Author: W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood
Title: On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts
Description: London, Faber and Faber , 1938. First edition. Cloth. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play telling of an outbreak of war. The first impression in its unclipped dust wrapper. One W. H Auden and Christopher Isherwood's plays written in collaboration. The first edition, first impression of this melodrama in three acts telling the story of the outbreak of the war between the fictional European countries of Ostnia and Westland.Written in prose and verse, it is considered the successor to The Ascent of F6.  The play was produces in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. With the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and tot he extremities. With a faint hint of a damp marking to the rear board. The dust wrapper is unclipped and smart with some shelf wear and some sunning to the spine and front wrap. The head and tail of the spine of the wrapper are chipped. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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