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Harper. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. Green boards, gilt page tops gentle bumping and shelf rubbing to boards w/ minor wear to cloth. .

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS PUBL.. G IN GREEN CLOTH WITH GILT LETTERING. 2 VOLUME SET. NO DJS. Pages: 815. . 1899. HARDCOVER.. LIGHTLY EDGEWORN & RUBBED. BINDING SLIGHTLY STRAINED IN SPOTS. A FEW PENCIL NOTATIONS ON REPS. TEXT BLOCK CLEAN. .

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1899 VERY NICE LOOKING SET OF DARK GREEN COVER BOOKS, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, OWNERS SIGNATURE 1899 ONLY MARKING INSIDE BOTH BOOKS. Signed by author under frontispiece. M'Carthy, Justin, 1830-1912, Irish historian, politician, and novelist. After a long career in journalism, he entered the British Parliament in 1879, advocating home rule for Ireland. He was at first a supporter of, then head of the opposition to, Charles Parnell. A NICE PHOTO OF MCCARTHY IS THE FRONTISPIECE. THESE TWO VOLUMES ARE REMINISCENCES, RECOLLECTIONS OF EMINENT PEOPLE WHOM MCCARTHY CAME IN CONTACT WITH. CHAPTERS SUCH AS "FIRST SIGHT OF LONDON, THE PRINCES OF LITERATURE, WALT WHITMAN, SOLDIERS OF WAR, BRIGHAM YOUNG, GEORGE ELIOT, LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, PRINCE NAPOLEON, FROUDE, SOME MEMORIES OF STAGE AND IRISH MEMBERS." MANY OTHER CHAPTERS. GREAT LOOK AT EUROPE AND THE WORLD. BOOK ONE HAS 387 PAGES AND TWO HAS 424 PAGES WITH INDEX. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First Edition. 8vo. Green silk binding, gold titles, teg. 387, 424 pp. Antique library bookplate, hand-numbered and hand-dated. Very good condition..

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First edition. THree-quarter maroon morocco with gilt lettering and design on the spine.. Very Good. The recollection of the men and women who were friends or enemies of Justin McCarthy, author, historian, and Anti-Parnellite Nationalist member of the Irish Parliment. He traveled in high literary and political circles, so the book includes his experiences with writers Walt Whitman, Henery Ward Beercher, George Eliot, Anthony Trollpe, John Stuart Mill, and Rudyard Kipling and with politicians Charles Steward Parnell, Napoleon, William Gladsone, and Lord Randdolph Churchill. Volume 2 is nearly perfect, but there are several chips on the spine and back of volume 1. Also, the morocco is missing from the back of volume 1. Both volumes have an elaborated bookplate from previousowner (Kenser) pasted onto the front endpaper