Michael Collins. Soldier and Statesman. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1937. First Edition. Pp xii, 430. Publisher’s light green cloth lettered in black on spine. In publisher’s original dust jacket. Jacket frayed along edges & price-clipped, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait plate of Collins and three plates in the text.

An account of Michael Collins’s early life & career in 18 chapters. In the present work Béaslái deals in more detail with the treaty negotiations than in his preceding two  volume biography ‘Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland’ first published in 1926.

Scarce in original dust jacket.