NMLP P-038552 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts

J. M. Synge · Maunsel & Co., Dublin · 1907

It was followed very soon after by the Library (trade) edition in tan cloth boards, which adds a portrait and Synge's preface — so the cloth copies most often offered as 'the first edition' are in fact the second form of the first edition

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038552 for "The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts" by J. M. Synge (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038552, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).