TRAGIC PLOTS. A new reading from Aeschylus to Lorca.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Presentation copy. Original black cloth with titles in gilt on the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, with a pencil note by the recipient beneath the author's inscription and a few pencil underlinings throughout, are otherwise clean. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears.

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper "To / Geoff, in solidarno / Felicity". The recipient is Geoffrey Wall, acclaimed biographer and translator of Gustave Flaubert.