George Moore — The Untilled Field

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of short stories from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Singed and inscribed by the author to the half title, dated 1922. Addressed to Evelyn Marshall Field, the wife of Marshall Field III, an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, and the grandson of businessman Marshall Field. A collection of thirteen short stories dealing with clerical interference in the daily lives of the Irish peasantry, and of the issue of emigration. The stories were originally written for translation into Irish, to serve as models for other writers working in the language. Written by George Augustus Moore, an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Emile Zola. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. A split in the cloth to the head of the spine. Hinges strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Further spotting to the endpapers with light age toning. Good . Ill.: None. Good .