O'FLAHERTY, Liam.

£5,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Informer. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "from Liam O'Flaherty With affectionate regards to J. N. Block". This thriller, the author's most popular work, "draws on his own brief experience of the [Irish] Civil War to present a grim but psychologically compelling portrait of divided allegiances and intolerable mental pressure" (Vance, p. 182).The work received that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and inspired the Oscar-winning film of 1935 starring Victor McLaglen.

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