The King's Henchman. A Play in Three Acts by Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950

New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1927. Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; bookplate. Edgewear; Time: Tenth Century Place: England; 132 pages .

Harper & Brothers. G+/NONE. 1927. Hardcover; 15th Printing. Blue/black boards. Paper label on spine almost gone. Inked gifted ownership. Front hinge cracked making text somewhat shaky but nothing is falling apart. Light cover usage showing. Text is quite clean. ; Sma;; 8; 132 pages .

NY: Harper & Bros. 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Prev owner name and address to front end paper, light toning to endpapers, spine label lightly rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 132 pages. clph

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1927 Early edition. Publisher's three-quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards with white paper spine label lettered in black. About very good with some light wear to extremities, toning to spine and page edges, both hinges starting, small bookseller's sticker to front free endpaper. Presents well. Yost 31. The King's Henchman is a story inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a set of manuscripts written in the ninth century that detail the history of the Anglo-Saxons in England. Millay's story tells of the travels of Aethelwold, a henchman to the fictional king of England, who falls in love with the woman that the king is supposed to marry and finally kills himself out of guilt for denying them both a marriage to each other. This story was first written as the libretto for an opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. American composer Deems Taylor enlisted Millay as his librettist upon the suggestion from his wife.… Read More

HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK LONDON, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Used; Very Good. BLUE BOARDS LIGHTLY SOILED, DARK TANNING TO PAPER LABEL ON SPINE, FOXING TO ENDPAPERS AND PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE PRESENT, SOME SPLITTING ON FRONT ENDPAPER TO BINDING BUT STILL INTACT, TANNING TO EDGE OF PAGES BUMPING TO CORNERS AND ENDS OF SPINE OTHERWISE NICE COPY

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NY and London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. 1st Edition. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, Fourth Printing (Harper first edition code "E-B" - May, 1927 - on copyright page). Half buckram over blue paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, fore-edge deckle. Woodcut frontispiece by Cimino. Throughout much of her career, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most successful and respected poets in America. She is noted for both her dramatic works, including "Aria da capo," "The Lamp and the Bell," and the libretto composed for an opera, "The King’s Henchman," and for such lyric verses as “Renascence” and the poems found in the collections A Few Figs From Thistles, Second April, and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Like her contemporary Robert Frost, Millay was one of the most skillful writers of sonnets in the twentieth… Read More