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Somerville, E. OE. and Martin Ross. A Patrick's Day Hunt.. 1st US Ed E. P. Dutton New York, 1902.
Price: US$141.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Landscape, 10 x 14", [viii], 48 p. Eight full page coloured illustrations complete and numerous text drawings by Somerville, printed by Edmund Evans. Original green pictorial cloth. Old professional recase retaining the endpapers, several plates loose as usual, fore-corners peeping otherwise a VG copy with nice clean plates. First edition. Identical to the Constable edition apart from the Publisher's details on the title.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Somerville & Ross. A Patrick's Day Hunt. Archibald Constable, London, 1902.
Price: US$192.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A PATRICK'S DAY HUNT. E. OE Somerville & Martin Ross. Archibald Constable & Co, London 1902 First edition 54pp Illustrated hardback. Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. Second cousins and products of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy world, they reacted both with and against their environment to present in their books a deceptively indulgent view of the Irish and English. The reality of their lives was somewhat different. Each was gifted, but it was only in combination that they could fulfil their true potential. When Martin Ross died in 1915 as a result of a riding accident, Edith continued, through spiritual communication, to see herself as collaborating with her dead cousin, whose name she never ceased to add to the title page of her books. Edith Somerville in the fascinating alternative guises of master of fox hounds, spiritualist, artist and practical feminist. Born into land-owning Protestant families in the South West of Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Edith Œnone Somerville (1858-1949) and Violet Martin (1862-1915), wrote in partnership as Somerville and Ross. Their novels and short stories intimately detail the social and political conditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland. They produced one of the most popular and best-selling series of comic Irish short stories of its time - the Irish R.M. tales (1899-1914) - as well as one of Ireland's most critically acclaimed novels to date, The Real Charlotte (1894). After Ross's death, Somerville received messages from her via 'automatic writing', and used this spiritual communication to continue their literary collaboration. This very large format book (36cms wide x 26cms high) is a humorous celebration of Irish hunting which was written by Martin Ross and illustrated by Edith Somerville with eight full page colour plates and many black and white vignettes. This copy has one or two loose plates which is characteristic with this book as they were originally mounted by the publisher using an inadequate tape system. The illustrated linen covered boards have some rubs but are overall in very good condition. This is just one of a large number of Somerville and Ross titles that I am selling. Please check my listings for other titles. Ref J1
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Ross, Matrtin & Somerville, E. A Patrick's Day Hunt. Archibald Constable, 1902.
Price: US$193.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Binding cover faded and scuffed, with rubbing to edges and fraying on the spine. Cover in fair condition. No DJ issued. Light foxing scattered here and there. 8 beautiful full-page color plates, Edith Somerville, the artist (1858-1949) was an Irish novelist. She wrote in collaboration with her cousin 'Martin Ross' (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym 'Somerville and Ross'. Together they published a series of 14 stories and novels. 47pp.
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
ROSS, Martin & SOMERVILLE, E. OE. A Patrick's Day hunt. Archibald Constable & Co., 1902.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight and unmarked large oblong format hardcover with lightly worn pictorial front board. Fox speckling to end papers. Illustrated in color. oversized and overweight. d66 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 47pp /illustrated (with engraved text vignettes, and eight beautiful full-page color plates by Somerville, depicting sporting scenes). Loose with occasional foxing, else clean. Oblong folio. Some rubbing and "bleached" spots on covers; pages a little loose with some foxing. Publisher's binding of grey cloth; illustration and lettering Binding cover faded and generally in poor shape.
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$331.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., [circa 1902] (second impression)/ [1902]. Oblong folio (262 × 360 mm), [viii], 47 pages with numerous illustrations including 8 full-page colour plates by Somerville ('Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans'). Black- and green-pictorial grey cloth a little discoloured, marked and rubbed, and slightly bumped and worn at the extremities; endpapers tanned; scattered light foxing (a little heavier on leaves close to the boards); a very good copy. The authors were Irish cousins Edith Anna Oenone Somerville (1858-1949) and Violet Florence Martin (1862-1915), who wrote and illustrated a series of humerous fictional works on contemporary Irish society. 'I wash meself every Sathurday morning, whether I want it or no' is how this one starts out.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$347.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Undated publication. Wide Quarto, 10.3 in. x 14 in., pp. 47. Illustrated with eight color plates and numerous ink drawings. Contemporary gray-green cloth boards with black and green title and horse-rider and shamrocks design stamped to front. Light rubbing to board edges. Light bubbling to upper left of front board. Quarter-sized moisture stain to front board. One inch black stain to bottom of spine. Card-stock pages. Very light foxing throughout. Protected in mylar. Edith Anna Ånone Somerville (1858 - 1949) was anIrish novelistwho habitually signed herself as "E. Å. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend,County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attendedAlexandra CollegeinDublin. In 1884, she went toParisfor the first of several trips to study art at theAcadémie ColarossiandAcadémie Delécluse, and then spent a term at theWestminster School of ArtinDean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin (aka Martin Ross, 1862-1915), and their literary partnership began the following year.In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at theEtaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered inSome Experiences of an Irish R. M., completed the following year.By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. Her cousin's death stunned Edith, who continued to write as "Somerville and Ross", claiming that they kept in contact through spiritualistséances.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated publication. Wide Quarto, 10.3 in. x 14 in., pp. 47. Illustrated with eight color plates and numerous ink drawings. Rebound in three quarter calf with decorative rule in blind over designer brown, green and white paper boards. Gilt tile to black and burgundy panels, gilt bandlines and fleurons, and five raised bands to spine. Card-stock pages. Age-toning to pages. A sturdy, handsome copy! Edith Anna Ånone Somerville (1858 - 1949) was anIrish novelistwho habitually signed herself as "E. Å. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend,County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attendedAlexandra CollegeinDublin. In 1884, she went toParisfor the first of several trips to study art at theAcadémie ColarossiandAcadémie Delécluse, and then spent a term at theWestminster School of ArtinDean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin (aka Martin Ross, 1862-1915), and their literary partnership began the following year.In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at theEtaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered inSome Experiences of an Irish R. M., completed the following year.By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. Her cousin's death stunned Edith, who continued to write as "Somerville and Ross", claiming that they kept in contact through spiritualistséances.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.