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Pearse, P. H.
The Mother And Other Tales
Publisher: Dundalgan Press, Dundalk;
Date of Publication: 1917
Stock Code: 11307
Second Edition. Octavo, pp. xi, [3], 88. Three monochrome photographic plates, including twin portrait frontispiece of the author and his mother. Quarter olive cloth with printed light brown paper-covered boards. Two edges uncut. Spine sunned, a little creased at tips; boards worn at corners, with minor staining to lower board. Ownership inscription in pencil to ffep dated 1926; scattered light foxing, mainly to textblock edge. Rare anthology translated from the Gaelic by Rev. T. A. Fitzgerald. Patrick Henry Pearse ( 1879-1916) was a barrister, poet and author, and one of the leaders of the Easter Rising; he was executed in 1916 at Kilmainham Gaol for his part in the uprising. £85.00