The Silver Tassie. A Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts. With a Portrait of the Author by Evan Walters. London: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. Pp vii, 140, uncut. Quarter cloth, title label to upper cover and spine. In publisher’s plain dust jacket printed in green. A fine bright copy. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Presentation Copy Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper:

“Every Woman who dies in childbirth calls a halt to human progress, Sean O’Casey, February 1929” 

Seán O’Casey’s fourth play which attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause. Rejected by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the play was premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End in October 1929.