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90+(6) pages. Pulp paper. Near fine condition, an unusually well preserved copy, tiny chip to top right corner of the front wrap but very clean and unworn.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Farrows cream parchment type covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt insignia to the front cover. Quarto 10'' x 7¼''. Designed by Liam Miller being limited to 1000 copies. Contains xxi, [1], 158, [2] printed pages, illustrated frontispiece, printed with ornaments, large red initials, errata slip in the back. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 2 guineas. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Dr. A. J. Leventhal - With the author's compliments and sincere thanks in regard to his interest in Rudy, Rudolf Melander Holzapfel, Dublin April 1963.' Abraham Jacob Leventhal (1896-1979), often called Con by his friends, grew up in Dublin and attended a Protestant school, despite his Jewish heritage. Just after the first World War he took a break from his university studies to work for the first Zionist Commission in Palestine and to help found the Palestine Weekly. When, upon returning to Dublin, the Dublin Magazine turned down his review of James Joyce's Ulysses he founded his own literary journal, the Klaxon, in order to publish it. When his friend Samuel Beckett left a post at Trinity College, Leventhal assumed the position. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHAKESPEARE, William.