MY LADY OF THE CHIMNEY-CORNER & THE SOULS OF POOR FOLK. by Irvine, Alexander. (1863-1941)

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. 128 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges.

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins Clear-Type Press, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Blue boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Blue plastic covers. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Collins, ND Probably c. 1950. Pocket sized 'Library of Classics' edition. 316pp, red cloth covered boards. Frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's name to inner board, one mark to flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. 2 stories, set in Northern Ireland.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Collins, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. Pale blue mottled coloured endpages. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, and there are black-and-white illustrations throughout the two stories. Blue coloured textured stiffened card covers with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Blue coloured tint to the top text block edge. The author's reminiscences of his mother and father, trying to raise 12 children in poverty in Ireland in the middle part of the 20th century, and of the grace in which his mother coped with the vicissitudes of life. The second book is further reminiscences of the author's early life. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with some bumping of the corners. Tanning of the text block edges which also shows some marks. Age toning of the pages. There is a school prize plate fixed to the free front end page (and a little to the free front paste-down) – Mont Albert Central School… Read More

Collins, 1977. 287pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket in a plastic sleeve. Colour plates and b + w illustrations. A clean copy. The creatures, birds and wild plants that inhabit our gardens.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Marjorie Blamey Anthony Orford Denys Ovenden Gordon RIley.

Collins 0 Hardback. Good.

London: Collins Clear-Type Press [no date]. (Limp leather in slipcase) Very good. 127, 128pp. In a very good slipcase. Burgundy leather with gilt spine decoration. Top edge gilt, ribbon page marker, frontispiece, illustrations. The top front corner is lightly bumped and a little rubbed. Includes Alexander Irvine (The Souls of Poor Folk). Publisher series: Library of Classics. (Fiction).