THE SILVER TASSIE. A Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's quarter grey cloth over blue paper covered boards, titles in printed in green on white paper labels to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge green. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Evan Walters. Tissue guard. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a bump to the bottom right corner. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the very good lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips at the spine tips and a closed tear to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the front flap). A bright example.

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "Every woman who dies in / childbirth calls a halt to / human progress. / Sean O'Casey / February 1929". An expressionist play that details the cruelties of the trenches during World War One. O'Casey described it as "A generous handful of stones, aimed indiscriminately, with the aim of breaking a few windows. I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one". Following William Butler Yeats' rejection for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, The Silver Tassie premièred at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End on 11 October 1929.