Conyers (Dorothea) Irish Stew
£150
London, Skeffington, [1920].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Attractive first edition of this work by prodigious Irish author, who specialised in romantic novels set within the Irish sporting gentry.
In stock
Ink name to front free endpaper, endpapers with mild toning; cloth very good; jacket chipped and with larger section of loss to foot of lower panel.
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