London: The Religious Tract Society. Good in Fair dust jacket. Hardcover. No date (1930's) . 233 pages. Owner's card pasted to front endpaper. Moderate spots of foxing to some leaves. Dust wrapper foxed. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Several 1 1/2" and smaller tears to dust wrapper. 1/4" missing at head and tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" chips at corners of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in mylar cover. "Masterly sketches of life in a little community in the Glens of Antrim. This is one of those quietly impressive books which Ulster knows so well how to give us [...]" - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 12mo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003715
Title: Dear Were the Days
Author: Quinn, Hubert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: Ireland Irish History

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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....
Blurb: The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...