The Journal of Irish Literature: A Flann O'Brien / Myles Na Gopaleen Number; Volume 3, number 1, Jan. 1974. by O'Brien, Flann [Brian O'Nolan; Myles] - 1974

Paladin / Grafton / Collins 1990. Octavo, softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Edited and with an Introduction by Kevin O'Nolan. Frontispiece portrait of the author (from a drawing by Sean O'Sullivan). UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1976. Very Good condition, with no inscriptions. There is the usual touch of sunning to the board edges/spine. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £5 net).

A key figure in the Irish modernist movement, Flann O'Brien counted James Joyce, Graham Greene, and Dylan Thomas amongst his admirers. The Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn is a hilarious selection of O'Brien's satirical writings taken from his column in the Irish Times, covering the the post-war period of 1947-1957.

Eire: Cló Dolmen Áth Cliath, 1964 New edition, of work first published in 1941. Entirely in Irish language. Hardcover book . Red paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt, and pictorial dustjacket by Sean O'Sullivan. 111pp. With sketch maps to endpapers. Myles na gCopaleen was the pen-name in the Irish Times, of Brian O'Nolan, who also wrote as Flann O'Brien. A near Fine copy of a nicely produced little book; clean pages and jacket, light spotting to top closed page edges and some offset browning from jacket to endpapers; owner's small name stamp to flyleaf margin; jacket price-clipped. Pictures available.

London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, [1973]. First English-Language Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in tan pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (£2.75), map endpapers; 128pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, jacket spine panel a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound. Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941, overlooked by the English publishing market for more than two decades.