The Plough and The Stars. A Tragedy in Four Acts. With a Portrait. London: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Pp [vii], 137, [3]; uncut. Quarter linen boards, title labels on front cover and spine. Housed in collectors’ solander box.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by O’Casey on the front free endpaper:

”To Katherine Gregory by Sean O’Casey, with all Good Wishes, London 1936.’

First edition of this classic O’Casey play set in the Dublin tenements in the turbulent era of 1916. First performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in February of 1926.

Catherine Gregory was the grand daughter of Lady Gregory, co-founder along with W.B. Yeats, o the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.