Final Hosting

Verlag: Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1940

  • Erstausgabe
  • Hardcover
  • Gebraucht
Alle Details anzeigen
Verkäuferin bzw. Verkäufer von Kulturgütern

Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USAReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 24. Februar 1998

Verbandsmitglied: ABAAIOBAILAB

Artikel dieses Verkäufers ansehen
Hardcover

Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut

EUR 66,44

 Versand gratis 
Versand innerhalb von USA

Anzahl: 1 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb
Kostenlose Rückgaben innerhalb von 30 Tagen

Artikelbeschreibung vom Verkäufer

(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.****.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29556

Bibliografische Details

Titel
Final Hosting
Autor
Welch, [George] Patrick
Verlag
Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1940
Zustand
Very Good
Schutzumschlag
Good dj
Einband
Hardcover
Ausgabe
First Edition.

ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 24. Februar 1998

Verbandsmitglied:

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Artikel5 bis 14 Werktage3 bis 6 Werktage
Erster ArtikelEUR 0,00EUR 10,32
Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, können Verzögerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Gebühren sind von der Käuferin bzw. dem Käufer zu tragen. Die Verkäuferin bzw. der Verkäufer kann Sie bezüglich zusätzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen möglichen Anstieg der Versandkosten für Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.

Zahlungsarten

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Vorauskasse
  • Zahlungsanweisung

Shop-Beschreibung

Welcome to ReadInk (rhymes with "Dead Ink"), now in our 29th year of putting interesting books into the hands of interested people. **** Although I occasionally lapse into the "royal we" voice, ReadInk is just me, from one end of the pipeline to the other: buying, cataloging, customer service, shipping, you name it. Nothing here is automated, and every order or inquiry gets my prompt, personal attention. **** In describing a book's physical condition, I employ standard book-grading terminology (Good/Very Good/Fine, with various in-between gradations as appropriate) and do my best to avoid both excessive jargon and overly-finicky detail. My goal is always to present a faithful impression of a book's condition and appearance; significant flaws are individually noted, or if too numerous are succinctly summarized. **** Books are more than just physical objects, however: they are also intellectual/information vessels, and in almost every case I also include some information about a book's content in my listing, even if it's only a carefully chosen quotation from the dust jacket copy. (This may sound like a small thing, but take a look sometime and you'll see how amazingly few sellers bother with this, especially in the case of older fiction, which is one of my specialties.) **** I take great care (and pride) in my packaging of books for shipment; I figure it's my responsibility to ensure that each book I send out will withstand the rigors of the U.S. Postal System, and will reach its new owner in the same condition as advertised. (A sturdy box or an unbendable package is always involved.) **** That's all there is to ReadInk: just a guy who has loved books all my life (perhaps to excess) and entered the trade in my "middle years" to see what I could make of it. And I'm still finding out. **** To view my inventory exclusively, head over to my website -- www.readinkbooks.com. ---- Howard Prouty, prop.

Spezialisierung

Vintage American Fiction, Mystery/Detective Fiction, Film/TV/Theatre, Cinema Periodicals, and Most Anything Else That Strikes My Fancy

Verbandsmitglied

  • Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
  • Independent Online Booksellers Association
  • International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Die Mitglieder dieser Verbände haben sich verpflichtet, die höchsten Standards einzuhalten. Sie verbürgen sich für die Echtheit aller zum Verkauf angebotenen Artikel. Sie liefern fachkundige und detaillierte Beschreibungen, legen alle wesentlichen Mängel und/oder Restaurierungen offen, bieten klare und genaue Preisangaben und arbeiten während des Kaufprozesses fair und ehrlich.

Unternehmensdaten der Verkäuferin bzw. des Verkäufers

ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

CA, USA