Hardback book with green boards in a good condition. 1988 2nd edition of the original 1951edition. With 8 colour plates and 4 charcoal drawings. Illustrated dust jacket in a good condition, price clipped. Slight shelf marking. With a forward by Sean O'Faolain. Paul Henry is one of the best known Irish landscape painters. In this autobiography he writes of his experience in Connemara and Mayo and on Achill Island and of the tremendous influence which his years in the West had on his work as an artist. The author also writes of his life and his friends, many of them famous, in Paris and in London where his early years were passed, but it is the chapters dealing with the West of Ireland which dominate the book, just as the influence of the West was to dominate his art.