The English Captain and Other Stories by Strong, L. A. G - 1929

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Free endpapers are browned. .

New York: Victor Gollancz LTD. 1931. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. light shelf wear. 4 p. l., vii-viii, 257, [1] p. 19 cm. . The rook. --Old Michael. --Storm. --Mr. Kennedy in charge. --Travellers. --The sick man. --The gates. --"Indian red."--The seal. --Prongs. --Departure. --The gurnet. --The galleon. --Ann. --The tide. --Innocense. --Growing pains. --Portrait of a young husband. --Come... .

London Gollancz, 1929, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Condition: very good (endsheets discolored) in good dust jacket (chipped, spine-darkened). -- These short pieces are alive with Gaelic folk, occupations, places and conversations.

London: Gollancz, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With jacket. 286 pp. Book and jacket clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+

London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo, 286pp. Green lettering with black boards.Good clean copy, dust jacket spine sunned, with small chips to the spine ends and corners, with s short tear to the rear flap at the fore-edge.

London: Victor Gollancz,, 1929.. First edition.. 286 pp. Offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with tanning to spine, and chip to crown, with with some loss.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good. 1929. Softcover. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929. Black woven cloth with gilt-stamped vellum spine; 1/50 on special paper and signed by the author. Near Fine. .

London: Gollancz, 1929. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, L.A.G. Strong, to the noted Los Angeles book collector, Ingle Barr, with an amazing long inscription on two pages. The book was initially inscribed at the time of publication: “For W.A. Mackay, with all good wishes. L.A.G. Strong.” then many years later Strong has added: “from whom it was passed to my friend Ingle Barr. My writing has changed a bit since I wrote that inscription, round the time the book was published. The title story is founded on fact. Each summer holiday I used to frequent the Victoria Baths at what was then Kingston & is now town Laoquaire, The year was 1914. The priest’s real name was Father Walsh, who taught at Blackrock College. Barney Gulligan is a portrait of George Holmes, a noted swimmer. Not all the story is fact; but there was an English Captain, as described, who I never saw again. ‘The Sick Man’ uses a real Dartmoor evening with my old friend Dr. Frederick Willington, also of Dublin.… Read More