The Romance of Reading. First Series. Book 111 Pleasant Paths. London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Reprint. Pp, 192. Blue cloth pictorial boards, light spotting to upper cover, contents in fine bright condition.

Illustrated with five plates in colour and many drawings in black & white throughout the text.

A school reader book containing a mix of prose & poetry. Irish content includes Padraic Colum’s ‘The Old Woman of the Roads’ L.A.G. Strong ‘The Ballad of the Carpenters.’