Elizabeth the Queen: A Play …, Maxwell Anderson, SIGNED, 1930, 1st Ed., VG

Anderson, Maxwell. Elizabeth the Queen: A Play in Three Acts (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930).

English, SIGNED, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8" x 5 3/4," 168 pp., including illustrations.

ISBN: N/A

Brown cloth-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Covers have light rubbing, a few shallow scratches, a few faint stains, chipping at head or spine, faded lettering on spine, and slight fraying to tips and tail of spine, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. SIGNED by the author on title page in black ink: "Maxwell Anderson, Dec '30." A play by Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), an American author, playwright, poet, and journalist. Much of the play centers around an aging Queen Elizabeth I and her younger suitor, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who has designs on the throne.