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J. Compton.
The Curtain Rises: a collection of plays for young readers and actors.

Publisher: Methuen, [1927]; title page has been removed, but looks like a reprint.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
Printer: unknown.
Size: 127x190x11mm.
Page count: vii,151pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: boards a little grubby but not badly worn; page edges a little dusty with some light stains; the title page has been removed; previous owner’s bookplate fixed inside the front board, otherwise appears to be free of marking.


This item £4.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 176g.

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No overall medieval emphasis. Contents:
Farce of the Worthy Master Pierre Patelin (trans. Jagendorf);
Yeats, The Pot of Broth;
Dondo, Two Blind Men & a Donkey [set in medieval France];
Mrs. Chesterton, Piers Plowman’s Pilgrimage;
Walker, Six Who Pass while the Lentils Boil;
Gregory, The Travelling Man.

[No apparatus].


See also | Modern drama | Children’s books |

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