Description
First edition, preceding the British publication. Quarto, 5 ½ x 8 ¼”, 201 pp. Pantheon did not state first editions until 1964. In decorated blue cloth with very light shelf wear to the bottom boards and a near-fine, unclipped dust jacket with the original $2.75 price and only slight age toning to the back panel. A very good copy. A story of the decline of English drama in the Jacobean era as lived by James Sands, an actor's apprentice in London.
English novelist Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983) was the heiress to a vast shipping fortune and an influential figure on the international scene in Paris in the ‘20s, supporting artists like James Joyce and Berenice Abbott, financing numerous film and publishing ventures, and helping Sylvia Beach found Shakespeare & Company. In Switzerland before the war, she turned her home into a receiving station for Jewish refugees. She was the longtime lover and companion of the modernist American Poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
