Angus wolfe murray (11 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Later Printing. 194 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. In honour of the editor, this includes a dropped-in crest from the Gordon clan; the crest is also an unused sticker. This anthology contains: Holiday by Forbes Bramble; Beliah by George MacKay Brown; The Foothold by Elspeth Davie; A Kind of Possession by James Allan Ford; Who's Been Sitting in My Car by Antonia Fraser; The Haunted Chimley by Clifford Hanley; The Curator by Dorothy K. Haynes; The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan by Angus Wolfe Murray; Randal by Robert Nye; The Brothers by Iain Crichton Smith; Proud Lady in a Cage by Fred Urquhart; and The Horseshoe Inn by Gordon Williams. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket, in Very Good condition, there are no stamps writing or marks, jacket has some scuffing and is corner clipped, no tears, book itself looks nice.

Etat : FINE. First printing. Second novel by this young Scots writer - a story of the world of rock music as told from the viewpoint of an English musician as he is touring the US in 1970. A vivid picture of both the tour - the band, manager, roadies, groupies - but also of America in that year - the drugs, Black Panthers, and student revolution. Murray volunteered to be a roadie to a touring group, so this is written out of his own experiences. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.). …

Etat : Good. 1978. First British Commonweath Edtn. 190 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- See photos for additional content. . .

Soft cover. Etat : Good. :PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & FOXING-MARK FROM PRICE STICKER-ID SIZE-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE , 1969 Used Something nice ends when the nursery door closes even if this is a somewhat anachronistic world where children are naughty and given dry bread and milk in return This deals with the months which follow when Jonathan and Jane, twins, eight, are sent away to school separately Their misery is compounded by an almost unbelievable succession of events: their father dies in his sick room while his stand-in Uncle James meets a more violent death; Mama contemplates suicide; Jane runs away and (accidentally) kills the gamekeeper attempting to retrieve her; and Jonathan goes through the ritual of bullying and "blubbing" at a public school.…

Softcovers. Etat : Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1973. First edition thus. xii, 125pp. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He also wrote parodies and satirical essays, and this book contains the following eight stories: The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether; The Angel of the Odd; Lionizing; How to Write a Blackwood Article; A Predicament; Loss of Breath; The Business Man; and The Man That Was Used Up. The book is bound in paperback form in the original card covers. It is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the covers and the spine is faded. The contents are secure and clean with no inscription. Stephan McKeown (illustrateur).…

Etat : VG. London 1978 first edition. Peter Owen. Hardcover octavo. Text lightly toned. VG light soiling on end papers. in VG dj. no owner marks. Novel about rock and roll musicians.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Black cloth, 190pp. Laid-in paper Review Slip from Musson Book Company. Some markings on cloth o/w about fine in d/w.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.…