Author: DUNSANY, LORD (EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, LORD DUNSANY - BARON OF DUNSANY)
Title: Tales of War
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1918. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked notation (sideways in the hinge) on the half title page. There is a previous owner's book plate (the book plate of Betty and Louis Horst) on the front pastedown page. The front endpaper shows some offsetting from the bookmark on the front pastedown page. "Born to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Science Fiction Lord Dunsany Short Stories war Fantasy Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett World War I
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Title: Tales of War
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1918. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked notation (sideways in the hinge) on the half title page. There is a previous owner's book plate (the book plate of Betty and Louis Horst) on the front pastedown page. The front endpaper shows some offsetting from the bookmark on the front pastedown page. "Born to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Science Fiction Lord Dunsany Short Stories war Fantasy Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett World War I
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34393
- Book number: 34393
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