Halpine Charles Miles Oreilly (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Stains, scuffs, soils, edge wear, waving, etc. A reading copy only. 352 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair/Good. No Jacket. Embossed and bevelled brown cloth boards with wear at corners. 352pp, brown endpapers, frontispiece drawing of author with small ink stain, very minor markings withing the text, else clean and unmarked and still reasonably sound.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. 352 pages. Portrait. 8 x 5.5", blind & gold stamped brown cloth. 1898 gift inscription. Trifle scuffed, clean, tight, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Post8vo, engraved frontis, xxi, [22]-352 pp. Original green bevel-edge, blind-stamped cloth, gilt, brown endpapers. Ex-Guille-Alles Library, Guernsey with their orange plate on the upper cover, the four page issue leaflet pasted to the front pastedown, withdrawn stamp on the verso of the ffep and the tissue guard of the frontis, the library stamp on the verso of the title, small nick to the head of the backstrip otherwise a VG+ tight and clean copy. First edition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover; Later Printing. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Mullen (illustrator). Green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends, corners frayed; backstrip browned; boards & paste-downs dampstained; hinges, one point in textblock cracked & front hinge separated; owner's name in ink on front free endpaper; front free endpaper chipped at top corner; leaf edges, paste-downs, endpapers & a few margins foxed. No dj. ; Good b&w ils. by Mullen.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 237 pages.

Frontispiece portrait. 352pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Literary works of the Irish-born journalist-author, many of the poems relating to the Civil War, to political or social issues "Woman's Rights" (p. 150) and those of a humorous nature including "An Olfactory Ode in Praise of New York Cleanliness". He, at one time, was editor of the"Carpet Bag," contributed and associated with several American newspapers, was private secretary for Stephen A. Douglas, became a General in the Civil War, assumed the conduct of "The Citizen" and founded the Democratic Union, was an active member of the Tammany Hall General Committee with Halpine bringing about the fall of Fernando Wood, "notorious as the organizer and leader of corruption in the city of New York." Wood was also Mayor of New York and a Member of the U. S. House of Representatives. The editor, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829-1906), was an author and politician, a member of the Committee of Seventy which over threw the Tweed Ring, he was a member of the House of Representatives and later U. S. Minister to the Netherlands. He wrote several works on fishing and hunting and was the uncle of Theodore Roosevelt. Original purple cloth gilt. Spine faded, some light fraying Frontispiece portrait. 352pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 352pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles G. Halpine. With a Biographical Sketch and Explanatory Notes. Edited by Robert B. Roosevelt. Green cloth heavily decorated in gilt on the spine. Early pencil inscription on front flyleaf dated 1882, tips of spine and corners are lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy, with the cloth and gilt decoration quite bright. Myles O'Reilly was born Charles Graham Halpine (1829-1868) in Co. Meath, Ireland, and he emigrated to America, becoming a successful newspaper journalist and editor. During the American Civil War he enlisted in the 47th New York Regiment, and also wrote articles about the War (under the pseudonym Miles O'Reilly).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in very dark charcoal blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, clean tight and unmarked, 228 pages, some very slight occasional age toning, very light chipping at head and heel of spine, condition VG+ or better.