Second Threshold

New York: Harper, (1951).

Price: $300.00

Hardcover. Later printing. Revisions and preface by Robert E. Sherwood. Light foxing to the boards, near fine in very good dustwrapper with some tears and wrinkling. Barry's last play, left unfinished at his death, here completed by Sherwood from Barry's notes. This copy Inscribed by Barry's widow, Ellen: "For our dearest friends – Hope and Edgar, Ellen, 1951." Tipped onto the same page is a color photo of Barry's grave in Boston. Hope Montgomery Scott was the glamorous Philadelphia Mainline society woman who was the basis for the Tracy Lord character in *The Philadelphia Story*. The play was dedicated to Hope Montgomery Scott and her husband Edgar, who were lifelong friends of Philip and Ellen Barry.

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Item #45 Second Threshold. Philip BARRY.

Philip Barry
birth name: Philip Barry
born: 6/18/1896
died: 12/3/1949

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American dramatist best known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore