NMLP P-039759 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien · Longmans, Green & Co. (London) · 1939

The novel sold barely more than 240 copies before the war and almost all unsold stock was incinerated in the 1940 raid on Longmans' Paternoster Row premises, so copies in the original jacket are rarely met with; the jacket is the single hardest element to find

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039759 for "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039759, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).