The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1928. Pages unopened. Quarter linen boards light wear to spine, otherwise a near fine copy.

One of 400 Copies Printed. Original Cuala Press promotional card loosely inserted.

It was his famous first meeting with the poet W.B. Yeats that turned J.M. Synge into a legend of the Irish Literary Revival. The death of the playwright in 1909 dominated Yeats’s journals for many months afterwards.

First published here by the Cuala Press, they were later added to the canon of his Autobiographies.

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