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(ASSOCIATION COPY) Will Shakespeare; An Invention in Four Acts
by Dane. Clemence (pseud. of Winifred Ashton)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1921. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"Beverley Baxter, with Kindest regards from Clemence Dane" and below SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Baxter -" to Mother from Arthur as a little reminder that Beauty still has its disciples in England Xmas 1921". Sir Arthur Beverley Baxter was a journalist, theater critic, and Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1935 to his death in 1964. Known to his friends as "Bax", he was still Arthur to his Mother ! Winifred Ashton, who wrote under the name Clemence Dane, was an English novelist and playwright, and the first British woman screenwriter to win an Academy Award. She was a close and dear friend of Noel Coward. " Between the First and Second World Wars, she was Britain’s most influential, versatile and successful female writer and arguably the most complete and versatile female creative force: novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, sculptor, painter, broadcaster, lecturer and pioneering feminist."( Clemence Dane - The ‘Invisible Woman’, Rose Collis, Noel Coward Archive Trust). The book is Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, front end pages evenly toned, spine a shade sunned. A great British theater Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009884
- Title
- (ASSOCIATION COPY) Will Shakespeare; An Invention in Four Acts
- Author
- Dane. Clemence (pseud. of Winifred Ashton)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Theatre;
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
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