€240
Oliver St. John. Wild Apples. Cuala Press, Dublin,1930. Original linen over grey-blue mottled boards, title on frayed printed label on spine and printed in black on upper cover. Trace of old stain on lower board bottom left, corners a little bumped. Edition limited to 250 copies only. Exceptional presentation inscription on front free endpaper: “To my friend Mrs. Phillimore / of Kilmacurragh / from Oliver Gogarty / Dublin 16 April / 1930. Also neat pencil marginal notation in French under “Syracuse” poem by Gogarty. A newspaper or magazine clipping of Gogarty’s poem, ‘In Memoriam’ of his friend Arthur Russell, Soldier and Airman’, has been pasted on to p. 30. With his long poem ‘The Dublin and Galway’ Train pasted between the rear endpapers. This copy is inscribed by Oliver Gogarty to Mrs. Lucy Phillimore (nee Fitzpatrick). Phillimore was a wealthy novelist who leased the famous house and gardens of Kilmacurragh in Wicklow in the 1920s. W B Yeats and Lucy Phillimore famously rowed during his visit there, [McCormack: 'Blood Kindred'] Kilmacurragh was known for its gardens and arboretum and has more recently become the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland.
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