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1939 UK FIRST EDITION OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY. 325 pages. Great condition. Note the bookplate and signatures, EX-LIBRIS Otis Skinner Blodget, Also the signature of Martin Liscarney. From 1939, a rare first edition from the UK, Tumbling in the Hay, by Oliver St. John Gogarty, as published by Archibald Constable, London. Sized 9x5 inches, handsomely bound in period cloth, gilt titles. 325 pages. Great condition. Note the bookplate and signatures, EX-LIBRIS Otis Skinner Blodget, Also the signature of Martin Liscarney. Someone wrote in pencil that Otis Skinner Blodget was the son of the popular author Cornelia Otis Skinner (Our Hearts were Young & Gay.) Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.