VICTORIA REGINA: A Dramatic Biography.
by [Hayes, Helen, signed] Housman, Laurence
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good only in a fair dust jacket. (stain to front cover of book, dust jacket is price-clipped, quite edgeworn, and has some loss /fair
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, n.d. (ca 1936.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good only in a fair dust jacket. (stain to front cover of book, dust jacket is price-clipped, quite edgeworn, and has some loss in the middle of the spine.) . First US printing. Sheets printed in England. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Ernest Shepard. The basis of Housman's most sucessful play. A unique copy, SIGNED by Laurence Housman with the words "his signature" underneath (in Housman's hand) the words "Harry Essex, his book." Essex (1910-1997) was a writer, movie director and film producer. This copy is also SIGNED by Helen Hayes (1900-1993), whose starring role in this 1936 Broadway play was perhaps her greatest role ever. Hayes' signature is followed by the words, "his friend" with a line going up to Essex's name. 470 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46343
- Title
- VICTORIA REGINA: A Dramatic Biography.
- Author
- [Hayes, Helen, signed] Housman, Laurence
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good only in a fair dust jacket. (stain to front cover of book, dust jacket is price-clipped, quite edgeworn, and has some loss
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- n.d. (ca 1936.)
- Keywords
- harry essex, movie producer, helen hayes, actress, association copy,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama, dance and film;
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