Shame Devil by Oflaherty Liam (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good-. No Jacket. Binding intact; interior clean beyond remains of previous owner bookplate inside front board. Boards very worn and bumped and corners as are the spine ends; spine discolored and soiled. page edges soiled. Not a pretty book. Liam O'Flaherty was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and was involved for a time in left-wing politics. This book is his memoir. Stated 2nd printing. 285pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 285pp; A good copy in unclipped d/w; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. First cheap edition. With author photograph frontis. With two passages deleted by the censor, as noted by the publisher in note. Original pictorial oatmeal coloured cloth with crimson sword and title pasted label to front and red lettering to spine. Marked inside front cover and loose at front spine however all pages intact and binding remains tight. Light spotting, text is crisp and clear and reamins a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. First cheap edition. With author photograph frontis. With two passages deleted by the censor, as noted by the publisher in note. Original pictorial oatmeal coloured cloth with crimson sword and title pasted label to front and red lettering to spine. Marked inside front cover and loose at front spine however all pages intact and binding remains tight. Light spotting, text is crisp and clear and reamins a fine copy. . . . .

Condition: vg/vg. vg book in good complete dw Grayson & Grayson 2nd print 1934 edition hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second printing (same year as first printing). Previous owner's name and date on ffep, plus five lines of newspaper review of book cut out and pasted beneath previous owner's name (please see photos). Otherwise no other markings or inscriptions. Usual discolouration with age. Cover rubbed around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Cheap Edition. 12mo. A very nice copy. b/w portrait frontis. Spotting to first and last few pages. Dw has small tears to extrems. Tanned, mark to spine. red cloth with pictorial cover matching d/w. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Book condition: Near Fine. Jacket: Near Fine. First Thus. Signed by Liam O'Flaherty to title page. A bright copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 284, [1]. with half-title. frontis. portrait. original cloth with paper label on upper cover (slightly soiled). First Edition, Second Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, Second Impression. First edition, second impression. Red boards, titles in black to spine, cream and red dust jacket, unclipped, in protective plastic sleeve, b&w photograph of author frontispiece, 284pp, head and foot of spine is bumped, edges stained with some foxing, light foxing to epps and front few pages, otherwise pages inside are clean, dust jacket is tanned with worn edges and a few tears and nibbles to edges, now stable in plastic sleeve, 1cm missing from top of spine.

First edition. Inscribed by the author. Hardcover. Original oat-meal coloured cloth, spine lettered in red, front cover lettered and illustrated (a sword/dagger) within a red & white recessed label. Lacks dustjacket. A bookseller's tiny label on the back fixed endpaper (most likely the original seller, from W.H. Smith in Paris), some light soiling to the cloth, otherwise very good in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. The third installment of O'Flaherty's "flamboyant and inventive memoirs of this restless life" (the others two being "Two Years" (1930) and "I Went to Russia" (1931)). This copy is inscribed on the first blank "For Martin / Liam".

Hard Cover. Condition: near Very Good binding. Octavo. 285 pp. First Edition, limited to 105 signed copies, this being #3 and signed by O'Flaherty beneath the limitation statement. Bound in red buckram with fading at the spine and some toning to the perimeters of the boards; intense offsetting to the first and last leafone of these leaves is the recto of the leaf, the verso of which contains the limitation statement and O'Flaherty's signature. Contents are clean. Lacking the publisher issued dust jacket. Quite an uncommon signed edition of this memoir by the Irish novelist.

First edition. Octavo. 285 pages. Memoirs. Maroon buckram covers; top edge gilt.Number 19 of 105 copies signed by the author. Loosely inserted in an envelope is a page of the original typescript with several typed corrections and one in the author's hand.Fine in good, chipped and price-clipped dustwrapper with the red lettering faded on the spine.

Condition: V.G. First. Second impression. p.p. 285. Portrait frontis of a very handsome author. Original pictorial yellow cloth with crimson sword.