A Young Man From The South. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. First Edition. Pp, 231. Tan cloth boards, title in gilt to spine, blind embossed to upper cover. Covers lightly worn, contents in good condition.

Early novel by Robinson. The original manuscript was burned whilst at the publisher’s office during the Easter Rising, April 1916.

Ex libris Cathal O ‘Shannon, Irish politician, trade unionist and journalist, with his signature to front endpaper. On Easter Sunday 1916, he mobilised with a hundred Volunteers at Coalisland, County Tyrone; they dispersed when there were no orders from Dublin.