1940s gift inscription to front free endpaper; cloth with slight lean, some darkening at lower edges; jacket stained and browned at spine with some wear/loss, wear at corners, but both panels VG.
Pollock (John Hackett, aka Philibin) The Moth and the Star:
£110
A Surmise
Dublin & Cork, Talbot Press, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
An imaginative reconstruction of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s visit to Dublin and the friendships he made there, by Irish writer Pollock.
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