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[O'BRIEN, Flann] GOPALEEN, Miles na (pseud.); POWER, PATRICK C. (translator); STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator).

The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht).

The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht).

A Bad Story about the Hard Life.

Stock Code 112677

London, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973

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First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.

First English-language edition, first impression; 8vo; black and white illustrations by Ralph Steadman, unmarked internally; publisher's brown boards, gilt lettering to spine, map endpapers, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, minor edge-wear, else very good.

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