HOUSMAN, Laurence.
The New Hangman: A Play in One Act.
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
$175.00
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Item Number: RRB-152793
Signed Limited First Edition of Laurence Housman's The New Hangman
Signed limited first edition of this one-act play by Laurence Housman, the versatile English dramatist, artist, and social reformer and brother of the poet A. E. Housman. Octavo, original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt to the upper cover, top edge gilt, printed on hand-made paper. One of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author, from a total edition of 1,500, this is number 144. Boldly signed by Laurence Housman on the limitation page. In near fine condition.
The New Hangman is a one-act play by Laurence Housman, one of the most prolific and versatile English writers of his generation, who worked as a playwright, poet, illustrator, and novelist and was an outspoken advocate for pacifism, women's suffrage, and social reform. The younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman, author of A Shropshire Lad, Laurence Housman is best remembered for his enormously popular play Victoria Regina and for his cycle Little Plays of St. Francis, though a number of his dramas ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain's censorship and could at first be staged only privately. His plays combine moral seriousness with a gift for compact, pointed dramatic form.
The New Hangman: A Play in One Act.
$175.00
In Stock