Language: English
Published by Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1971
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a good-plus dust jacket, small 8vo, 165 pages. Purple paper-covered boards w/publisher's logo, deep blue shelf-back with titles in gold, deep purple end-papers. First U.S. edition. Light wear, dust jacket with tear to top front panel and edge-worn, not price clipped, author's inscription on front end-paper to Jill Hays (1945-2017), American editor, writer, poet, and bookseller (this book from her collection, a copy of Hays' obituary laid in). Bookseller accession no.: 18051. McGahern, 1934-2006, was a Dublin-born novelist and short story writer; this is his first collection of short stories, originally published in London by Faber and Faber in 1970. Inscribed by Author(s).