Irish Street Ballads by O Colm Lochlainn (ed.) - 1952

Harmony, 1998. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Softcover. Good reading copy with no marks noted, light tanning, soiling and foxing to edges, some creasing and slight slant to spine, moderate use and wear to covers. Corinth, 1960, 235 pages.

New York: Corinth Books, 1960. Paperback. Good. BEPH. Pictorial paper covers very rubbed. good condition 233 pp. Index of 1st line.

Sign of the Three Candles, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 1958. Reprinted. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Heavy pen inscriptions to rear endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional mild marks and staining.

Dublin, Ireland: The Three Candles Limited, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / Later Printing. 12mo. 12mo. xv (i), 235 (1) pp, illus. 8th Printing, 1967. (First in @1939). Editor's Introduction, alphabetized table of contents - more than sixty, less than a hundred, Appendix: - alternate verses, etc., index of first lines alphabetized. Top fore-edge corner bumped with very light foxing to top text block, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, 5.25" x 7.6". Illustrated beige cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. DJ Not Price Clipped. 1 1/4" x 2 1/4" chip to bottom edge rear panel dj with some additional light wear and spine darkening to same. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

Corinth Books. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. (Literature, Irish Literature, Ballads, Music) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Dublin: The Sign of the Three Candles, Ltd.. Good. 1952 (c.1939). Third impression. Softcover. [moderate external age-toning and light edgewear, tiny tear in paper spine covering at top front hinge, external cracks and wrinkles in spine but binding intact, one-time owner's name and address in brown felt-tip ink at top of front endpaper]. (woodcut illustrations) A collection of 102 songs (music and words), "all well worth singing," many with wonderful titles like "There's Whiskey in the Jar," "The Women Are Worse Than the Men," and "The Foot and Mouth Disease." Quite a few are "now first published, and nearly all of them are adorned with woodcuts taken from old Dublin broadsheet ballads," and the book also contains "a few notes appended for the guidance of those who delight in delving for further fragments of forgotten lore." (The publication statement for the edition (marked as "Third Impression" on the rear… Read More

"Irish Street Ballads" by Colm O Lochlainn1965 - Reprint EditionVintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket7 1/2" x 5 1/4"235 PagesThe jacket is in good minus condition with edge tears, chips and a few small stains. The jacket is now protected with a removable Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition free from rips, tears, bends, and writing. The book has many black and white illustrations. There is staining along the gutter at the front free end page. There is a gift inscription written in blue ink on the front free end page. The boards are in good to good minus condition with minimal to no wear and a few edge dings. The binding is tight and square.

Signs of Three Candles Dublin 1946, revised reprint. Card covers, woodcuts, commentary, 235pp. Small loss of text to tanned spine, light foxing, page's edges dusted o/w just good.