Search Results: Irish Interest from Marion Pitman Books

London: Methuen, 1916. Humourous novel set in the west of Ireland. Labels on front and inside front cover from Palmer's Library, High Street, Ramsey. Flyleaf torn; cloth worn; foxing and finger marks. Reading copy.. Tenth Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Not Known, 1920. 8 pages in green wrappers. Advts, note on A.O.H., programme of concert, lyrics of A Nation Once Again, announcement of pilgrimage to Turin. Concert held at Kingsway Hall, London on 17th March 1920. Covers rather faded but pretty good for a rather flimsy item.. Not Known. Soft Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket.

London: Methuen, 1913. Spine cracked, frayed, detached from front board, corners worn down, foxed, hinges cracked, rear endpaper missing. Novel set in Ireland in 1800. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

Swords, Dublin : Ward River Press, 1982. Novel set in West of Ireland during Civil War. Cover design by Steven Hope. Cover bit marked, o/w VG.. Reprint. Paperback. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Traveller's Library edition. Spine a bit dull, foxing to endpapers and prelims. Blue cloth, gold titling. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Belfast: Inheritance Ministries, 1996. Examination of the Northern Ireland situation from the point of view that the Roman Catholic Church is the Anti-Christ. Perhaps a little one-sided.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Granada, 1983. Some creasing edges & corners covers; page edges brown. Disabled boy meets a traveller from another part of the universe. Cover art Tim White. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1930. Cloth faded on spine and partly discoloured back cover; dustwrapper faded spine and back cover, spine frayed and torn. Small format, light blue cloth, The Caravan Library.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Fairly Good.

London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1911. 8 stories reprinted from the Month, Weekly Freeman, and Irish Rosary. Appears to be ex-library - spine adequate but unbeautifully repaired/ replaced with cloth on which is a small title label; small pocket stuck inside front cover; corners knocked. Scarce. Not Given. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library ?.

New York: Ace, 1979. Illustrations by Alicia Austin; cover art Michael Whelan; text design Grace Markman. Covers creased & discoloured, corners knocked. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Alicia Austin.

London: J.M.Dent, 1951. Everyman's Library # 933. Red cloth. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Macmillan, 1928. Contains: Desire, Hunger, Etched in Moonlight, Schoolfellows, Darling, The Wolf, The Boss. Spine dull; edges a bit worn, corners a bit bruised, endpapers bit brown, few spots of foxing, one internal hinge weak, rear hinge cracking, end free endpaper slightly creased; previous owner's gift message on flyleaf in florid and rather illegible hand, from someone named Freeman to a Miss Robertson, a souvenir of a voyage.. Reprint of 1st Edn. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Howe & Co, 1890. Small format, green cloth with black titles. Cloth dull and front cover cracked, internally quite good. Some of the contents are predictable "Irish jokes", but not all. . Fiftieth Thousand . Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket. 32mo - 4" x 5.5" Tall.

London: Modern Publishing Co., 9999. Red boards, 253 pages. Advt for News of the World on the back; ads for Collis Browne's Chlorodyne, Elasto, and other nostrums and secrets of the universe inside. Novel about a company promoter. Page edges bit brown; edges & corners of boards worn, some damp stain lower edge of back board and spine; spine worn at ends and bit split lower edge. This first published 1923; this may be first edition, looks 1920s or possibly early 30s. Joseph Keating, 1871-1934, born Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. Wrote a number of novels, also My Struggle for Life & Irish Heroes of the War.. Not Given. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

London: Modern Publishing Co., 9999. Red boards, 253 pages. Advt for News of the World on the back; ads for Collis Browne's Chlorodyne, Elasto, and other nostrums and secrets of the universe inside. Novel about a company promoter. Some spotting page edges; edges & corners worn, spine faded. This first published 1923; this may be first edition, looks 1920s or possibly early 30s. Joseph Keating, 1871-1934, born Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. Wrote a number of novels, also My Struggle for Life & Irish Heroes of the War.. Boards. Good/No Jacket.

London: Grant Richards, 1920. 111 pages. Red cloth. Spine faded, some marks on covers, endpapers bit brown, internal hinge weak. At the end are notes of the first production of each play with cast; 2 at the Haymarket, London; 2 at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, one at the Gaiety, Manchester. The London casts include Claude Rains, later to star in The Invisible Man, Phantom of the Opera, Casablanca, etc., in what must be very early roles. The first four plays are fantastic and supernatural, also cynical; the last is a humourous sketch without fantasy elements.. Third Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

London: Herbert Jenkins Endpapers browned, name on flyleaf, spine and top edge front cover slightly darkened, spine ends a little worn. Gift inscrip. on flyleaf dated 1925. Orange cloth with pictorial decoration in brown. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1931. Cloth dull; some water staining edges.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 9999. Half leather binding, gilt title on spine, Hounslow on front board; label from "7th & 57th Regimental District" library. Front board detached, spine only attached at back. Cheap leather very worn, but text block pretty sound & clean, only a few spots of foxing. Mrs. Joseph Hadley Riddel, born Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan, 1832-1906. Was first published 1873; this edition probably 1876/77. New Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Methuen, 1958. Some browning of endpapers, very few spots of foxing; dustwrapper is clipped, somewhat brown on the inside, and a little worn on folds & edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.