Description

Published 1939: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with black titles on the cover and spine. 311 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and occasional other page within. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Overall a well preserved original very scarce first edition. (HQ856)

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An Coimhthigheach by Séamus Mac Conmara.

Published by Oifig an tSoláthair, Baile Átha Cliath

A scarce early-state hardback edition of An Coimtigheach by Seamus Mac Conmara, one of the lesser-printed but culturally significant fiction writers of the post-Revival period. Mac Conmara's prose forms part of the mid-20th-century canon of Irish-language narrative literature published under the authority of Oifig an tSolathair, whose early printings are increasingly sought by collectors of Irish-language history, education and state publishing.
This copy carries the characteristic early state typography, wide-margined text design, and the tall, slightly coarse cloth grain typical of Oifig an tSolathair bindings of the 1920 to 1935 period.
The 28-chapter structure (contents clearly intact) includes literary, political, and social commentary pieces, notably The Felons of Our Land (XVII), suggesting a cross-pollination between Revival-era romantic nationalism and later cultural writing.
Survival rates for Mac Conmara's works are low compared with O Conaire or Pearse, making intact cloth editions appreciably uncommon..

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