Life John Boyle O'reilly, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First couple of pages damaged and coming loose, biding solid.

stiff wraps. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, pp. xvi, 280, Index, b&w and colour plates, b&w map, pictorial eps, previous owner's gift inscription to half-title, original stiff wraps, spine faded (as usual), some light creasing upper rear wrap. Good condition. Biography of the Irish patriot who escaped the penal colony of Western Australia.

Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xv [xvi] [1] 280 : black and white illustrations : green boards with gilt lettering : illustrated jacket : mapped endpapers. Tail corner of upper board very gently rubbed; small crease to jacket tail. Irish-born O'Reilly was convicted for political conspiracy in England and sentenced for 20 years. After spending a number of years in English jails he was transported when 23 to Western Australia...

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xv + 280pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, notes, bibliog., index, Irish-born O'Reilly was convicted for political conspiracy in England and sentenced for 20 years. After spending a number of years in English jails he was transported when 23 to Western Australia in 1868 on the last convict ship sent to Australia. Two years later, he escaped and fled to America on a whaling ship. In Boston he...

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. O'Reilly (1844-1890) was an early member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and was sentenced to penal servitude in Australia; he escaped, and became a prominent voice in the Irish nationalist diaspora. This is a Good only copy of the First Edition, a posthumous biography issued in the year following Boyle's death. Large octavo, in a maroon pebbled cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 790...

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Small 4to. [xxii], 790p. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering, frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature and tissue guard, 7 other full-page black and white plates. A fine copy with top edge gilt and bright clean unopened pages. First half of the book consists of a biography there after O'Reilly's poems and speeches then a chapter on O'Reilly's experiences as a convict in Western Australia ( for his association with the Irish Nationalists ,...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown Boards First Edition, Some light edge-wear, scuffing, and fading of spine, Front joint cracked, tanning to page margins. Minor foxing. Text Cean. Binding Tight.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. O'Reilly (1844-1890) was an early member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and was sentenced to penal servitude in Australia; he escaped, and became a prominent voice in the Irish nationalist diaspora. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition, a posthumous biography issued in the year following Boyle's death. Large octavo, in a maroon pebbled cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Clean text;...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cassell Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1891. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition His life, poems and speeches. Patterned endpapers. 790 pages. Brown cloth, gilt titles and design on front and spine. boards loose at gutter of endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xix, [1 leaf], 790. with half-title. 8 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). original cloth. First Edition.