Hassan.

Flecker (James Elroy)

Hassan.

The Story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand: A Play in Five Acts. [Later printing.]

Description: pp. [vi], 183, crown 8vo, original green cloth, publisher's device in blind to lower board, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt, tail edge roughtrimmed, bookplate to flyleaf with faint partial browning to free endpapers, buff dustjacket with a little chipping to extremities and the backstrip panel a shade darkened, very good

Publication Details: William Heinemann, 1931

Notes: The copy of the author's great friend, John Mavrogordato: a pencilled note by him to the initial blank explains that that he had bought this, the fourteenth impression, in Oxford to replace one he had taken with him to the OUDS production of Hassan on February 21, 1931; a clipped review from The Times of this production, directed by Basil Dean, is laid in at rear. To each free endpaper is tipped an envelope addressed to Mavro in the hand of the poet's widow, Hellé Flecker, but the letters are not present....moreThe copy of the author's great friend, John Mavrogordato: a pencilled note by him to the initial blank explains that that he had bought this, the fourteenth impression, in Oxford to replace one he had taken with him to the OUDS production of Hassan on February 21, 1931; a clipped review from The Times of this production, directed by Basil Dean, is laid in at rear. To each free endpaper is tipped an envelope addressed to Mavro in the hand of the poet's widow, Hellé Flecker, but the letters are not present. HIDE

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Price: £80

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1931

Stock Number: 70232

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