Robin Flower Ida (16 results)

Condition: acceptable. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). The Western Island (1985) by Robin Flower Oxford University Press | ISBN: 9780192812346 Condition: Good (as sold by Crappy Old Books) Some books invite you on holiday. The Western Island invites you on the sort of holiday where the weather is horizontal, the locals are quietly formidable, and your main souvenir is a new respect for turf, tides, and the Irish language. Robin Flower doesn?t so much ?travel? as he gently relocates his entire soul to the edge of the Atlantic and then reports back with the calm precision of a man who has discovered that modern life is, frankly, a bit noisy. First published long before 1985 and then repackaged here by Oxford University Press in that reassuringly serious way OUP does, this is the kind of book that looks innocent on the shelf and then suddenly has you thinking about islands as philosophical conditions. Flower?s western island is one of the Blaskets (off County Kerry), a place that operates by its own rules: sea as highway, weather as authority, conversation as art form, and silence as something you can actually hear. What you get is not an Instagram feed of quaint cottages. You get the real thing: a vivid, unforced portrait of island life and island people, told by someone who isn?t trying to sell you a ?wild Atlantic experience? package. Flower was a scholar and a linguist, yes, but he writes like a human being who has been properly knocked into shape by wind and community. He listens. He observes. He records stories, characters, habits, and the daily machinery of living somewhere that the modern world only reaches by accident. There?s an irony here, of course: we live in an age where ?escape? means a weekend with patchy Wi-Fi, and Flower is quietly showing you what escape looks like when it?s actually true. The island doesn?t care about your schedule. It barely cares about your feelings. It cares about the sea, the boat, the season, the catch, the neighbours, and whether you can keep up. This copy is Good ? which, in Crappy Old Books terms, means it?s respectably presentable and ready for service, with the kind of gentle wear you?d expect from a book that has been consulted by people dreaming of elsewhere (or remembering it). It?s not a pristine museum piece; it?s a working passport to a particular kind of world. Perfect for: Armchair islanders with a taste for salt air and understatement Anyone who loves Ireland beyond the clichés Readers who enjoy travel writing that doesn?t try to ?be travel writing? People who suspect the Atlantic might be the real teacher Open it and you may find yourself longing for a place where the wind edits your thoughts, the sea sets the timetable, and ?going out? means you might not come back until the weather approves.  .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ida M. Flower (illustrator). 2nd printing stated, 138 pgs., illustrated, pages clean, bound in green cloth, very good and wrapped in a dust jacket. Some sunning on jacket spine, some edge wear at outer edge flaps, some sunning at right edge and back left edge of jacket, otherwise a nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). Illustrations by Ida M. Flower. Cover is lightly scuffed. Original store sticker on back cover. Pages clean and unmarked.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The second printing, from 1946. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Moderate handling; old owner's name to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Map endpapers, illustrated. viii,138pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ida M. Flower (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Covers faded and bumped; inscription to half title page, wear to page ends but still a very good copy.

Paperback. Condition: new. Flower, Ida M. (illustrator). New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ida M. Flower (illustrator). viii, 141 pages. Illustrations, mapped endpapers. 190x130mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt, with pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.

Hardcover. 141 p. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. Retired library copy with corresponding labelling. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.