Patrick John Larkin (9 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some minor wear. Content has light toning, no inscriptions, first page missing btm corner, 233pp with B&W illustratons. No DJ.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ex school library book with its incumbent wear. Stamp of library on title page. Spine is worn an very minor damage to bottom of front cover. Pages remain tight with text clear throughout. See Photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2004 Four Courts Press hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. From the cover: How were late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century audiences in Ireland and Britain supplied with news from the British empire? In answering this question, the essays in this volume draw out key similarities and differences between newspapers in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, and emphasise the importance of political division and regional variation within each of these four nations. The contributors thus advance our understanding not just of the history of the press, but also help clarify how empire shaped British and Irish domestic development. Contents List of illustrations and tables Notes on contributors Introduction: empire, propaganda and public opinion - Simon J. Potter 1 The press and the dominant ideology of empire - John M. MacKenzie 2 Empire and the English press, c. 1857-1914 - Simon J. Potter 3 The Scottish press and empire, 1850-1914 - Richard J. Finlay 4 Empire and the Welsh press - Aled Jones and Bill Jones 5 Mutiny or freedom fight? The 1857 Indian Mutiny and the Irish press - Jill C. Bender 6 The dog in the night-time: the Freeman's Journal, the Irish Parliamentary Party and the empire, 1875-1919 - Felix M. Larkin 7 The Irish Independent and empire, 1891-1919 - Patrick Maume 8 'The view from Fleet Street': Irish nationalist journalists in London and their attitudes towards empire, 1892-1898 - Ian Sheehy 9 Nationalist and unionist responses to the British empire in the age of the South African War, 1899-1902 - Donal Lowry 10 An Irish perspective on empire: William Flavelle Monypenny - Jacqueline Beaumont 11 The South African War, empire and the Irish World, 1899-1902 - Una Ni Bhroimeil 12 John Bull's other empire: Roger Casement and the press, 1898-1916 - Angus Mitchell Index.…

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! White wrapper with blue illustration on the front and blue and yellow lettering and a blue and white photograph and blue and white lettering on the rear of the wrapper. 64 very clean unmarked and uncreased magical and adventure-filled pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The Time Lords of Gallifrey choose their leaders by complex ritual and ancient tradition. These leaders have decreed long ago that the ability to travel in time must not be used to intervene in what has already occurred, thus denying the responsibility for protecting the very fabric of the universe they inhabit. The leaders of our great race have become complacent, and the power they wield goes unused, except in the most grievous of circumstances." -------- from the Introduction. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Condition: Good. Publisher's original period colour illustrated paper wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 128 pp. Dusty page edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).