Casey Rev James (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pp. 118 + adverts. Covers stained & same damp staining to page edges. Corners & spine ends bumped & rubbed. Else good. Scarce.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Casey, Rev, James. 10vols: Pp. (1) x, 174. 2nd ed. Verses on Doctrinal & Devotional Subjects. 1894; (2) x, 150, advert. Verses on Doctrinal & Devotional Subjects.1886; (3) vii, 188, adverts.Verses on Doctrinal & Devotional Subjects 1892; (4) x, 126 Temperance Songs and Lyrics. 3rd ed. 1896. Greatly enlarged; (5) vii, 54. Intemperance; or, The Evils of Drink. A Poem. 4th ed. 1896; (6) 118, adverts. Our Thirst for Drink: Its Cause and Cure, A Poem. 2nd ed. 1888; (7) 87. The Spouse of Christ or The Church of the Crucified a Dogmatic and Historic Poem in four parts. 1st ed. 1897; (8) 58, adverts. Two Lectures on the Trials and Triumphs of the Church. 1st ed. 1899; (9) 48. Paddy Blake's Sojourn among the Soupers with Anti Souper Songs and Ballads. 3rd & enlarged ed. 1897; (10) 14. The Gaelic Revival A Poem. With a translation of The Exile of Erin into Irish first published in Canon Bourke's Irish Grammar in 1856. 1st ed. 1903. Hinges weak. The front hinge has been reinforced with sellotape & the rear of the title page has been sellotaped to the first page of the first vol. in similar fashion. The extremities have been bumped and rubbed and the spine edges are worn. Front cover has damp stained spots, occasional internal stains, nicks and pencil annotation. Despite it's thickness with over 1000 pages it is well held together & apart from the defects outlined it is generally clean internally. Casey [1824-1909], a native of Riverstown, County Sligo, was one of the most popular of the temperance poets. His skill with humourous verse ensured his poems went through many editions. For some years he was parish priest of Athleague, County Roscommon. Scarce.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2 vols in one: (1) Pp. 118. (2) Pp. 76. (including adverts) 2nd & 3rd editions. 1888 and 1885 respectively. Covers stained & same damp staining to page edges. Corners & spine ends bumped & rubbed. Else good. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, x, 174; x, 150, [2- press blurbs Vol. I]; viii, 188, [4-adverts] p. Original dark blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt, floral pattern endpapers, all edges gilt. Minute nicks to the head and tail of the backstrip, paper on the front hinge lightly cracked otherwise a near fine copy inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper 'To / Dr McDonnell / with / the Author's compts / April 1896' and a two line quote from The Iliad Book XI. First edition of Vol. II and III, second edition of Vol. I. No copy this three volume in one Duffy edition located on WorldCat or COPAC. Casey [1824-1909], a native of Riverstown, County Sligo, was one of the most popular of the temperance poets. His skill with humourous verse ensured his poems went through many editions. For some years he was parish priest of Athleague, County Roscommon. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Scarce. C. 1884. p.p. 40. Original printed wrps. Scarce long satirical poem denouncing the vultures of proselytism, who preyed on starving children of catholic parents on the Connemara hillside and the back lanes of Dublin.