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Days of Fear Two Editions WITH Autograph Note Signed
47629V.p. v.d. First Edition. Two volumes as described below:<br /> <br /> 1. Days of Fear. London: John Murray 1928. First Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in white dust jacket lettered in red and green. 175pp. Light wear to jacket extremities including small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of rear panel touching one letter else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Laid in brief autograph note signed on An Bureau um Eolas Stáit / Government Information Bureau letterhead dated November 11 1953 and addressed to one "Mac" transmitting this copy.<br /> <br /> 2. Days of Fear. New York: Harper Brothers Publishers 1929. First American Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth printed paper spine label dark orange printed dust jacket; 175pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities spine panel a bit faded else Very Good or better. Review copy with rubberstamp to front panel of dustwrapper. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail Dublin in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers later the Irish Republican Army. The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger Strike which he personally maintained for nine days. The author survived the strike and his time in prison going on to become a senior state official later dubbed rather unflatteringly the "Irish Dr. Goebbels" for his work as a leading propagandist of the Irish Civil War. Both editions quite scarce in jacket. unknown
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