TEEMS OF TIMES AND HAPPY RETURNS

Heinemann, London, 1961, 1st/1st.  Hard cover, 234 pages.  Purple boards with gold lettering on spine.  Light corner wear, tiny tear to cloth at spine head.  Binding sound; outer page block tanned with foxing.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows edge and cover wear, some tears and repaired tears on verso; some small losses.  Interior pages tanned with some foxing; frontis plate of author plus 2 interior plates present.  ‘… the autobiography of his Dublin childhood in the twenties and thirties. … This tale of a tenement childhood is made fresh by Dominic Behan’s humour and gently sardonic wit, which places the inspired and timeless talk of the Irish people in the setting of their lives under De Valera and the I.R.A.’ (from front flap)