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First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.
First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.
First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.
First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.

O'BRIEN, Flann.

The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor.

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1961.

£375.00
£375.00

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First edition of the author's fourth book, a comic novel dubbed 'a small masterpiece' by O'Brien's biographer Anthony Cronin. Dedicated by the author to Graham Greene, 'whose own form of gloom I admire...'. With the ownership signature of academic and scholar Donal Cruise O'Brien, son of Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish politician and scholar.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; ownership signature to front free endpaper, else unmarked internally; publisher's red and black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, light spotting to top edge, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by Sean O'Sullivan, slightly toned, particularly to spine, slight rubbing and dust-soiling, mild spotting to rear panel, tiny chips to extremities with associated creasing, else very good.

Stock code 115774

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First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.

The Hard Life:

£375.00
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