Patrick Mcgill (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Oversize Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket.

Condition: New. 2005. Paperback. 189pp. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. 2005. Paperback. 189pp. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good lightly used condition in dust wrapper.

hardcover. Condition: Good. THIRD EDITION ON GREEN CLOTH SOMEWHAT LOOSE BINDING.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Harper & Bros. Co., 1924. Clothbound 331 pg. octavo, slightly skewed. The binding is secure but shaken, i.e., there's no separation at the hinges. Bumping and wear at the head and foot of the boards. There's a gift inscription from 1924 on the FFEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two Volumes , Volume I And Volume Ii, Green Cloth, First Printings. Light Usage. No Marks. Dust Jackets With Wear And Tears And Chips.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Hardback. Condition: New. I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams.Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling - a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.Contributors: Jo Baker, Jan Carson, Reggie Chamberlain-King, Aislínn Clarke, Emma Devlin, Moyra Donaldson, Michelle Gallen, Carlo Gébler, John Patrick Higgins, Ian McDonald, Gerard McKeown, Bernie McGill, Ian Sansom, Sam Thompson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in maroon buckram boards with gilt title lettering to spine.Top edge of the book is in gilt.Page edges are a little tanned and spotted.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 305pp First Edition 1st Impression [1914] '' Written as a piece of fiction, this text is Patrick MacGill's autobiography. Starting with an account of his childhood in Ireland at the end of the 19th century, the story moves to Scotland where, tramp then gang-labourer and then navvy, Dermond Flynn (as he sometimes calls himself) discovers himself as a writer.Fantastic novel with frank assessment of the hard life working as a Navvy.''.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gift inscription to previous owner on ffep. Scarce title.

Booklet in very good condition.

Booklet in very good condition.

Booklet in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Published: 1916. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Green cloth with block titles to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Darkened spine. Tightly bound with heavily toned endpapers and minor movement to board hinges. Annotation to ffep. Toned pages and text block edges. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 254, 2pp ads. Size: 19.5cm by 12.5cm.

Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition, no. 34. Quarto. White and maroon spine with black titling. In Very Good plus condition. Binding shows very light bumping and shelf wear. Dust jacket in Very Good plus condition with very light wear. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering. Signed by Grabel on limitations page. Shelved in Alcove. 1387050. Special Collections.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Author- Cecil Roberts.The hinges are in good condition. Photograph available on request.