COLUM, Padraic. The Big Tree of Bunlahy. Stories of My Own Countryside. Coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations by Jack B. Yeats.

ATTRACTIVE IRISH LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PAIRING

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Octavo. First edition. pp. viii, [2], 166. Publisher’s green cloth, title in brown on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in very good dust jacket.
One coloured frontispiece and a suite of black-and-white drawings by Jack B. Yeats, many full-page, perfectly complementing Colum’s Longford folk-tales. Colum’s much-loved evocation of childhood storytelling in Bunlahy, County Longford, rendered with lyrical economy and a collector’s eye for local idiom. The collaboration with Jack B. Yeats - whose lively, humane drawings catch the rhythms of rural life - makes this an especially attractive Irish literary and artistic pairing

[Cat 164]