Stories From Carleton. With an Introduction by W.B. Yeats (1906)
Book ID: 60583
Price: €125.00
Stories From Carleton. With an Introduction by W.B. Yeats. London: Walter Scott, [1906]. Later Issue. Pp xvii, 302, [adverts]. Smooth red cloth covers with the publisher’s logo blind stamped to centre of upper cover, title lettered in gilt to spine. A near fine copy. First publisher by Scott in 1889 as volume 48 in the The Scott Library series. Yeats in his introduction says of Carelton: “He is the great novelist of Ireland, by right of the most Celtic eyes that ever gazed from under the brows of storyteller.” Containing five stories “The Poor Scholar”, “Tubber Derg; or, the Red Well”, “Wildgoose Lodge”, “Shane Fadh’s Wedding”, and “The Hedge School.”
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