Hangman's House by Donn Byrne 1926

Hangman's House
Donn Byrne
The Century Co. 1926
Second printing
Copyright 1926
466 pages
Illustrations by John Richard Flanagan

The front hinge is cracked and the frontispiece is detached otherwise the binding is in acceptable condition.  The pages are tanned, a couple have edge tears and there is a name written on the front end paper. The cover has a small amount of edge wear and the spine is faded. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: Once more had come now the miracle of the Irish June. Yellow of gorse; red of clover; purple of the Dublin Mountains. Everywhere the white of the hawthorn; there would be a hard winter coming, the gloomy farmers said, so much of it there was. And wherever a clump of trees were, there grew great crops of bluebells. And the primrose lingered, who should have been gone three weeks and more. And over the white roads the trees met, elm and ash and sturdy horse-chestnut, making cool green tunnels, like some property out of a fairy story.... (#0000844)