Mother Ireland [Signed bookplate laid in]

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 144pp. Black & white plates throughout. Boards bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket (£3.95). Endsheets olive green. Jacket bumped and creased at margins with superficial scuffing and scratches to surface. Sticker residue over price at front flap and closed tears at spine ends and front joint, all taped at verso. Board margins sunned with minor soiling to front and bumping to spine ends and corners. Interior clean. A Very Good or better copy in like jacket (truncated) of O'Brien's first non-fiction. Signed bookplate by O'Brien loosely laid in at front. (Inventory #: 32953)