Conor O'Brien: 'Two Boys Go Sailing', London, J.M. Dent, 193...

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Conor O'Brien: 'Two Boys Go Sailing', London, J.M. Dent, 1936, 1st edition, b/w frontis + 12 b/w plates & map end papers by B. Ganly as called for, original pictorial cloth, pictorial dust wrapper (by B. Ganly, worn with some part losses). Scarce juvenile fiction title by Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien (1880-1952), Irish arsitocrat, intellectual, naval architect and ship builder, and mountaineer. He was also owner and captain of one of the first boats to sail under the tri-colour of the Irish Free State. He was the first amateur Irish sailor to sail around the world, which he did in the Saoirse, a ship he designed himself