Buy this book on-line FINNEY**, PATRICIA: : A SHADOW OF GULLSLONDON.COLLINS,1977. ISBN 0002224690.
UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap, b/w author portrait photograph rear wrap, with minimal shelf-wear and creasing - no nicks or tears and no off-set foxing to immaculate plain white eps.Minimally bumped head+foot of spine/ backstrip with reciprocal light creasing and merest degree of fading to same.Top+fore-edges clean; contents tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corne tips - appears unread other than my own collation.
Unblemished green paper-covered boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate clean,plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-350pp includes half-title+title pages,author's note,double-page b/w map,a prologue,3pp list of proper names and also a 3pp glossary to rear.
When Lugh the Harper,son of a Roman fugitive and an Irish priestess in the second century AD,was driven from Connaught under a curse for having killed the Queen's anointed consort,he sought refuge at the court of her enemy,the High
King of Ulster,and later among the Tuatha
de Danaan,the so-called 'fairy folk' who lived in the hollow hills.Many years later he set down his story for the benefit of his honoured friend the Emperor Hadrian.It is a story of battle and love and carnage,of bitter feuds and acts of heroism such as are still part of Ireland's heritage today; a story of treachery in high places and loyalty that endured to the death; of Cuchulain,Champion of Ulster,and the famous Cattle Raid of Cooley,of Maeve of Connaught and Deirdre of the Sorrows,all narrated by a young man who was witness to the events which his subsequent retelling made famous in smoky halls of a winter's evening,ensuring their immortality.It is a story to move hearts everywhere that respond to its humour and high seriousness; to fascinate those who long to know what the distant past was like; and to enthral all who are caught up in the joys and sorrows and strange changes of fortune which mark the young harper's life.
This remarkable debut novel,so detailed in its background,so talented in its recreation of character and event,would be a noteworthy publishing occasion in any circumstances.That its author was seventeen when she wrote it,singles it out as one of the most memorable literary debuts in the twentieth century.And as such,was the winner of the David Higham Award for Best First Novel of the Year.
She has written a second novel,the continuation of Lugh the Harper: "The Crow Goddess" - see rja1820.An extremely elusive,scarce book, particularly in as good a grade as this - a superb copy.
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