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. A very good copy. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Presentation Copy Inscribed by the Author to Joseph Cummins.

Joseph Cummins worked as a surgeon at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin, where O’Casey was treated for an ulcerated cornea when in his early twenties. Cummins took a personal interest in the young writer and the two remained friends afterwards.

Seán O’Casey’s fourth play which attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause.