Lot 221
  • 221

O'Flaherty, Liam

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • O'Flaherty, Liam
  • The Informer. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1925
  • paper
8vo (190 x 119mm.), first edition, publisher's slip loosely inserted, original green cloth, ruled border on upper cover, publisher's device in blind on lower cover, spine lettered in gilt, lower edge untrimmed, DUST-JACKET, very minor spotting to edges OTHERWISE A FINE COPY

Provenance

Dennis Wheatley, bookplate; Ronald Segal, his Detective, Crime and Fantasy Fiction Collection, Sotheby's , 19 December 2000, lot 475

Literature

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A fine copy in jacket of the author's classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the inspiration for a number of film adaptations, most famously that of John Ford in 1935.