Down All The Days. Signed by the Author (1970)
Book ID: 69441
Price: €1,250.00
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 on 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.
Inscribed copies of Brown’s books are rare in commerce.
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