Irish Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan,1920. First Edition. Pp x, 318. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt title and illustration to upper cover and spine. Light off-setting to endpapers, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Illustrated with sixteen coloured plates by Arthur Rackham and twenty-one text illustrations.

Inscribed by James Stephens on the front free endpaper: “To Kitty, from James, Xmas 1920”

Poet and novelist James Stephens (1882‒1950) was a leading figure in the Irish literary revival of the early 20th century and a supporter of Irish independence.

His collection of Irish tales was reviewed in The Bookman for Christmas 1920 and remarked “for the child whose parents worship Ireland, for those with adoration for her legends.