INSCRIBED TO MARY HYDE

Oak Leaves and Lavender or A Warld on Wallpaper [A Play].

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1946.

Price: $750.00

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First edition. viii, 164pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO MARY HYDE. Green cloth. A fine copy in very good dust jacket; green pictorial jacket is evenly tanned on spine, with light (uneven) tanning on extremities of front and rear panels, else quite bright.

Item #329631

A play set on the South Coast of England, during World War II; among the characters are young Irishmen in the R.A.F. and conscientious objectors.

Inscribed, and signed, by Sean O'Casey: "For Mary Hyde,/ from/ Sean O'Casey/ With all good wishes/ Devon, 1962" (on the front flyleaf). The recipient, scholar Mary Hyde, edited a volume of correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas and was a famous book collector.