Hurst Hal Illus (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First U.K. Edition. xi, 258, 32 p. 81 b&w drawings. Red cloth with black impressing. Spine lean. Corners bumped, some edge wear, dampstains and soiling. Spine darkened with torn ends. Some soiling to endpapers. P. 31 at rear has chipped margin not affecting text.

First edition, illus dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board & spine, frontispiece, vii + 311pp, illus, VG (bruising and small tears to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, slight rubbing to boards, bookplate to front pastedown, light tanning to eps & page edges, light soiling to upper page edges).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xii, 300, four plates. Original publishers illustrated brown cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. No date, circa 1897. Some pages carelessly opened with very slightly ragged edges, otherwise very good. Decent copy.

Condition: Very Good. London: F.V. White & Co., 1897. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 311pp. Six plates including frontis, all present. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Boards rubbed along edges with some exposure to corners, some scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine ends crushed, and spine a touch cocked. Endpapers toned. Some occasional marginal thumpbrints and smudges, but pages unmarked. Binding is secure. Opens easily between gatherings, but binding is secure. In A Readers' Guide to Irish Fiction, Stephen J. Brown summarizes the novel: "The adventures of three young soldiers, an Englishman (the hero), and Irishman, and a Scotchman, in a Royalist crack regiment. Lively descriptions of fighting before Derry and at the Boyne. Good outline of the campaign, but little historical detail or description. Told in pleasant style with plenty of go" (Brown p. 19). [Currey p. 210].