Alfred L.Crauford:

Sam & Sallie: A Romance of the Stage. [Inscribed copy].

London: Cranley and Day, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 352pp, illustrated with a frontis and 18 other illustrations (all called for). Front endpaper inscribed to Mr & Mrs McGregor, and signed by the author, 'with Kind Regards', dated Dec 12 1933. Pages generally clean, with occasional very light soiling, and occasional minor foxing spots to the page edges. Written in the form of a novel, 'but it is a story woven round the 'Old Brit', having for its main characters the two people who made the old theatre what it became'. [quote from a review, 'The Modern Theatre and Its Beginning', from 'Town and Country News', laid in.] The Old Brit was the Britannia Theatre at Hoxton, which was, with Drury Lane, one of the precursors of the then-contemporary theatre, and the author is a nephew of its founder. 'It has much fact intermingled with its fiction and is an historical as well as an imaginative romance'. Firm, in the original russet cloth, spine titled in silver: corners sharp, joints rubbed, with a little fraying at the foot of the upper joint, spine faintly spotted, ends crimped. A good signed copy, and a title very scarce in any form. Good. Item #19332030

Price: £180.00