THE SILVER TASSIE: A Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts
by O'Casey, Sean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.. 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed with a small stain on the spine. 140 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece depicting Sean O'Casey. A very good, internally bright copy. <p>First American edition. George R.M. Ewing, Jr.'s copy with his bookplate, designed for him and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2657
- Title
- THE SILVER TASSIE: A Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts
- Author
- O'Casey, Sean
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.
- Date Published
- 1928.
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; THEATER; PLAY; TRAGI-COMEDY; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; SEAN O'CASEY; THE SILVER TASSIE; THEATRE; STAGE; IRISH; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; ROCKWELL KENT; ILLUSTRATED BOOKPLATE; MODERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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