first edition. ex-collection irish novelist forrest reid, with his signature on the front free endpaper. Reid is best known for Following Darkness, his 1912 coming of age novel set in Belfast that has been cited as an inspiration for Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Wise 2
with--Tales of Unrest. 8vo, cloth, moderate shelfwear to covers; top edges gilt; occasional foxing. London, 1898. Wise 6 The Arrow of Gold. Scattered soiling to covers, slight lean to textblock. London, (1919). Wise 41 Tales of Hearsay. Slightly cocked; some spotting to fore- and top edges; offsetting to endpapers. London, (1925). Not in Wise. First English Editions; Blodget bookplates. Should be seen.