HERRING, Robert.

The Impecunious Captain.

or Love as Liv'd. A Play on the lives of George Farquhar and Anne Oldfield.

Stock Code 105445

London, Brendin Publishing Company, 1944

£125.00 - £125.00

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£125.00

£125.00 - £125.00

£125.00

One of 100 copies - inscribed by the author. A very uncommon, Brendin publication. With Herring's signed presentation inscription to the limitation leaf, 'To Alan, with the Author's Best Wishes - Robert 20.12.44'. The recipient was the poet Alan Rook.

First edition, first impression, one of 100 numbered copies, this example inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's stiff, marbled paper boards, white paper title label to upper board printed in black; a fine copy.

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Provenance: Alan Rook (author's presentation inscription).

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