The Scarecrow or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous
New York: Macmillan, 1908.
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Decorative illustrated green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Tiny owner stamp of David Middleton, owner signature of his mother Fola La Follette, (the wife of playwright George Middleton and daughter of Senator Robert La Follette). Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, else near fine. Laid in is a program for a performance of the play at The Hippodrome in Washington, D.C. David Middleton was the nephew of George Middleton, and was a brilliant scientist and mathematician and one of the founders of Statistical Communications Theory.
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