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Devin Adair, 1950. Book. Pages Clean, Binding Firm.. Hardcover. Mild edgewear. Pages white, endpapers offwhite..

New York: Devin-Adair. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover.

Devin-Adair, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Edge wear to jacket. Name in ink. .

Devin-Adair Company, 1950. Cloth. Fine/Fair. Slightly smaller book, fine dark green cloth, very bright silver lettering and dark blue Gaelic design at top front, silver lettering bright on spine, 189 lightly browned heavy pages. DJ beneath mylar, front and spine dark green with black shape of Ireland on front, related books on back, white back very slightly browned. DJ has wear to tiny tears to most edges and tips. Fair DJ/Fine book.

London : V. Gollanz, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 142 p ; 23 cm. Subjects: National characteristics, Irish. Genre: History. Language: English.

London : V. Gollanz, 1949. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 142 p.; 23 cm. Subject: National characteristics, Irish. Ireland 20th century. Germany.

The Devin-Adair Co, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine and design to front. Signed with dedication from the author to Constantin Fitzgibbon on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small holes and scratches to front pastedown. Slight stains to pastedowns. Some slight creasing and mild tears to page edges. Occasional minor pencil marginalia. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Spine has two holes and frayed tears in cloth. A few liquid droplet marks to front.

1950. Third Impression. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Modern Hardcover binding (grey cloth with black lettering on spine andnew endpapers). Excellent condition. This book comes from the library of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty and was signed and inscribed to him by Arland Ussher on the halftitle in May 1950. A very nice association copy. Percival Arland "Percy" Ussher (1899–1980) was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator. Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University for some time. In 1926 he published a translation of The Midnight Court (Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche) by the Irish Gaelic-language poet, Brian Merriman. Ussher published The Face and Mind of Ireland (1949) and Three Great Irishmen (1952), a comparative study of Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce. Ussher moved to County Waterford to manage the family farm before moving to Dublin in 1953. (Wikipedia) Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet,… Read More

1949. First edition. London, Robert Hale Limited, 1949. Octavo. Frontispiece - Photograph, 244 pages. Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed on endpaper. Two manuscript letters loosely inserted. Manuscript entry, correction/explanation/annotations by Maurice Headlam to Arland Ussher on page 166 and page 175. Maurice Headlam was the British civil servant in Ireland who was British Treasurer Remembrancer and Deputy Paymaster for Ireland, from 1912, a post due for abolition with Home Rule, and which he held to May 1920. His Autobiography "Irish Reminiscences" (London: Robert Hale 1947) included the stark, printed Dedication in the book, which reads:,"To those Who Have Loved Ireland and Do Not Care Much for Eire". The Autobiography includes the following chapters: To Ireland as a Tourist / Appointment as Official in Ireland / First Impressions of Dublin / Ireland in 1912 / People, Clubs and Personalities / Work and Officials /… Read More