Edna O’Brien – The Country Girl Trilogy – First UK Edition Set 1960-64
£875.00
A set of three first edition, first printings published between 1960 and 1964, comprising: ‘The Country Girls’, dust-jacket with price clipped and spine rubbed, Hutchinson, 1960; ‘The Lonely Girls’, ink note “advance copy. To be published in May” on front free endpaper, extremities of spine faded, dust-jacket spine toned with short tear, remnants of tape at ends (extending onto covers), Jonathan Cape, 1962; ‘Girls in Their Married Bliss’, dust-jacket price clipped, frayed at spine ends and folds, Jonathan Cape, 1964, publisher’s cloth.
O’Brien’s ground-breaking feminist trilogy, exploring the characters’ transition from girl to womanhood in Ireland in the early 1960s. The Country Girls was the first of six of her novels that the Irish Censorship Board would judge “indecent and obscene under section 7(a) of the Censorship of Publications Act, 1946”.
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A set of three first edition, first printings published between 1960 and 1964, comprising: ‘The Country Girls’, dust-jacket with price clipped and spine rubbed, Hutchinson, 1960; ‘The Lonely Girls’, ink note “advance copy. To be published in May” on front free endpaper, extremities of spine faded, dust-jacket spine toned with short tear, remnants of tape at ends (extending onto covers), Jonathan Cape, 1962; ‘Girls in Their Married Bliss’, dust-jacket price clipped, frayed at spine ends and folds, Jonathan Cape, 1964, publisher’s cloth.
O’Brien’s ground-breaking feminist trilogy, exploring the characters’ transition from girl to womanhood in Ireland in the early 1960s. The Country Girls was the first of six of her novels that the Irish Censorship Board would judge “indecent and obscene under section 7(a) of the Censorship of Publications Act, 1946”.
