O'Brien's first three novels form a trilogy and a testimony to life for women in southern Ireland in the middle of the twentieth century. It established its author as the major novelist she continued to be for the five decades - and counting! Sets in this condition are not common.

First editions, first impressions; 3 vols, 8vo; publisher's black, pink and blue boards respectively, titles to spines, with the pictorial dust jackets. I: spine just a touch rolled but a lovely copy in the lightly frayed dust jacket with a couple of pieces of internal support; the other two titles are gorgeous in the dust jackets.