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BAGNOLD, Enid.
The Chalk Garden.
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Dec 1 56 For Danny one of my "Garden's" first admirers and its most constant & who knew exactly how to tell me so - in such a manner & way that I believed it & remembered it. And - for Danny - future premier playwright of America. With love from Enid. 29 Hyde Park Gate London". The recipient was Danny Selznick son of the producer Irene Mayer Selznick who had staged the original New York production of this play. Laid into this copy is a long letter from Selznick to her son reporting on the reception of the play.
Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the torn and internally repaired dust jacket.
