A.E. Coppard — The Man from Kilsheelan
London, William Jackson, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The signed limited edition of an Irish folktale written by A.E. Coppard, a respected short story writer known for his empathy. The limited edition of The Man from Kilsheelan, a folktale set in Ireland, written and signed by English author and short-story writer A.E. Coppard. No.282 of 550 copies signed by Coppard to the edition leaf. In the publisher's original blue cloth, with a charming woodcut frontispiece by Irish wood engraver and author Robert Gibbings. As a writer, Coppard was praised for both his talented depiction of rural settings and his empathy, both of which are prevalent in this short tale written with much written in an Anglo-Irish dialect. Despite much of his work being lost over they years, many of his stories received TV adaptations, and he was admired by Ford Maddox Brown and Frank O' Connor among others. Very Good . Ill.: Robert Gibbings. Very Good .
