The Silver Tassie - A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
by O'Casey, Sean (fpce portrait Evan Walters)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good, rubbing on title plates on cover & spine (latter also slightly stained); slig
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1928. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good, rubbing on title plates on cover & spine (latter also slightly stained); slight forward lean; text block otherwise firm; untrimmed pages unmarked if slighly tanned. . 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget. Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O'Casey's powerful anti-war play of 1928.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC85889
- Title
- The Silver Tassie - A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
- Author
- O'Casey, Sean (fpce portrait Evan Walters)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, green boards good, rubbing on title plates on cover & spine (latter also slightly stained); slig
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Pages
- 140
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, drama, O'Casey
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
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- 12mo
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
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- Rubbing
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