< Back

O'Byrne, Dermot [i.e. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax] (1883-1953).
The Sisters and Green Magic.
Publisher: [Theosophical Society of Great Britain], London;
Date of Publication: 1912
Stock Code: 14611
The Orpheus Series no. VIII. Square octavo, pp., 76, [2] publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s midnight blue cloth, titled in gilt to upper board and spine. Paper shelf-mark label to foot of spine, Theosophical Society in Scotland ink-stamp to front paste-down, and blind stamp to title-page. Upper board slightly bowed, minor shelf-wear to boards and extremities, minor adhesive marks to foot of boards continuing to spine. Contents clean and neat. A very good copy. Sir Arnold Bax was an accomplished English composer whose literacy and musical works were shaped by Celtic and Slavic influences. After reading the poetry of W. B. Yeats, Bax moved to the county Donegal village of Glencolumcille, and learned Irish. Bax wrote under the pseudonym ‘Dermot O’Byrne’, and moved to Dublin in 1911, where he began documenting first-hand accounts of the language, customs, culture, legends, and history of the West of Ireland. This book comprises two tales from these accounts of a supernatural bent. Formerly of the Theosophical Society in Scotland. £95.00