The Wilderness. Illustrated by Jeanette Dunne. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1978. Cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Signed by Liam O’Flaherty on front free endpaper.

With eleven Illustrations by Jeanette Dunne. Although the story was originally serialised in 1927, this edition represents its first appearance as a complete, illustrated volume.

The book is a philosophical and pastoral novel that explores the collision between a mystic’s spiritual idealism and the harsh realities of human nature within a secluded Irish valley.