Dublin: A Portrait
by: V. S. Pritchett /Evelyn Hofer (Photographer)

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. Book is clean and bright with color and b&w photographs by Evelyn Hofer. "Mostly Dublin as it was, in text, as it is, in photographs. Mr. Prichett...provides a historical perspective, indeed devotes himself to this to the near exclusion of current sights. These he leaves to Miss Hofer, whose portraits of aged revolutionaries, mods, seminaries speak a thousand words, whose delineations of Mountjoy Square, the Port are exquistely etched & tinged. The Earl of Wicklow, Lord Mayne, Sean O'Faolain, the death mask of James Joyce ~ high great names; Trinity College, Kilmainham Jail ~ historical presences are here. Taking as his main theme the relations with the English, Mr. Pritchett notes that "the inevitable politics remain, but the quarrel is over." Front flap creased, clean copy.