Adrigoole. London, J. Cape, 1939. Pp, 315. First Edition. Green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Covers soiled & lightly worn. Contents in good condition. Lacks dust jacket.

The author’s second novel after ‘Islanders’ is a story of poverty and starvation in rural Ireland concerning a young man starting out on his own farm.

‘But his life is eternal battle against the bog which undermines the land and ruins the crops’.