The Famine Ships – The Irish Exodus To America 1846-51. – Laxton,Edward.

Laxton,Edward.

$18.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing. London. 1996 (First Edition, 2nd Imp)
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Description

8v0 XXIV, 250pp. Hardcover in dark grey cloth boards with silver gilt on spine in excellent condition with non-price-clipped d/w likewise now protected in clear archival covering, text is devoid of any extraneous prior owner markings and is also in excellent condition with only early yellowing and minor edge browning of the paper stock. A fascinating book of survival and tragedy in the exodus of over a million Irish to America in the mid nineteenth century.