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At Swim Two Birds
by O'Brien, Flann
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Pantheon Books. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1950. Reprint, 1950. Hardback. Boards quarter bound in blue cloth and yellow paper, light spotting at fore-edge of front board, both boards a touch age-toned, minute losses to paper's surface on corner, lettering on spine a touch rubbed; Pages lightly age-toned, top-edge dusty and spotted, note by previous author in pen on rear pastedown; Binding tight. This is the 1950 reprint of Irish writer Brian O'Nolan's renouned late-Modernist metafiction, widely considered to be in part autobiographical, first published 1939. ; 5.5 x 8"; 315 pages .
Synopsis
At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. The novel's title derives from Snámh dá Én, a possibly apocryphal place on the river Shannon, reportedly visited by the legendary King Sweeney, a character in the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52297
- Title
- At Swim Two Birds
- Author
- O'Brien, Flann
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint, 1950
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Date Published
- 1950
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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