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1930 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards are faded. and show light edge wear. Pastedown labels on front and spine. Endpapers tanned with pencil notations at front. Text block rough cut. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes 13 woodblock illustrations by Micheal Mac Liammoir. Dust jacket is soiled and rubbed with many small tears and chips. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Gaelic 332fft O Conaire, Padraic. Field and Fair. Travels with a Donkey in Ireland. Translated from the Irish of Padraic O Conaire by Cormac Breathnach. Illustrated by Micheal Mac Liammoir. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press Limited. 89 Talbot Street, 1930. 95 pages. Interior remains tight, clean and complete. Pages with some toning remain better than average. Publishers exterior with some wear and scuffing. Some sunning to the boards and backstrip. Paper title label remains at backstrip with chipping and loss. Some wear and chipping to the head and toe of backstrip. Good copy overall. $40.00

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1930. 95pp., b/white halftone plate author portrait frontispiece, plus engravings throughout by Micheal Mac Liammoir. Book clean and square. Original green cloth noticeably faded on spine and edges. Untrimmed text-block foredge and foot. Laid-on title labels on front board and spine (front soiled but complete. Spine label nipped and abraded). Cloth frayed at head of spine, else mildly bumped. These writings of Irish author Padraic O Conaire are his observations from his travel in Ireland c. World War One, accompanied only by his spirited little black ass . . . Contents include: Prelims., Author Tributes (F.R.Higgins), chapters. Born in March, 1881 at Galway, Padraic O Conaire died 6 October, 1928 in Dublin. Book weight approx. 290g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Impression.. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good.

Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited (1929)., 1929. Illustrated by Michael Mac Liammoir.8vo. Frontispiece photograph of the author. 95 pp. Illustrated. Original textured blue and white cloth binding with printed paper labels front cover and spine. Age discoloration top and bottom of cloth and endpapers else a very good book in a good DJ with shallow chipping top edge and some scattered brownish staining.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Translated from Irish by Cormac Breathnach. Green cloth cover faded and spine darkened. Spine onlayl missing. FEP and half-title stamped: "Presentation Copy", also ink name of previous owner. Otherwise all 95 pages of book very clean though slightly age yellowing. Contains thirteen woodcuts by Michael Mac Liammoir as well as an appreciation by F.R. Higgins.