Plays and Players (inscribed first edition)
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo hardcover in emerald green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. vii+ 276 pp. with index. Boldly inscribed on the front blank, "For _______/ This the earliest work of my hand/ On Plays I tried my (?) pen/ And then I lit on Landmark/ Laurence Hutton/ 27th June 1903". A tight example wome rubbingat the extremities and shallow loss at the spine ends. Tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown. Memoirs of decades of involvement with the theatre by this essayist and critic who served as literary editor of Harper's Weekly and co-founder of the Author's Club in New York. Very Good. Item #GE13656
Price: $125.00