The Land Smeller and Other Yarns - Edmund Downey. Published by Downey & Co., Ltd., Hardback (no dust jacket). Undated, although internet research shows it to be 1893 or later. "New Edition". The Land Smeller and Other Yarns is a collection of short stories about life at sea. Waterford-born Edmund Downey (nom de plumes F. M. Allen & William D. Hayes) (18561937) was a novelist, newspaper editor and publisher. Condition: Good. The pages are mostly clean inside and tightly bound although some discolouration can be found at the joins between. The end papers are tanned front and back, with the free pages showing the most tanning. Outside, the page edges are tanned with ground-in dust, in varying degrees. The cover shows most tanning on the spine, with some other marks mainly on the front.