Annala Connacht - The Annals of Connacht
Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #012796
Thick 8vo., 854pp. Solid First Edition. Bound half purple cloth over gray paper covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Text in Irish with translation on facing page. Two fold-out facsimiles of the hand-written chronicle. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some bumping to spine ends. Top edge and spine sunned. A few spots on front board. From the library of Tom Fox, (with his small, neat signature on the front paste-down), the noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and literature, Fox was called by Nicholas Basbanes, ",,, a kindred spirit...assembler of an uncommonly distinctive collection of Irish history and literature". A sharp collectable copy of a scarce title, particularly on this side of the Atlantic.
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