Welch George Patrick (13 results)

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Fair or Better. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor Dust Jacket. First Edition - Stated. A used looking copy that got wet once and it left stains on cover and inside of book. Yet, all quite useable and no smell, etc. This is offered due to its insciprion by the author on the front blank page which is still in excellent shape: : "To _____ - with all good wishes Geo Patrick Welch Colorado Springs Colorado June 1964". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).…

Good plus or better, light general wear First Edition Cloth Lightly worn jacket with a few tears. Pages browned. Monday, December 07, 2009 2:37:39 PM.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition (stated). VG/G. Grey cloth, silver decoration and lettering. Thin fade lines top and bottom edges, boards clean. Contents are clean and unmarked, binding and hinges sound. Jacket faded on spine, light rubs on edges and folds, price intact ($6.75). Jacket in new mylar protector.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good / with Protective Cover. First American Edition. Very good condition. Clean text, few breaks in the spine. Rubbing and fading on the covers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. First Edition. 288 pages. No dustjacket. Clean light brown hardback binding with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Page-edges browned, pencil names to front endpapers, tape mark to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. *1965 Hardcover with Dustjacket, Second Printing.* Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. B & W illustrations. A few pages have old corner fold lines. Gray cloth cover. Black & red Dustjacket with mylar, spine is faded. *No shipping outside the United States available for this heavy book.*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This book is in good condition for it's age. There are few marks and the sleeve is a bit grubby but otherwise no other damage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 282 pp. Original gray cloth covers, very bright and clean. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed. Small paper lift to rear panel. Spine a bit sunned. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice. …

1st edn. 8vo. Original silver decorated grey cloth, top edge grey (a little faded at spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 282, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ist U.S. edition. pp.xiii 282, illustrated with photographs and maps. Blue cloth with silver title on spine. some fading to extreme top edge. Owner's name neatly written in top corner of front endpaper otherwise Very good in a Good protected dustjacket. Heavy book which may require extra overseas shipping at cost.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with normal markings. Hard cover with mylar protector over dust jacket. Normal cover and page wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, modest wear to extremities; the jacket is edgeworn, with some chipping to and surrounding the top of the spine, tiny tears and minor paper loss at several corners, and some nasty red staining to the lower section of the rear panel]. A sprawling romantic tale backgrounded against the Irish Civil War, narrated by its protagonist, one Dennis Fitzhugh O'Shea -- aka Baron Dunfogar, a member of "the somewhat emasculated peerage of Ireland" -- who returns home after serving in the British Army during the Great War to find that his ancestral home has become a base of operations for the Sinn Fein. Before long (being a good-hearted chap with a sense of basic fairness), he is won over to the side of the rebels, his conversation conveniently helped along by his attraction to a proud and beautiful young lass (who also happens to be a gun-runner for the rebels). The book is steeped in the country's tradition and lore -- each chapter is prefaced by a bit of Irish verse or lyric -- and is partisan all the way; as one contemporary review noted, it's "as pro-Eire as an IRA bombing, as anti-British as a Hitler speech" -- which may not have gone down well in all quarters at the time, given that pro-British sentiment was on the upswing in the period immediately prior to America's entry into World War II. The author (1900-1973) was a first-generation Irish-American, his father having emigrated from County Cork; he was educated at Harvard, then spent some time as an investment banker before turning to writing. He apparently never wrote another novel, although it was reported in 1941 that he had written a play, "The Undersea Visitor," about a German submarine surfacing off the coast of Ireland; Guthrie McClintic was supposedly interested in producing it, but it seems to have never made it to the boards. In the early years of the war, Welch was also involved with the Federal Union movement; as its acting director, he pushed a kind of proto-United Nations idea of the world's democracies forming a world organization for the dual purpose of winning the war and building the ensuing peace. (He is not, by the way, to be confused with the contemporary fantasy/adventure novelist of the same name.) A somewhat uncommon book, it seems. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.****.…