Dubliners. Introduction by Padraic Colum. New York: The Modern Library, 1926. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s brown flexible boards. Endpapers bear a diamond cross-hatch pattern with the publisher’s signature torch-bearer, all printed in yellow. Neat ownership name to front endpaper. A nice bright copy, without the dust jacket.

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