DUNSANY, Lord
DUNSANY, Lord
Plays for Earth and Air
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1937
8vo., publisher’s green cloth lettered with decorative device in gilt to spine; publisher’s device in blind to lower corner; green endpapers; pp. [viii], vii-viii. [ii], 3-163, [iii]; the boards a little marked and scuffed; some browning and toning, mostly affecting the endpapers; lightly spotted to fore-edge; formerly a working copy, with notes in pen and pencil within the text in an unknown hand; p. 81-82 loose; a good copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
First edition, first printing. This copy boldly inscribed by the playwright to the front free endpaper: “To / Miss Nancy Price / from / Dunsany” and dated in the year of publication: ‘Nov: 12th 1937’. Price was an English actress, director and writer who was a founder of the People’s National Theatre. She wrote one novel, one volume of poetry and two plays, as well as numerous memoirs, some of which included contributions by her friend Lord Dunsany, such as ‘Shadows on the Hills’, and ‘Acquainted with the Night’, each for which he provided the preface. Price herself wrote about her friendship with Dunsany in ‘Each in his own Way’, a book which documents her relationships with the various characters she had met in her life over the years.
Dunsany was a prolific writer, publishing over 90 books over his lifetime. Plays for Earth and Air (four for earth, six for air) brings together many of his Radio plays for the first time, most of which had formerly been broadcast on the BBC. They include ‘Fame Comes Late’, ‘The Use of Man’ and ‘The Seventh Symphony’, the latter of which was named after Beethoven's 7th Symphony, one of his favourite pieces of music. “The future of plays for the air lies with television” he correctly predicts here in his preface.
An interesting association copy.
DUNSANY, Lord
Plays for Earth and Air
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1937
8vo., publisher’s green cloth lettered with decorative device in gilt to spine; publisher’s device in blind to lower corner; green endpapers; pp. [viii], vii-viii. [ii], 3-163, [iii]; the boards a little marked and scuffed; some browning and toning, mostly affecting the endpapers; lightly spotted to fore-edge; formerly a working copy, with notes in pen and pencil within the text in an unknown hand; p. 81-82 loose; a good copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
First edition, first printing. This copy boldly inscribed by the playwright to the front free endpaper: “To / Miss Nancy Price / from / Dunsany” and dated in the year of publication: ‘Nov: 12th 1937’. Price was an English actress, director and writer who was a founder of the People’s National Theatre. She wrote one novel, one volume of poetry and two plays, as well as numerous memoirs, some of which included contributions by her friend Lord Dunsany, such as ‘Shadows on the Hills’, and ‘Acquainted with the Night’, each for which he provided the preface. Price herself wrote about her friendship with Dunsany in ‘Each in his own Way’, a book which documents her relationships with the various characters she had met in her life over the years.
Dunsany was a prolific writer, publishing over 90 books over his lifetime. Plays for Earth and Air (four for earth, six for air) brings together many of his Radio plays for the first time, most of which had formerly been broadcast on the BBC. They include ‘Fame Comes Late’, ‘The Use of Man’ and ‘The Seventh Symphony’, the latter of which was named after Beethoven's 7th Symphony, one of his favourite pieces of music. “The future of plays for the air lies with television” he correctly predicts here in his preface.
An interesting association copy.
DUNSANY, Lord
Plays for Earth and Air
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1937
8vo., publisher’s green cloth lettered with decorative device in gilt to spine; publisher’s device in blind to lower corner; green endpapers; pp. [viii], vii-viii. [ii], 3-163, [iii]; the boards a little marked and scuffed; some browning and toning, mostly affecting the endpapers; lightly spotted to fore-edge; formerly a working copy, with notes in pen and pencil within the text in an unknown hand; p. 81-82 loose; a good copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
First edition, first printing. This copy boldly inscribed by the playwright to the front free endpaper: “To / Miss Nancy Price / from / Dunsany” and dated in the year of publication: ‘Nov: 12th 1937’. Price was an English actress, director and writer who was a founder of the People’s National Theatre. She wrote one novel, one volume of poetry and two plays, as well as numerous memoirs, some of which included contributions by her friend Lord Dunsany, such as ‘Shadows on the Hills’, and ‘Acquainted with the Night’, each for which he provided the preface. Price herself wrote about her friendship with Dunsany in ‘Each in his own Way’, a book which documents her relationships with the various characters she had met in her life over the years.
Dunsany was a prolific writer, publishing over 90 books over his lifetime. Plays for Earth and Air (four for earth, six for air) brings together many of his Radio plays for the first time, most of which had formerly been broadcast on the BBC. They include ‘Fame Comes Late’, ‘The Use of Man’ and ‘The Seventh Symphony’, the latter of which was named after Beethoven's 7th Symphony, one of his favourite pieces of music. “The future of plays for the air lies with television” he correctly predicts here in his preface.
An interesting association copy.