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London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good -/very good. A Very Good- copy of the first edition, first printing, first issue with the required typographical error to page 7, bound in the Publisher's original light blue cloth with some soiling to the cloth and quite light rubbing to the spine ends and leading corners and with foxing to the closed page block's edges. The volume is wearing the Publisher's first issue dust jacket with the front flap showing the price of 10s 6d. The jacket shows toning and a small spot of soil to the spine panel, general fading, and minor wear and tear to the spine ends and leading corners, and the book shows light rubbing to the spine ends and leading corners and bubbling to the rear pane.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/[Slipcase]. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original boards and slipcase, being number 397 of 1,000 such copies issued. The slipcase is rather worn but remains largely intact with some splits to the edges. Copies of this First American edition are surpassingly uncommon and copies in the complete and intact slipcase (even when rather worn). The Frontispiece is by Thomas Hardy. SCARCE INDEED.

London: Duckworth and Co., 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappered First TOGETHER WITH Hardcover First. Very good +. A Very Good + copy of the First Edition, first printing in the RARE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (some rubbing with loss to the spine panel, prior owner's name dated 1911 on the front free endpaper), being a Play by John Galsworthy, housed in a custom foldover case with the Title and Author name in gilt to the case's spine, TOGETHER WITH the hardcover copy of the same Play with some rubbing to the spine ends and leading board corners. The Play is a work of fantasy presenting the dream of a peasant girl of the Alps who has two admirers, one a Swiss guide and the other a stranger from London who wants to take her to the big city. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (then died in the following January). The wrappered first edition is, in our experience, EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. The hardcover copy is not dated by the Publisher but references the same prior… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Revised Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good copy of the second American edition, first printing -- being the first revised edition (some wear to the spine ends and tiny rubs to the leading board corners) in a Very Good dust jacket (with some general wear, toning, tiny ink insertion in the title immediately prior to "Becket", small stain to the front panel at the "D" in "MURDER"); a dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury; an act which nearly cost Henry II the English Throne. In this second edition, Eliot deleted the dialogue of the three Priests which had appeared at the beginning of Part II and replaced it with a speech by the Chorus. These changes brought the text into conformity with a then-recent production of the Play at the Mercury Theatre in London. T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., 1876. [No Edition Stated]. Wrappers. Good. A Good copy of this exceedingly scarce Play by George Melville Baker (copyright 1866) in its ORIGINAL WRAPPERS showing general marking, creasing, wear, soiling, tearing, and staining with scattered pencil marks to the leaves, copies of which Play are RARE TO THE MARKET. Per Wikipedia: "George Melville Baker was a playwright and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He worked for Lee & Shepard publishers, then opened his own imprint. "George M. Baker & Co." issued works by authors such as Henry M. Baker, F.E. Chase, and Herbert Pelham Curtis."

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, of this translation to English by John Jay Chapman of these two notable Greek Plays, in a Fine dust jacket with some handling soil (priced at $2.00).