Unhappy Far-Off Things

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine. 1919. True First Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some beginning foxing to the inner hinges of the endpapers. This book contains a series of short stories, including: A Dirge of Victory, The Cathedral of Arras, A Good War, The House with Two Stories, Bermondsey versus Wurtemburg, On an Old Battle Field, The Real Thing, A Garden of Arras, After Hell, A Happy Valley, In Bethune, In an Old Drawing-Room, and, The Homes of Arras. "Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis...Dunsany's fame arose chiefly from his prolific writings, and he was involved with the Irish Literary Revival. Supporting the Revival, Dunsany was a major donor to the Abbey Theatre, and he moved in Irish literary circles. He was well-acquainted with W. B. Yeats (who rarely acted as editor, but gathered and published a Dunsany selection) , Lady Gregory, Percy French, "AE" Russell, Oliver St John Gogarty, Padraic Colum (with whom he jointly wrote a play) and others. He befriended and supported Francis Ledwidge to whom he gave the use of his library." .