Vocations
by O'Donovan, Gerald
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Bookplate; very slight lean; fine in a slightly dust-soiled dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with some minor scratches.
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First American edition. Bookplate; very slight lean; fine in a slightly dust-soiled dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with some minor scratches.. 8vo, 334pp; cloth. A very nice copy of the priest-turned-novelist's book about the lives of young women in Catholic Ireland. The rare dust jacket reproduces a letter to the publisher from George Moore as a blurb in the front panel; the bookplate is that of newspaper publisher and collector J.L. Sturtevant.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Locus Solus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 205299
- Title
- Vocations
- Author
- O'Donovan, Gerald
- Book Condition
- Used - Bookplate; very slight lean; fine in a slightly dust-soiled dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with some minor scratches.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
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