The Price of Admiralty by Paul McGuire and Frances Margaret McGuire Table By the River by John O'Brien

by John O'Brien

Some of the best things in the book are to be found in the author’s shrewd appraisals of the contemporary scene – queues

“In this savage novel Willi Heinrich

critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New york

its maze of water-bearing streams and gullies - in good seasons the far-from-simple network of irrigation channels provided by Nature to carry silt and seed and water across the land

The Price of Admiralty by Paul McGuire and Frances Margaret McGuire Table By the River by John O'BrienThe Price of Admiralty by Paul McGuire and Frances Margaret McGuire Oxford University Press, 1944, [First Edition], black and white photographic plates, colour illustrated frontispiece, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover, dustjacket Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, no inscriptions, age toned pages, minor foxing, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and