Tarry Flynn. London: The Pilot Press, 1948. First Edition. Pp, 195. Orange cloth boards, title lettered inn black to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Light fraying to edges of jacket, otherwise a fine bright copy.

The scarce first edition of Kavanagh’s famous novel, which was banned in Ireland when published in 1948.

‘Any man who wrote Tarry Flynn is entitled to throw down his hat and offer a challenge to the world. Tarry Flynn is a work of art.’ (Terence de Vere White, Irish Times).