[Mac Liammóir, Micheál / Ó Conaire, Pádraic] O’ Neill, Eamonn.

The Woman at the Window and Other Stories. Translated from the Irish of Pádraic Ó Conaire by Eamonn O Neill. New Edition – With Illustrations by Micheál Mac Liammóir.

Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, no year [c. 1931]. Octavo (15 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece, 127 pages. Original Hardcover with original, beautifully illustrated dustjacket in protective Collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Privately inscribed on the endpaper “For Jim – Christmas 1947”. A very unusual condition of this amazzing publication.

Includes: The Woman at the Window / The Devil and O’Flaherty / Put to the Rack / As I Lay in Bed / Little Marcus’s Nora / Disillusioned / The Woman on whom God laid his hand //

The front flap of the dustjacket reads: “Pádraic Ó Conaire is acknowledged to be our best story-writer in Irish. Readers who “have not the Irish” will welcome a new printing of this excellent translation by Mr. O Neill, whose english rendering of the same author’s “Land of Wonders” met with general approbation”.

• Keywords: Catalogue Four – International Art · Catalogue Irish History Seven – Irish Literature – Poetry – Music – Theatre · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Catalogue Three – Literature by Women · Gaeilge – Rare · Irish History · Irish History – Rare · Irish Literature – 20th Century · Irish Literature – Rare · Micheál Mac Liammóir · Pádraic Ó Conaire
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29759AB

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