Boylan elizabeth (6 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 13 short stories. Featured are The Happy Brotherhood by Michael Gilbert, Her Heart's Home by Mary McMullen, The Dead Past by Thomas Walsh, Account Settled by Robert Edward Eckels, Sister, Are You There? Jane Windle Paynter, The Firebox by David Thomas, Motivation in Any Language by Mickey Lanford, The Rose Murders by E.X. Ferrars, The Weed Killer by David Ely, The Last of the Cotters by E.D. Boylan, The Drowning Icecube by Jon L. Breen, Gone Girl by Ross MacDonald, The Theft of Nothing At All by Edward D. Hoch. The Ross MacDonald story was originally published in 1953 under the Kenneth Millar. Moisture ring to the front cover. In fair condition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 159 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Heavy Water by Martin Amis; Healing by Murray Bail; Appearances by Clare Boylan; He Found Her in Late Summer by Peter Carey; Going Home by Janice Elliott; The Wild Colonial Boy by David Ireland; Victory by Gillian Tindall; On Hearing the First Gigli in Spring by Elizabeth Troop; The Snowman Maker by John Wain; and The Philadelphia Connection by Terence Wheeler. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Spanish language text.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. xxii, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780807083208, 9780807083253, 0807083208, 0807083259 ; OCLC 19886086 ; beige-yellow cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin -- Housekeeper's cut / Clare Boylan -- Midwife to the fairies / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- Granny / Bernadette Matthews -- The bride of Christ / Eithne Strong -- The wall-reader / Fiona Barr -- The day of the christening / Harriet O'Carroll -- Melancholy baby / Julia O'Faolain -- Pure invention / Anne Le Marquand Hartigan -- The intruders / Rita Kelly -- Naming the names / Anne Devlin -- Amnesty / Maeve Kelly -- A family picnic / Ita Daly -- Made in heaven / Maura Treacy -- Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien -- One word / Juanita Casey -- Park-going days / Evelyn Conlon -- Trio / Jennifer Johnston -- All fall down / Helen Lucy Burke -- A day in the dark / Elizabeth Bowen -- The foundress / Emma Cooke -- Shepherd's bush / Maeve Binchy -- Failing years / Mary Beckett -- A curse / Brenda Murphy -- Village without men / Margaret Barrington -- Checkpoint / Ann McKay -- The dove of peace / Leland Bardwell ; A collection of twenty-seven short stories by Irish women writers. The first collection of contemporary short stories by Irish women writers to appear in the United States. ; Louise A. DeSalvo (1942-2018) was an American writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who lived in New Jersey. ; Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy's Irish roots stem from County Offaly and Tipperary. Her parents emigrated from Ireland in the 1920s and she was born and raised in Manhattan, in Holy Name Parish. Her mother, Kathleen Kearney Walsh, was a founding member and president of the Offaly Association, the first woman director of the United Irish Counties Association, the founder of the Irish Hospital Cheer Committee, and the president and founder of the East Hampton Irish American Club.Her father, Patrick F. Walsh, was a famous bandleader in New York, a member of the Musicians' Union, the Hotel Workers' Union, and the Tipperary Association.As a child, Kathleen was immersed in Irish culture. She was a step dancer with the McNiff School and a competitor in the U.I.C Feis, dancing and singing. She marched and step-danced up the avenue in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. She spent time in Ireland as a child and teenager, later living in Dublin in the early 70s, working for Sinn Fein. Kathleen has worked as a writer, editor, teacher and social worker. She compiled and co-edited "Territories of the Voice/Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers" (Beacon Press). As a social worker, she has worked with homebound elders, teen mothers, and domestic violence survivors. ; Katherine Hogan teaches English and Latin at Pearl River High School in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the political works of Seamus Heaney. ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1996 1st editions. Small format paperbacks. Selected Fiction by Notable Women Authors. Including: Jane Austen - Catharine 62pp; Maeve Binchy - Cross Lines 57pp; Clare Boylan - The Stolen Child 59pp; Kate Chopin - Athenaise 60pp; Colette - The Kepi 61pp; Anita Desai - Scholar and Gypsy 59pp; Maria Edgeworth - The Lottery 59pp; George Eliot - Brother Jacob 62pp; Janet Frame - The Reservoir 60pp; Elizabeth Gaskell - Half a Life-Time Ago 62pp; Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong 60pp; A.L.Kennedy - Tea and Biscuits 57pp; Doris Lessing - The Pit 59pp; Katherine Mansfield - At the Bay 57pp; Daphne Du Maurier - The Birds 58pp; Anais Nin - Stella 58pp; Edna O'Brien - Mrs Reinhardt 60pp; Rosamunde Pilcher - The Key 59pp; Kate Pullinger - Forcibly Bewitched 59pp; Ruth Rendell - Ginger and the Kingsmarkham Chalk Circle 62pp; Michele Roberts - God's House 59pp; Rose Tremain - The Kite Flyer 60pp; Penny Vincenzi - The Glimpses 60pp; Fay Weldon - Heat Haze 60pp; Edith Wharton - The Letters 58pp. Each volume contains a selection of fiction, plus a short Note on the Author, some volumes with list of titles in the series. Condition: Very Good. Light scattered foxing or age toning. Size: 5.5x4.5in / 14x11cm. Combined Weight 720g. …

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