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Cloth slightly worn, eps marked. Dj worn and slightly discoloured, with a few small tears along top. Seller Inventory # 12178
Title: The Silver Casket Being Love-Letters and ...
Publisher: Home & Van Thal, London
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good DJ
Edition: First edition.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author beneath the printed dedication "To Eric Gillett": "from his old and affectionate friend Clifford Bax." Bax was a prolific playwright, poet, editor, lyricist, translator and essayist, who had a penchant for the esoteric as well, even playing chess with Aleister Crowley for a time. Bax was a founder (1919-1926) of the Phoenix Society, whose aim was to revive important Elizabethan and Restoration drama, and, in 1929, was elected chairman of the Incorporated Stage Society. His friend Eric Gillett was an editor, publisher, writer and broadcaster. Board edges lightly toned, some associated toning to jacket, pale foxing to endleaves. Seller Inventory # 409539
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