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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey.

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The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey.

by MOORE, Henry (illustrates). SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward

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Secker and Warburg, London., 1945. First edition. Octavo. 96 pages. One of 850 numbered copies. A play written in collaboration with Benjamin Britten who provided the music for the broadcast. Six plates, four of them in colour, by Henry Moore. Buckram covers. Top edge gilt. Printed on handmade paper. From the library of Charles Monteith of Faber and Faber with his posthumous nameplate on front pastedown.Spine slightly faded. Small bump to head of spine. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.

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Peter Ellis bookseller GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
MOOREHEN014649
Title
The Rescue - A Melodrama for Broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey.
Author
MOORE, Henry (illustrates). SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Secker and Warburg, London.
Date Published
1945

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