Heroes and Heroines of Bittersweet

by Max Beerbohm

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Leadlay, 1931 . Folio, title leaf, contents leaf, facsimile Note by Max, and 5 mounted color plates. Original parchment-backed portfolio; plates loose as issued. Covers a bit soiled and worn, internally fine. § Limited to 900 copies, this is #403. This portfolio commemorates Coward's hugely successful 1929 operetta. Sentiment is out of fashion, says Beerbohm in his note. Yet Bittersweet, which is nothing if not sentimental, is not a dead failure ...

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