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At Half-Past Eight: Essays of the Theatre 1921-1922.

AGATE, James (1877-1947).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.238 [2]. Publisher's navy quarter cloth, with a printed paper title label to spine, and checkered paper over boards. Top edge green; others untrimmed. Tobacco-scented, with some offsetting to endpapers. Moderate wear to boards, and some toning to title label. Very good. A collection of articles about contemporary theatre reprinted from The Saturday Review, and including two on the emerging medium of Film. Item #60044

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