Author: Vivian Connell
Title: The Nineteenth Hole of Europe: A Play in Three Acts
Description: London, Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Vivian Connell's play about the horrors of war, with loosely inserted letter from a friend of the author, regarding Connell's own view of the work. The first edition, first impression of this scarce drama.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Connell's play 'does not hesitate to expose the overwhelming horrors of war and the reactions of sensitive men and women to the dangers of political, cultural, and material disintegration' caused by war.Loosely inserted is a letter from an individual names Denise, a friend of the playwright. She writes to one 'Roger' thanking him for a pleasant evening, and informing him 'this is what Vivian wrote in my copy of the play: 'perhaps it is because of suffering but just now my thought reached such a far point of fantasy that I felt that if nothing was left of Europe but one small crater, and at the bottom lay two bones, if one struck them together and believed enough, that a spark might spring of their contact, and perhaps that spark might be love&apos.This passage has been copied out in pencil to the front free endpaper of the work, and captioned 'written in Denise's copy&apos.With a loosely inserted advertisement for a performance of the play at the Granville Theatre, Walham Green, and with a loosely inserted programme for the performance. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a touch of rubbing to back strip tail. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip. Small hole towards back strip tail. Minor losses of paper to back strip head and tail, with small loss to front wrap head, and small closed tear to rear wrap tail. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Vivian Connell The Chinese Room Throng o' Scarlet The Chinese Room None
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Title: The Nineteenth Hole of Europe: A Play in Three Acts
Description: London, Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Vivian Connell's play about the horrors of war, with loosely inserted letter from a friend of the author, regarding Connell's own view of the work. The first edition, first impression of this scarce drama.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Connell's play 'does not hesitate to expose the overwhelming horrors of war and the reactions of sensitive men and women to the dangers of political, cultural, and material disintegration' caused by war.Loosely inserted is a letter from an individual names Denise, a friend of the playwright. She writes to one 'Roger' thanking him for a pleasant evening, and informing him 'this is what Vivian wrote in my copy of the play: 'perhaps it is because of suffering but just now my thought reached such a far point of fantasy that I felt that if nothing was left of Europe but one small crater, and at the bottom lay two bones, if one struck them together and believed enough, that a spark might spring of their contact, and perhaps that spark might be love&apos.This passage has been copied out in pencil to the front free endpaper of the work, and captioned 'written in Denise's copy&apos.With a loosely inserted advertisement for a performance of the play at the Granville Theatre, Walham Green, and with a loosely inserted programme for the performance. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a touch of rubbing to back strip tail. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip. Small hole towards back strip tail. Minor losses of paper to back strip head and tail, with small loss to front wrap head, and small closed tear to rear wrap tail. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Vivian Connell The Chinese Room Throng o' Scarlet The Chinese Room None
Price: GBP 75.00 = appr. US$ 107.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 904F52
- Book number: 904F52
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