Page L. Dickinson — The Abbey Row: Not Edited by W.B. Yeats

Dublin, Maunsel & Co, 1907 . First edition. Paperback. The exceptionally scarce first edition of this satirical account of the uproar surrounding a performance of J. M. Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World&apos. A very scarce first edition.Anonymously authored by Page L. Dickinson, who offers a humorous, first-hand account of the disturbance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin over Synge"s The Playboy of the Western World, recounting the riotous audience reaction and W. B. Yeats's inability to calm the crowd.The work is explicitly playfully styled as not being edited by Yeats, despite its subject matter.A mixture of comic narration and humorous illustrations, with five illustrations, from Richard and William Orpen, and from Dickinson himself. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Wraps detached but present, with small losses to perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good Only . Ill.: William Orpen; Richard Orpen; Page L. Dickinson. Good Only .