The House of Gold. London: Cape, 1929. First Edition. Pp, 325. Orange cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Signed by the Author on front free endpaper.

Set in Galway and the writer’s native Aran Islands, the action revolves around the fictional town of Barra and its illustrious swaggering new rulers who have displaced the old Big House grandees.

The House of Gold was the first book to be banned by the fledgling Free State’s Irish Censorship of Publications Board, which in 1930 denounced the work as “obscene.”