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The Book of Intrusions: Available Copies

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HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

First printing of the first edition. Fine in a fine DJ.

1994. Hardcover. Cloth with dust jacket. Slight shelf-wear. Very Good.

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Hardcover first edition - First US printing. The scultptor and writer's author's first novel. Donleavy - who used MacNamara as the model for MacDoon in 'The Ginger Man' - called him 'the Einstein of Irish literature.' 213 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

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Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. The author's first novel, but with roots: MacNamara was a model for one of the characters in J.P. Donleavy's "The Ginger Man." This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with silver lettering on the spine. A small RM on bottom edge, and some pencil erasures on the half-title, else Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped; in a plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 213p. : ill. ; 24cm. Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction. Unfinished books -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 213p. : ill. ; 24cm. Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction. Unfinished books -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

MacNamara (1918 – 2008) began as a producer of papier-mâché sculptures for the theatre and films and his studio became a literary salon. He appeared as MacDoon in his friend Donleavy's The Ginger Man. This fantasy novel is inevitably compared with his contemporary Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. Included is a most informative obituary of MacNamara from The Independent (London).

1st edition. 213 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

First edition of this Flann O'Brien-type novel, from the library of Steven Moore (seller), who acquired, edited, and designed this book (the author supplied the cover art and caption). Donleavy blurb on back cover. Laid in is a print-out of the "Guardian"'s obituary of the author. Editor/seller will sign the book, if requested.

Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. Hardcover. Condition: as New. 1st edition. 213 pages.

New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.15

Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Irish Literature; 9.0 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 213 pages.

KlappentextIn the tradition of Flann O Brien s comic Irish extravaganzas, Desmond MacNamara s novel is a hilarious excursion into Irish history and literature. A gentleman named Mountmellik and his servant MacGilla escape from the Limbo .

Hardcover. In the tradition of Flann O'Brien's comic Irish extravaganzas, Desmond MacNamara's novel is a hilarious excursion into Irish history and literature. A gentleman named Mountmellik and his servant MacGilla escape from the Limbo where characters from unfinished literary works are trapped, and enjoy life on Earth so much that they summon from Limbo other literary characters: a young woman named Loreto Amargamente (from an unfinished story by F. Scott Fitzgerald), an Irish maiden named Liadin (from George Moore's unrealized historical novel), and, most terrifying, the eight-feet-tall Eevell of Craglee, Queen of the Munster Hosts of Fairy. These five hatch a scheme by which they can spring more characters from literary Limbo and, by finishing and publishing their stories, send them to Parnassus, all the while holding the author captive so that they themselves won't be forced to go. But during a bizarre climax, the author escapes and sends this novel to his publisher, immortalizing them against their will. Throughout the novel are yarns, digressions, and speculations, the centerpiece being a forty-page retelling of the story of the legendary Irish poets Curither and Liadin. Like O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, it mixes the glorious Irish literary past with its messy present and has a good deal of fun at the expense of the novel as an art form. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.