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Edité par Louis Carrier & Co Publishers, New York, London, Montreal, 1929
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 1-5 [6-8] 9-346 [347-350: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], frontispiece by Pierre Saint-Loup after a drawing by Peter Sefton Purdey, other decorations in the text by Saint-Loup, map of ancient Ireland on page [341], title page printed in green and black, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained green, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. "The story of one of the most noted and picturesque characters of the ancient Gaelic sagas, Conary the Great, High-King of Eirinn. Incorporating in his narrative all that is known of Conary and his reign, [Walsh] has added much of his own imagining, evolving a romance that breathes the colorful atmosphere of the Irish myths. the heroic warriors, the valorous deeds, the lovely maidens, the picturesque life, the fairy folk, and the strange happenings of the Golden Age of Erin" - jacket flap copy. Reginald 14831. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Some age-darkening to endpapers, small military library stamp and private owner's signature on front paste-down, cloth a bit faded at edges, gold stamping on spine panel tarnished, still a very good copy in about very good pictorial dust jacket (with illustration by Saint-Loup after a drawing by Purdey) with shelf wear at edges, closed tears, several with internal tape mends, and some scuffing to rear panel. (#105463).