Author: John Drinkwater
Title: Bird in Hand: A Play in Three Acts
Description: London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this comedic work from English writer John Drinkwater, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A comedy-drama set in a Gloucestershire Inn, located in southwest England. With an original cast including Lawrence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Carrie Baillie, Robert Lang, Percy Rhodes, Ivor Barnard, Charles Maunsell, and Frank Randell. Written by John Drinkwater, an English poet and dramatist known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor fading to the spine. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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