[THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY].
by O'BRIEN, Edna (Josephine Edna), 1930- :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) / Jonathan Cape, (1960-1964). A first edition set of her scandalous trilogy - the separately published "The Country Girls" (1960) - Irish girls in black underwear, banned in Ireland, publicly burnt by her parish priest in Tuamgraney - "By turns beautiful and bawdy, funny and haunting ... often referred to as the quintessential tale of Irish girlhood, it is not the novel that broke the mould: it is the one that made it" (Eimear McBride); "The Lonely Girl" (1962) - filmed in 1964 as "The Girl With Green Eyes", with Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Peter Finch, etc. - and the darker concluding volume set in London, "Girls in Their Married Bliss" (1964). Three volumes. Post & crown 8vo (21 & 20cm). (224); (254),[ii]; 190,[ii]pp. Original boards (black, mauve, blue); a few faint marks; some mild spotting to the endpapers of the first volume and edges of the second, but very good copies in the original pictorial dust-jackets by Jillian Willett, Hofbauer and David Fawcett respectively - the jackets with some minor rubbing and a couple of nicks, the back panel of the second a little splashed, but complete and overall also very good. Ownership stamp of the Raffin Stud, Castletown, County Meath, in the second volume.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44681
- Title
- [THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY].
- Author
- O'BRIEN, Edna (Josephine Edna), 1930- :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) / Jonathan Cape, (1960-1964).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Irish Literature, Fiction
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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