Midsummer Night Madness & Other Stories; With An Introduction By Edward Garnett

First edition. A VG clean copy save for some markings to the green cloth boards and fading to the titles to the spine. No jacket. With the ownership signatures of the Tralee collector, T J Hurley to the pastedown and the opening page of the first story. From 1929 to 1933, O'Faolain lectured at the Catholic college, St Mary's College, at Strawberry Hill in Middlesex, England, during which period he wrote his first two books. His first book, Midsummer Night Madness, was published in 1932: it was a collection of stories partly based on his Civil War experiences.