first edition
1985 · Gerrards Cross, Bucks, UK
by YOUNG, John N.; Jack Lynch (foreword)
Gerrards Cross, Bucks, UK: Colin Smythe, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in white pictorial dustwrapper; xiii, 224pp, 9 plates. Dustwrapper slightly toned, with minor soiling and bumps; additional creasing along joints. Interiors clean, unmarked. Very Good+.
A biography of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president of Ireland. He was, of course, the son of Erskine Childers, the author and yachtsman who was controversially executed in 1922 for his role in the Irish Civil War. 51 years later, the younger Childers was elected president under a banner of peace; unfortunately, he passed away in 1974 after only (truncated)
A biography of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president of Ireland. He was, of course, the son of Erskine Childers, the author and yachtsman who was controversially executed in 1922 for his role in the Irish Civil War. 51 years later, the younger Childers was elected president under a banner of peace; unfortunately, he passed away in 1974 after only (truncated)
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