Annamore or Tenant-At-Will de Guinan, Joseph Canon - 1924

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Good. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1924. First edition. Good. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering bright,a little shelf worn, corners very mildly bumped, interior with some foxing, mainly confined to the preliminary pages and foredge, binding sound. Scarce.

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1928 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Provenance of Bishop D.J. Feeney, seventh bishop of the Diocese of Portland (ME) with his personal rubber stamp on flyleaf. A nice copy with only minimal age wear, nicely decorated in light green cloth with gilt lettering. A fictional account of the 1916 Irish uprising, 332 pages..

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1928. First edition. Original green cloth with blind stamped shamrock to the front board, and gilt titles and shamrock decorations. In its original dust wrapper with an illustration of an Irish map to the front cover, and a list of other novels to the rear panel. First issue. "Taking the town of Druninara as a setting, he presents with the accuracy of an eye-witness vivid and poignant scenes of that futile (1916) uprising that nevertheless was the beginning of the end of British ascendancy in Ireland." (Publisher's blurb). The Reverend Joseph Canon Guinan was a parish priest in Ardagh, County Longford. 332 pages. 19 cm x 13 cm. Both book and wrapper are in excellent condition. The wrapper is fractionally darkened, and has a few minor nicks to the edges, but overall a very presentable wrapper. The boards are clean and bright - without flaw. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of foxing to the closed page edge only.