Sayers Peig Bryan Macmahon Eoin (2 results)

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hbk, 212pp, illustr, dj lightly edgeworn but not price-clipped and otherwise bright, clean and now in protective sleeve, fine green cloth boards, internally an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked text.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY. 1974. 212 pages. First American edition; first printing. Book is about fine. Bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth panels are bright and clean. Pages and endpapers are clean; no writing within aside from a tiny previous owner's name neatly written on top edge of FFEP. Original DJ shows light rubbing along edges. This is the now-classic memoir of noted Irish folklorist, Peig Sayers, in which she describes her childhood immersed in traditional Munster Irish-speaking culture, rack-renting Anglo-Irish landlords that resulted in extreme poverty, the coercive Anglicization of the educational system, devout Catholicism, and a mass emigration to the New World; or the American wake. Near fine/VG. First American edition; first printing.