Forrest Reid — Apostate

London, Constable & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first trade edition of award-winning Irish novelist Forrest Reid's tender autobiography, in which he writes of his youth in Ireland. The first trade edition, first impression of this scarce work.Flat signed by the author to the title page.This is the first of two autobiographies by Irish novelist, literary critic and translator Forrest Reid, who was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood, and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist. He was awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel 'Young Tom&apos.An association copy, inscribed by M. S. Posner to the front free endpaper. Posner was a known correspondent of the author, with whom he frequently exchanged letters.He spends much of this work praising the Irish lanscape. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip a touch age toned, minor tide marks to front board tail. Minor shelf wear to back strip tail. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .