At Swim-Two-Birds

by Flann O'Brien

$3,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. First edition, first printing of the author's first novel. 316 pp. Bound in publisher's first issue black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, green topstain; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine, light wear to head and tail, and light rubbing and soiling to cloth. Housed in an untitled black cloth clamshell case. From the library of the Scottish poet Sydney Goodsir Smith, his

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