Further Experiences of an Irish R.M by E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross (HQ28)

Published 1908: First Longmans Green Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original beige and green cloth with gilt and black titles on the cover and spine. 315 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on a few pages, slight separation showing on inner hinge between the first two pages could be readdressed with some glue, text block or covers not affected. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends and frayed along the spine edge consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A scarce original edition.(HQ28)

Postage €6.95 including additional books ordered.
An Post prepaid postage envelopes within the Republic of Ireland, with no weight restrictions from €6.95.

The first edition of Ross and Somerville's humorous novel from their 'Irish R. M' series, with illustrations. Illustrated by Edith Somerville. This novel was written in collaboration between Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin (writing under the name Martin Ross). This novel is the second in the 'Irish R. M' trilogy which follows the life of an Irish ex British Army officer. The series inspired the 1983 comedy drama under the same name.

Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he passes judgement on a range of cases and characters that would have driven Solomon to drink he learns that in Ireland, two and two are just as likely to make five, or three, or even nothing at all...First published at the turn of the century as EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M., these stories were quickly recognised as classics of Anglo- Irish literature and as some of the funniest prose in the English language.

Edith Anna OEnone Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. OE. Somerville." She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross." Together they published a series of fourteen stories and novels, the most popular of which were The Real Charlotte, and The Experiences of an Irish R. M., published in 1899. [Google Books]