The Islandman. Translated from the Irish, with an Introduction by Robin Flower. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1934. First Edition. Pp, 324. Blue cloth, title in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Frontispiece portrait photograph of Thomas O’Crohan with three other plates in the text.

Original published in Irish this is the first English translation of this classic work of the author’s life growing up on an island in the Blasket group of islands near West Kerry.

Scarce in the original dust jacket, depicting an islandman and several currach carriers in silhouette.