Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957)

Going Native (Signed)

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 294 pages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Jacket has minor extremity rubs.

Gogarty, who was James Joyce's model for Buck Mulligan in the opening chapter of Ulysses, here presents a satire on English social mores. It is the story of one Ouseley, an Irishman, advised by William Butler Yeats to leave Ireland and go native among the queer English. Signed by Gogarty on front free endpaper.

Item #738

Price: $150