O'CASEY, Sean — WITHIN THE GATES
London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: “Inscribed to/Horatia Calverley/by/Sean O'Casey/Chalfont St Giles/1933.” Sybil Horatia Calverley was a niece of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.. Small book label of collector William A. Strutz on the front pastedown; spine slightly darkened. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Committed socialist, O'Casey was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. His best-known plays are JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK and THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS.