Search Results: the bright temptation a romance by clarke austin

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. [8], 263 pp. New edition. Publisher's cloth. A fairly solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities; previous owner name on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean.

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965. New Edition after 1952 first reset. 262pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine dj. New Edition after 1952 first reset. 262pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The Irish poet's first novel, a story set in medieval Ireland, in the era of the Vikings. The book was banned in Ireland under the Censorship of Literature Act and was not published there until 1965 (per Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). 313 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published" on the copyright page). A very good copy in a completely spine-faded fugitive green dust jacket. The ink fades away anywhere it is exposed to light. This is a review copy with the publisher's slip, partially completed by hand, laid in. This copy also belonged to the Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning Texas writer Larry McMurtry, with his distinctive stirrup bookplate on the front pastedown. Very scarce in a dust jacket.