Down All The Days. London: Secker, 1970. First Edition. Pp, 266. Brown cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn along edges, book in nice bright condition.

Inscribed by the Author the front free endpaper in year of publication (May 1970).

Regarded as Brown’s Magnum Opus, ‘Down all the Days’ is an autobiographical novel & a playful expansion of ‘My Left Foot’ (published in 1954). It focuses on the childhood and coming of age of a young man with cerebral palsy. He acts as a detached observer of life in the slums of Dublin, during the 1940s and 1950s. It became an international best-seller, translated into 14 languages

The book aligns with the mid-century wave of Irish literature that rejected romanticised rural narratives (as seen in earlier works by Yeats or Synge) in favour of grittier urban realism, akin to Brendan Behan or Patrick Kavanagh. 

Inscribed copies of Brown’s books are rare in commerce.