The Mercier Press Ltd 1974 Paperback Very Good 1974. Paperback. 8vo Illustrated Original printed wrappers.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 0853423911, ISBN13: 9780853423911, [publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd] Softcover 1974. Paperback. 8vo Illustrated Original printed wrappers. . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1974]

ISBN10: 0853423911, ISBN13: 9780853423911, [publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd] Softcover Fine, except for a small dark stain to the side of text block.
[Edmonton, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1974]
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0853423911, ISBN13: 9780853423911, [publisher: Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork] Softcover First Edition Dublin and Cork: Mercier Press, 1974. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. From the rear cover: "This is a portrait of the city and the people who have lived in it: a pageant that includes Dame Alice Kyteler and her coven of witches and warlocks; John Howard, the prison reformer; Bishop Pococke, the eighteenth century scholar and traveler who planted the cedars of Lebanon in the County Meath; Richard Power, who created an amateur theatre in Kilkenny so famous that Grattan and Maria Edgeworth attended it; Thomas Moore whose LAST ROSE OF SUMMER grew in Jenkinstown, near Kilkenny; Smith O'Brien, the Fenian idealist who did not realize that men cannot fight on empty bellies; Dr. Abraham Colles, the pioneer surgeon. the colourful General Prout who arranged to have the capture of Kilkenny Castle during the Civil war re-enacted in front of the movie cameras." Biographies. Bibliography. Original pictorial wraps. First Edition (Paperback Original - PBO). Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Skelton, John (Cover Art). (vi), 112pp. First Edition (Paperback Original - PBO).
[Henderson, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1974]