Is Shakespeare Dead? - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909.
Is Shakespeare Dead? - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A most attractive first edition, first State, without inserted leaves pertaining to Greenwood's The Shakespeare Problem Restated. Just about Fine condition, top edges gilt, many pages still unopened. In the original, Near Fine dust-jacket, minute chipping along edges. Scarce in the original dust jacket. BAL 3509.
Mark Twain's interest in the "Shakespeare question", was reignited in 1908 when he read The Shakespeare Problem Restated. Twain was intrigued by Greenwood's argument that, while there is no evidence that Shakespeare the actor had any familiarity with the law, the author of the plays must have been a lawyer...; [viii], 149, [5] pages.
Price: $1,990.00