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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Forty-second thousand. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel including tissue guarded frontispiece. 192pp + publisher's advertisements. Light foxing to initial leaves and tissue guard + between pages 61 and 73, few grubby marks throughout. Discreet ink inscription to front free endpaper, with neat pencil inscription to verso. Small bookshop sticker to front endpaper. Cracked to hinge in several places, with last few pages almost loose but still holding. Binding shaken. Beautifully bound in bright gilt ruled, lettered and illustrated burgundy cloth, featuring triple gilt framed vignette of Alice and the pig to upper board and Cheshire Cat to lower, gently rubbed to edges and corners and a little grubby, spine scuffed and rubbed but gold gilt still shining through. All edges gilt. The red coloured cloth was chosen by Alice Liddell, for and to whom the Alice story was first composed and told to allay boredom during a summer boating trip down the stretch of Thames which runs through Oxford.

There came to me also a most famous feminine sea called Granny Imallye with three galleys and two hundred fighting men... This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland -Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576. Fearless leader by land and by sea, political pragmatist and tactician, rebel, pirate and matriarch, the ""most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland"" Grace O'Malley challenges and manipulates the turbulent politics of the 16th century a period of immense social change and political upheaval. Breaching boundaries of gender imbalance and bias, she re-wrote the rules to become one of the world's documented feminist trail-blazers. In this, the original international bestselling biography of this historic icon, from rare and exclusive contemporary manuscript material, author Anne Chambers draws Ireland's great pirate queen in from the vagueness of myth and legend and presents the historical reality of one of the world's most extraordinary female leaders. First published in 1979 Granuaile has become an inspiration for documentary and film makers, composers, artists and writers from a range of creative disciplines worldwide. In this 30th anniversary edition, as well as some textual additions, the inclusion of new transcriptions of contemporary 16th-century manuscript material, located and deciphered by the author, will be of special interest to students, teachers and historians as well as to the general reader.

There came to me also a most famous feminine sea called Granny Imallye with three galleys and two hundred fighting men... This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland -Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576. Fearless leader by land and by sea, political pragmatist and tactician, rebel, pirate and matriarch, the ""most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland"" Grace O'Malley challenges and manipulates the turbulent politics of the 16th century a period of immense social change and political upheaval. Breaching boundaries of gender imbalance and bias, she re-wrote the rules to become one of the world's documented feminist trail-blazers. In this, the original international bestselling biography of this historic icon, from rare and exclusive contemporary manuscript material, author Anne Chambers draws Ireland's great pirate queen in from the vagueness of myth and legend and presents the historical reality of one of the world's most extraordinary female leaders. First published in 1979 Granuaile has become an inspiration for documentary and film makers, composers, artists and writers from a range of creative disciplines worldwide. In this 30th anniversary edition, as well as some textual additions, the inclusion of new transcriptions of contemporary 16th-century manuscript material, located and deciphered by the author, will be of special interest to students, teachers and historians as well as to the general reader.

Lang:- eng, Pages 589. Reprinted in 2016 with the help of original edition published long back[1910]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.Original Title:- The old north trail, or, Life, legends and religion of the Blackfeet Indians 1910 [Hardcover] Author:- Walter McClintock