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Up in the Hills: Available Copies

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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

215pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (irish fiction, ireland) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.62

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.62

VERY GOOD CONDITION.gold spine & cover ttles on bright red cloth hard covers.White endpapers. Clean, solid, bright copy (under protective clear vinyl cover.) ; 244pg pages; Irish Setting.Horses & castles

Paperback. Up in the Hills "is too richly humorous, too full of wit, wisdom, gentle irony, salutary satire and the wonder which Spring offers to the welcoming eye to be read only by Dunsany's devotess."--New York Times"No one can imitate Dunsany, and probably everyone who's ever read him has tried."--C. L. MooreThe hills stood for untameable things, things wild and no more to be checked by laws than the bright clouds that sparkled above them, and whose shadows all along the brows of the hills lay like a frown.the hills going right into cloudland.What is there for an Irish lad to do when the old women of his village start leveling curses at visiting archaeologists, curses that may inadvertantly light upon innocent residents? Mickey Connor has a capital idea--he'll gather a small band of friends and take them up into the hills, to live there until the tumult in town subsides.And how will they spend their time in the hills?"Sure, I'd like to be a general," said Young Mickey. "Maybe we'll have a bit of war."But the idyll that Mickey envisions is short-lived. For even in the hills of the newly independent Irish Free State, it's no easy thing, he discovers, to have "a bit of a war."Yeats stayed in Dunsany's ancestral castle on numerous occasions and described Dunsany as "a man of genius.[with] a very fine style." Dunsany wrote his play The Glittering Gate at the request of Yeats, who wanted to "claim [Dunsany] for Ireland."H. P. Lovecraft wrote of Dunsany, "To the truly imaginative he is a talisman and a key unlocking rich storehouses of dream." He also said of his own work: "There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany' pieces--but alas--where are my Lovecraft pieces?"The critic S. T. Joshi wrote, "Let us marvel at [Dunsany's] seemingly effortless mastery of so many different forms (short story, novel, play, even essay and lecture), his unfailingly sound narrative sense, and the amazing consistency he maintained over a breathtakingly prolific output.Dunsany claimed aesthetic independence from his time and culture, [and] became a sharp and unrelenting critic of the industrialism and plebeianism that were shattering the beauty both of literature and of the world.yet retained a surprising popularity.through the whole of his career."Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878-1957), inherited one of the oldest titles in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Dunsany, who lived much of his life at Dunsany Castle in County Meath, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, plays, essays, and autobiography. He is best known for his fantasy novels and stories, and his writing influenced the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ursula K Le Guin, among others. High spiritedness, Irish wit, and the claim of order collide in the wild hills of Ireland. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

1st ed. NY (Putnam) (1936). Fine.

First edition copy. . Book Acceptable. No dust jacket. Owner's name on endpage and pastedown. Bookplate inside. Rear spine cracked. (ireland, fiction, novel)

1935. hardcover. Very good copy showing light age and shelfwear, with some nicks and tears to dust jacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Sml 8vo, 316pp. Dark yellow cloth covers, title in black at spine. With the original mylar protected dj, with title in white on dark green ground. Dj slt chipped at top of spine, darkened at spine, o/w very good. Ex-lib, with stamps inside front cover and at base of ffep. Internally, very good.

2008. Paperback. . . . . .

1935. hardcover. Very good copy showing light age and shelfwear, with some nicks and tears to dust jacket. . . . .

2008. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

William Heinemann, London. 1935. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Brown cloth boards with gilt. Ex-library with remains of sticker to upper and remains of plate inside lower. Boards quite marked, rubbed and stained and pages browned with slight foxing and some are loose. Pen mark to lower edges. Ownership signature inside upper and inner hinge is visible.

Fine second impression. Clean, square, binding tight.Publisher's green cloth with gilt embossed to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. A very nice copy.

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Whimsical novel of Irish village life, a farce set during the troubles of 1921. Joshi/Schweitzer 1.A.64.a; Currey p. 172 Original dark green cloth. Rubbed, some staining and soiling, slightly shaken. Good plus

Paperback. Up in the Hills "is too richly humorous, too full of wit, wisdom, gentle irony, salutary satire and the wonder which Spring offers to the welcoming eye to be read only by Dunsany's devotess."--New York Times"No one can imitate Dunsany, and probably everyone who's ever read him has tried."--C. L. MooreThe hills stood for untameable things, things wild and no more to be checked by laws than the bright clouds that sparkled above them, and whose shadows all along the brows of the hills lay like a frown.the hills going right into cloudland.What is there for an Irish lad to do when the old women of his village start leveling curses at visiting archaeologists, curses that may inadvertantly light upon innocent residents? Mickey Connor has a capital idea--he'll gather a small band of friends and take them up into the hills, to live there until the tumult in town subsides.And how will they spend their time in the hills?"Sure, I'd like to be a general," said Young Mickey. "Maybe we'll have a bit of war."But the idyll that Mickey envisions is short-lived. For even in the hills of the newly independent Irish Free State, it's no easy thing, he discovers, to have "a bit of a war."Yeats stayed in Dunsany's ancestral castle on numerous occasions and described Dunsany as "a man of genius.[with] a very fine style." Dunsany wrote his play The Glittering Gate at the request of Yeats, who wanted to "claim [Dunsany] for Ireland."H. P. Lovecraft wrote of Dunsany, "To the truly imaginative he is a talisman and a key unlocking rich storehouses of dream." He also said of his own work: "There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany' pieces--but alas--where are my Lovecraft pieces?"The critic S. T. Joshi wrote, "Let us marvel at [Dunsany's] seemingly effortless mastery of so many different forms (short story, novel, play, even essay and lecture), his unfailingly sound narrative sense, and the amazing consistency he maintained over a breathtakingly prolific output.Dunsany claimed aesthetic independence from his time and culture, [and] became a sharp and unrelenting critic of the industrialism and plebeianism that were shattering the beauty both of literature and of the world.yet retained a surprising popularity.through the whole of his career."Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878-1957), inherited one of the oldest titles in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Dunsany, who lived much of his life at Dunsany Castle in County Meath, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, plays, essays, and autobiography. He is best known for his fantasy novels and stories, and his writing influenced the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ursula K Le Guin, among others. High spiritedness, Irish wit, and the claim of order collide in the wild hills of Ireland. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

NY: G P Putnam's Sons 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover 12mo 244 pgs. Very good in a good to near very good dust jacket. Light wear and bumping to spine ends and top front corner. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn, chipped. Light toning to jacket spine and rear panel. Flap corners clipped. (irish fiction, ireland) Inquire if you need further information.

8vo green cloth with gilt lettering. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. 316 pp Good hardback (light edgewear, little nick to top of spine, ownership sig., pale foxing to outer pages), no dustwrapper. Clean and unmarked.

Second printing. 8vo. 316 p. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Some very faint spots to front and rear board. A few small chips and tears to jacket extremities, white lettering to spine somewhat toned, spot of faint acidification to front panel where sticker was removed.

Hardcover. First Edition. Slight cant to spine, light foxing to prelims, else a very good hardback in a darkened and edgeworn jacket that is rubbed at the joints and has some minor loss to the spine ends and and extremities.

UP IN THE HILLS, Heinemann, 1935, first edition, age toning to the t.p.e.'s, faint scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a tight, bright vg+ copy in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and a shallow chip to the head of the bit tanned dust-wrapper spine.

8vo, viii, 244pp. Red gilt cloth, torn dj, top section of spine missing o/w vg. Currey. p. 172.

8vo, (2), 316 pp, green cloth, some light spotting to the closed fore edge , some bumping to the bottom front corner but a good copy. Signed \"Dunsany\" on the front free endpaper and with an ownership inscription of Mrs H K Garforth -Bles at the bottom of the front free endpaper. Inserted is a note from Mrs Garforth- Bles's son stating \"An autographed copy presented to my mother by Lord Dunsany (Randall Plunkett) - not worth reading DGB!

Original gilt-titled cloth. First edition. Tight and square, page edges slightly toned, bookseller ticket at rear. The DJ in mylar is lightly toned to spine with a few minor nicks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages