Assassin by Oflaherty Liam: Signed (7 results)

8vo. First edition. Special Author's Edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies of which this is #102. Original blue buckram, gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine and edges of the front board faded. Occasional very slight foxing. Near fine. Dedicated 'To my creditors'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Limited. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. The fifth novel by the great Irish writer, which he dedicated "To My Creditors." This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition Thus, which is LIMITED to 150 copies, SIGNED by the author. A scarce title, thus. Blue cloth binding, with a reproduction of O'Flaherty's signature on the front cover; gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 286 pages, with the top edge gilt. The spine has faded to an olive brown colour, with the sunning starting to creep around the other margins. There is some rubbing to the rear paste-down; possibly something was attached there at some time; but aside from the fading, there is not much wrong with the book. A very solid copy. No dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. …

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 286pp., Special Author's Edition, No. 18 of 150, Signed by the author. Light offsetting to end papers o/w a very nice copy indeed in like dust jacket. Very scarce. PHOTO available.

First edition, first printing, number 37 of 150 copies, numbered & signed by the author; 8vo; slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue buckram, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, a touch of sunning to spine and extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket, spine very slightly faded, flaps and extremities slightly toned, mild edge-wear; a very good copy. Special author's edition, limited to 150 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Stemming from O'Flaherty's own political-activist experiences, this novel is an investigation of the mind and motives of a political murderer. A year following the publication Arthur Robinson directed the first eponymous film version, followed by another in 1935, directed by John Ford, a cousin of the author's.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. A fine, bright copy in near fine striking pictorial dust jacket (by "J. L. Carstairs") jacket with a few tiny nicks at tips of spine and with three neat internal mends on the verso, else fresh and bright. Signed by O'Flaherty on the front flyleaf.…

O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Assassin. Orig. cloth. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First ed. One of 150 copies signed, this being no. 50. Spine sunned, else very good. Signed.

O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Assassin. Orig. cloth, t.e.g, non-priceclipped dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. "Special author's edition," one of 150 copies signed by the author, this being no. 130. Stemming from O'Flaherty's own political-activist experiences, this novel is an investigation of the mind and motives of a political murderer. Jacket worn and toned at extremities and folds, else very good. Signed.…