SYNGE, JOHN MILLINGTON The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. 8vo, original white linen, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt-lettered, unopened, spine a little darkened; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, NO. 23 OF 25 NUMBERED COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER AND IN THIS SPECIAL BINDING, frontispiece portrait of Synge by J.B. Yeats. Trinity College Library, John Millington Synge...A Catalogue of an Exhibition (Dublin, 1959), no. 29. A very good copy of a notable rarity of modern Irish literature, lacking in both the John Quinn library and the more recently dispersed James Gilvarry collection (by Christie's, New York 7 February 1986).
SYNGE, JOHN MILLINGTON The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. 8vo, original white linen, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt-lettered, unopened, spine a little darkened; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, NO. 23 OF 25 NUMBERED COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER AND IN THIS SPECIAL BINDING, frontispiece portrait of Synge by J.B. Yeats. Trinity College Library, John Millington Synge...A Catalogue of an Exhibition (Dublin, 1959), no. 29. A very good copy of a notable rarity of modern Irish literature, lacking in both the John Quinn library and the more recently dispersed James Gilvarry collection (by Christie's, New York 7 February 1986).
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