This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... say, more than to the dog that whines beside me in a mountain fog. There is hardly an hour I am with them that I do not feel the shock of some inconceivable idea, and then again the shock of some vague emotion that is familiar to them and to me. On some days I feel this island as a perfect home and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... say, more than to the dog that whines beside me in a mountain fog. There is hardly an hour I am with them that I do not feel the shock of some inconceivable idea, and then again the shock of some vague emotion that is familiar to them and to me. On some days I feel this island as a perfect home and resting place; on other days I feel that I am a waif among the people. I can feel more with them than they can feel with me, and while I wander among them, they like me sometimes, and laugh at me sometimes, yet never know what I am doing. In the evenings I sometimes meet with a girl who is not yet half through her 'teens, yet seems in some ways more consciously developed than any one else that I have met here. She has passed part of her life on the mainland, and the disillusion she found in Galway has coloured her imagination. As we sit on stools on either side of the fire I hear her voice going backwards and forwards in the same sentence from the gaiety of a child to the plaintive intonation of an old race that is worn with sorrow. At one moment she is a simple peasant, at another she seems to be looking out at the world with a sense of prehistoric disillusion and to sum up in the expression of her grey-blue eyes the whole external despondency of the clouds and sea. Our conversation is usually disjointed. One evening we talked of a town on the mainland. ' Ah, it's a queer place, ' she said: ' I wouldn't choose to live in it. It's a queer place, and indeed I don't know the place that isn't.' Another evening we talked of the people who live on the island or come to visit it. ' Father is gone, ' she said; ' he was a kind man but a queer man. Priests is queer people, and...
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Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN:
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This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN:
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Very Good. No Jacket. Four volume set, complete. [7], 179pp; [8], 252pp; [7], 256pp; [5], 259pp. 23 cm. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Ex-library, rebound in green library buckram, with library stamps and embossed stamps on covers. 3 covers slightly marked. All volumes otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Contents: Volume 1: In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Tinker's Wedding, The Well of the Saints; 2: The Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Poems and Translations (from Petrarch, Villon, Leopardi & others); 3: The Aran Islands; 4 In Wicklow, In West Kerry, In the Congested Districts, Under Ether. A very good, sturdy working copy, with perfect hinges and bindings. Weight 2.75 kg, so extra shipping required for certain destinations. First Edition. B62b.
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Very Good-with No dust jacket as issued. Rubbing, scuffing, scratching and light soiling to boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Light soiling to edges. Hinges cracked but books are tight.; Four volumes. Internally clean, serviceable set of Synge's work---plays, poems, prose, translations. All volumes inscribed to Thomas North Whitehead, son of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, from "Mummy" (i. E. Mrs. ANW. ) and dated 1910. Brown boards with bright gilt lettering on spines. Due to size of set, ships within US only and only by media rate mail.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 950 pp.
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Good with no dust jacket. Four volume set. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library labels on front board and on spine tail of each volume. Some wear at spine extremities. A bit of light bumping, very light rubbing at tips of corners. Spines sunned. Spine title labels quite worn; virtually gone on V1 and V3. A bit of soil to rear board of V4. Front hinge of V1 and V4 cracked. Bookplates on front pastedowns.; LFH12D; Ex-Library.
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Very Good. No Jacket. This is a Very Good set of the First American Edition of the great Irish playwright's collected works. Four volumes, bound in tan cloth, with black & gilt paper spine labels. Gilded topedge with the others deckled. llustrated with photographs and drawings. Clean text; each work is separately paginated within the volume. Minor signs of use and wear: light bumping and some rubbing/chipping to the paper labels. Small previous-owner name on each FFEP. Laid-in within Volume Two is a complimentary slip from Cambridge University (proximate to "Deirdre of the Sorrows, " but Quercus offers no speculation as to significance, if any). A solid, attractive set, and not commonly seen. No dustjackets. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Boston, 1912, in four volumes, Near Fine, small 8vos, teg, brown cloth binding with leather spine labels, spine labels have small chips missing on volumes 3 and 4, otherwise the volumes are clean and tight, with engraved frontispieces.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. X-library, with internal and external marks, and very minor notations in text. Bound in brown institutional cloth, making this set very solid. 4 volumes complete.; 64mo 3"-4½" tall.
