Loan-Ends Stories in Ulster.

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First edition. 120 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. 12 full-page illustrations from original linocuts by Alfred E. Kerr. Black blocked grey cloth boards, with another linocut illustration to the front board., and with a dedication from the artist, Alfred E. Kerr, on the ffep. Some edge rubbing to boards, and corners bumped, but internally clean and bright. In good condition. A hard-to-find publication from this local Press. Florence Davidson was a local poet, author of a collection, "The Little Roads". Loan-Ends is welve short stories of Ulster rural life and character .an old age pensioner, a country woman recording her vote for the first time, the return of the prodigal from America, the nesting bird, a love story, the sisters a poignant story of tragedy, the political world of violence and bloodshed. Alfred Edward Laws Kerr was born on 27 September 1901 in South Stoneham, Hampshire, son of Alfred Edward T. E. Kerr, an iron turner from Belfast, and Isabella, née Laws, from Durham. They married in South Stoneham in late 1899. Alfred seems to have been educated at Chelsea School of Art. By the mid-1930s he was illustrating books for The Quota Press, and became known as "the Ulster Beardsley". He worked for a variety of British and Irish publishers through the 1940s. He moved to the Isle of Wight in 1959, and established the Seaview School of Painting. He died 11 January 1980, aged 79. N° de ref. del artículo 18505

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