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BEERBOHM, Max] – Henrik IBSEN When We Dead Awaken. A Dramatic Epilogue in Three Acts … Translated by William Archer . London: William Heinemann, 1900. 8°. Half title, 2-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the front and 32-pages at the end (some light spotting and staining, some corners creased). Original dark green cloth backed in lighter green (almost all of the spine torn away with loss of all but the first two words of the title, inner hinges weak). Provenance : “Presentation Copy” (blindstamp on title); pencil annotation to front and rear endpapers ?in part by Beerbohm, although a loosely-inserted autograph slip suggests “Handwriting of J. C. C. Taylor, Sotheby’s cataloguer.” FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF IBSEN’S LAST WORK. THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER INSCRIBED WITH A SPOOF PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION [BY MAX BEERBOHM], “For Max Beerbohm critic of who the writings fills with pleasures me, H. Ibsen, Christiania 1901”, and with 2 pencil caricatures of Ibsen by Beerbohm on the verso.
BEERBOHM, Max] – Henrik IBSEN When We Dead Awaken. A Dramatic Epilogue in Three Acts … Translated by William Archer . London: William Heinemann, 1900. 8°. Half title, 2-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the front and 32-pages at the end (some light spotting and staining, some corners creased). Original dark green cloth backed in lighter green (almost all of the spine torn away with loss of all but the first two words of the title, inner hinges weak). Provenance : “Presentation Copy” (blindstamp on title); pencil annotation to front and rear endpapers ?in part by Beerbohm, although a loosely-inserted autograph slip suggests “Handwriting of J. C. C. Taylor, Sotheby’s cataloguer.” FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF IBSEN’S LAST WORK. THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER INSCRIBED WITH A SPOOF PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION [BY MAX BEERBOHM], “For Max Beerbohm critic of who the writings fills with pleasures me, H. Ibsen, Christiania 1901”, and with 2 pencil caricatures of Ibsen by Beerbohm on the verso.