THE MAIDES TRAGEDY.
New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. Introduction by Christopher Morley. No. 955 of twelve hundred numbered copies. Spine a shade sunned, bit of foxing to end sheets and edges, but a very good copy in a minimally rubbed slipcase with paper label.
"... I have done nothing to make it easier for you to read. It cannot be made easy. Save for a few noble passages and some fine bawdy humor (when did a scene ever open on a more brilliantly daring couplet than the first lines of Act Two?) the piece will seem obscure bombast except to connoisseurs. To them it is priceless because it is a flawed pearl in the great necklace worn by the Muse of English Tragedy." -- Christopher Morley.
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Price: $60.00