In a Garden

by Philip Barry

$250 · Offered by Between the Covers · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Hardcover. First edition thus, heavily revised from the 1926 Doran edition. Light wear to the crown, slight rubbing to the spine lettering, very good in near fine dust jacket supplied from a contemporary later printing. Inscribed by the author: To Hope and Edgar with love from Phil, 18 March 1929. Hope Montgomery Scott was the glamorous Philadelphia Mainline society woman who was the basis for the Tracy Lord character played by Katherine Hepburn in Barry's play

• Binding: Hardcover

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