Donegal Fairy Stories. London: Isbister, 1902. First Edition. Pp xii, 256. Green cloth boards, with darker green lettering and shamrocks on the front and on the back. Light fading to boards, contetns pages in nice bright condition.

Illustrated by Gustave Verbeek with whimsical black-and-white line drawings.

Four page introduction by the author with ten tales in the text.

Donegal born Seamus MacManus spent most of his life in America where he succeeded in having much of his collected material published in magazines like `Harper’s’ and `Mc Clures’. “There is almost no story as wonderful as a folktale, and almost no folktale as wonderful as the Irish, and almost no teller of tales as good as Seumas MacManus.”

Gustave Verbeek was a remarkably inventive illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his surreal and reversible comic strips from the early 1900s