Description
The signed limited issue of Charles’ Wain: A Miscellany of Short Stories, signed by 18 contributors, including Liam O’Flaherty, John Brophy, Seán O’Faoláin and others.
Octavo, viii, 237pp, [3]. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, uncut edges. Pictorial endpapers, and frontispiece portrait of Charles Lahr, signed by Nina Hamnett. Light soiling to the cloth spine, internally clean. Includes the publisher’s slipcase, boards worn at hinges, prior tape repairs to bottom board.
From a limited edition of 95 numbered copies on Japanese vellum, 85 of which are available to the public, this being number 76, signed by all 18 contributors.
Limitation page is signed by the following contributors: John Arrow, H.E. Bates, Oswell Blakeston, Alec Bristow, John Brophy, Rhys Davies, Charles Duff, Rupert Croft-Cooke, John Hampson, John Lindsay, Eimar O’Duffy, Seán O’Faoláin, Liam O’Flaherty, L.A. Pavey, T.F. Powys, Gay Taylor, Geoffrey West, and Malachi Whitaker.
A collection of eighteen short stories dedicated to Charles Lahr, the anarchist bookseller and proprietor of the Progressive Bookshop. With contributions by H.E. Bates, Rhys Davies, Liam O’Flaherty, Seán O’Faoláin, T.F. Powys, Geoffrey West, Malachi Whitaker, and others.
