Twenty Years A-Growing. Rendered from the Original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. With an introductory note by E.M. Forster. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First Edition. Pp, xii, 323. Pale green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s cream dust jacket printed in green. Light fading to cloth, jacket lightly chipped at head & tail of spine, contents pages in nice bright condition.

Maurice O’Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and ‘Twenty Years A-Growing’ tells the story of his youth and of a way of life on the island off the Kerry coast.

The original edition in Irish ‘Fiche Blian Ag Fás’ was published by The Talbot Press in the same year.