New York: The Century Co, 1924. Near Fine condition in Brodart-protected, Very Good dust jacket (a few small chips at the edges). Not price clipped ($1.25). Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. 11 cm wide by 19 cm tall. Original rust-colored cloth, decorated in black. Novel of a blind wandering bard in Ireland - based upon the story of Raftery, an 18th-century Gaelic itinerant poet of Cannaugh. Johnson/Blanck p. 84. BAL 2294, state A, with all points (e.g. perfect type on last lines of pages 108 and 138). The author was born Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, in 1889 while his Irish parents were on a business trip in New York. The family soon returned to Ireland where Byrne was educated at Trinity College in Dublin. "Donn-Byrne was a typical, romantic, fighting North Irishman. His writings manifest his deep aversion to 'progress,' his belief in the futility of politics, his love of sport, and his poetic Scots-Irish mysticism. In his work he tried to capture for an instant 'a beauty that was dying slowly, imperceptibly, but would soon be gone.' And with his feeling for color and his ear for the music of words he succeeded in imparting a mythical and mystical beauty to the Ireland of his imagination." - Frank Monaghan (in Dictionary of American Biography).. First Edition [BAL 2294, state A]. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Flanagan, John Richard. 365pp.

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 013458
Title: Blind Raftery and His Wife, Hilaria
Author: Byrne, Donn
Illustrator: Flanagan, John Richard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine condition
Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition [BAL 2294, state A]
Publisher: The Century Co
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1924
Size: 365pp

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