LEE DUNNE. — Goodbye to the Hill. A novel.
Hutchinson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. The binding slightly sprung, the free endpapers very lightly toned, and with an inked former owner signature to the head of the front free endpaper. A nice crisp copy in the quite striking pictorial dust wrapper designed by Ted Lewis, non-price-clipped, but nicked and chipped with four or five quite small areas of loss. The Irish author's first book, a semi-autobiographical and somewhat controversial bestseller detailing his coming of age in poverty in 1950s Dublin, set in the Mount Pleasant tenement slum in Ranelagh where he was born and raised., Good, Good