Judith Hearne. London: Andre Deutch, 1955. First Edition. Pp, 223. Maroon cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket designed by Heather Strandling. Light fading to jacket spine, otherwise a fine bright copy. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Signed by the Author on front free endpaper.

Moore’s highly acclaimed novel set in Belfast in the 1950’s.

“Written by a young man, this novel is about a middle-age spinster, and the imaginative power displayed by Mr Moore in projecting himself into this woman’s life proves without doubt that here is a genuine creator.”