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Rory and Bran: Available Copies

Octavo, 7.7 in. x 5.3 in., pp. vi, 321. Dark ivy green cloth boards with gilt title and fleuron to spine. Rubbing to spine ends. Bottom corners lightly nudged.

Typically Irish, fantasy and poetry. Rory, a lad of 19, is sent to the fair along with his father's cattle, and Bran. Time and time again, he is swindled of his cows; and Bran retrieves them. A series of strange misadventures with weird people, and he decides to travel through life with a tinker he meets, but in the end snaps out of his dream world to rescue a neighbor's daughter. CONDITION Ex subscriber library copy with lable to front, lending rules to front paste down, stamped to edge, other bright and clean internally with odd folded cnr, covers moderately worn. 319 pages Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Spine faded, with dulled titling; Spine extremities worn and scuffed; Board edges rubbed with light wear to extremities; Textblock clean and tight; Lacks dust jacket; 321p. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall

1936 1st edition, 8vo., 321pp., small address label on rear endpaper, a small pinprick on first few pages, some foxing on fore-edge, very good, green cloth, unclipped dust jacket.

Typically Irish, fantasy and poetry. Rory, a lad of 19, is sent to the fair along with his father's cattle, and Bran. Time and time again, he is swindled of his cows; and Bran retrieves them. A series of strange misadventures with weird people, and he decides to travel through life with a tinker he meets, but in the end snaps out of his dream world to rescue a neighbor's daughter. CONDITION Green bds (cloth a little mottled, not worn) 319 pages, mostly bright and crisp copy with heavy toned ends. DJ toned with small chips, price clipped to front flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

chipped dj, mylar protected, Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng

1st Edition 1936. Book is very good++ and bright. Covers quite bright. Contents good. Pages very slightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408

321 pages, dark green cloth, gilt titles on the spine. Powder green endpapers with an inscription on FFEP "To Ruth for her birthday 13th November/36 with love from Alfred". contents very good, cloth a little dark and some mild handling. Small octavo. *The tale of an Irish Quixote without the brains but with the luck of the Irish, a book filled with the love of an Irish lane and driving a herd of cattle to market and all the people travelling it and the mishaps that befall a knucklehead and his companion picked up along the way "Bran". A horse is a powerful thing in a land of walkers and to a man so innocent of the world and well at peril from himself rather than others.is his lack of guile and trusting nature enough to reach his goal to Slievenamona? Does he win or lose his £100 bet with a roadside penniless jockey, his horse, love, cattle and his companion? A lost time and an Ireland we all wish were still with us I can almost taste the dram of "old milk" as I read the book.

First American edition. Small octavo. Owner bookplate on the front pastedown and a faint blind stamp on the front fly. Lightly bumped and rubbed along the edges, near fine in a toned, very good dust jacket with chips and small tears most notably at the spine.

, , very good in dust jacket , lightly chipped spine and corners,

Octavo. Light green cloth with titles on front cover and spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. 321 pages. Light shelf wear to boards, a very good to fine copy in a nice attractive pictorial dust jacket that is slightly darkened along the spine panel and has a few small closed tears and tiny chips at edges. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.65.b.

G.P. Putnam, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear, small chips missing all along top edge, several small holes on flap folds, small tear at bottom spine end, overall minor soiling, spine a bit darkened. Seller's stamp on free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Top edge has a few spots. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.

8vo. 321 pp. Green cloth binding. Gilt titling on cover and spine. Very light wear to cover. Dust jacket has very light wear; price is present. Small spot on front cover. Some dusting on rear panel. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.

First U.S. edition. Touch rubbing to foot of spine o/w a fine copy in the attractive pictorial d/w with a small chip out at the foot of the spine and a chip at the edge of the front panel but certainly very good.