Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934.
Price: $400.00
Hardcover. Sixth edition. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Endpapers foxed, spine ends lightly worn, a very good copy in an about very good lightly foxed and faded dustwrapper with edges chipped. Howard Miller's copy with his name inked on front pastedown. Signed by most of the cast of the 1935 Broadway play of the same title and produced by the Theatre Guild. Signed by William J. Frawley, Helen Hayes (Mary Stuart), Philip Merivale (James Hepburn), Pauline Frederick (Queen Elizabeth), Ian Keith (Earl of Bothwell), Hugh Buckler, Harland Tucker, Charles Francis, Lowell Gilmore, G. Hannam Clark, George Coulouris (Lord Burghley), Charles Dalton (Lord Huntley), Philip Foster (Lord Gordon), Wilton Graff (James Stuart Earl of Moray), Philip Leigh (David Rizzio), Maurice Manson (First Guard, Jamie), Jock McGraw (Second Guard), Helen Shea (Mary Seton), Deane Willoughby (Mary Livingstone), Leonard Willey (Duc de Chatelherault and as Lord Ruthven), Fred R. LeVarge, Mrs. Anna L. Brown, Walter Hernenway (or Hemenway), and a couple of indecipherable signatures. This play was included in Burns Mantle's *The Best Plays of 1933-1934*. Later, it was adapted into a 1936 film starring Fredric March and Katharine Hepburn.
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