Thy Day by Michael Mclaverty (19 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used reading condition or better. Used Book.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. No store stamps. Age spotting. --- --- McLaverty takes such care to create full images of the surroundings in this beautifully modulated book. What people look like isn't quite as important, so he doesn't mention everybody's hair color and ruddy cheeks. His attention to the landscape and the weather makes it obvious that these things matter, and that surely is true in rural life. More important than his characters' appearances are their dispositions. There is generosity, and there is mean-spiritedness, patience and frustration. Nothing cataclysmic happens. There is no revolution or plague. This is a story about a small neighborhood, with people doing their daily tasks, and some of them prospering more than others, but there is general acceptance and contentment with life, except of course every story needs a conflict, and in this case, the plot turns on the actions of Mrs. Mason. From the start, it's clear that she thinks her neighbors, the Devlins, are beneath her, which doesn't matter except that it means she won't clear the way for her son Ned to marry Mary Devlin. She's unyielding. McLaverty shows us a person who can come to the brink of change and draw back at the last minute, and in the way of human beings, reaps the consequence but learns nothing. This is a lovely read for the skill of the writing, and a compelling read for the simplicity of its truths. It is a quiet, moral tale. . .(A. Mary@Goodreads). . .See photos for additional content. . .…

Condition: Very Good. 1981. Paperback. 8vo.Good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1981. Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages but remains good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1981. Paperback. 8vo.Good copy. . . . .

Condition: Good. 1981. Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages but remains good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to jacket.

Condition: Good. 1945. First Edition. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name and stamps to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine.…

Condition: Good. 1947. First American Edition. Hardback. Fine in original cloth covers, no dust wrapper. Covers showing some shelf wear and age. Lightly toned, with some spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A good square unmarked copy, light soiling to boards, light crease to rear board, slight fading to spine.

Condition: Good. 1947. First American Edition. Hardback. Fine in original cloth covers, no dust wrapper. Covers showing some shelf wear and age. Lightly toned, with some spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Jacket. First Edition. Dust-soiled top edges, minimal remains on front pastedown from removed bookplate, very tiny number 42 inked to rear pastedown, else a very bright and clean, near fine book in slightly chipped and soiled, very good dust jacket.

Hard. Condition: Fair. First printing. Fair. Lacking dust jacket. Covers a little marked. Ex-library copy; usual stamps and markings. Rear free endpaper excised.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Flat signed by the author on first blank page, some wear to extremities, a few page corners turned over, light wear & marks etc. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper which is chipped at the edges.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. nrFine DW. 1st Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Top edge slightly spotted. In loose polythene protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; pictorial dust jacket (designed by Tisdall) with very light wear at the tips. Uncommon novel by the Irish author, his one-time student Seamus Heaney dedicated his poem *Fosterage* to McLaverty in 1975.

First edition. Octavo. 200 pages. A novel set in County Down. The author was a schoolteacher who in the fifties had Seamus Heaney in his class. Heaney later wrote the introduction to McLaverty's Collected Short Stories.Very good indeed in very good, slightly chipped and nicked dustwrapper.