With Michael Collins in The Fight for Irish Independence. London: Peter Davies, 1929. First Edition. Pp, 195. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, in publisher’s second issue dust jacket lettered in green. Scuffing to boards, light wear to head of spine; jacker frayed along edges with a little loss & price-clipped. Contents in good condition.

Bartholomew (Batt) O’Connor formed a close friendship with Michael Collins while detained in Frongoch prison camp in Wales. After their release he helped Collins in re-organising the IRB network and the Sinn Féin organisation. He persuaded Collins to go to London to form part of the Anglo-Irish Treaty delegation.

He was elected to the Dáil in 1924 and remained a TD until his death in 1935.