McCARTAN, Patrick. With De Valera in America (Ernie O’Malley’s copy)

Boston: P.J. Kennedy & Sons, 1932. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xii, 277. A very good copy in original blue cloth, spine faded, light foxing. Signed by Ernie O’Malley on the front free endpaper. A significant association copy linking McCartan, de Valera and Ernie O’Malley.

With De Valera in America is Patrick McCartan’s first-hand account of de Valera’s 1919–20 mission to the United States seeking support for Irish independence. This copy is especially desirable with the ownership signature of Ernie O’Malley, IRA officer, author of On Another Man’s Wound, and one of the most important literary witnesses of the Irish revolutionary period.