And so ad infinitum' (The life of the Insects).AN ENTOMOLOGICAL REVIEW IN THREE ACTS

Capek, The Brothers (Karel & Josef Capek) Freely Adapted for the English Stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax

Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai, 1923

About this Item

First Uk Edition, First Print, small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-69 [70-72: blank], original lavender wrappers printed in black. First edition in English. Also known as "The Insect Play" (a.k.a. "The World We Live In"). "Perhaps the most brilliant of his plays, and the only unquestionable fantasy drama among them . mocks human life and pretensions through a series of beast-fable episodes in which various insects perform vaudeville versions of human behavior at the edge of extinction." - Clute and Grant (ed), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 164. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-75. Wear to the spine and uneven fade to the wrappers,internally clean. C.H. Norman's copy with his signature to the copyright page. Seller Inventory # 005599

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Title: And so ad infinitum' (The life of the ...

Publisher: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai

Publication Date: 1923

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition