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TAFFY: A Play of Welsh Village Life in Three Acts
by Evans, Caradoc
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Andrew Melrose, Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated on the front flyleaf by Caradoc Evans to Grace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (1895-1946), a British journalist who was the first woman to travel around the world by air. Best known for My People (1915), a short story collection often compared to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and James Joyce's Dubliners, the Welsh writer Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) wished to shock the Welsh out of their complacency and smugness by contrasting the pieties of non-conformist Christianity with the brutal realities of poverty, meanness, and hypocrisy he had personally experienced. He is said to confirmed his self-appointed role as scourge of the Welsh with this savage play. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is moderately sun faded, with a bit of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73474
- Title
- TAFFY: A Play of Welsh Village Life in Three Acts
- Author
- Evans, Caradoc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Literature, Plays, Wales, Welsh Writers
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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- Inscribed
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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