Synge J. M.

The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907



8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 198 x 126 mm, unopened). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. Publisher's white cloth gilt; tiniest bit of rubbing and soiling. Half blue morocco slipcase, chemise.

Connolly, The Modern Movement 18

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 198 x 126 mm, unopened). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. Publisher's white cloth gilt; tiniest bit of rubbing and soiling. Half blue morocco slipcase, chemise.
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First edition (preceded by the "Theatre edition," which lacked preface and frontispiece), no. 2 of 25 copies on hand-made paper. "A play which deals light-heartedly with the profound Freudian motive of father-murder, and which therefore outraged the sensitive nationalism of the Irish when it first appeared but immediately became a success in France. ... The Playboy is a comedy, which, like all great plays, can be re-read as well as re-visited" (Connolly). A brilliant copy of a notable rarity of modern Irish literature.