Norway, Mrs HamiltonBiblio.com
The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It
1916006524London: Smith Elder & Co. 1916. One of the prime eye-witness accounts of the 1916 Uprising; Mrs Norway was the wife of the Secretary of the General Post Office and provided the only telephone link between Dublin and London during that Easter Week. Copies are held institutionally by LOC and other research libraries in the UK & Australia but quite scarce in the trade. It has been reprinted twice. This is a Very Good Plus copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with black lettering on the spine and a lovely reproduction of an Irish Republican stamp design on the front cover. Clean text; 111 pages with an errata slip laid into page 59. Frontis photograph and one other within. Spotting to the endpapers; About one-third of the frontis photo is unattached but it holds nicelyose. The corners are mildly bumped and the spine is lightly darkened. A sound and quite attractive copy of this important source. No dustwrapper; in an archival plastic cover. Note: due to a computer crash this book might also appear with the invntory # 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
Quercus Rare Books · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €
