The Dove Returns.

Butler (Guy)

The Dove Returns.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 82, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a couple of very faint spots to endpapers, pictorial dustjacket, price-clipped by publisher with re-pricing sticker, very good

Publication Details: London & Cape Town: The Fortune Press & A.A. Balkema, 1956

Notes: His second play; Butler left his native South Africa to fight in the Second World War, and thereafter studied at Brasenose College, Oxford. He returned to his homeland to take up a professorship at Rhodes University; the present work is set there, in the early years of the twentieth-century, and includes a glossary of terms, including Afrikaans, at the rear. The dustjacket blurb compares it favourably with the work of Eliot, Christopher Fry, Ronald Duncan and Anne Ridler.

Bibliography: (d'Arch Smith 100)