The Hard Life. An Exegesis of Squalor. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1961. First Edition. Maroon cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket designed by Sean O’Sullivan. Jacket price-clipped. A fine bright  fine copy.

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.