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Tarry Flynn
by Kavanagh, Patrick
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0140045538
- ISBN 13
- 9780140045536
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978 (1948)* Publisher: Penguin* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some colouration to paper throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 189 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Like? The Green Fool?, for his autobiography, Patrick?s Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier in time. The farming life for which his family intended him, was superceded in fact by a life of poetry and literature but he never forgot his heritage and this work harks back to his roots.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st. edition thus, 1st. impression with minimal shelf wear and some ageing reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4619
- Title
- Tarry Flynn
- Author
- Kavanagh, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0140045538
- ISBN 13
- 9780140045536
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Harmondswork UK 192
- Date Published
- 1978-02-23
- Size
- 17.5 x 11.2 x 1.5 cm
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