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a nearly fine bright copy. front cover is quite handsome. see scan. Seller Inventory # 404266
Title: The Return of the Hero
Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni, Bonibooks
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Trade paperback
Edition: First as such.
Seller: Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American.Edition. Original First American Edition 1930 Very Good+ American Edition. Origially published in London in 1923 with the name Michael Ireland. In 1930 a First American Edition came out with the Irish authors real name Darrell Figgis but with a wonderful introducrion by James Stephens. Everyone thought James Stephens was the author prompting this edition with Stephen's brilliant but trafgic commentary. This novel is the brilliant Celtic Fairy story of Niamh coming over the waves to take Oisin to Tir-na-Og as her lover. This tells of his return to Ireland falling off his horse and aging two hundred years (Like our own American Rip-Van- Winkle) based on "The Colloquy of Oisin and Saint Patrick" Retold in the Introduction. Figgis a Irish rebel sadly died a tragic end. Here tight clean 221 pp. NOT a library copy. Ex-libris book plate of a previous owner. Except for some board spotting Very Good+ shape. See all our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans. Seller Inventory # 900053010011292226
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