Rare Inscribed First EditionsCollins (Michael) The Path to F...

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Rare Inscribed First Editions

Collins (Michael) The Path to Freedom, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) 1922. First Edn. Port. frontis, Inscribed by Eoin Mac Neill on front loose blank, orig. decor. cloth, and orig. d.w.; with, O'Connor (Batt) With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence, 8vo L. 1929. First Edn., Inscribed Presentation Copy from Author to Miss Molly Kerr, on front loose blank, orig. green cloth & orig. d.w. Both v. good copies of scarce volumes. (2)

* O'Connor joined the Volunteers 1916, & was ordered to Kerry in advance of the Easter Rising, but after the arrest of Casement returned Dublin. He was arrested and court marshalled and interned in Richmond Barracks. He was later sent to Wandesworth and Frongoch where he met Michael Collins. He was an intelligence agent and Collins most trusted .. allies. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty.