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Rupert Brooke : Lithuania. A Play in One Act

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1935

With a prefatory Note by John Drinkwater. The first English edition (overall the third edition, following editions printed in Chicago in 1915 and Cincinnati in 1922). 8vo., original yellow printed wrappers. Front cover detached. Grubby light ink fingerprints on covers. In protective cover. A lovely clear and bright example, of which 2,000 copies were printed (presumably 1,000 hard-cover and 1,000 soft-cover). Keynes 40., Very Good

Rupert Brooke : Lithuania. A Play in One Act

Stewart Kidd, 1915

7.5 x 5, pict stapled wraps, 39 pp + ads. Series edited by Frank Shay. In archival cover. Scarce., Fine

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Rupert Brooke : Lithuania. A Play in One Act

The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915

First edition, one of 200 copies printed as per Keynes. Cover and tailpiece by C. Raymond Johnson. In archival cover. The author was a friend and amongst the Bloomsbury group of writers; was a member of the literary groups the Georgian Poets and the Dymock poets, which included Robert Frost and Edward Thomas as members. His sonnets written during the First World War remain some of the most important examples of Western war poetry, with 'The Soldier' and 'The Dead' being his most well known verses. He tragically perished from sepsis from a mosquito bite whilst sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War at the age of twenty-seven.This is a play, published for its first performance at the Little Theatre in Chicago. It tells the tale of an impoverished family living in Lithuania visited by a wealthy stranger. It was published the year of Brooke's death. In the publisher's original paper wraps, with a pictorial dust wrapper. Externally generally lovely, some wear to the edges of the cover, which is detached from the contents. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Scarce., Near Fine

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