Irish Fairy Tales. Illustrated with Sixteen Coloured Plates and Twenty-One Text Drawings by Arthur Rackham . London: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition. Pp [x], 318. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt motif & title on frot. Patchy fading to outer margin of upper cover, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Stephens’s collection of Irish tales was reviewed in ‘The Bookman for Christmas 1920’ which remarked “for the child whose parents worship Ireland, for those with adoration for her legends.”

Poet and novelist James Stephens (1882‒1950) was a leading figure in the Irish literary revival of the early 20th century and a supporter of Irish independence.