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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Gift quality hardcover in grass green paper covered boards with gilt spine title. Spine ends lightly bumped, tips still sharp. No names, tears or soil in the 287 pp text. Unclipped dust jacket has a wrap around dark green illustration on grass green background of the finish of a fox hunt. Displays well in new mylar sleeve despite lightly sunned backstrip. An enchanting novel, displaying to the full Somerville and Ross's gift for dialogue and clear eye for the beauty of the Irish countryside. Edith Somerville's nephew, Patrick Coghill, has written a fascinating essay to introduce this new edition. The story is set in the 1880's, when it was considered most improper for a young lady from Southern Ireland to go off, by herself, to Paris with very little money but a keen desire to paint. Lady Kirwen, who was a natural Bohemian, sympathized with her daughter's ambition, but the Master or Kirwnscourt wouldn't hear of it. After a furious row with him on the hunting field, while their friends and neighbors looked on, Patsey Kirwen borrowed.