Shanty Irish by TULLY, Jim - [1928]

Wildside Press, 2011-10-31. Paperback. Good.

Kent State University Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Wildside Press, 2021. Paperback. New. 306 pages. 8.35x5.51x0.87 inches.

Albert & Charles Boni, January 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Second Printing, Cover shows wear, but is covered with a mylar sleeve. cracked hinge at rear of book, slight staining to page edges.

The Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel Books, 2009-06-02. paperback. Good. 5x1x7. Minor wear on the corners. Clean pages with no markings. Ask for photos! The image in this listing is stock photo for reference. Actual item may differ. Any queries, just ask for photos. Your satisfaction matters!Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.Ships same day in most cases!

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. A founder-writer of the "hard-boiled" school, Jim Tully (1886-1947) had the hard life so often described in his fourteen published books. Raised in an orphanage, he was a hobo, professional boxer, and even a tree-surgeon, prior to becoming a Hollywood gossip columnist. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the Second Printing of one of his best-known novels, published the same month as the First. Green cloth binding with darker green titling on the front cover and spine; Boni logo on rear cover. Clean text; 292 pages. Both gutters have split; while holding, the book is shaken. The spine has darkened and most of the lettering has rubbed badly. A reading copy; not for the advanced collector.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1928. 2nd Printing. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Bookplate. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 3. Category: Ohio; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2698. .

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Reginald Marsh (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. viii, [4], 292. Decorated endpapers. Bound in light green cloth with dark green stylized lettering stamped on front board and spine. Top edge dyed green. Former owner name in ink on front free endpaper. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, that shows light edge-wear and rubbing. Second printing, published the same month as the first printing. The raw, wrap-around Reginald Marsh dust jacket captures the scrappy, striving mess of the Irish immigrant experience. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Second printing. Hardcover. 292pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Pale green cloth over boards with dark green ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Green and white patterned endpapers. Publisher's green top stain. The book is in very good condition. The spine is rolled, and has numerous very faint, small stains. The fore edge of the text block is lightly foxed, and there is a contemporary gift inscription on the half title page. In the dust jacket, illustrated by Reginald Marsh, in very good condition, with mild age-toning and foxing, and intermittent shallow closed tears and chips in the edges. There is a lengthy notation on the verso of the jacket. A second printing, in a very attractive dust jacket, of Tully's autobiographical novel about a poor Irish American growing up in small-town Ohio. The dedicatee was Tully's second wife, Marna.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 292 p. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Front hinge starting. Bookplate on paste down, light soiling to cloth, slight curve to pages at front. Jacket has spots of wear along spine panel, light fading to green of spine panel, tear in front panel, two small pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, price intact ($2.95). The third book in hobo-turned author Jim Tully's Underworld Edition, an autobiographical novel of growing up in Irish-American slums.