The Absentee. A Comedy in Four Acts [SIGNED]. Based on Maria Edgeworth's Novel of the Same Name
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7-3/4" x 5-1/4"). (2), vi, 88, (2)pp. Original glassine dust wrapper (spine chipped & separated ) over blue boards lettered in gilt. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies (this is #204), signed on the limitation leaf by Marianne Moore.
Note: this number fourteen of the Crown Octavos published by House of Books, and was printed at the Anthoensen Press
The Absentee's underlying work is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. Very good +. Item #51393
Price: $100.00