The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts

by J. M. Synge

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Frontisepiece portrait Synge at Rehearsal / WB Yeats Jan 25 - 1907 ; viii, 86, 4 pp. ads. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards with tan cloth spine with red lettering, lean to spine, some soiling and rubbing around the edges, very good; ownership signature to verso of frontispiece; pages 6-7 are toned from the laid-in clipped photograph from a 1934 newspaper with Arthur Shields as Chiristy Mahon and a clipping from a 1927 Davis & Orioli

• Binding: Hardcover

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