ISBN10: 0094654905, ISBN13: 9780094654907, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]
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Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0094654905 9780094654907 [GB]

ISBN10: 0094654905, ISBN13: 9780094654907, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]
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ISBN10: 0094654905, ISBN13: 9780094654907, [publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited] Hardcover First Edition Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]

ISBN10: 0094654905, ISBN13: 9780094654907, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover First Edition In protective brodart.
[Henderson, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1987]

Constable, Date: 1987. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780094654907 1987. Constable ISBN 0094654905 9780094654907 [GB]

Constable 1987 Other This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1050grams, ISBN: 9780094654907.

ISBN10: 0094654905, ISBN13: 9780094654907, [publisher: Constable] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper. My main speciality is IRISH BOOKS. To see other books on this subject click on: "MORE BOOKS FROM THIS SELLER" and then type in “IRISH” under KEYWORDS, which can be filtered further by “history” [which includes politics], “literary”, “topography”& "Art". I have built up my collection over 30 year and I am constantly acquiring new stock. Do contact me for more information of further titles not presently listed.
[WORCESTER, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0094654905 9780094654907 [US]

Constable, Date: 1987-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1987. Constable ISBN 0094654905 9780094654907 [US]

Date: 1987. London, Constable, 1987. 24 cm. XVII, 327 pages. Illustrated with stunning photographs in black and white throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Name of pre-owner on halftitle. Signed by the author Mark Bence-Jones on the titlepage. The old land-owning families of Ireland, known collectively as the Ascendancy long after they had ceased to be in the ascendant, lost most of their political power towards the end of the 1870s, the same time as their economic foundations began to be sapped by agrarian unrest. For them the hundred years that followed was a twilight period; yet despite the shortage of money and the break-up of their ancestral homes and estates, not to mention two World Wars and the Irish Troubles, they still managed to enjoy life. This book is a highly entertaining chronicle of the Ascendancy's twilight years; a chronicle rich in anecdote with memorable scenes in fast-moving narrative. The mood is constantly changing from comedy to tragedy and back again. Country houses are seen in all the glory of a royal visit; they are seen burning during the Troubles and Civil War; they are seen in the last stages of dry rot, inhabited by a solitary old lady who keeps body and soul together by selling off the contents of her drawing room. A hundred years of the Ascendancy world, from the Victorian heyday of the Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle to the ...