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The Story of Mona Sheehy: Available Copies

New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st US edition. No jacket. Rebound, covers and spine slightly faded. Back cover and spine separated from the textblock, easily repaired by any decent binder. Lending Library sticker on the paste-down. Pages 65 to 72 with some liquid stains, the rest bright and clean. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

Heinemann, London, 1939. First Edition, Second impression. 8vo. pp vi, 334. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Some rubbing with corner a little knocked and a slight lean, otherwise sound, generally Good copy.

Reprint Oct 1939, 1st was Sept 1939. All very clean and firm inside. Firm green cloth boards with slightly faded spine and a few very light marks to edges.

First US edition. Covers have light edgewear.

[Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 334. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to preliminaries, rear blanks, and textblock edges. Some marking to cloth including a cup-stain to lower board. Mild edgewear. Very good. A tale surrounding the Irish town of Athroonagh and the ancestry of a local girl; some characters suspect that she is part fairy, or 'shee,' as indicated by her unnatural beauty and last name. Critics have suggested the book has political import, and that Mona Sheehy symbolises Ireland.

Octavo. Contemporary rebinding in blue patterned cloth with titles in black on spine and a black circular ink stamp on the lower half of the front cover, in printed dust jacket. 334 pages. Publisher's device on title page. The Adrian Homer Goldstone copy, with his illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. Slight bumps, a very good copy in a slightly soiled dust jacket, darkened on spine. This copy is approx. 1/4-inch shorter than the regular publisher's binding, the jacket has been very slightly trimmed to fit. See 'The Adrian H. Goldstone Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction', (California Book Auction Galleries, 1981), Part One, Lot No. 966. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.71.a.1.

Green cloth. Book has a light sunfade to spine, faint hint of wear to tips of corners, some toning to endpapers. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and sharp and tight. Dust jacket has been clipped on four corners but not price-clipped, some toning to spine, light toning to back, moderate wear to corners and top/bottom of spine. otherwise a very presentable jacket, now protected in a clear cover (would be nearly very good).

Very good in boards. Ex-library copy with stamp but no other markings. Sticker removal damage. Stated first edition.

Octavo. Light green cloth, gilt titles on spine, small blind stamped publisher's device on lower corner of front board, in illustrated dust jacket. 334 pages. Tiny bump to lower page edges, a very nice, bright, near fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, lightly toned along the spine panel and with a few tiny chips and closed tears at the edges. Quite a nice copy in an attractive dust jacket. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.71.b.

This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition [stated "First Edition"]. Green cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; vi, 334 pages. Laid in is a newspaper article (1940) regarding Dunsany. Mild rub to the margins; gilt seems a bit dulled. Still a solid copy. The dustjacket is complete. Unclipped but with some chips at the tips and the head of the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall