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Ships and Sealing-wax

Author(s): Birmingham, George E; [aka Hannay, James Owen]
Binding: Hardcover
Volume Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: No
Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
Dust Jacket Protection: N/A
Signature: None
Language: English
Publisher Name: Methuen & Co
Publication Year: 1927
Publication Place: London, UK
Book ID: 030095
Catalogue(s): Culture and Society

viii, 194pp, 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear.  Red publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  Top edge sprayed red. 12mo.  Cloth is a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a lightly sunned spine. Internally a hint of page ageing, one strained gutter and a previous owner's name pencilled on the front free endpaper, else neat, clean and tight.

Birmingham (aka James Owen Hanney) was a prolific Irish novelist, but Ships and Sealing-wax is a collection of his essays on topics such as Fashions in Words; Preaching; Conferences; Ridicule and Risk.

Keywords:
Essays Prose

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