Irish Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan,1920. First Edition. Pp x, 318. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt title and illustration to upper cover and spine. Light shelf-wear to boards, fraying to tail of spine, contents in nice condition.

Illustrated with sixteen coloured plates and twenty-one text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 

His collection of Irish tales was reviewed in The Bookman for Christmas 1920 and remarked: “for the child whose parents worship Ireland, for those with adoration for her legen

Irish Fairy Tales includes The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, The Boyhood of Fionn, The Birth of Bran, Oisin’s Mother, The Wooing of Becfola, The Little Brawl at Allen, The Carl of the Drab Coat, The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran, Becuma of the White Skin, and Mongan’s Frenzy.

Poet and novelist James Stephens (1882‒1950) was a leading figure in the Irish literary revival of the early 20th century and a supporter of Irish independence.