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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

O”Flaherty (Liam)

THE ECSTASY OF ANGUS (Limited edition signed by the author)

Published: Joiner and Steele, London, 1931

Edition: Limited edition

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Limited edition: 43 pages, uncut edges, foxing on the page edges, green cloth boards with a facsimile of his signature in gilt on the upper cover – the boards are scuffed and worn, a good copy.

The limitation reads: Of this book there have been printed at the Chiswick Press 365 copies, of which 350 only, each copy signed by the author, are for sale. This is no 67.

Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: Liam Ó Flaithearta ; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was an Irish novelist and short-story writer, and one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the 20th century, writing about the common people's experience and from their perspective.

Liam O'Flaherty served on the Western Front as a soldier in the British army's Irish Guards regiment from 1916 and was badly injured in 1917. After the war, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. His brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (also a writer) was also involved in radical politics and their father, Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, was before them. A native Irish-speaker from the Gaeltacht, O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English, except for a play, a notable collection of short stories and some poems in the Irish language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%27Flaherty

  • Overall Condition: A good copy
  • Size: 8vo (260 x200m)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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