O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original first issue black cloth lettered in gilt, a few light marks, dust-jacket, price-clipped and laid down on stiff black paper, spine browned with loss to lower half, chipping, tears and fraying to extremities, creased, 8vo, 1939.

⁂ The author's first novel, scarce in the first issue black cloth and especially so in the dust-jacket. Much of the issue was destroyed when Longmans' premises were bombed during the blitz and the dust-jacket appears to have been especially fragile. The lower panel of the dust-jacket includes a lengthy review quote from Graham Greene comparing the novel to Ulysses and Tristram Shandy.