An béal boct.

£275 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Spine creased as usual, a small hole at the base, edges foxed, still a fine copy of the first edition of O’Nolan’s classically funny, if cruel, parody of the early twentieth century celebratory memoirs of life in the deep margins of Ireland by writers such as Thomas O’Crohan and Maurice Sullivan. Later published in English as The Poor Mouth , illustrated by Ralph Steadman, who copied Seán O’Sullivan’s vanity of the pictorial endpapers bearing a fanciful map of the Atlantic: Britain is “de Odar Saigd” and has only two features, Money Order offices, and G.B.S. The U.S.A. has more Money Order offices

• Year: 1941

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