LAVIN, Mary.

£225 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Patriot Son First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author to "Elisabeth Schnack, from Mary Lavin, March 1964" on the front free endpaper, and with the recipient's Zurich address stamp below in green ink. Elisabeth Schnack (1899-1992) was a literary scholar of Swiss origin, and a prolific translator of English literature into German, with a particular interest in Irish writers, her exchange year while a student at the University of Geneva having been spent in Dublin.

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