Lot 735
Cuala Press - Kavanagh, Patrick
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£813
Description
The great hunger. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo., original quarter linen, dark blue paper boards, uncut and unopened, with original glassine wrapper, boards with some fading, spine label a little chipped touching one or two letters of text, small bookseller's label at foot of front pastedown endpaper
Footnote
Note: Miller 70. No 224 of 250 copies. One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Irish literature, it highlights the spiritual, sexual and emotional poverty of rural Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. The first book from the Press's new address at 46 Palmerston Road, Dublin, where it continued to 1968.