The Blue Bird, a Fairy Play in Five Acts by Maeterlinck Maurice 1862-1949 - 2013-01-28

Methuen & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. Third Edition. 241 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Rough cut pages. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1910. hb. Green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 12mo, 241 pp. Owner's writing on ffep dated 1910, no other marks in book, binding solid. Covers show light edge wear, minor fraying top of spine. Published March, 1909 only indication of printing on copyright page, title page dated 1910. Book condition VG-.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1910), 1910. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1910). Olive cloth over boards, flower embossed designs on cloth, gold lettering. Many of the pages are not cut, have not attempted to do so A very good copy. VERY Good ++. Translator Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. A 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's innamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization. The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to The Blue Bird… Read More