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Published by The Christopher Publishing House, 1938
Seller: Marc J Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1938. 8vo, 161 p., original blue cloth with front board stamped in gilt and spine stamped in black. First and only edition of this uncommon collection of play adaptations, including 'King Robert of Sicily', 'Roseries', 'The Dweller in the Innermost' and 'Arms for the Fight'. Gilt tarnished, spotting to rear board; staining and chafing to front page ends, else a VG or better copy in a VG jacket with staining to upper rear flap joint; spine faded, with pervious owner's name to upper front jacket panel, but a nice copy overall. This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the half title. Signed by Author(s).
Published by The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, 1938
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 161pp. Blue cloth gilt. Binding trifle cocked with the spine and lower shoulder toned, very good or better. Inscribed on the front fly: "To Rosa's 'Pal.' Jane Elizabeth Conway. Nov. 1938." With a folded publisher's prospectus laid in. Eight "verse plays": "Alice Brand," a dramatization of "The Ballad of Alice Brand" by Sir Walter Scott; "King Robert of Sicily," an adaptation of Longfellow's "The Sicilian's Tale"; "The Dearest Gift," a poetical dramatization of Thomas Moore's "Paradise and the Peri"; "Calling Everyman," a "Morality in five episodes" revised from the play of the same name; "Arms for the Fight," adapted from the story by John Haynes Holmes; "Silver Lace," an adaptation of "A Midsummer-Night's Dream"; a "Persian Suja, in two scenes"; and "The Dweller in the Innermost," adapted from "An Interlude of Youth." An interesting and uncommon collection of adaptations. *OCLC* locates 6 copies.