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O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$18.90 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 187, [1] p.; 19 cm. Brown cloth with green spine title. No dust jacket. Set in a foxhole during the First World War, this bleak novel was inspired by the author's experience as an Irish Guardsman during that war. Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) was an Irish author and a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; small ding in upper and lower edge of front cover; internally clean and tight.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.

Liam O'Flaherty. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, UK, 1929.

Price: US$47.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition 1929, no previous printings listed. Published by The Mandrake Press, London, UK. Hardcover in tan cloth with green title on the spine without DJ. Condition very good, square and tight book, slight edgewear, corners not bumped, paper slightly evenly age toned, covers and upper edge slightly dusty, small light spot at the bottom of the spine, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. 12mo, 127 pages. ASIN B000869FBG

Seller: monobooks, Livingston, NJ, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. The Return of the Brute. Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$49.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original cloth. Early printing. PO name to fep of Delmer Daves, dated 1930. Daves was a noted screenwriter/director. Mild foxing to endpages; pencilled marginalia (lines alongside text in the margins. ) Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Liam O'Flaherty. Return Of The Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG+/Fair. First edition. Light brown cloth boards have spine lettering in green. Cloth is clean and unworn. There is a tiny thumbnail tear in the front gutter and light bumps at spine ends. Hinges are intact and binding is tight. Pages are clean and there are no ownership markings. Light toning on eps from dj. Original dust jacket is only in fair condition. It is worn and chipped, with extensive tape repairs to the underside. It's in new mylar.

Seller: Buy The Book Here, Boiling Springs, SC, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover, brown binding, minor fading to front and back cover. Browning to inside gutter. SIGNED by Liam O'Flaherty on first page.

Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. O'Flaherty's sixth published novel, following"The Informer." Strongly anti-war, based upon his experiences serving with the Irish Guards in World War One. This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition. Brown cloth binding with titling in green on the spine. Clean text; 187 pages. Spine slightly faded (but lettering is not). Some splay and spotting to the page ends. The expressionistic dustwrapper is complete and unclipped (price of 5 shillings is on the spine). Spine is darkened a bit and there are chips to the head and foot. One larger chip to the top of the front cover; does not interfere with the illustration. Not perfect, but better than usually seen. In an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$177.85 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 12mo, pp. 187, publisher's brown cloth with green lettering to spine, spine with some light spotting but covers fresh and bright with sharp corners, now in protective mylar, interior with toned end papers, inscription and author's signature, dated 31/10/29, on fep, text very largely clean and crisp, some small foxing to fore edge, binding sound. O'Flaherty's classic anti-war novel is here inscribed to Anton Zwemmer, the German-born bookseller, publisher, collector and art dealer whose shop in London was a draw to the avant garde artist and scholarly art student

Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland

Liam O'Flaherty. Return of the Brute. Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: 19 x 12.5 cm. 12mo. 187pp. Brown cloth in illustrated dust jacket. First edition with no additional printings noted. There is chipping to the jacket and it has been neatly re-enforced and repaired with binding tape. Original price of 5s on front jacket flap. Small scratches to the foredge. Novel of World War I. George Jefferson A7.

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. Mandrake, London, 1929.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, cloth, d.w. London: Mandrake Press, 1929. First Edition. Very good copy. The brilliant pictorial dust wrapper has a few edge chips, and the spine is tanned.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Liam O'Flaherty. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London UK, 1929.

Price: US$253.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: With unclipped dust jacket. Original tan boards with green lettering on the spine. Clean contents and in very good condition. The dust jacket is bright. Loss to the spine and fold ends. Loss on the spine affecting publishers lettering. Slight loss and tears on the fold ends. Internal sellotape repairs in several places.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

O'FLAHERTY, Liam.. The Return of the Brute.. London: Mandrake Press, (1929)., 1929.

Price: US$285.33 + shipping

Description: First edition. Near fine in the pictorial d/w which has a 2" piece out at the top of the spine and upper panel affecting the title, some wear but still very good.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

O'Flaherty, Liam. Return of the Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$319.30 + shipping

Description: Octavo. 187pp. One of the most brilliant dust jacket with front panel showing the horrors of war where the real enemy is the ugly monster symbolized by the green ravenous beast faced by the soldier in stark horror. Liam O'Flaherty served in World War I as a private in the Irish Guards, so this was his coming to grips with the "war to end all wars". Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering green, some off setting to endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket with chipping to corners and along upper edge of jacket, a crease to rear panel and a dark spot to spine. A very good copy.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.

O'Flaherty, Liam. The Return Of The Brute. The Mandrake Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$422.55 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The First UK printing published by The Mandrake Press, London in 1929. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. free from inscriptions and erasures. Some offsetting to the blank end-papers and spotting to the prelims. Light dustiness to the upper text-block with some light spotting to the text-block edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light edge-wear with a few nicks to the edges and spine ends. One closed tear to the upper front panel repaired to the verso with a small piece of archival tape. Light toning and dustiness to the spine. The wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable brodart archival cover. 'Nine men go Over the Top in mud and rain and darkness, urged on by an Authority invisible and remorseless somewhere behind the lines, to seek a Foe they are destined never to encounter. .Liam O'Flaherty served as a private in the Irish Guards and was wounded at Passchendaele, and he knows what he is writing about.This is a man's book for all time: or for as long as men shall die together in comradeship, bravely and blindly' (Wrapper blurb). A very sharp copy of a key WW1 title. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom