The Hard Life. An Exegesis of Squalor. New York: Pantheon, 1962. First US Edition. Pp, 179. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Sean O’Sullivan.

Dedicated to Graham Green.

Flann O’Brien’s fourth novel and the third to be published. He wrote ‘The Third Policeman’ in 1939, but it wasn’t published until 1967.