gate clangs shut -- A friar by the fireside -- Star of the County Down -- Ship in full sail -- In New York now -- Within the gates -- Pennsylvanian visit -- Wild life in New Amsterdam --- Hearts and clubs -- Only five minutes more ; The fifth volume in O'Casey's six volume autobiography. ; "O'Casey [goes] to England where he 'was to be shown off, a new oddity, and odd wonder, a guttersnipe among the trimly-educated and the richly clad, the slum dramatist, who, in the midst of a great darkness, had seen a greater light.' With great candor and discernment O'Casey draws graphic portraits of famous figures, Baldwin, Churchill, MacDonald, H G Wells, Carson and that 'hulk of a man', Alfred Hitchcock." ; foxing ; crease at frontispiece gutter ; VG/G.
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- Rose and crown : This is the porcelain clay of humankind [London apprentice -- The silver tassie -- The friggin frogs -- Feathering his nest -- Black oxen passing by -- A long Ashwednesday -- A gate clangs shut -- A friar by the fireside -- Star of the County Down -- Ship in full sail -- In New York now -- Within the gates -- Pennsylvanian visit -- Wild life in New Amsterdam --- Hearts and clubs -- Only five minutes more]
- Author
- O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1952
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Baldwin, Churchill, MacDonald, H G Wells, Carson Abbey Theatre American asked Baldwin bishop C. B. Cochran Church clerics coloured crowd dead death detective fiction Dublin Eileen England eyes face Fagan fight film friars G. G. Coulton garden Garrick Club
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