The Red and the Green [and the Pink]

New York: Viking Press, 1965. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo in dark gray boards; dust jacket; 311 pp; 22 cm Very good in good(+)(+) dust jacket; boards smooth; small sticker affixed to corner of paste-down endpaper, else pages clean; dust jacket shows tape to edge, now housed in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Strange. unique copy with pink duct tape applied to front jacket! / As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile Pat's Protestant soldier cousin, Andrew Chase-White, puzzles out his complex emotions about Ireland and the girl he loves. Weaving between them moves Millie Kinnard: fast, feminist, and only just respectabl. | Historical Fiction