THE LITTLE MONASTERIES : POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE IRISH
Dublin, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, 10 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 43, [3]. Limited edition: # 4/1050 copies. Brown buckram boards with gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. Blue and black ink to title page with blue drop caps throughout. Glassine wraps. Red paper slipcase with black and blue title on white paste-on panel to fronnt and spine. Light edgewear to slipcase. Near Fine / Near Fine (Glassine wrap) / Very Good (slipcase). Item #88897
Twenty poems originally written in Irish between the 7th and 15th Centuries.
Frank O’Connor (born 1903, Cork, County Cork, Ireland—died March 10, 1966, Dublin) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who, as a critic and as a translator of Gaelic works from the 9th to the 20th century, served as an interpreter of Irish life and literature to the English-speaking world. (from Britannica).
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