[Rarebooks] FS: "worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood"

[Charles Agvent]

McCOURT, Frank: ANGELA'S ASHES
n.p. 1996 First Edition.  A broadside excerpt (12" x 18") from the 
moving Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography by this Irish-born New York 
City teacher.  Produced by Twenty-Third Avenue Books and First Choice 
Books, on the occasion of an appearance by the author, in an edition of 
250 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrated with a color woodcut by 
designer Julie Freeman.  This copy is not numbered, and though there is 
no indication of such, it was given by McCourt to a friend.  "Worse than 
the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and 
worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."  Very light 
soiling to upper left corner, still Fine.      $150.00
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