The Bookshop on the Quay. With Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. London: Dent, 1956. First Edition. Pp, 186. Green cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket browned & worn with some loss along spine, book in very good condition.

Presentation copy inscribed by the Author on half-title.

A young Irish orphan, Shane Madden, has run away from his foster home, finds work in a little bookshop in Dublin, The Four Masters’ Bookshop, owned by Eugene O’Clery, a man who truly loves his books.