Tinker Boy. London: Dent, 1955. First Edition. Pp, 182. A nice bright copy in pictorial dust jacket.

With a coloured frontispiece and text illustrations by Harry Kernoff.

A children’s novel by the renowned Irish author Patricia Lynch, featuring Dara Mac Dara, a young tinker boy who lives in a caravan with his mother, a fortune-teller. His life takes a new turn when he begins attending school with a local girl, Tessa Nolan, sparking a friendship that challenges the prejudices of her community and leads to a realisation that there are “good tinkers as well as bad.“