Mr. Strahan's Dinner Party: A Comedy in One Act With Prologue and Epilogue (Signed)
Newton, A. Edward
San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1930. Limited edition Folio. [x], 43pp. Linen spine, blue paper boards, printed label. One of 335 numbered copies, this one signed by Newton on the limitation page. Facing full page frontispiece etchings of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson by William Wilkie. Title page printed in red and black; Caslon roman and italic type; Van Gelder paper. Fine copy, and seldom found in such nice condition. In 1930, A . Edward Newton was installed as the President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, only the second American to be so honored. In commemoration of this event he wrote and read before the Society this delightful one-act play in which the two great doctors as dinner guests of London bookseller Mr. Strahan cross sword verbally on government and manners. O'Day, p. 74. Fine Hardcover (Item ID: 6753)
$175.00