The Dark. London: Faber & Faber, 1966. First Edition. Black cloth boards lettered in white along spine, in publisher’s dust jacket printed in grey, black & white. Top of spine of jacket a little frayed, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Inscribed by the Author on the title page.

Author’s second novel, which dealt with the adolescence of a young man growing up in McGahern’s rural Ireland in the sixties under the control of a domineering and brutal widowed father. The book is one of the first modern Irish novels to touch on brutality within the family and of clerical sexual misdeeds, which led to its being banned in Ireland.

Ex Libris Frank McEvoy, honorary secretary of Kilkenny Arts Society & founder of Kilkenny Literary Society in 1960.