first edition Original Wraps
1899 · Chicago
by Langdon, Mitchell
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled gray wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with a host of photographs captioned with text excerpts from the play. The Marquis of Steyne part acted by Tyrone Power, father of the Hollywood star, and Maurice Barrymore (father to the Hollywood Barrymore's) plays the Crawley brothers. Mrs. Fiske (Minnie Maddern Fiske) who stars as Becky, was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. An early, scarce Herbert S. Stone publication (later Stone & Kimball) with An Appreciation by Edward Fales Coward worthy of a publicity director. Clean internally, chipping to fore-edge covers and to the spine.
(Inventory #: 21509)