THE SHAKE OF THE BAG: STORIES

by Leslie Alexander Montgomery, Lynn Doyle.

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Duckworth, 1939 . Octavo, 319 pp., original blue cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Stories about the inhabitants on either side of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. The people, as seen by the author, are hard-headed, good-natured, rooted in ancient prejudices, neighborly, pugnacious, dour and yet humorous; in short, a bundle of contradictions. The stories vary from broad farce in the first two

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