Michael Collins' Personal Copy Collins (Michael) His person...

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Michael Collins' Personal Copy

Collins (Michael) His personal copy of Thom's Official Directory, 1922, specially bound for him in full red morocco, gilt and with his name 'M. O'Coileain,' in gilt letters on upper cover. In excellent condition. (1)

*A superb association item, which Collins must have consulted frequently in his successive capacities as Chairman of the Provisional Government, Minister for Finance, and Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, before his untimely death on a country road in Co. Cork on 22 August, 1922. Of the utmost rarity, items which can be definitively certified as having belonged to Collins personally are extremely rare, since his lifestyle did not lend itself to accumulation of property. 

Provenance: The family of the late General Michael Collins.