Birchwood. London: Secker & Warburg, 1973. First Edition, First Issue. Pp, 171. Brown cloth boards, original pictorial dust jacket. Covers lightly faded, chipping to head of jacket with a few creases to rear & scattered spotting. Foxing to fore-edges. Overall a very good copy of this scarce Banville work.

Signed by the Author on front free endpaper.

Banville’s third novel centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate.

This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’
— Seamus Deane