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The Maid's Song: And other poems
by HARTNOLL, Phyllis
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Hardback. Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentlest rubbing to extremities, sunning to bottom board, tanned edges, offsetting to feps and pp. 36-7, due to laid-in notepaper, spine cracked between a couple of signatures, but binding holding firm. Else, clean and tidy. The note (dated 3.7.92) regards the reproduction of 'On A Quartet of Bamboo Pipes/ for Margaret James and the Pipers' Guild Quartet' in the Piping Times Newsletter. Good+ With a printed dedication "To the memory of Lilian Bayis and to Tyrone Guthrie and the Old Vic Company Elsinore, June 1937"; its first section is entitled, Theatre Poems, and includes poems for John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Phyllis Hartnoll (1906-1997) was a British poet, editor (for Macmillan) and theatre critic, who was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research and edited the Oxford Companion to the Theatre (1951). She won the University of Oxford's Newdigate Prize in 1929 with Sands of Egypt.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2381
- Title
- The Maid's Song: And other poems
- Author
- HARTNOLL, Phyllis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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