8vo, beige buckram cloth, black titles, 294pp. Stated first printing. Publisher’s review copy, with tipped in review slip and author photograph. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) mildly rubbed to panels, a few short closed tears, creasing to ends of spine. Contents clean, binding firm. The only published novel by Betty Wahl, wife of novelist J.F. Powers. A comedy about an American history professor and his family expatriating to Ireland. Powers and Wahl moved their family to Ireland in the 1960s. Text of the novel is expanded from a previously published short story “A Shorter History of the Irish People.” Jacket design by Milton Glazer. A nice copy in mylar.