The Irish Famine [Signed]

  • SIGNED
  • London: Profile Books, 1999
By Colm Toibin
London: Profile Books, 1999. Very Good +. London: Profile Books, 1999. First Edition. 16mo (15 cm); 91pp. Publisher's illustrated card wrappers with author photo on back panel. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor scuffs to covers and light soiling to page edges. Erased pencil to top corner of first page. A Very Good or better copy.

Signed by Colm Tóibín on the title page. Originally printed in part in the London Review of Books in 1998, this is the first copy of the text in full. It discusses how Irish authors, government leaders, and historians have approached description and accounts of the Great Famine. It was followed by the 2001 edition with a part two by Diarmaid Ferriter.

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