The Third Policeman. New York: Walker & Co., 1967. First American Edition. Pp, 200. Brown cloth boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Light fraying along top margin of jacket, book in nice bright condition.

Presentation inscription from Tom McIntyre – the acclaimed Irish playwright, poet, short story writer and novelist – to the front free endpaper.

Voted novel of the year, it received rave reviews as a ‘triumph of a book’ and ‘The magical stimulation of this superbly alert humor, delivered in a prose style of wonderful clarity and full of charm.’

The Observer commented ‘I think, even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious!’