The Lyre of Orpheus
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1988.
Price: $85.00
Hardcover. Fine in full leather as issued, gold and white stamping, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. One of an unspecified number of copies of the first edition Signed by the author with a special message to subscribers from the author not included in the trade edition.
Item #313150
Robertson Davies
birth name: William Robertson Davies
born: 8/28/1913
died: 12/2/1995
nationality: Canadian
Biography
Playwright and novelist probably best known for The Deptford Trilogy, a series of novels (Fifth Business [1970], The Manticore [1972], and World of Wonders [1975]) that examine the intersecting lives of three men from the small Canadian town of Deptford. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore