€150 - €300
1ST EDITION: ERIC CROSS – THE TAILOR AND ANSTY, very good – 1st edition. Hardcover. A very good copy with original dust jacket having a clear plastic jacket over it. A novel which was banned until the 1960s in Ireland. The life of the Irish tailor and storyteller, Timothy Buckley, and his wife Anastasia (Ansty) Buckley (née McCarthy). Signed to the first cover page in ink ‘E.L.Wright. Baghdad. Nov. 42’. Signed again below in ink; ‘Alec Waugh/1942’. Inscribed in pencil to same page: 1st Edition. Alec Waugh’s copy with 2 A.L.S £120’.
Some foxing to the edges, binding in excellent condition.
Accompanied with two hand written letters from Alec Waugh. The first dated 3.3.43 and is written to someone by the name of Leo. The second is dated Jan. 20. 1947 again to Leo and written on The Athenaeum, Pall Mall S.W.1 headed paper.
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