Taking Chances by Farrell: First Edition (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing thus. 8vo. xx, 272 pp. Original black pictorial wrappers. Spinal crease, rubbing around the extremities, very good minus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Rare 1929 1st UK Edition Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd publisher with bound in cardboard store logo moon & owl bookmark. Very nice although foxed, spotted & soiled pale beige cloth and dull orange spine title make for a pretty boring exterior, this rare title is all there, well bound, but not pretty. Recommended reading copy with some wear to the cloth near the gutters, top edge of page block dyed dk brown, other two sides lightly foxed/soiled. 272pp text has no writing or tears, just occasional foxing on the front endpps through first page. M. J. Farrell, the pen name of Molly Keane writes a period sporting novel set in Ireland full of horses, hunting, jumping, headlong love. Laughing, reckless, beautiful and damned! No heroine since Irish March has ever been so wicked - and so engaging - as Mary. Here is a hot-head tale of love and hunting told with a zest and partisanship that is disarming. The love story is even more breathless than the hunting. Mary, coming to Ireland fora week, sows trouble right and left. Roguey marries her; Jer loves her; Rowland wrecks his future for her/ Maeve's life is broken by her. But Mary reaps trouble also. She has married Roguey for convenience, but she loves Rowland. The book ends, a drawn game between sport and passion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. purple cloth, 2nd printing, jacket slightly chipped at edges, no markings.

First Edition. Novel of Irish country side life, fox hunting, shooting and romance. 'No heroine since Iris March has ever been so wicked'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, lower half of rear spine edge split.