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dj. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in white pictorial dustwrapper; xiii, 224pp, 9 plates. Dustwrapper slightly toned, with minor soiling and bumps; additional creasing along joints. Interiors clean, unmarked. Very Good+. A biography of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president of Ireland. He was, of course, the son of Erskine Childers, the author and yachtsman who was controversially executed in 1922 for his role in the Irish Civil War. 51 years later, the younger Childers was elected president under a banner of peace; unfortunately, he passed away in 1974 after only 18 months in office. With 9 photo-illustrated plates and a foreword by former Irish premier (1966-73, 1977-79) Jack Lynch.…