ISBN10: 0809305275, ISBN13: 9780809305278, [publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale] Hardcover First Edition x, 442 pages. 220x150mm. Original publisher's black cloth, spine lettered white, with original pictorial unclipped dust jacket. This American publication is the first edition, first printing of this important Irish novel, and predates the London issue of Martin, Brian and O'Keefe by four years. A fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings.
[Dublin, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1971]
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ISBN10: 0809305275, ISBN13: 9780809305278, [publisher: Carbondale and Edwardsville / London and Amsterdam, Southern Illinois University Press / Feffer & Simons, Inc.] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. 15 cm x 22 cm. VII, 442 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. Slight spotting/discolouration on page edges. Clean inside with intact binding. "Black List," " Section H "is Francis Stuart s twentieth novel, the consummation of a lifetime devoted to writing, and perhaps the keystone through which all of his other works must be viewed. Almost totally autobiographical, described by the novelist himself as an imaginative fiction in which only real people appear, and under their actual names where possible, the novel encompasses the period from 1919, when H, the hero, comes to Dublin and meets Maud Gonne and marries her adopted daughter, Iseult, through the period of the Second World War, when in 1939, burdened by marital and financial difficulties he accepts a position as lecturer at Berlin University. Stuart s depiction of wartime Berlin, the Allied bombings, and the endless shuffling between refugee and prison camps after the war is one of the few accounts of these experiences in English. More than a mere record of one man s life, the book is an experience deeply lived and set down in fine prose with an intensity that is ...
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