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London: Mills and Boon, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo., original red cloth, illustrated with 15 plates, including reproductions of works by Jack B. Yeats. "If not representative of the whole of Ireland, 'My Irish Year' is representative of a great part of Ireland. The life described may stand for the life of the Catholic peasantry." ex-library copy, with their code to the spine and stamps inside, spine faded, extremities worn, tape-repair to inner hinge and one plate, one plate a little worn at edges

New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sm. 4to., original green cloth, 49 plates. Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. bookblock separated from cover, missing front free endpaper, but internally very good

London: William Heinemann, (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red cloth. Scarce spine faded

London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition thus. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth over bevelled boards. The excellent Nonesuch Press edition of John Donne, edited by John Hayward, which was first published in a limited edition a year earlier. spine faded and a little stained, very occasional pencil marginalia, loosely inserted by the poem 'The Apparition' is a French translation which has very lightly browned the two pages enclosing it