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Windfalls: Stories, Poems, and Plays.
by O'Casey, Sean
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Palm Beach, Florida
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934. First edition of this work by the Irish dramatist and memoirist. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. A committed socialist, dramatist Sean O'Casey was the first Irish playwright to write about the Dublin working classes. O'Casey's first accepted play, The Shadow of a Gunman, was performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1923. This was the beginning of a relationship that was to be fruitful for both theatre and dramatist but which ended in some bitterness. Windfalls contains a collection of verses and three short stories written in an effort to release some of the bitterness that swept into O'Casey when the Abbey Theatre rejected his 1927 four-act Expressionist play about the First World War, The Silver Tassie.
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Details
- book dealer
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 112541
- Title
- Windfalls: Stories, Poems, and Plays.
- Author
- O'Casey, Sean
- Book condition
- second hand
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
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About Raptis Rare Books
Founded by Matthew and Adrienne Raptis, Raptis Rare Books is an antiquarian book firm that specializes in literature, children's books, economics, photo books, signed and inscribed books, and landmark books in all fields. Our business model is simple: we strive to handle books that are in exceptional condition and to provide exceptional customer service. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and exhibit at major book fairs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston, as well as other regional fairs.
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- First Edition
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- octavo
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- fine
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- Cloth
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