THE RIDDLE OF ERSKINE CHILDERS
by Andrew Boyle
Published by Hutchinson of London. 1st. 1977
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Erskine Childers was the author of the novel The Riddle of the Sands. He was a product of Haileybury and Cambridge, became a Clerk to the House of Commons, fought in the Boer War, joined the navy as a lieutenant in the Volunteer Reserve in 1914 and was awarded the DSC in the Royal Naval Air Service. How did it come about that this typical product of the English upper class was condemned to death by the newly formed Irish Governement, not as an agent of the English but as a republican rebel, a member of the outlawed IRA? Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 351 pages including index.
Lower edge of rear board knocked. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Name in red ink to front pastedown. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, lightly scuffed to rear panel, minor closed tear to top front edge.
ISBN: 0091284902
Stock no. 1829818
