The Flaming Wheel. Nature Studies in the Counties of Dublin and Wicklow. Dublin: Talbot, 1924. First Edition. Pp xv, 185. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to upper cover; cloth lightly rubbed and faded, good internally.

The author, Sophia St. John Whitty, was born in Dublin and spent her early years in her father’s house at Hillcot, in the Dublin mountains.

This volume contains some of the most interesting and instructive nature stories ever written in Ireland.