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The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bocht).

A Bad Story about the Hard Life. Edited by Miles na Gopaleen.

Stock Code 102787

London & Dublin, Bernard Jacobson and The Dolman Press, 1973

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A perfectly written comic novel (by a genius), perfectly illustrated (by a genius), wonderfully printed in very small numbers and complete with the correct, signed engraving, which is quite often missing.

First edition, special issue, number 74 of 130 copies signed by the artist, with signed & numbered etching loosely inserted as issued; 8vo; illustrations by Ralph Steadman, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's tan hessian, titles to upper board in black, pictorial endpapers after Ralph Steadman, fine copy.

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Provenance: Otis Skinner Blodget (bookplate).

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The Poor Mouth (An Beal Bocht).

[O'BRIEN, Flann]; STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator); O'NOLAN, Brian.

Stock code: 102787

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