The Playboy of the Western World
Dublin: Maunsel and Company, (1912).
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. Later printing of the Pocket edition. Very good in one half vellum with paper covered boards, top edge gilt, vellum is soiled and scuffed on the spine, ink notation on a front endpaper.
Item #299497
John M. Synge
birth name: John Millington Synge
born: 4/16/1871
died: 3/24/1909
Biography
Poetic dramatist of great power who was a leading figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. He portrayed the primitive life of the Aran Islands and the western Irish seaboard with sophisticated craftsmanship. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore