The Life of Riley. London: Secker, 1964. First Edition. Pp, 221. Slate blue cloth boards, title in silver on spine in pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Cronin’s highly rated comic novel, about life in the bohemian Irish cultural scene of the 1960’s. By the author of the classic memoir of Dublin’s artistic scene in the 1950’s ‘Dead and Doornails.’