Eleanora Duse: A Biography.

New York, NY Duffield and Company, 1927. Hardcover First Edition [1927], unstated in accordance with Duffield and Company's customary - but not exclusive - practice at the time of publication. First Edition [1927], unstated in accordance with Duffield and Company's customary - but not exclusive - practice at the time of publication. Very Good: shows light wear to extremities, with the corner tips starting wear through; light sunning to the purple-toned boards have blanched the backstrip to lavender (the gilt titles thereon are somewhat subdued thereby, but remain legible; a former owner's attractive bookplate affixed to the front pastedown endpaper with the owner's signature and date at the front free endpaper; the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean.Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A lightly used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear and minor, cosmetic flaws.NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches). 164 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Duse. Language: English. Weight: 15 ounces. Purple cloth over boards. Gilt titles at backstrip. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time, noted for her total assumption of the roles she portrayed. Arthur William Symons (1865 – 1945), was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. He wrote an essay on Symbolism which proved to be a major influence on William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot. From late 1895 through 1896 he edited, along with Aubrey Beardsley and Leonard Smithers, The Savoy, a literary magazine which published both art and literature. Noteworthy contributors included Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Conrad.