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VANISHING DUBLIN
1966WRCLIT81493Dublin: Allen Figgis 1966. x1011pp. Quarto. Gilt cloth-textured boards. Fifty full-page color plates by the author each with commentary. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Edited by Edgar W. Battle. Gift inscription on front free endsheet otherwise a very good or slightly better copy in price- clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities and a faint ring mark on the lower panel. First edition. After a Sioux uprising Nebraska-born Mitchell 1890 - 1973 moved with her family to Ireland where she eventually married into the Jameson family. Her watercolors as the title suggests record aspects of the city now faded if not forever lost. The number of copies printed was modest and in the full sway of the Celtic Tiger copies realized astonishing sums at auction. Allen Figgis hardcover books
