The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story

New York: Macmillan Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION. Number 291 of 500 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. George Moore (1852-1933) was a Roman Catholic Irish writer, art critic, and dramatist. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to follow the style of the French realists. He is considered by some to be the first great modern Irish novelist, and his works supposedly influenced James Joyce. The Brook Kerith was one of his later novels, initially published in 1916. It was controversial both because it its writing style, which rejected the Victorian style and included long unindented paragraphs, no quotation marks, and long sections on minor observations; as well as its subject, which was that Jesus did not die on the cross.

This edition is completely revised and reset. Bound with black paper boards with half vellum spine. Binding is worn, chipped, bumped, and rubbed, and the vellum spine is quite browned and faded. Interior pages are generally clean with some offsetting from tissue guards over plates and light browning to the limitation page. Although the title page states that there are 12 engravings, this volume has only the nine plates on the list of illustrations and two text engravings on the first and last pages. A very good text in a fair only binding. Measures 6.25 x 10.25 inches. 391 pages. LIT/101321.