Author: Synge, J.M.
Title: Riders to the Sea, Edited by Robin Skelton from the Manuscript in the Houghton Library in Harvard University with Five Linocuts in Colour by Tate Adams, Dolmen Editions VIII
Description: Dublin, Ireland, The Dolmen Press, 1969. Hardcover. Quarto, 7.5 x 11 in. pp. 58 + (1) + 1 (publisher's page). Limited Edition (750) from The Dolmen Press. Illustrated with five linocuts in color by Tate Adams. Green cloth boards with gilt monogram to cover and gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Smudges on final publisher's page. Light rubbing to top edge of dustjacket. Rough excision (price?) to lower front flap of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909). It was first performed on 25 February 1904. A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishman in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea. Ill.: Tate Adams. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus .
Keywords: Irish Plays Tate Adams
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Title: Riders to the Sea, Edited by Robin Skelton from the Manuscript in the Houghton Library in Harvard University with Five Linocuts in Colour by Tate Adams, Dolmen Editions VIII
Description: Dublin, Ireland, The Dolmen Press, 1969. Hardcover. Quarto, 7.5 x 11 in. pp. 58 + (1) + 1 (publisher's page). Limited Edition (750) from The Dolmen Press. Illustrated with five linocuts in color by Tate Adams. Green cloth boards with gilt monogram to cover and gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Smudges on final publisher's page. Light rubbing to top edge of dustjacket. Rough excision (price?) to lower front flap of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909). It was first performed on 25 February 1904. A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishman in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea. Ill.: Tate Adams. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus .
Keywords: Irish Plays Tate Adams
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85676
- Book number: 85676
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